Features of Official Life in Washington Elevators and Offices
A local observer relays humorous and telling anecdotes about the Washington bureaucracy. The piece highlights the Senate reading clerk selection and a three-senator committee, elevator runaways by bureau officers, and the grind of civil service life versus private work. It notes officials’ perks, dissatisfaction with official duties, and the pull of steady salaries despite limited outside earning potential.
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Washington
Thowe
Senate
Afl Aw
Fio
Capitol
Pennsylvania Avenue
Civil Service
Himsell
Automobiles to reach the South Pole, says explorer
Liv Frederick A Cook proposes using cars for polar travel a shocking innovation in exploration. The piece recounts a Brooklyn church incident where a dramatic passerby disrupted a sermon and questions linger about new technologies and bold plans.
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Rehoboth
The Bachelor Girl and the Mere Man Talk of Trust
A playful dialogue unfolds over tea about marriage, trust, and flirting. The Bachelor Girl argues that temptations affect men regardless of status, citing Beelzebub and moonlit decks, while the Mere Man reflects on freedom, fidelity, and the distance of faith.
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Ted
Anthony Aingle
Machelor
Monte
Trust and temptation in a distant marriage debate
A Back and forth in a salon style exchange weighs the danger of trust in matrimony. The Mere Man and Bachelor Girl discuss how sympathy, routine, and the lure of variety spark infidelity, amid playful jabs and sharp observations about domestic life and signals of disloyalty.
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Japan
Antipodes
The Chaperon and the Old Queen at the Play
A narrator admires his chaperon as she is seen by aging suitors at a box seat. The scene contrasts youthful excitement with seasoned admirers and recalls Bunner’s lines about aging beauty and memory. The text also notes fashion changes such as crepe de chine and the umbrella fashion, while skirt shapes shift toward the foot.
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Midas
Abe
Cuyler Bunner
Substitutes for Smoking Tobacco Use Across Regions
The article surveys various tobacco substitutes used by farmers and communities, noting plant leaves and herbs such as rhubarb, beet, coltsfoot, Indian hemp, and lobelia. It warns excessive use causes stupor, eye trouble, breathing difficulties, and potential insanity or death, with regional practices in Jamaica and Sweden also mentioned.
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Alaskan
Jamaica
Iland
Sweden
Asia
My Dearest Child and My Fairy Prince
A reflective poem about a mother and her daughters at home and a cherished son who grows, leaves the nest, and returns as a dreamlike figure. The piece contrasts cheerful nursery life with the loneliness of an empty house and a mother’s anticipation of her child’s future. It also includes a separate Harper's Weekly anecdote about a Southern church seeking dignity by adding initials to a pastor’s title and the community’s fundraising struggle.
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Doll
Isa
Harper's Weekly
Georgia
North
Old Man's Drudge Reflects on Equal Suffrage Debate
An excerpt from a New York Times piece quotes Mrs Belle de Rivera of the Equal Suffrage League remarking on a debate. She compares potential policy to a bad outcome and likens it to a shopgirl marrying an elder, noting the difficult consequences and strained remarks between spouses in a social context.
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New York
Belle de Rivera
Equal Suffrage League of New
Gald
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