Betsy and the Car Jealousy Turns on the Family Wheel
Betsy Grace a young wife, beautiful and content, grows envious of her husband’s car and the attention he gives to it. She damages the vehicle in revenge, confesses the act, and ultimately renounces jealousy, reconciles with her husband, and plans to buy a new car while relinquishing the old “she.”
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Betsy Grace
Paragon
Betsy
Motors
Motor
Sherself
Sasewianer
Hammcrd
Model Public Servant Nancy Bush Celebrates 78th Birthday
Mrs. Nancy C. Bush, postmaster at Charlotte Virginia Island, marks her seventy eighth birthday. She has served 38 years in the postal service starting as a telegraph operator and assistant postmaster. President Grant appointed her postmaster in 1876 after a petition signed by nearly all residents. Her office is noted for neatness, accurate accounts, and she manages one sub station and two carriers without a clerk while overseeing money orders and regular duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy C. Bush
Charlotte, VI
Charlotte
Grant
Vallecas Spain Town Rises From Meerschaum Quarry
The article describes Vallecas as an ivory white town largely built from meerschaum. Quarries on the outskirts yield meerschaum too coarse for pipes, while fine meerschaum supports construction. Morocco supplies soft meerschaum for soap lather, and Asia Minor hosts 2 000 mines with 8 000 workers. Bleaching lasts ten days to turn yellow earth into white material.
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Vallecas
Spain
Morocco
Eirdischebr
Asia Minor
Sur
Strong Flights of Oratory and Public Conscience
A village poet dies as the crowd hears from a reporter of achievement and loss. A rising politician warns that public opinion will expose and topple wrongdoers, while a business leader urges youth to tread carefully on the path to success. A suffragette pleads for votes amid triumph narratives and desert imagery. A temperance speaker depicts drink as society’s greatest evil.
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Europe
A Busy Holiday in Irish Rural Voice
A mother recounts a laborer Timmy Herlihy’s tough holiday schedule. The tale contrasts his hard work and little rest from Monday to Saturday with Sundays spent on church and family visits. She recalls his past vacation productivity and hopeful return to work, noting his tired but dutiful mood.
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Timmy
Mrs. Herlihy
Monda
Celia
Clergy urged to confront banking temptations and systemic sins
Lincoln Steffens urges Boston Universalist clergy to wake congregations to the temptations within professions, urging bankers and others to acknowledge their sins as part of a larger system. He calls for understanding real banking versus financing and preparing minds for future sacrifice to reform the entire system.
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Lincoln Steffens
Boston Universalist
A Time Charge Story of Two Workers and Their Pay
A benevolent New Yorker hires two girls for a office task. The expert demands a lower price, the other asks more, arguing she worked longer. He considers their skills and finally settles with a clever compromise involving candy.
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Miss Swift
Miss Young
A Tabloid Fable About Chance and Opportunity
A man collides with an Opportunity and refuses to recognize it yet claims never to have had a chance. The two exchange lines as coins are trampled, ending with a moral about believing those who claim never to have had a chance.
Corset Bargains At One Dollar Tempt Shoppers
A fashion write up notes corset sales have shoppers bewitched by low prices. The piece praises high bust models with flowing curves and comfortable fits, contrasting cheap ready to wear with pricier made to order. Silk and satin materials with floral brocades fill bargain counters.
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Chance
Lace Sleeve Designs Blend with Gown in Delicate Fashion
New sleeves feature lace dyed to match the gown with inserted tucked batiste. One linen sleeve is cut away to expose a plain fitted chiffon sleeve with a plaited chiffon frill. Other sleeves use bands of thin cloth on chiffon and batiste with crosswise tucks and scalloped buttoned edges.
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Batiste
Flower Chains on Her Ball Gown at New York Ball
A winter charity ball guest wore a deep yellow satin evening gown covered with fine French lace. Silver lace motifs set off by blue green lavender red orange and yellow silks created a blended color effect. A band of spring flowers edged the bodice and formed a chaplet.
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New York
Revival of colored embroidery on linen towels
A strong revival appears in colored embroidery on linen towels with dull blue, soft browns, pink and faded green initials. The letters are worked in the middle of the end of the towel and can easily be done at home even by a beginner in embroidery.
Oriental Print Hangings in Department Stores
Imitations of the Real East Indian fabric are now sold in department stores. They make effective hangings, are not expensive, and brighten a plain bedroom with a cheerful, swarming effect.
Healthful carriage tips for posture and grace
Advice on standing, walking, and sitting with proper posture to improve health and appearance. Emphasizes training from childhood, upright chest, straight knees, inward abdomen, hips back, feet at ninety degrees, and hip driven swing for walking. Climbing stairs and chair selection are described for comfort and endurance.
Evening Bodice For Girl Dress Pattern
A dainty cream satin bodice to match a skirt features shoulder draping and center back and front folds with a chiffon front tucker. Sleeves are lightly tucked with elbow-length narrow frills and a bow ribbon at the side. Gold fringe edges the armaoles. Materials: 2 yards satin 42 inches wide 1 yard ball fringe 1/4 yard chiffon 2 yards ribbon.
Present ideas for a baby in antique text
The piece describes baby gifts such as silver safety pins on three red rings tied with a ribbon. Each ring holds a dozen pins varying in size and a rubber blanket for the crib with embroidered initials.
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Coles
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised
A Columbus Ohio woman and a Graniteville Vermont resident credit Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing change of life symptoms and restoring health. The letters urge other women to consider the remedy, noting it has helped many in communities for thirty years.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pas E. Pinkham
Mrs. IE. Hanson
East Long St
Graniteville
Charles Barclay
Lydia Pinkham
Lydia Binkham
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Lydia E.pinkham
Sige
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Western
Canada
United States
Chicago
Ottawa
Chas, Pilling
Clifford Blk
Grand Forks
N. Dak
J. M. Maclachlan
Watertown
S. Dakota
E.T. Holmes
Jackson Street
St. Paul, Minn
Munyon
Gale
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Jersey City
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