Portraits of Power and Poor Labor Amid Broad Observations
A collage of excerpts describes wealth and waste, laboring families in rural life, and institutional work by inmates at Willard and other insane asylums. It notes social reforms, political figures, parliamentary diversity, and historical book rarities, ending with charity bequests and a public ball.
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Lounties
Willard
Seneva County
New York
Willard Tate
Lehigh Valley Road
Pennsylvania Hospital
Great Britain
Benjamin Franklin
England
France
Chicago Journal
Banks Reject Small Accounts Spark Banking Squeeze
A New York Post report follows a young clerk who cannot open a bank account with $100 due to minimum balance rules, facing banks demanding $500 to $1,000. An Evening Post probe finds downtown banks favor large deposits, leaving modest earners to seek other options while farm labor poverty is sketched in a Century excerpt.
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Bank 10
Wall Street
Tower Broadway
Saga the
New York Post
Cortlandt Street
New York
Evening Post
Lower Broadway
Largest mill building in the world rises in Manchester New Hampshire
Utica Globe reports Manchester Mills Corporation finished work on the largest mill building in the world. The four story structure along the Merrimack river spans 1430 feet with 706 958 square feet of floor space. Construction used 8 000 000 bricks and 4 000 000 feet of lumber.
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Eargest Mill
Manchester
N. H
New Print Works Department
Manchester Mills Corporation
Merrimack River
Cohoes
Utica Globe
Bethnal Green Domestic Economy School Inspires Pupils
A Bethnal Green school named Fiessare teaches domestic economy in a cottage setting modeled on English working class homes. The program captivates local girls with practical training in cleaning and housework, rewarding diligent students as the records show high demand and crowded classes.
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Fiessare
Bethnal Green
Condon
Peruna Ad Claims Cure for Women’s Ailments in Ohio Co Ad
A Columbus Ohio medicine ad from The Peruna Medicine Co asserts Peruna cures a range of female ailments after doctors failed. It cites Mrs Sampson with an inflamed womb and another patient with severe thinness, claiming restoration of health, strength, and normal mucous membranes. The letter from Lucy Annie Heiser urges tired and nervous women to read and heed.
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Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Peruna
Sampson
Abe
Peruana
Lucy Annie Heiser
Shumaker
Order of Good Templars
Man
We of
Perusa i
Poruna
Amanda Shumaker
Mattie B. Curtis
Legion of Loyal Women
Hotel Salem
Boston
Maas
Une of
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Allen's Foot-Hose and other perilous patent claims
A jumble of old ad lines promotes Allen's Foot-Hose a powder for swollen feet and corns while touting various patent remedies. The noisy snippet includes warnings of skeletons in houses and boasts of cures for kidney back pain and headaches, typical of late era medical ads.
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Allen
LaRoy
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