Mothers to Teach Children Sex Hygiene at Home
The author argues mothers' clubs should lead sex hygiene education, not schools. She warns lectures by scientists fail to move lay audiences and urges gradual, home based moral guidance from infancy, stressing the mother’s role, discretion, and protection of girls.
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Moore
Mothers’ Clubs
Baldpate Hashes Haberdasher Plots in House of Secrets
In a Baldpate hotel tale, haberdasher Joseph Bland recounts losing Arabella to a rival and faking his death to forget her. He hides letters and seeks forgiveness, while Magee listens as Bland hides from heartbreak and contemplates a new life, amid a talky satire on fiction.
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Quips and Cranks and Wanton Wiles
A light verse about winter hardship and resilience. The speaker notes cold conditions from frosted stoves to snow filled attics, with references to penny pinching and nostalgia for harsher days. Agnostic humor about economic strain is tied to a local newspaper voice citing Knicker Jones and Bocker Well.
State should awaken the mother instinct in citizens
The author argues that sympathetic understanding of a child’s temperament and moral guidance from competent parents are vital to civilization. He criticizes reliance on incubators or state substitutes for motherhood and warns that artificial care erodes family training and risks harming children lacking true parental guidance.
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Ber
Francisco Villa Man of the Hour in Mexico
Francisco Villa claims the spotlight in Mexico for at least fifty nine minutes in a notable public moment. The brief event centers on Villa’s perceived prominence and public attention.
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Francisco Villa
Mexico
Egg Trickery Prompts Public Debate
A satirical call to action suggests anyone who can transform a dozen eggs into thirty cents should step forward, signaling a playful challenge to value and pricing in a local community. The quip echoes period style of humorous economic commentary.
Cure Claimed for Sever Skin Eruption by Cuticura Trade
Miss Caroline Miller of 810 East Elm St Streator Illinois describes a severe facial eruption that began as a small pimple and worsened, disfiguring her face. She attributes the recovery to Cuticura Soap and Ointment after three weeks of use and notes availability of samples and products.
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Streator
Caroline Miller
Cuticura
Dept. T. Boston
Lawn mowing record set by longtime resident Charles Johnson
In Fond du Lac Wisconsin on December 13 Charles Johnson aged 82 2/12 years mowed his lawn and set a late season record unseen in his 75 plus years of mowing.
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Fond DU Lac
Wis
Charles Johnson
Johnson
Avenue to Power Quotation Sparks Debate in London Opinion
A London Opinion excerpt notes a provocative exchange on female influence, asserting the cradle rule concept while inviting women to briefly wield world power, reflecting era tensions over gender roles.
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London
American Poultry offers magazine and free book deal
American Poultry magazine promotes practical poultry farming with a focus on start up housing equipment disease control and high egg yields. The special offer includes a free 200 page poultry guide with a yearly 50 cent subscription or 1 for three years plus a six month trial for 25 cents. Savoy Building Wilkes Barre Pa.
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American Poultry
American Foultry
Savoy Building
Wilkes-Barre
Retrenchment Winter Walk Quip From Fliegende Blaetter
A terse quip about winter retrenchment echoes in a Fliegende Blaetter line. The fragment hints at shared resolve to walk together during tougher times.
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Fliegende Blaetter
What She Will Say Little Willie Won’t Go Home
Willie refuses to enter as his mother calls. He jokes she will say the boy has been deaf since measles because she has company. The exchange reveals a humorous neighborly moment in a domestic setting.
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Willie
The Washwoman’s Thrift
The elite are mystified by a washerwoman’s luxury in a limousine. They ask how she affords such wealth, and she explains she saves soap wrappers to pay for luxuries in good humor.
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Puck
Town meeting tale ends with praise for eminent citizen
At a luncheon cub reporter It Never Happened Jones relays the town meeting scene. D Cady Herrick recounts the exchange as Mr Smith's remarks dwindle and the audience disperses. The Scimitar editor rewrites the last line to honor George William as the final speaker.
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Cingaminson Scimitar
D-Cady Herrick
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The
Scimitar
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Review of Colonel Smith’s Oratorical Skill
A debate between editor and reporter over Smith’s eloquence and public influence. The editor praises Smith as a premier state orator while the reporter challenges the accuracy of their versions, hinting at competitive motives and local readership profits.
Not a Wash Dog Mixed Up Coach Dog in East Orange
Mr Timkins of East Orange intended to buy a coach dog at an animal shop for a ferry ride. After a delay, a soiled spotted dog was shown described as a coach dog. He demanded a refund when the clerk admitted the mix up and the proprietor noted the umbrella that must accompany the dog.
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Ike
Wall Street
Bacon
Wisconsin
Timkins
East Orange
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