Barbara A Woman of the West review and book notes
A comprehensive critique of John H. Whitson’s Barbara A Woman of the West set across Cripple Creek San Diego and Denver with Barbara Timberley as the central figure and Bream as the suitor. The piece discusses themes of irony tragedy and moral growth and notes the author’s broader preface on Germany and world power. The review also covers related works and publishers including Wolf von Schierbrand Germany and Stockton’s posthumous The Captain’s Toll Gate.
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Barbara
West
John H. Whitson
Enoch Arden
United States
Cripple Creek
Col
San Diego
Cal
Denver
Barbara Timberley
Timberley
Gilbert Bream
Bream
Little, Brown & Co
Boston
England
Germany
Russia
Wolf von Schierbrand
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
The Dominant Strain A Novel by Anna Chapin Ray
A New York musical milieu frames a tale of Beatrix Dane and Lorimer facing inherited liquor and temperance. Though a gifted musician from a Puritan line, Lorimer’s influence cannot conquer the strain of alcohol. the marriage proves unwise, yet romance finds eventual happiness. Little, Brown & Co. Boston published at $1.00 with illustrations by Harry C. Edwards.
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Anna Chapin Ray
Beatrix Dane
Cotton Mather
Lorimer
Beatrix
Mather
New York
Harry C. Edwards
Little, Brown & Co
Boston
How to Keep Well and How to Make School Gardens
Dr Floyd Crandall offers a practical five hundred page guide with nineteen chapters outlining disease avoidance and simple treatments. The companion How to Make School Gardens by H O Hemenway provides practical gardening lessons for teachers and pupils with clear steps and is published by Doubleday Page priced at one dollar.
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Floyd M. Crandall
M. D
Doubleday, Page & Co
New York
G. C. Prince & Son
H. O. Hemenway
Hartford School of Horticulture
Inside Germany’s world empire in politics and trade
J von Schierbranad, a long time Continental correspondent, portrays Germany’s rulers, aristocracy, society, and the empire’s control of governance, commerce, and culture. His vivid study reveals the weld of a world power and the gaps in American understanding of Germany’s rise.
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Germany
America
J. von Schierbranad
Studies in the Thought World seventh edition by Woods
Henry Woods publishes seventh edition of Studies in the Thought World by Lee & Shepard in Boston. The 22 essays survey mind phenomena with topics from divinity to psychology and evolution, praised as a strong intro to new thought and paired with Woods’s God's Image in Man in tenth edition.
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Henry Woods
Lee & Shepard
New Thought
Woods
Boston
A Rose of Normandy historical romance review
A Rose of Normandy by William R. A. Wilson is an historical romance set at the start of the seventeenth century. It follows Henri de Tonti Robert Cavelier and Sieur de la Salle as they venture to America to found fur trading posts and claim lands for France while Renee the Rose of Normandy travels from France to Montreal where she becomes a nun and later marries Tony. The engaging tale surveys early colonization and connections between France and America. Published by Little, Brown & Company Boston 1.50.
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Normandy
William R. A. Wilson
France
America
Henri de Tonti
Robert Cavelier
Sieur de la Salle
New World
Tonti
Renee
Rose
Montreal
Tony
Normancy
Little, Brown & Company
Boston
Mass
The Sabbath Transferred by Rev Johns D Parker
Dr Parker argues in The Sabbath Transferred that the Jewish Sabbath moved from Saturday to Sunday at the resurrection and that Sunday is now the true Sabbath. He cites leading divines and Hebrew Greek scholars as support. Second edition issued by Johns D Parker & Co East Orange NJ, price 1 50.
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Dr. Parker
Parker
Johns D. Parker
Johns D. Parker & Co
East Orange
N. J
Household Ledger Merges Three Monthlies into New Publication
A notable change in New York publication circles unites The Ledger Monthly, The Household, and Ev ry Month into The Household Ledger. The merged magazine will be comprehensive and bright with fiction from eminent writers and pages devoted to new music by prominent composers, signaling a broad literary and cultural agenda.
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New York
Household-Ledger
the Ledger Monthly
Robert Bonner
the Household
Brattleboro
Boston
Ev'ry
North American Review June issue highlights and contents
The June North American Review features essays on John Wesley by William North Rice, a portrait of Joseph Chamberlain by Lord Coleridge, Randolph on the Northern Securities Decision, Harrison on Tennyson, notes on the Irish Land Bill, Wilcox on Latin American misgovernment, Sydney Brooks on English politics, Parker on the Alaska Boundary Question, Choate on the U S Supreme Court, and the sixth part of Henry James’s The Ambassadors, with a Wesley Bicentennial focus forthcoming.
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North American Review
William North Rice
Wesleyan University
John Wesley
Lord Coleridge
Joseph Chamberlain
England
Richard Wayne Parker
Alaska
Joseph H. Choate
United States
Court of St. James’s
Supreme Court of the United States
Henry James
Prominent features in the June Atlantic issue
The June Atlantic highlights President Eliot's address at the Boston Emer son Centenary Celebration with George E. Woodberry's Centenary Ode. It includes Oswald Garrison Villard on The Negro in the Regular Army, Goldwin Smith on The Cult of Napoleon, and essays on The Boston Religion and Changes in College Life. Fiction by Hardy and Hornung, plus stories by Perkins, Bacon, and Austin.
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Eliot
Boston
George E. Woodberry
The
Atlantic
Oswald Garrison Villard
Goldwin Smith
Napoleon
M. A. DeWolfe Howe
John Bascom
J. B. Osborne
Barataria
Leonidas Hubbard, Jr
New Orleans
Henry
Pancoast
Thomas Day
Charles Dickens
Sandford and
Merton
Hardy
E. W. Hornung
Chrystal
Lydia Perkins
Mary Applewhite Bacon
Mary Austin
Cosmopolitan Presents A Rich Mix Of Fictions And Features
The issue offers Wharton’s love story illustrated by Peirce, Farnham’s railroad tale, White’s business romance, and pieces by Martin and Merriman. Also features Hale on old age pensions, Shaw on journalism, Wells on imagination, Thornton on home care, and essays with notable photographs and garden city and floral topics. Including sketches of Williams, Partons, and Baron Strathcona, plus contributions from Lighton, Van Hoesen, Walker, and Hawthorne.
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Cosmopolitan
Francis Willing Wharton
Thomas Mitchell Peirce
R. H. Farnham
Trumbull White
H. R. Martin
Henry Seton Merriman
Edward Everett Hale
Albert Shaw
Review of Reviews
H. G. Wells
Mary E. Thornton
George Gilbert Williams
William Barclay Partons
New York Rapid Transit Commission
Baron
Four Drowned as Barage Breaks from Sunday School Trip
A crowded barge carrying about 250 Park Methodist Sunday school children to view the Mississippi near Hannibal Missouri broke from the steamer Flying Eagle's control. An eddy swept the craft against a bridge pier and four youths perished Lonnie Curts Martha Coppedga Harry Rhenberger and Peggy Harvey among the victims. The disaster was blamed on a blown engine cylinder head that disabled the boat and left it at the mercy of the swift current.
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Hannibal
Park Methodist Sunday School
Quincy
Mississippi
Flying Eagle
Hannibal Bridge
Lonnie B. Curts
Martha Coppedga
Harry Rhenberger
Peggy Harvey
Cook
Chicago Hospital Fraud Case Targets Staff Memberships
Chicago reports that "The Christian hospital" at 617 La Salle avenue is enjoined from advertising Dr. John B. Murphy as staff president. Inspectors arrest top directors for fraud via mails, as the Chicago Medical Society gathers evidence on the scheme to sell hospital memberships. The计划 offered certificates and official buttons for fees up to 25 dollars, aiming to mislead patients.
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Chicago
The_ Christian hospital
la Salle Avenue
Holden
John B. Murphy
Post Office
Stuart
Chicago Medical Society
General Grand Jury
Servant's Death Claimed in Servia Palace Incident
Belgrade Servia June 4 The sole basis for the report of King Alexander's French cook killing himself at the palace after an attempted poisoning of Queen Draga rests on a palace scullion who died by suicide more than a week earlier due to a love affair.
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Belgrade
Servia
Alexander
Draga
English polo team cancels trip to meet American players
A cablegram received by Secretary Hazard of the American Polo Association says the English polo team chosen to play the Americans in New York cannot come to the United States. The message was dated June 4 and leaves the scheduled match in doubt.
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New York
Hazard
American Polo Association
America
Table and Kitchen: Food Chemistry in Practical Cooking
Practical guide by Lida Ames Willis from Chicago explores chemistry applied to cooking. The text emphasizes experiential information and systematically presents kitchen science for everyday use.
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Lida Ames Willis
Marquette Building
Chicago
Banning Co
Fit Dainties for Ladies They Come So Far and Cost
Green peas, prized for flavor, digestibility, and nutritional value, are discussed with care on preparation methods. Techniques cover fresh shelling, plain boiling, a la Anglaise, a la Francaise, and pea dishes with mutton, eggs, and cheese. Various recipes highlight mint, parsley, butter, and stock to preserve color and sweetness.
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China
India
England
Canned Celery Preserving Method Shared
Miss G M offers canning tips for celery using tender stalks cut to fit half pint jars. Rinse and scrape, pack tightly, rinse under running water twenty minutes, then seal and store in a cool dry place. A second method advises washing scraping and cutting stalks to fit jars.
Preserving Celery and Onions in Vinegar
The method describes canning jars in a steamer without water for forty five minutes, then adding salted boiling water and cooking thirty minutes longer. After sealing with lids, cook ten minutes more. White celery is cut into inch pieces and preserved in spiced white vinegar, like small white onions.
Two Middlesex County Weddings Mark Joyous Spring Weekends
A double wedding report from St. Anne's Mission in Billerica highlights Charles Hurst and Nellie Barrington wed in a 2:30 p.m. ceremony with Rev. Jenkins officiating. Guests from Worcester to North Andover attended as gifts and a reception followed at the bride’s home. The couple plan a New York Buffalo Niagara Falls honeymoon and will reside on Billerica avenue. A second marriage joins Miss Mary Elizabeth Balmforth to Herbert Hingham King at the Balmforth residence with a small private gathering. They will reside in Trinidad, Colorado. The Manning association announces its fourth meeting at the Manse on Wednesday June 17 with lunch, business, music, and outdoor activities.
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St. Anne’s Mission
Charles Hurst
Billerica Market
Nellie Barrington
Roge
Barrington
Jenkins
Lowell
Florence Starrett
Boston
Worcester
E. Ashworth
Cherry Valley
Mass
Ida Welch
Greenwood
Bonnie Starrett
Peter Barrington
North Andover
Alfred Williams
Haverhill
Sarah Chadwick
Lawrence
New York City
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Billerica Avenue
Mary Elizabeth Balmforth
William Balmforth
Herbert Hingham
King
Billerica Centre
Balmforth
T. P. Evans
First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church of Billerica Centre
Martha B. Balmforth
Robert Joshua King
Trinidad
Colorado
the Manning Association
WIGGINVILLE NOTES: Wreck Injures Thompson. Fire Flares Near Plant
Harold Thompson was thrown from his bicycle on Lawrence Street and suffered a fracture in his right elbow. The schoolhouse entertainment yielded 25 dollars and 75 cents in profit. A woods fire near the Rendering Company plant at South Lowell occurred yesterday. The Young Men's club plans a lawn party on the 20th instant.
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Lawrence Street
Harold Thompson
Thomas Thompson
Rendering Company
So. Lowell
Young Men's Club
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Chelmsford Lodge
C. E. Fisher
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Carlisle
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Committee of Arrangements
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