Water Board Elects Longtime Officers in Quiet Meeting
The water board held its annual meeting last night and, after presenting the annual department report to the city council earlier in the year, elected two officers. Frank L. Weaver was unanimously re elected for his sixth term, a new record, while Robert J. Thomas won a 13th term with 11 consecutive. His ally as superintendent was also unanimous. The board praised both as popular and harmonious. The session focused on routine business.
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Water Board
Frank L. Weaver
Robert J. Thomas
The Romany Folk Fortune Tellers and Road Life
R. T. Fletcher Berry describes Romany life as travelers with a fixed home circle, using keen observation and memory to read faces and pasts. He notes cleanliness among higher-class Romany and explains the pattern markers at crossroads, the limited letter writing, and reliance on camping gossip for news, illustrated by an anecdote about the Lees.
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John David Lee
Solomon
Margaret Boyd Lee
Lees
Mary
Gorgia
R. T. Fletcher Berry
Comanche Pony Smoke Brings Auction of Brides
The Saddle Mountain mission in southern Oklahoma hosts the Comanche annual pony smoke ceremony in which fifty tribeswomen are sold at public auction as wives. Despite plans to end the practice last year, the event proceeds under white settler scrutiny with leaders noting a need to thin the surplus.
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Saddle Mountain Mission
Oklahoma
Mrs J E O Donnell Finds Cure With Pinkham Compound
Mrs Jennie O Donnell, president of Oakland Woman's Riding Club, testifies eight years of female trouble resolved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She praises the remedy, notes lasting health, and urges others to seek Mrs Pinkham's advice from Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Jennie FE. O'Donnell
Oakland Woman's Riding Club
Lydia E. Prinkham
Comanche bridal auction nets high bids at Saddle Mountain
Five hundred Indians gathered at the Saddle Mountain mission for a three day sale in which Comanche families auctioned daughters as wives to the highest bidders. Amy Parker, daughter of Chief Quahnah Parker, sold for 63 ponies to Jack Wild Horse who later wed her under Comanche rites and a paleface minister. Over 1500 ponies changed hands, with sales ranging from 20 to 63 ponies as medicine men officiated.
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Big Bow
Saddle Mountain
Mountain View
Wichita Mountains
Quahnah Parker
Amy
Parker
Amy Parker
Jack Wild Horse
Miss Parker
Wild Horse
el Reno
Lawton
Chicago Inter Ocean
The Greeks as Financiers and Colonizers
From Brooks Adams in Scribner's March issue, the essay argues that Greek prowess lay in economic system and colonization. It states routes via the Caspian, Euxine, and Bosphorus outpaced land paths, with trade outlets seized while military obstacles lingered. Troy linked to Babylonian trade, guarding the Black Sea gateway as myths of the Argonauts imply.
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Bactra
Syria
Caspian
Euxine
Bosphorus
Dardanelles
Caucasus
Teheran
Trebizond
Persia
Tabriz
Troy
Nineveh
Diodorus
Black Sea
Brooks Adams
Scribner's
Ransom Payment Debate Sets Early Courtesy Tone
The article notes that many suggest Miss Stone should repay the funds given for her ransom, though such calls are premature. It argues it is better to wait until she returns home before addressing repayment.
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Miss Stone
Hetter
The Woman Who Stands at the Tub tribute
Florence Josephine Boyce is honored in Good Housekeeping with a tribute to the everyday work of women at home. The poem praises the unseen labor of washing, scrubbing, and keeping a household clean, spotlighting the dignity of domestic toil and the woman who sustains her small world with quiet effort.
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Lowell
Lowell Weekly Journal
Florence Josephine Boyce
Reflections on neighbors and practical household care
Editorial urges neighborly kindness and practical thrift after rummage sales. It stresses sharing second hand clothing, praising honest praise, and encourages daily care of homes, plants, and kitchen hygiene, noting canning tomatoes and proper cleaning practices.
Where Did They Land An Up Town Apartment Accident
An accident befell a woman occupying an apartment in a large up town building. The incident drew attention to safety in the residential block and authorities investigated the cause and outcome.
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Worth Mat
Missing Hat and Accessories Vanish in High Wind
In a hurried moment after afternoon teas an eight floor apartment resident placed a hat, light chiffon boa, dress gloves, and suede card case on a bedroom window seat. She raised the window to vent steam heat and forgot to lower it. A high wind later blew items from the window to the street below. their fate remains unknown. The owner mourns the loss.
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New York Post
Household Hints on Prunes and Oils From Miss Parlon
Miss Parlon endorses washing prunes in tepid water and soaking briefly before cooking with two and a half hours simmer for natural sweetness. Also includes raw linseed oil and turpentine as a furniture reviver mix, and tea sandwiches should avoid butter and edge filling to protect gloves. Peeling onions with cold water prevents eye irritation.
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Miss Parlon
Inexpensive Lenten Dishes Salt Cod
Simple guides to using salt cod with two sauces allemande and bechamel. Details include broth from veal or poultry, butter and flour roux, lemon juice, and optional egg addition. Preparation covers soaking cod, boiling, and shredding bones, plus serving with potatoes and parsley and garnish.
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Alice Chittenden
Good Housekeeping
A New Lenten Entertainment: Koffee-Klatch Idea
A German inspired lenten afternoon feature called a Koffee-Klatch blends coffee with pretzels bread and cake served after work hours from 3:30 to 5. Guests bring work to discuss while light music accompanies the gathering, echoing March Ladies' Home Journal advice on keeping things homely and informal.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Little colds to big colds warning from Dr Wood
The saying warns that small colds can develop into serious illness and even consumption. It promotes Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as a preventive remedy and treatment option for colds.
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Dr. Wood
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