Sixty Years of Suffrage Milestones and Local Notes
A digest of global and regional women’s suffrage milestones from 1845 to 1896, highlighting Kentucky, Kansas, England, Wyoming, and others. Includes local items on a clipping exchange, a dry goods clerk’s matrimonial joke, Wirchard R. Chandi’s mission, and Buffalo Center school board using corn for fuel to cut coal costs.
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Kentucky
Kansas
England
Wyoming
Michigan
Minnesota
Colorado
New Hampshire
Oregon
Massachusetts
New York
Vermont
Scotland
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Washington
Ontario
New Bunswick
North
South Dakota
Montana
Arizona
New Jersey
Illinois
Quebec
Connecticut
New Zealand
Ohio
Iowa
Utah
Buffalo Center, Inc
Volunteers Rise to Stable Growth Across Northwest Posts
The Volunteer Army gains momentum with 2000 members in 106 posts including 47 in the Northwest and 25 Illinois posts. It plans a State Street building and two city lots worth 10000 dollars, donated by Miss Julia Daley, while maintaining independence from the Salvation Army and expanding its publications from Union Square in New York.
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Forces of
Northwest
State Street
Julia Daley
Col. Fielding
Illinois
New York
Army
Union Square
Ballington Booth
Salvation Army
Battle to the death between stallion and bull near Kokomo
At Richard Jordan's stock farm eight miles north of Kokomo a brutal one sided duel ended with the bull fatally gored and the stallion also dying after a forty five minute struggle. The battle left both animals dead and valued at $1500.
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Richard Jordan
Kokomo
Salvation Army leader plans Chicago potato patch colony
Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army aims to follow Detroit Mayor Pingree by cultivating potato patches in Chicago. He will rely on army soldiers to hoe weed and dig with a spring visit by Gen. Booth. A farm colony will be formed, offering work opportunities for proven urban workers.
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Wirchard R. Chandi
Chicago
United States
Orient
Booth-Tucker
Salvation Army
Pingree
Detroit
Gen
Booth
Weeds and good farming rise from careful land management
The piece argues weeds persist where land is neglected and daisy growth signals poor meadow care. It urges persistent cropping and good management to keep weeds at bay, noting daisies thrive where grass fails and suggesting better farming as the remedy.
New York Oculist Explains Seeing Snakes in Jags
Dr Edward Davis of New York explains that snakes seen in delirium tremens have a physical basis. He notes certain eye veins fill with dark pulsating blood from alcoholism, resembling snakes in appearance and motion. Delirium tremens reveals visible movement in these veins.
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New York
Edward Davis
Davis
German Inventor Builds Water Tube House with Even Temperature
A German inventor describes a house whose frame uses water tubing for floors and ceilings. Fresh water circulates under pressure through a vertical and horizontal tube network to regulate temperature, cooling walls in summer and heating rooms in winter. Circulation speed is adjustable to maintain a uniform interior temperature.
The Genuine Girl Is A Delightful Bundle Of Contradictions
An exchange decries misandrist essays on girls and portrays the genuine girl as a carefree, affectionate, skilled, and rosy figure. She is modest and sweet, with piano knowledge and baking skill, loving her partner yet playfully teasing rivals. The passage defends traditional charm against male sneers.
Father Taylor Uses Tide Metaphor At Prayer Meeting
The Boston Seaman's Bethel preacher Father Taylor faced departing youths with a vivid simile. As a prayer meeting ran late his remark likened the moment to a rising tide and drifting wood, signaling rising emotion and energy in his address.
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Father Taylor
Boston
Bethel
Office Worker Refuses Home Phone to Avoid Interruptions
A man explains he does not own a telephone at home because he sometimes works late at the office. He fears his wife would call him every thirty minutes if a home line existed.
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B. M. Johnson & Bros
D. Ancil Martin
Phoenix, A
Webster Street
R Treet & Frazier
LAW
Flem- Bick
Phoenix
Dra. M. W. Brack
J. L. Patterson
Mesa
J. W. Bailey
Penges
C. J. Williams, ‘E
J. E. Drane
Pomeroy Block
All Times
H. C. Longmore
D. Morton
A. P.shewman
Morton & Shewman
Attorneys-at-Law
West City
Ng@ Ofvice
Arlington Block
W. B. Lanc
Pussty Biocs
WM. Passey
Undertaker
Ted
WM Passey
Mesa City Bank
Alhambra
E.J. Longe
Times
Butte, Mont
James H. Murray
Supreme Court
Grand Opera House Co
Murray
Paris
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