Women and Work at the Columbian Exposition Dormitories
A board of lady managers in Chicago proposes dormitories for fair workers with shares sold at 19 cents daily, while discussing use of rooms and guest amenities. The piece mixes fashion notes, beauty tips, and sentimental anecdotes about women and charity, including roses for a hospitalized girl and a tale of Mrs. Lutz. It also notes Yale and St Andrews opening to women and a review of ancient tanning.
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Ieago
Aly
Ascovs
Teorncfar
Ella
Blank Hospital
Ross
Boise
Gertrude
Lutz
Honolulu
Dreizehner
Kalaupapa
Hawaiian Islands
The Apostles' Conscience to God and Bold Witness
A reflective lesson on Acts 4 30 5 11 highlighting the apostles praying for boldness after threats, being filled with the Holy Spirit, and urging full reception of spiritual power. It contrasts a beggarly church with rich divine provision and previews the next study on Ananias and Sapphira.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Spurgeon
Stalin
Pontius
Heaven
Church of Jesus Christ
Unclear Notes on Dogs and Draughts
Fragmentary remarks discuss dogs and drafts noting their lack of sweat glands and supposed sensitivity to cold. The text is garbled with references to porches hallways doors and comparative susceptibility, making a clear conclusion unavailable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jan
Sheldon banner named assistant professor at Stanford
A banner announces that Sheldon has become an assistant professor of modern history at Stanford University. Her husband, Earl Barnes, serves as the chief education officer at the same institution, reinforcing their academic ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheldon
Stanford University
Earl Barnes
A Congressman’s Day Reveals Letters and Lectures
A veteran member’s 24 hour record shows mornings spent reading pension and government letters, scheduling visits, committee work, and personal inquiries, with afternoons in house debates and constituency calls. Evenings return to mail, newspapers, and study until retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Telegraph
Pension Office
Agricultural Department
Ecord
Penson
Ventleman
Customs Division
Ary
Capitol
Silence of White Pine Cemetery Remains at Old Boom Site
A relic of the 1867 White Pine boom looms in Creed Colorado once bustling with 35 000 residents now deserted. Wooden markers rotted while remains allegedly petrified lie in a sage covered hillside as water alters the lime formation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Pine
George W. Church
Los Angelas
Creede (Co
White Pine Mountain
Hunt
Iman
The Earth's Dust Blanket
The article explains atmospheric dust facts from John Aitken’s observations. It notes thick dust reaches 10 000 to 20 000 particles per cubic centimeter, clear air has far fewer, and dust may raise daytime temperatures while reducing nighttime cooling by trapping heat. It argues dust acts as a blanket, implying Earth would freeze without atmosphere.
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John Aitken
Aitken
Earth
Two Jersey Neighbors Share Sunrise View on Andes Peak
Two American hikers meet at dawn on a high Andes summit where huts allow overnight stay. They discover they share a second sunrise view back home in Kort Notch near Morristown New Jersey, revealing neighborly ties across continents.
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Kort Nonsense
Morristown
N. J
Jersey
New York Sun
Boundary dispute report favors Ohio over Indiana
Dr. Thomas C. Mendenhall, chief of the United States Geodetic and Coast Survey, reports to the governors that the Ohio Indiana boundary is one mile east at the northern end and converges to the correct point at the south, potentially adding nearly 100 square miles to Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas C. Mendenhall
United States Geodetic and Coast Survey
Ohio
Indiana
Justice in a Russian cow skin dispute ends with exile
A farmer sold a cow skin for two and a half roubles to a shoemaker who left to fetch money. A second buyer bid three roubles and took the skin, but the original buyer returned, leading to a court session. The judge blamed all three for reckless bargaining, ordering them to leave as the money and skin remained. Locusts feast near Mogador described by the British Consul as a dense flying brown fog covering the ground while birds and fish feed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Peter
Mogador
Seauirney
Atlantic
Remarkable Japanese Timepiece in Framed Landscape
A three by five foot frame houses a noonday landscape clock. Foreground reveals plum and cherry trees and rice plants in bloom. A distant hill with a crystal cascade, a thread-like stream, and a miniature sun on a silver wire marks hours with a tortoise. A plumage bird signals each hour until a mouse appears at twilight.
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Japan
Do Birds Like Colors In Nesting Experiment
The Baltimore orioles ignored most bright tones and used mainly grey yarn with a touch of purple. Red and yellow yarn placed on top attracted attention but were not heavily used in the nest.
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Capital
Mitchell, South Dakota
the World OF Women
Owen
Tol
the Leners
Bartigs
Halsar
Ishmael
Yale College
St Andrew's University
Scotland
Pyramids
Hiscay
THE
Standay School
Cali
Anenias
Sapphira
Acts
Vin He
Tooms
Failiong
White Pin
Bret Harie
Globe-Temore
Dyaks
Bornen
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