Two in a Train to Oaksholt Hall Sparks Rumor
Miss Jane Haughton and her niece Maisie ride toward Oaksholt Hall Derbyshire with Lord Annesley aboard. A traveling stranger intrudes, prompting skepticism from Miss Haughton as Maisie notes Annesley’s pleasant manners and a later station swap reveals a shared destination and potential introductions.
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Jane Haughton
Maisie Binghton
Oaksholt Hall
Derbyshire
Sir Humphrey
Ne- Will
Maisie
Miss Haughton
Oaksholt
London
Smith
Jones
Winder
Annesley
Lord Annesley
Market Bevis
Euston
Miss tHaughton
SOA
Simpson
Huston
Oaksholt Wall
Oaksholt Hill
Haughton
Bipartisan Friendships Across party Lines Highlight Capitol Camaraderie
The New York Mail lauds growing bipartisan friendships among public men. It notes Edmunds and Thurman's long cordial adjournments and cites Speaker Cannon, Wadsworth, Williams, Clark, Dolliver, Hurd, and Stevens as examples of cross party respect. The piece argues cleaner campaigns and shared work sustain national progress.
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New York Mail
Edmunds
Thurman
Capitol
Cannon
Wadsworth
John Sharp Williams
House
Genesee
Champ Clark
Dolliver
Frank Hurd
Ohio
McWhinley
Thad” Stevens
Congress
Latest Things in Collars and Belts in Sept Delineator
The September Delineator highlights ribbon dominated accessories including sashes boleros girdles armlets belts and shoulder bows with streamers. It notes collarettes and boas of ribbon look like flower petals and belts use leather silk kid or silk webbing with gilt buckles beads and jeweled slides. Cluny lace features prominently in collars and chemisettes with medallion centers and embroidered stocks.
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Pompadour
Dresden
Jack Harris Delinquency Turns to Domestic Farce
A playful Chicago News piece portrays John Vincent Harris late for a luncheon with his wife and a comic domestic miscommunication. The wife plans a long dinner, mocks his forgetfulness, and feigns distress over a bill, while the couple teases one another in a melodramatic exchange.
Ingenious Marriage Clerk Recovers Forgotten Name
A Kansas City Star item tells how a courthouse clerk, faced with a man forgetting his own name while applying for a marriage license, cleverly deduced it. The visitor first claimed Jones, but the clerk pressed for the spelling and then elicited John, resolving the situation.
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Kansas City Star
Court House
Bill
Hank
Jim
J-o
Funston and aide arrive in surprise at rail depot
Washington Post reports General Funston and Captain Mitchell disembarked from the Chicago limited to find only an undertaker wagon waiting as a transport. Captain Sidney Cleman had asked the quartermaster to send wagons to meet horses and two humans, a misread response leading to the dead wagon arrival.
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Washington Post
Pennsylvania Railroad
General Funston
Mitchell
Chicago Limited
Sidney Cleman
There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire
A fragmentary piece notes women, fashion, and love with quotations and reflections. It discusses a woman's inner spark, society’s gaze, and the contrast between outward style and true appeal, ending with a reflection on curiosity and longing.
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W. Irving
Paris
Jong
Sewing Room Setup for Efficient Fashion Making
The article outlines selecting a light, comfortable sewing room with an washable oil cloth table cover. It recommends an old-fashioned linen crumb cloth, four practical pieces of furniture a sewing machine cutting table and a cupboard plus full length mirror. It also describes labeled pockets and a chiffonier with lettered drawers for organized scraps white goods and fabrics.
Home and kitchen tips from old advice column
A collection of practical tips including dyeing pale blue fabrics, starting meat in cold water for soups, preserving steel knives with oil and tissue wrap, using unpainted wire netting to clean Natirons, grating potatoes in warm water for delicate fabrics, and removing onion odor by rubbing hands with celery.
Unwise Economy Warns Against Cheap Goods
The piece cautions that cheap medicine and soap harm health and appearance, urging investment in good materials and reliable items. It argues overwork costs energy and time, and that worrying yields no real gains, while quality products last longer and save money in the long run.
Helpful Household Hints From The Nineteenth Century
A collection of old advice on cleaning and preservation techniques. Dry salt polishes lamp chimneys, copper lye can alter pine floors, boiling water with alum or salt seals cracks to deter vermin, gold decoration on skin care should avoid soda water, and cut glass should not soak long as it risks damage or dulling.
Lessons to Learn in Life’s Quiet Art
A compact piece of folk wisdom urges self control and cheerful bearing. It counsels ignoring others’ grumbles, hiding pain behind a smile, and attending to one’s own faults while offering friendly warmth to friends.
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Lear
Avera
The Delineator on Women and Society Roles
Tom Masson reviews popular notions of women in society noting varied outcomes. He cites experts and anecdotes about girls and marriage, contrasting independence with traditional domestic expectations amid changing social norms.
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Ty Tom Masson
Suime Girre
Betka
Wissalary
Care in the Sickroom: Air, Bedding, and Hygiene Rules
Guidance on making a patient room more comfortable and sanitary. Avoid strong lights and draughts, keep bottles hidden, air the room, change sheets daily, air blankets outside, remove flowers at night, use fresh water for flowers, boil used vases, and keep foods and medicines out of reach. Do not reuse patient bedding utensils with family items.
Wallpaper guidelines for room tones and patterns
The notes advise selecting wallpaper with a figured base for halls and darker greens mustara and terra cotta, and using stripes to make low ceilings appear higher. South facing rooms should use pale blues violets or greens, north facing rooms yellows or pinks, and avoid sun fading with white ground plus colored flowers for durability. Large patterns expand space, small rooms benefit from small patterns or plain colors.
Home Cleaning Tips From an Old Instruction Note
The guide advises washing and drying linoleum then varnishing it, rubbing leather chairs with a boiled linseed oil and vinegar mix, letting washed glass globes drain on sawdust, washing matting in a strong saltwater solution to refresh it, cooling windows after washing for shine, and daily furniture wiping with a soft cloth followed by a warm suds wipe and wax polish with turpentine.
Wisdom for Wives Advice Card From A Country Vicar
A country vicar famed for fatherly counsel distributed ecards with marriage guidance. The woman’s card urges loving, studying, honoring when honest, appreciating generosity, cheering sadness, amusing quarrels, listening when talkative, ignoring when cross, spurning sloth, praising nobility, encouraging secrecy, trusting secrecy, curing jealousy, coaxing pleasure, and accompanying him in society. It ends with a warning to let him think you understand, but not reveal it.
Weight and beauty in historical portraits and prose
In a humorous passage the speaker muses on female weight and beauty, citing figures from history and literature. The narrator notes poses and portraits show curves, while men are described as slender. The text compares real women and mythic wives to illustrate attitudes toward body size.
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Destey
Jim Julus Caesar
Tiegan
Shakespear
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Masie
Ne Ville
Tin
Jack
Chicago News
Mary
Tack
John Vincent Harris
Jack Dear
Wisdom For Wives
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