Facts and Fictions for Fair Females in Mitchell
A Mitchell South Dakota feature highlights homemaking tips, meat broiling guidance, and profiles of notable women. Dr. Aimee Raymond emerges as a rising medical figure, alongside notes on women in education, church music, and literature, including Minnie Gilmore and Carmen Sylva.
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Amece Raymond
New York City
Aimee Raymond
the Dimes
Lake Geneva
Switzerland
Raymonds
Europe
Aimee
Italy
France
Raymond
Women as composers judged by the London Lancet
The London Lancet argues that women cannot compare with men in instrumental performance and are nowhere as composers. It questions whether women have created any notable musical chef d ouvre and suggests educational forcing cannot bridge the perceived physiological deficit in ideoplastic power.
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London Lancet
chef @wuyre
Hunters Battle Walruses in Rensselaer Bay Quest
An Antarctic relief expedition hunts walrus near Rensselaer Bay with an Eskimo harpooner. After firing into a herd of thirty, the herd charges the boat. waves slam the vessel and a cow whale spares no oar. Twenty walruses fall as the crew escapes victorious yet shaken.
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Fox
Birth of Christ and Christmas reflections for 1892
The piece presents a Sunday school lesson on Luke 2 8 20 and urges readers to proclaim Christ. It urges following shepherds example, faithful service, and personal commitment, ending with a call to return to Bethlehem to witness the event and live by its light.
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Christ
Wzra
David
Christ the Lord
Jesus Christ
George Herron
Jesus of
Mary
Jesus
Bethlehem
Fragmented chronicle of arms and printing history
A garbled list notes weapon and armor measures from ancient to medieval times, mentions pikes swords and armor dates, crossbows, greeks and romans, then shifts to early printing with Italic type and Spanish prints. It mixes Erroneous facts about armor, weapons, and printing history with scattered dates and names.
Proved as Good as His Word a Pittsfield Settlement Tale
A Tacoma to Seattle Post-Intelligencer report details George A. Burbank's forthcoming trip to Pittsfield Mass for the final settlement of his grandfather Abraham Burbank's estate valued at 3.41 million dollars. The will favored public uses but heirs compromised for 200000 after prior attempts to alter it. Abraham Burbank rose from poverty in 1835 after being refused credit for flour, later building and rebuilding Pittsfield and amassing wealth through perseverance.
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Burbank
George A. Burbank
Pittsfield
Mass
Tacoma
Seattle Post-Intelliencer
City of
Abraham Burbank
John @. West
West
West Springfield
Ethel
Mr. Burbank
Ethel Nall
Boston
Long Hair and Genius in Musicians
A London Graphic piece notes long hair persists among musicians, outlasting the rest of society. It cites a pianist tour clause about not cutting hair and jokes about barber use remaining limited for artists. The essay muses on baldness linked to close cropping and laments possible rise of a nation of long haired men.
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London Graphic
The Octagon Block and a Legend of a Lone Post
A San Francisco Examiner tale recalls an octagonal cement block at Powell and Market where men cross themselves after touching a red birthmark on a featured woman. The post once marked her death and a superstition grew of drawing a cross on the block for luck.
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Powell Street
Market
Stock Exchange
Suao Francisco Examiner
Young Henderson editor called nation’s youngest boss hustler
The piece notes John T. Stane of Henderson North Carolina is 13 years old and described as the United States youngest editor and proprietor of the Henderson Daily Hustler. It also mentions varied trivia about lighthouses Irish and Scottish coasts and a Kansas City Frost family with humorous name lineup.
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John T. Stane
Henderson
N. C
United States
Henderson Daily Hustler
Frost
Kansas City
Jack Frost
Winter Frost
Berlin
Essen
Great Armory
York
Simon Muchler
Nineveh
Tame Prairie Chickens
Prairie chickens may be easily tamed and domesticated in farm yards with clipped wings to prevent flight. The New York Tribune notes room for the squawking guinea hen in the yard and suggests considering the prairie hen tamed by Audubon as a domestic game bird.
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The
New York Tribune
Elevens Mark Voyage of Red Star Ship Rhynland
The Red Star steamship Rhynland arrived after a voyage with repeated elevens. She left Antwerp and covered the distance in eleven days eleven hours eleven minutes, averaging eleven miles per hour. On October 11 she steamed 311 miles and was eleven hours under sail. New York Wresg.
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Red Star
Rhynland
Antwerp
New York
Austria's Champion Rider Takes Long Distance Prize
It reports Ife meee Se PaRISE ES tha Em Count Starhemberg of Austria won a $5,000 first prize in the Vienna to Berlin race, covering the distance in 7 hours 20 minutes with 18 horses dead. He also earned a silver Hungarian Hussar statue. Other note mentions a pair of humorous domestic exchanges, including a tale from an Illinois town about a man asking if he did that all at one lick.
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Imebody
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Count Starhemberg
Vienna
Berlin
Franz Joseph
Angele
Lords of Creation
Illinois
John Smith
Okaw
John
New York Mercury
Arithmetical Puzzles and Language Notes From A 19th Century Page
A collage of arithmetic teasers shows a couple inching toward each other on a veranda at foot and a half every 42 seconds. Other items question tin peddler profits, a preacher’s croquet bill, and a clerk’s year end finances. Also includes a feature on mixed language and a note on Australia’s population growth and Cosmopolitan Magazine profit figures.
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St. Louis Republic
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Scotland
Queen Margaret College
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Glasgow University
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Patrick S. Gilmore
Carmen Sylva
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Lincolnshire
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England
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Spain
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Haarlem
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Harper’s Magazine
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Austria
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TNE
Boston Globe
Wellesley College
Australia
I ‘Tralia
Mr. Walker
Cosmopolitan Magazine
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