New Fads Take New York City by Storm
New Yorkers embrace private mugs and private bathing gear as mass trends. Architects adjust building buttons for children. women learn to use revolvers. paw paw fruit gains favor from the south. Purses fall from favor while straw hats shift to home cleaning. New etiquette reshapes hosting guests and subway timing surprises uptown riders.
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Julia Ward Howe at Her Summer Home in Newport
Julia Ward Howe spends summers at her Newport Rhode Island estate, a home she enlarged after marrying Dr. Samuel G. Howe. She hosts visitors on a vine shaded veranda, values art and books collected from abroad, and maintains daily Greek study, piano practice, and whist. Local townsfolk bring flowers and sustenance, and Sundays find her at Channing church on Newport’s social circuit.
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America
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Boston
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Women Ballooning Fails Produce Comic Flight Scenes
Feature notes humorous incidents during recent balloon ascents as women riders promise thrilling aerial adventures yet experience sudden descents. Observers describe the pilots’ physical and moral collapse, with one scene showing a hatless, disheveled girl clinging to the balloonist by the ankles after a rough landing.
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Wilson forecasts cheaper fruit for all through farm tech
In Washington Secretary James Wilson cites durum wheat, wheat testing machines, and granite potash extraction as boosts for American agriculture. He envisions affordable, high quality produce reaching every household, contrasted with a tale of a bootblack boy seeking value in grapes.
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James Wilson
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Clergyman Cites Morgan Impulse in Charity Note
A clergyman discusses Pierpont Morgan's influence on funding arts and church causes. He recalls Morgan's Easter appeal and a reply that cites his Episcopalian faith while supporting a church project, noting his rare will to achieve aims.
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Pierpont Morgan
Hidden Mountain Honor Saves Sibley for Becky
Becky begs Bill Jennings to keep John Sibley safe as revenue men threaten a raid on the big still. Bill deceives and disarms Sibley then sends him to town with Becky's hope for love and a future, choosing to safeguard life over vengeance.
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Stillhouse
Tennessee
Peanuts Turn Into Growing US Import Trade
Harper's Weekly notes peanuts become a rising item in US foreign commerce with imports surging from under 6,000 dollars in 1900 to about 500,000 dollars in the current year and exports around 300,000 dollars. West Africa and East Indies supply most peanuts while 12 million bushels are produced domestically.
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Harper's Weekly
Bureau of Statistics
West Africa
East Indies
Senegal
Africa
British India
Gaimbia
Dutch East Indies
China
Japan
Argentina
Spain
Heath Hen Preservation Efforts Reported by Massachusetts
The Boston Transcript cites action by the Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission to stop heath hen destruction and reestablish the species on Martha's Vineyard. Dr. George W. Field praises efforts to protect and revive this near extinct bird, noting its ecological value and potential return as a game bird.
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Bonaparte and the Jaffa Plague Stricken Mission
Prof. Forgue recounts Desgenettes at Jaffa during the siege when Bonaparte urged mercy to plague patients by giving opium to some thirty soldiers to end their suffering. Desgenettes refused to end life, citing duty to preserve the army, with mixed later claims about poisoning.
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Jaffa
Bonaparte
Napoleon
Training Girls For Domestic Work In London Program
An article discusses training girls to manage homes for families of artisans earning $15 a week. It proposes practical domestic instruction, shopping efficiently, and weekly care of a child from a working-class family to gain real experience.
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London
Circassian Walnut: A Duller Yet Elegant Furniture Wood
Circassian walnut is described as a new wood used in furniture rivaling mahogany. It features veining, a dull olive color, and a varnish-free finish that resists scratches, keeping a like new look longer, though it is more expensive and harder to move from scratches.
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