Martha Foote Crow Named Northwestern Dean of Women
Mrs. Martha Foote Crow Ph D is appointed dean of the women’s department at Northwestern University Evanston. She has taught at Wellesley Iowa University Chicago and has researched at the British Museum and Bodleian Library. A prolific author in Shakespeare and poet and artist she is active in many clubs and professional societies including the Association of Collegiate Alumnae and the Mulberry Club she founded.
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Northwestern University
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United States
Martha Foote Crow
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Iowa College
Chicago University
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John B. Foote
Syracuse
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Methodist Episcopal Church
J. M. Crow
British Museum
Board of Education At
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Europe
Warwick
Morris
Association of Collegiate Alumnae
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Little Room
Society of Novelists, Artists and Poets
Modern Language Association of America
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Chicago Woman’s Club
Fortnightly Club
Chicago
Bibliographical Society
Arts and Crafts Society
Twentieth Century Club
Alumnae Association
Syracuse University
Alpha Phi
Mulberry Club
Woman's Institute
London
England
The Chinese Women of New York Observe Family Life
The New York Herald describes about 40 Chinese women in the city, noting intelligence and gentleness, close social ties, and childrearing routines. It observes their marriages to wealthy husbands, visits to Central Park and Coney Island, and English learning progress among the children.
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Orient
China
Central Park
Coney Island
N. Y
Sighing and Worry Linked to Oxygen Need
A passage cites sighing as oxygen shortage tied to worry with a deep breath after a tense interval. It argues cessation of worry as remedy and references a Ladies' Home Journal note urging philosophy to banish anxiety. The text also includes a joke from Puck about a boy nicknaming someone Jonesy from Jones.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
How to Make an Omelet Like a French Chef
Instructions from the New York Tribune on mastering an omelet with five eggs. Use bright sheet iron pan, melt butter, add lightly beaten eggs, keep them creamy and bottom firm, avoid sticking, add meat or herbs for flavor, roll and serve hot without garnish.
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N. Y
Wet End of the Continuet Humor in Chicago Record
A humorous fragment from the Chicago Record recounts a wife joking about her husband the professor chasing cosmic harmony while she keeps Tean and the cook in good humor as he stays late for meals. The snippet captures light social observation and eccentric scholarly obsession.
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Chicago
Magnificent Hat Sparks Laughs About Distraction
A humorous note from Meggendorfer Blaetter mentions people worrying over a hat that would distract attention from a face. It notes a seven foot six inch height as the greatest clearance known for a horse.
Jones Searles Trust Faces Texas Anti trust Suit
Senator J K Jones head of the Democratic National Committee stands as a defendant in a Texas anti trust case. John E Searles, a Wall Street figure and president of the American Cotton company, is a codefendant. The firm, with $7 million capital and patents, allegedly controls cotton ginner machinery and suppresses competition. The text notes the company’s exclusive grip leaves ginners with no alternative but to deal with this monopoly.
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J. K. Jones
Democratic National Committee
Texas
John E. Searles
Wall Street
American Cotton Company
Jones-Searles
Nicoll’s Stock Exchange Handbook
Bryan
St. Louis
South
Jones-Searles Combination
Election of Bryan Brings Worse Tariff and Money Turmoil
The piece argues that Bryan's victory would recreate 1893-96 conditions with deeper unemployment and depression. It claims his money stance and demand for a silver standard would worsen credit and currency fear, while his party seeks even lower tariffs than Wilson’s.
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Bryan
Zanesville
Climacteric Night of Poverty Raises Historic Hunger
Thursday night marked a peak in poverty and hunger as a neighborhood faced shifting confidence and growing hardship. The passage references lingering doubt about whether this night will define future ones or be surpassed by harsher conditions.
Bryan and Trusts Debate Sparks in 1893 Digest
In a feature from December 18 1893 the Chicago Inter Ocean reports on William Jennings Bryan decrying trusts while omitting two large concerns American Cotton and American Ice. It contrasts Bryan’s divisions among iron and steel firms and notes political responses from the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The piece highlights the harsh suffering of the poverty struck in New York tenements and Chicago’s winter hunger.
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Senar Jones
William Jennings Bryan
St. Louis
American Cotton Company
American Ice Company
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Federal Steel Company
Iron and Steel
American Steel and Wire Company
Republic Iron and Steel Company
National Steel Company
Carnegie Company
New York City
United States
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Philippines
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Prosperity in Wool and Tariff Debate
The article argues tariffs boost wool industry showing 1892 protected era data alongside free trade 1896 97 and 1899 protected era figures for imports production and farm value. It highlights Ohio farm wool metrics and asks farmers to consider free trade advocates.
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United States
Prices Rise for Farm Goods Since Bryan Nomination
Between July 2 1896 and July 5 1900 the prices of ten principal farm products rose 45.8 percent with no declines, while farmer purchases rose only 19 percent. Wheat buys more today than four years ago, and sugar and tea fell. Senator Fairbanks notes Kansas and Nebraska likely vote Republican this year.
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Fay Hiquiau ST Auma
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
McKinley
Fairbanks
Indiana
Kansas
Nebraska
Paris Exposition Exhibits and Hostetter’s Cure Claim
A Paris exhibit from a foreign country is noted as very interesting for attendees. The piece also touts Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a guaranteed remedy for dyspepsia indigestion constipation biliousness and nervousness with a recommendation to try it for a cure and a claim it tones the entire system.
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Hostetter
New York Central promotes A Message to Garcia edition
The New York Central Passenger Department distributes a third half million edition of A Message to Garcia priced at 50 cents for club and library use. The cloth bound edition includes sketches of Rowan Garcia Hubbard and an eight page press extracts section and is offered with free laminated cover upon postage or four copies for 50 cents.
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New York Central
Garcia
Mr. Hubbard
Andrew 8. Rowan
Calixtol Garcia
iMlbert Mubbard
Cuban Educational Association
Starvard-Americanism
George H. Daniels
Hudson River Railroad
Grand Central Station
New York
Grain-O new food drink replaces coffee for all ages
Ask your grocer today to show you a package of Grain-O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee Children may drink it without injury as well as adults All who try it like it Grain-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java but is made from pure grains and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress price of coffee 25e per package All grocers
Lane's amily Medicine Bowels Liver and Kidney Remedy
An Atchison Globe excerpt describes Lane's Medicine as a daily laxative aiding digestion and cleansing the liver and kidneys. It claims gentle, healthful effects and a cure for sick headache with a price of 25 cents. It notes a man’s prominence may pale beside county fair marshal duties.
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Atchison Globe
Quotations and Patent Medicines in a 19th Century Ad
A collection of ad snippets and testimonials praising various cures and products. Mentions misrepresentation as lying, Walls Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Dale's Honey of Horehound and Tar, Pike's Toothache Drops, White's Yucatan Gum and other nods to patent medicines. Includes references to authors and newspapers.
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Dale
Pike
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises For Women
A collection of testimonials from women in Troy Indiana Chester Pa and Manchester Indiana praising Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from kidney and bladder trouble female complaints and general improvement in health after using the remedy.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Dornan
Pinnmam
Lydia
Pinkham
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