The American Girl Abroad
A vivid observation of American women abroad noting their distinctive style, confidence, and sociable demeanor. The piece highlights lasting impressions of dress, poise, and openness, portraying American women as curious, well dressed, and engaging across foreign settings.
The Business Woman and Modern Matrimony Views
A compilation of opinion pieces on women in business and marriage. It contrasts the idea that women lose youth with claims that American women stay youthful and capable, then argues business experience broadens a wife’s view and strengthens a marriage. It includes a poetic vignette about De Rochambeau and a Washington Square maid.
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St. Petersburg
Novosti
de Rochambeau
Washington Square
A Saintly Sinner in a Yesteryear Tale
Marian Harding and Jack Orton fall in love across class lines. A strained engagement tests faith and forgiveness as Marian’s charity and pride are used to tempt her. A hospital charity bet reveals shared flaws and leads to reconciliation through mutual understanding and gentle humor.
Remnant Seminoles in Florida Faces Extinction Threat
Miami correspondent describes the dwindling Seminole population in the Everglades. About 600 remain hidden, afflicted by disease, unable to grasp modern cures, and living largely by hunting and gathering with limited land title hopes. Frederik and his wife once hosted a Seminole meal for surveying camp, and the people are noted as honest and fond of bright goods.
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Florida
Miami, Florida
Chicago News Record
Everglades
Georgia
Indian Territory
Interior Department
Frederick
Miami
Commissariat
Women May Woo and Take the Leap in Love
A column discusses women proposing in marriage with examples from Queen Victoria to Shakespeare heroines. It notes witty lines from an Irish girl and others, then shifts to a marmalade recipe and ends with a sharp note that Jews are not allowed to buy land in Russia.
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Queen Victoria
Jack
Bertram
Desdemonda
Miranda
Legman
Olivia
Russia
Tobacco Down in Europe
Europe relies on state oversight or heavy taxes for tobacco production. France Austria Hungary Italy Spain maintain state monopolies or strict regulation while England bans cultivation due to high taxes, a policy dating to Charles II’s era to favor Virginia trade.
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Europe
France
Austria- Hungary
Italy
Spain
England
Joseph Chamberin
Charles H
Virginia
Players Club Donates Bible to Local Church
Members of the New York Players' Club give a Bible to the Church of the Transfiguration known as the little church around the corner. The rector Dr George C Houghton son of the star opened the church for funeral schools of George Holland after another Episcopal clergyman refused to perform them.
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Players’ Club of
New York
Church of T
George C. Houghton
George H. Houghton
Schoes
George Holland
Comedia
The Atom As Abstraction In McClure's Magazine
A McClure's Magazine writer argues today’s atom remains an abstraction though substantial facts show matter is not infinitely divisible. Dalton of Manchester first literalized the atom and made it useful. The atomic theory from Dalton’s early 19th century proposal remains strong and useful despite critics who claim it rests on sand.
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Marian
Jack
McClure
Dalton
Manchester
Earth
Demand for Army Swords Shrinks as Weapons Evolve
The sole U S sword maker in Massachusetts says capacity is ample to meet domestic demand even amid Cuban and Philippine wars. The saber’s effectiveness faded after the Civil War as rifles lengthened range, rendering the sword obsolete for combat.
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United States
Massachusetts
Henry M. Stanley and Colleagues and Early Ties
Henry M. Stanley on a Chicago paper worked with Eugene Field and Stanley Waterloo the novelist and with Stanley Huntley later famed for the Spoopen Dyke Papers. Ernest McGaffey then an office boy began promising verse career.
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Henry M. Stanley
Chicago
Eugene Field
Stanley Waterloo
Stanley Huntley
Ernest McGaffey
My Fascinator and the Vaccinated Arm Tale
A quirk from a house with smallpox vaccination shows a two year old learning sentence structure. When someone nears her inoculated arm she cries out My fascinator. The line blends children’s speech with a playful image as rivers eventually wind toward their ends.
Rheumatic Cure Offered Free If Cured
An advertisement offers six bottles of Dr. Shoop Rheumatic Cure for free by mail with no money upfront. payment of 5.50 only if cured. The note also includes Swiss army statistics, February nursing visits in Chicago, a Georgia coroner verdict, and Garfield Tea touted for bowel and liver relief.
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