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Rose Aldrich to accompany actress Madame Greville after tea. Greville probes Rose about marriage and love while contrasting American upper class women with European aloofness. Rose explains her marriage to a lawyer husband and their deep connection as they travel, seeking meaning beyond surface charm.
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Rose
Béti Hed
Europe
Illuminati
Howard Wests
Hermoine
Woodruff
Frederica
Constance Crawford
Madame Greville
Greville
St .Me
Atakees
Rose Aldrich
Mrs. Crawford
Constance
Ghar
Alors
Limouseine
Home Circle Reflections on Family Life and Citizenship
A family feature extols warm homes, kindness from husbands, and cheerful wives. It urges cleaning the yard of 1916 remnants, nurturing children, and avoiding gossip. The piece emphasizes culture, communication through the home paper, and the social duties of neighbors and town life.
Car Troubles and Grim Insurance Figures From Early Echoes
A nostalgic poem laments a worn car and vanished wealth while a late passage lists life-insurance death causes and payouts. The data shows most deaths in ages 40 to 60 from heart disease, consumption, and other illnesses, with large insurer payouts to living policyholders.
Farmer Seeks Wagon Price Compare With 80 Year Old Trade
An anecdote from Wisconsin recalls a farmer haggling over wagon prices while a dealer notes the past barter where 300 bushels of corn secured a wagon 80 years ago. The tale highlights inflation and shifting value across generations.
Criticism and the Aristocratic Woman Ideals
A narrator debates women of aristocratic class, arguing many are passive Epicureans who taste but do not act. Madame Greville critiques precocity and Puritan restraint, suggesting true artistry in womanhood lies beyond mere beauty or passion.
Shopping list and wagon offer with household items
A dated fragment shows a wagon offer adding items like a washing machine at 50 dollars and a dress for the wife at 20 dollars to entice bringing home 300 bushels of corn and hay. Other goods include cigars coffee sugar gasoline oil and lubricants with total value around 240 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seaernar
Oss Saad Tiels
Cuba
Our Town Youth and Idle Time Excuse for Work
A fragment discusses local youths and schools urging productive use of time to counter idleness. It asserts residents compare well with neighboring towns and emphasizes keeping the mind busy with profit and edification to resist temptation.
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Satan
Idleshaads
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Henry Kitchell Webster
the Bobbs-Merrill Company
the Family and Home Circle Department
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Littlex Beskett
Hell
Uis
CA. Harrington
Harringon
Leach
Percy’s
Myrtle Point
W. T. Dement
John
Eoce 41
Wisconsin
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