Fresh Air School in Providence Shows Health Gains
At Meeting Street School in Providence a pilot fresh air school houses nearly twenty pupils with tuberculosis risk factors. Despite 45 degree room heat, children thrive in cotton bags, with coats on and soapstone warmers for cold feet. The program, directed by Mrs. Mary Appleton, aims to curb the white plague while teaching healthful air as a defense.
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Trea Air School
United States
Ola Meeting
Small
Fresh Air School
Providence
League For the Suppression of
Mary Appleton
Meeting Street
Window Cleaning In College Course
A London college launches a domestic theory course focusing on ethics of scrubbing and window cleaning. The first class starts next October, with graduates in science expected to condense the program into one year, a novelty not yet attempted in Europe.
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New York
King's College, London
Europe
Extra Pay For Musical Sailors on British Ships
The future allowance of 2 shillings weekly will be paid on ships where a chaplain is aboard and in certain vessels to crew members who play the harmonium or another suitable instrument and lead the choir during filvine service.
Irish Beauty An American Queen At Irish Fair
Miss Mary Brady, seventeen, of 33 East Perry Street Bayonne New Jersey grandniece of ex Mayor Thomas Brady is claimed as Mollie Brady Irish queen at the Madison Square Garden Irish fair New York. She says she never visited Ireland and Mrs Elizabeth O Reilly Neville asked her to guard a booth during the event. A Sunday paper published her pictures and claim.
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Mollie Brady
Jersey
Erin
Mary Brady
Perry-first Street
Bayomme
N. J
Thomas Brady
Madison Square Garden
New York
Brady
Elizabeth O'Reilly Neville
Cnuic Dlong
Gintrelaint
Pat Powers
Miss Brady
Miss Brady Aveniis
Bayonne High School
Neville
Bayonne
Ireland
Almost Human Machine in Stamp Vending Contrivance
Sedalia inventor Brinkerboft traveled to Washington to seek Post Office approval for a stamp vending machine. He claims the device displays human tendencies by turning a cent profit per transaction. A committee inspected the machine, which purportedly handles change, weighing, coin validation, and 50 functions, charging a cent for declined purchases.
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Brinkerboft
Sedalia
Washington
Post Office Department
Lincoln Danced in Ohio Remembrances by Inland Official
Colonel Isaac Murrow of Toledo recalls Abraham Lincoln dancing at a 1860s Ohio ball and leading a march Obama style with his wife guiding him. Murrow, eighty three, served Governor Dennison’s guards since the 1840s and led Lincoln’s White House aid for seven months.
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Abraham Lincoln
Ohio
Isaac MH. Marrow
Loledo
Lincoln
Dens Nison
Murrow
Gomng
Washington
Mes
Marrow
White House
Jewels Outside Your Furs At Plaza Fashion Show
Mrs. Fish arrived at the Fifty-eighth Street Plaza entrance wearing a long cloak fastened by a large diamond ornament. The display of jewels drew tea drinkers in New York as women swiveled to see gems shift under fur cloaks, signaling a trend for future jewel movement.
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Mrs. Fish
The Bowwow and the Burglar in New York City
A humorous Harper's Weekly item recounts a Belgian police dog and a Ghent imported cat pursuing a burglar in New York. The cat noses the thief but the burglar escapes with loot while the tomcat calmly watches, leaving retailers and guards baffled as the dog baying in pursuit ends without a clear capture.
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New York City
Ghent
Thomas Cat
Earle Hooker Eaton
Harper's Weekly
Neighborhood Favorites and Quips in Local Columns
Harbor Maine residents praise Electric Bitters as a neighborhood favorite for quick relief in dyspepsia and nervous debility while noting its spring toning and purifier effects. The piece advertises M Olsen's drug store, 50 cents, and includes light social humor and drug advertisements.
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E. D. Charles
Harbor
Maine
M. Olsen
Druyg
Bucklen’s Arnica Salve Heals Burns and Soothes Pains
Suffering and dollars saved says E. F. Lopez of Manilla New York after using Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The heat healing salve has relieved burns boils fever sores eczema piles and other minor injuries. Available at OL My Olsen Denquist.
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Lopez
Manilla
N. Y
Lim Carpenter
Trday
Olsen Denquist
Drummer Boy of Shiloh Seeks West Point Honor
Colonel Jobo L. Clem, the drummer boy of Shiloh, stayed undeterred after failing West Point exams. Grant, impressed by his war service at eighteen, gave Clem a note to the secretary of war that instead commissioned him as a second lieutenant, altering his fate.
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Grant
Shiloh
Jobo L. Clem
West Point
Clem
Glen
Secretary of War
Leutenant
Chicago News
The Face in Illness and Cotton Spinning Feats
A Louisville Courier-Journal summary notes facial cues revealing health, detailing eye and brow signs linked to brain and abdominal diseases. It also recounts a Southern claim about sea island cotton producing up to 4,770 miles of yarn per pound through a Manchester experiment, highlighting impracticality despite its fineness.
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Dlisease
Sontherner
Manchester
Sea Island
South
Louisville Courier-Journal
Favorite Prescription Promises Health for Women
A promotional health notice extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a trusted, forty-year record remedy for female health. It touts safety, lack of alcohol, and cures for bearing down pains, nervous symptoms, and general debility, with consultation offers and mail order details.
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Pierce
Hess
Dr. Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
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