World Missionary Mary Leavitt Returns After Eight Years
The steamship Nevada brings Mrs. Mary Clem ent Leavitt of Gaston home after eight years abroad as a Women's Christian Temperance Union volunteer. She funded her own voyage and led missions across Asia, Africa, and beyond, organizing 86 W C T U branches and traveling nearly 100000 miles. She plans to attend the national convention in New York after October in New York.
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Nevada
Guion Line
Mary Clement Leavitt
Gaston
Leavitt
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Association
Mary Towne Burt
Women's Christian Union
Burt
New York Sun
Rosemary Hall Commencement At Wallingford Ends With Horse Parade
Guests gathered under elms at Wallingford for Rosemary Hall’s first commencement. In Choate’s summer dining room they watched four scenes from The Merchant of Venice before outdoors events. Miss Marion Hazard of Providence won the silver mounted whip in four minutes and a half. The raspberry plantation duration ranges from ten to fourteen years depending on variety soil and care.
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Old Wallingford
Rosemary Hall
William
Choate
Venice
Grand Canal
Shylock
Jessica
Spert
Black Beauty
Joe
Marion Hazard
Providence
New Haven
April Love Echoes in Harper’s Bazaar Poem
Louise Chandler Moulton’s verse in Harper’s Bazaar describes spring’s mood and love. Aart dae and Sue Gerakan are referenced as speakers in a tender, lyrical exchange about April’s brightness and nature’s renewal.
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Sue Gerakan
Sam
Louise Chandler Moulton
Harper's Bazar
Barbara Sets Brutal Trials for Suitors in Dark House
Barbara forces three men to prove their courage by dangerous tasks in a haunted house. Ernest the gunsmith sleep adjusts in a coffin while Barney the blacksmith keeps vigil beside a corpse and Fritz the tanner undergoes a fearsome test to win Barbara's hand.
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Barbara Ferros
Barbara
Big Barney
Ernest
Fritz
Redmond
Miss Barbara
Perros
Barney
Barbara Das
Ghostly trick ends in bridal tale at dawn
In a Sheffield Telegraph recount, Fritz and Barney confront a spectral figure in a coffin scheme. Barbara unseals Ernest from the coffin, revealing the prank. Fritz and Barney escape. Barbara later marries Ernest, and the two bear the secret of the ruse.
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Barney
Fritz
Tanner
Barbara
Ernest
Sheffield Telegraph
Spectacles through the ages from leather rims to screw hinges
The article traces early eyewear from circular leather rimmed goggles worn on the nose in Tudor times to tortoise shell rims with a steel waist. It notes the shift to rigid waists and side pieces, the heavy metals of grandfathers, and the evolution toward durable hinges. Also included is a humorous scene aboard a Broadway car with five Chinamen chewing gum and a wedding anecdote from Harvard.
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Interio
Henry Wills
Charles I
England
British Museum
Broadway
New York Advertiser
Folding Napkin Shapes from 1650 Maistre d Hostel List
Pierre David published a guide on table service and napkin folding detailing shapes from square to hare and tortoise as well as pigeons and crosses. The notes accompany a humorous dialogue about aging photographers and a coy aside on a past portrait.
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Pierre David
Turkey
The
Holy Cross
Lorraine Cross
Beggars in Mexico Inspire Poignant Reflections
Edith M. Day describes her Mexico rail journey observing beggars as a vivid, humanizing spectacle. She notes poverty, beggary as a trade, the casual charity of travelers, and the lingering beauty amid squalor, ending with a tender memory of Mexico’s beggars.
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Palestine
West
Mexico
Edith M. Day
Lewis & Dryden
Railway and Marine Gazette
Birds O Passages and the Stomach Bitters Ad
A fragment touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for seasickness and malarial symptoms among travelers and emigrants. It claims the remedy prevents climate causes of fever and aids stomach liver and bowels, praising its long standing use by the traveling public. The text ends with a faded note on a drummer touring new towns.
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Broad Atlantic
Pacific
Mississippi
A. Schoendels
Ban Jose
Cal
ALLcock s Porops Plasters Promote Safe Quick Curing
The notice touts ALLcook s Porops Plasters as the best curative plasters made from vegetables with high medical skill. They claim to be safe, quick, effective, non burning, non blistering, and painless to wear, warning against imitation and misrepresentation. It also mentions a separate advertisement by Sherwood Hall Nursery Co. of Menlo Park and San Francisco offering farm and garden supplies.
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Allcock
Sherwood Hall Nursery Co
Menlo Park
San Francisco
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Companion
Pal
the Youth's Companion
Boston
Mass
Hall
Toledo
Prine
Timothy Hopkins
W. Cor. Clay and Sansome Streets
Olds & King
Portland, Or
Wwe
Mney Colon
Bert
Coas
A.B
Steinbach & Co
Portland
August Flower
L. C. Frost
Springfield
Geto Peters
DR. Gunn
Pfunder’s. Oncean
Lebanon
Mrs. Leavitt
New York Continent
Harvard
Ramor
Boston Saturday Gazette
New York Weekly
Drs. Porterfield
Losey
Market Street
Sann Francisco
Oregon
Beca
Scotts
Boott 2
Bowne, N.V
All Druggiete
Shiloh
Iloh’s
Price
Ermal
Bosanko
Plis
Geo
Twist Coloma, Wis
Hood
Eiaod
Gao
W. Twist
Coloma, Waushara Co
Wis
Hercules
Palmer & Rey
Sansome Street
Francisco
Li Rortland
Bea
Tess von
Marq van Bviteins
Portland Oregon
Frazer Axle
Frank Woolsey
Evans
Columbias
Unions
Sterlings
Keatings
Derbys
Majestics
Webb Safe and Lock Co
General Northwest
Moore
Astoria OK
N. V. Steele
Ramblers
Clevelands
Paleighs
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