Galleries Roar as Senate Debates Echo Across Floor
In a silver debate the galleries cheered favorites as Senators Butler Hill and Palmer dueled. Vice President warns of removing spectators after Harris rules gallery applause violates Senate rules and urges order during the contentious session.
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Senate
Butler
Hill
Palmer
Eda Louch
Harris
Washington
Senator Hill
Senator Palmer
Tennesser
Tennessee
Phen
Old Sayings and New Theories On Life's Building Blocks
Historical notes discuss Brown-Sequard and Hammond experiments injecting flesh extracts into blood. propose a science beyond anatomy and physiology, touching histology and chemistry. References to beef tea as a limited nutrient, heart as a tireless organ, and malaria affecting deserts, with several named figures and regions.
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Brown-Sequard
Hamutend
BrownSquard
Hammond
Brown-Sequant
Fashion Notes and Fads From Harper's Bazaar Style Page
A discussion of current women’s fashion trends cites striped gowns with jacqueminot trims, overskirts, basqued bodices, and vivid color palettes. Men’s attire shifts include broader waistcoats, narrow ties, sword motifs on scarf pins, plain shirts with white collars, and a return of long frock coats paired with silk bow ties. Also noted are reptile skin leather goods and a quirky quotation party game for social gatherings.
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Lafaniere Doucet
Felix
Ranff
Han
Harper's Bazar
Front Elevation House With Octagon Bay Window Plan
Description of a two story dwelling with brick foundation and concrete floor, wooden upper structure, oak staircase, front porch and veranda, octagon bay window forming a tower, three main first floor rooms opening into a grand salon, dining room with tinted glass sash, kitchen with sink and wash trays, cellar access, china closet, pantry, and rear yard access. Second floor includes dressing or child’s room, master and other bedrooms, bathroom above kitchen, attic storage, and woodwork details in oak and white pine with brown mortar finish. Exterior features clapboard siding on first story, shingles above, and harmonious paint.
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Foumay
Pretty broken roofs and gables give homelike house
A description notes attractive roofs tower gables and dormer windows adding homelike appeal. Heated by a small coal use and a hov air furnace the dwelling can be made comfortable.
Untaughtology at the Essay Desk
A pupil praised for brightness becomes a tautology problem in class as she repeats words with similar meanings. The teacher chides her for excess wording, while the student hopes practice will cure the habit, ending with a wry remark about untaughtology.
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Detroit
How to Make Pie Crust and Apple Pie for Beginners
Practical directions for pie making aimed at inexperienced hosts. The guide covers ingredients, crust preparation, rolling, filling with apples, spice mix, and baking timing. It mentions specific apple varieties such as Red Astrakhan, fall pippins, Rhode Island Green chpoints, and Northern Spies, noting some apples are unsuitable for perfect pie.
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Rhode Island
Good Housekeeping
Laughs at Lockshops The Burglar and Safe Makers
Detective William Henderson discusses burglars tools evolution from brute force to precise devices. He notes old methods used by muscle gangs and the shift to sophisticated safes, powders, and tampering with hinges, bolts, and tumblers before modern tools render locks more secure. The piece includes a dramatic courtroom interruption from a Keystone State man.
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William Henderson
Philadelphia
Hope
Osy
The Need of Woman's Management in Charities
A coroner report from San Francisco Foundling asylum shows 33 babies died in six weeks from hunger and neglect. Nuns and attendants housed infants in dark damp rooms and kept them four days on site. three ladies left the box indiscriminately. The Boston Woman's Journal urges women to demand political dates and take on public charity governance to prevent such abuses.
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San Francisco Foundling Asylum
Boston Woman’s Journal
Wedding Fancies and Changing Etiquette in Matrimony
A Harper's Bazar style survey notes shifts in engagement ring styles toward solitary diamonds with narrow settings, new wedding ring shapes, and noon weddings with church ceremonies and home receptions. It describes small square gift boxes for cake, elaborate floral decorations, preferred flowers like American Beauty roses, lilies of the valley, and white orchids, and bridal bouquets featuring steady stems and easy carriage.
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Harper's Bazar
God the Chosen Place
Ashe
Fron
A Manager Pleads For Quiet In Library Romance
A manager complains to Mrs Browson about crowds in the library as a young man visits Mrs Browson's daughter each evening. He suggests they will stay out until the couple are engaged and eventually married so Grace can be brought out once Margaret is away.
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Tom
Keystone State
Browson
Mission
H. B. Andrews
International Evangelical Alliance
Zion
Burffalo
Albany
Pisht
Sarge
Wana
Klee
Carri A
Ita
Honeymoon train robbed yet romance survives
Newlyweds traveling from the southwest to Philadelphia faced a dramatic in-car hold up as train robbers fired shots and demanded valuables. The groom anxiously asked if the bride had a safe place for valuables, while passengers crouched as the robbers left without harming anyone or entering the coaches.
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Philadelphia
Edgar
Securi
Eedar
Teach the Child a Song
An excerpt urges that music eases care and heartache and keeps courage alive after the voice is silent. It stresses that parents and teachers should use songs to increase happiness in children to strengthen their minds and hearts for future labor.
Youthful Pessimist and a Dog Story From Boston
A 12 year old boy named Jeremish is described as a pessimist who jokes about pockets and knives while sharpening pencils. A Boston resident tells of a St Bernard that abandons play to comfort a crying girl, returning to her side after hearing her grief. The piece closes with an ad for Rambler bicycles highlighting safety and strength through corrugated pneumatic tires and 14 years of bicycle building.
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Ferry
Boston
St. Bernard
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Xray
Civer Sud
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