Colorful Chinatown New Year Notes From San Francisco
A reader recounts Chinatown New Year scenes in San Francisco with vivid detail. Festive color fills streets and joss houses as dragon banners and scarlet papers brighten the area. The visit to the Chinese Consulate includes Dong Gong and Vice Consul King Ow Fang, with impressions of ceremonial etiquette and American hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Ogden Vaughan
Chinatown
Mth
Sandwich Islands
Dong Gong
Chang Tong Chip
San
Francisco
King Owfang
Easih College
Te al
Chung Liang Wong
Jin
Six Companies
Riage
Li Young Yew
California
The Woman's Club of Today by Eliza Ainsworth
Ainsworth surveys women’s clubs and federations as engines of moral and civic reform. She laments idle pastimes, urges disciplined study in finance economics sanitation and health, and advocates structured club work to improve homes communities and governance. Newton Iowa.
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Eliza Ainsworth
New York
Ohio
Minnesota
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Iowa
M Angelo
Clu
Newton, Lowa
A Glimpse of the Ancient Greeks by Mary E Mitcite
A review of Greek history focusing on the rise of Greece, the formation of Hellenic culture, and Athens Periclean age. It traces early Greek peoples, city states, myths, the democracy of Cleisthenes, and the Persian Wars, noting art, philosophy, and monumental Acropolis works.
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Mary E. Mitcite
C.L. S.C
Vesta
Greece
Europe
South
Mediterra
Peloponnesus
Hellas
Attica
Sicily
Ita
Zeus
Olympus
Athens
Clithenes
Persia
Marathon
Thermopy Mis
Plataea
Mycale
Hellenes
Sparta
Pericles
Athenia
Acropolis
Athen
Phic
Doric
Propylaea
Parthenon
Athena
Eschylus
Aripides
Aristophanes
Prometheus
Sophocles
Ckdipus
Euripides
Dirble
Voices in Our Ears CE Bastma Life Learning in an Enlightened Age
The passage reflects on life long learning and the value of knowledge. It argues that progress continues beyond past discoveries and urges individuals to fulfill duties, stay active, and use available education to contribute to society. It cites youth as future stewards and warns against living uselessly.
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Havi
Christmas in the Prairies A Winter Tale
A snowy western scene shows a family lacking warmth and supplies as Christmas nears. The father mother and children endure hunger and cold while imagining gifts from Santa. The tale ends with a hopeful list of warm clothes blankets a doll and treats for the children and a sense of spring coming.
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Hans
Gretchen
Papa
Santa
Esas
Noted Opinions on Woman Suffrage from Eminent Men
A fragment from a page discussing equal suffrage quotes by Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner, William Seward, Chief Justice Chase, John G. Whittier, George William Curtis and others. The item promises more on page three.
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Abraham
Charles Sumner
William H. Seward
Chase
John G. Whittier
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Emerson
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the Woman's Club OF Today
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Lyday Sloanareir
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