Plans For Our Postal Savings Banks
The United States prepares to establish postal savings banks with a board of trustees headed by the Postmaster General and including the Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury. Hitchcock leads the effort from abroad while Theodore L. Weed steps in as secretary, as an advisory committee works on system details for autumn reporting.
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Attormey
Post Office Department
Board of Trustees
Thompson
Bayard Wyman
Basil Miles
James B. Cook
OF. Fallaway
G. G Thomsen
George G. Birgball
Postal savings banks to begin with ten cent cards
The administration moves to set up postal savings banks with proofs of savings cards bearing a ten cent initial stamp. An adhesive ten cent stamp with a lathe background is designed to deter counterfeiting and be sold to depositors as savings accumulate to one dollar or more. Expansion nationwide will proceed to areas with greatest need once the parent organization is complete.
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Board of Trustees
Bureau of Engracing and Priming
United States Postal Savings
Chicago
Iittie
Littl
Votice
Berard
How to Wash Pongee Silk and Keep It Silky
The article explains pongee silk care detailing washing with lukewarm suds and no soap rubbing, air drying in sun before ironing on the wrong side, and avoiding dampening or sprinkling. It adds cautions for embroidered fabrics and suggests gasoline washing or dry cleaning for color runs. It also includes a note on baseball as a national pastime with commentary by Elis Parker Butler.
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Elis Parker Butler
Metropolitan Opera House
Wasneri
Pittsburgers
Pittsburg
Cleansing of Marble Stains and Polish Methods
An old guide offers two marble cleaning recipes. Mix soda pumice stone chalk into a paste to scrub stains then wash for a bright polish. A second paste of pipe clay and fullers earth with soup tre applied and heated with a flatiron removes discoloration.
How to Candy Pineapple Strips and More Recipes
Instructions from a vintage home guide cover candying pineapple strips, cream of chicken soup, and washing a switch. It details peeling and slicing fruit, sugar cure, boiling syrup, drying on a platter, and optional sun or radiator drying. It also explains a creamy chicken soup method and careful switch cleaning to avoid hair tangling.
Short Vignettes From City Life and Advice
A series of brief anecdotes and observations from Chicago society and home life. A clergyman’s daughter weighs parental rest versus duty, an old waiter learns patience, a birthday party teaches a witty lesson, a peacemaker child mediates, and a note extolls salt water therapy for throat and eye care.
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Helen
Eve
The Married Voice Critique on Stage Reproducibility
A dramatic critic argues that top players cannot reproduce the married voice on stage even when married. He notes a domestic tone used at home that fails before the footlights and was never intended for publicity, per the London Chronicle.
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London Chronicle
Half Mourning and Curtain Jokes From The Stage
Comic exchanges recount a late premiere and the curtain falling before 10 45. A critic and playwright spar over timing while banter about mood and marriage note the joke about half mourning.
Between friends frequent reproof strains friendship
A terse note quotes a proverb about how repeated reproach from friends can widen distance. The line attributed to Confue Efua reflects caution in dealing with close relationships.
Twain First Lecture Overwhelmed by Crowd in San Francisco
Bailey Millard reports Twain’s inaugural San Francisco lecture drew a crowded audience that swamped Bret Harte and friends with laughter and applause. Twain spoke slowly with drawn out phrases, ignoring demands for faster delivery, while Harte’s group clapped at the wrong times, producing a memorable but orderly success.
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Bret Harte
Mr. Clemens
San Francisco
South Sea Islands
Mechanics’ Hall
Twain
Mark
Clemens
Harte
Elaguers
Bailey Millard
Hampton's Magazine
Good Humor Lifts Man Beyond Anger and Fear
The writing extols good humor as sunlight for the soul. It argues laughter prevents pointless fighting and dulls fear. A smiling, cheerful man gains a vast edge over one ruled by anger, as humor clarifies reality and unsettles phantoms.
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Hitchcoce
Mack Twain
Salt and Health
Linda
Houston Fost
Rewark
The
Great State Store
Broad, New & Halsey Sts
Newark, N. J
Dc. R. Bedell
Passaic Ave
Chestnut ST
James A. Anderson
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