The Legacy that Brought Back Jim and a Wife
Jim, a humble window washer in Boston, falls for Miss Capen and, after winning a $10,000 English legacy, marries her. He abandons work for a comfortable life, but when the wife’s social world falters he returns to scrubbing the front steps to prove worth. The tale ends with him washing the steps for neighbors to see, a quiet comeuppance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hisa
Jim
Sand
Miss Capen
England
St. Joe
James Carrington Doyle
C. E. Corbett
Chicago Record-Herald
Present Style of Grandmother and a Remarkable Blind Operator
OF INTEREST discusses how modern grandmothers become padded and painted figures, contrasting with aging women who knitted comforts for the poor. It also highlights Abbie Downing, a 23 year old blind telephone operator in Mattoon, Illinois, who handles sixty lines and a toll station, locates calls by sound or touch, and was educated at the Indianapolis School for the Blind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mattoon
Ill
Electrical World
Abbie Downing
Indianapolis School For the
Laws and lore across a crowded clipping reel
A gossip of legal quips and cultural notes spans a toast to a curious mirror tale from a Buffalo to New York sleeper, a joke about Lake Chargoggagogmanchaugg, a tuneful staircase invention, a praise of the hunting woman, warnings about American wives of German husbands, and a closing note on soft color blending in print.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawyers’ Club
Buffalo
New York
New York Herald
Callier
William E. Curtis
Chicago Record-Herald
Germany
Mr. Curtis
United States
Delicate silks and velvets for winter fashion
The Delineator notes exacting tastes will be charmed by soft silks in ivory pale green and rose designs, and clematis on green. It describes velvets in plain and fancy effects from cream to yellow, plus black velvet with white specks and hunter green or royal blue with white dots for dresses and semi formal wear.
Notable Women Across Fields Highlight Progress and Enterprise
A series of brief vignettes showcases women in agriculture, education, law, literature, and business. From South Dakota orchards yielding 10,000 bushels to Beaux Arts graduate Julia Morgan in Paris, the pieces celebrate achievement, leadership, and professional advancement by women in diverse sectors.
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South Dakota
South Park
Chicas
Julia Morgan
San Francisco
Beaux Arts
Paris
Maryland
Baltimore
America
San Pedro Harbor
California
Vincent
Marblehead
Mass
Lena Behrens
Ohio
Brookline
Fashion notes on velvet gowns hats and accessories
The article surveys season's fashion details including Miroir velvet for evening gowns, velvet coats for girls, ecru lace collars, fur trims, velvet ribbons, and hat styles. It mentions beaver hats trimmed with feathers and long bows, and describes knit woolen jackets, combs, hat pins with pearls, gun metal beads, and high belts with thin white leather and corsetlike forms.
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Lome
The Impossible Axe Head and the God of Possibilities
In a Jordan River parable the preacher shows how Elisha restores a borrowed axe head that sank in mud, proving God can make the impossible possible. He cites converts like Newton Bunyan and McAuley to urge faith that God can renew the lost and enable believers to bear great burdens.
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Wasuixcrox
D. C
R. Yalmage
Orient
Valley of Palms
Jordan
Elisha
Jeruzalem
Ebanon
Marche
Ahab
Biisha
Jorgan
Gladstone
Palestine
Hawarden
Munsha
New Theological Seminary
Atlantic
Pacific
New York
Southampton
London
Calcutta
San Francisco
Canton
Pee Seminary
God
Axe Head
Polycarps
Hugh Latimers
John Knoxes
Christ
Jorsan
David
Abraham Lincoln
Alps
Calvary
Jerry McAuley
Sing Sing Prison
Merchant Princes
Water Street
Cremorne
Newton
England
John Bunyan
Vou
The
L. Klopsch
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Veward N. Pome
Boston
Betsy Trotwood
Janet
Ion
Fish and Game Commission
Goveol
Har
R. Talmage
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