The Weight of a Feather
Philip Ledyard rejects a career drift and his mother’s plan for Josephine Battels to marry Mary Martin after a year away. He returns home to find Mary has grown serious, aiding wounded birds, and a scarlet ibis feather hidden in a hat seals his choice. Mary becomes his wife, not Josephine.
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Bis
Mercy
Drs. Ganzevoort
Martin
Mary
Carpen
Philip
Josephine Battels
Bird Society
Philip Ledyard
Mary Martin
Renee Dod
Anks
Ledyard
Aiey
Alain
Bo Ee Meadow
Rae Moe
United States
Smithsonian Institution
Phil
Florida
Robin
Philip Wedyard
Josephine
Mrs. Ledyard
Marriage Licenses Shibboleths
A Philadelphia Press quotation notes clerks struggle with foreign names on Friday license day at City Hall. It lists couples such as Abe Kantrowitch and Rosa Abramowitz and Wasyl Karpiak and Mary Zienciak. The piece contrasts exotic names with American sentiment and ends with a statistic: 80.9 percent of American men over forty are married.
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City Hall
Abe Kantrowitch
Rosa Abramowitz
Gregorio Raspa
Lunciata di Cicco
Jonas Petryk
Maggie Avizenuti
Wasyl Karpiak
Mary Zienciak
Jacob Kivlatowski
Anna Margulowa
Grzegorz Mirchel
Agata Skwiot
Wee Maids Sunbonnet Fashion Note
A preview of pretty sunbonnets for young girls features pink or blue dimity with lace-edged ruffles and a back-tied cape. It describes a yellow and white linen model with black embroidery and a guimpe, highlighting quaint early 20th century dress details and praising the American girl as capable, healthy, and homemaker.
The Home Dressmaker
A ceviot skirt pattern uses four and a half to five yards for a medium figure. The unlined model requires no trimming and features medium plaits on the upper skirt, twelve to fourteen inches stitched down, and full fullness pressed after bastings are removed. Front and back box pleats run from hem to belt, adjustable for figure during on but before final stitching and pressing.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
One Girl's Specialty Nurse for Delicate Babies
A Western girl builds a nursing specialty in maternity and children’s wards. She emphasizes physical strength, tact, patience, and love of children, noting England has practitioners while she is unique in America to study and pursue this field from the start. Prices for specialized nursing tend higher and provide steady work.
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Children’s Hospital
England
New York Tribune
Secret drawers and romantic desks intrigue buyers
A dealer shows oak desks with hidden compartments to visitors, noting women chiefly buy them for a touch of mystery. He contrasts secret drawers with safe deposits, saying women prefer clandestine storage to ordinary vaults, and imagines how such desks satisfy imagination.
Secret compartments and hidden desks spark curious buyers
The New York Times notes desks now feature concealed niches with sliding doors and hidden drawers. While many buyers are women seeking novelty, some men with secretive habits also seek desks with hidden recesses for love letters wills or other personal items. Plain desks remain available when buyers do not request these features.
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New York Times
Remarkable Women and Public Figures in Brief
Numerous notes highlight achievements and curiosities among women and public figures. Topics include Mrs H L Higginson presenting Radcliffe photos, female Indiana telegraph agents, St Petersburg women doctors, Gardiner’s 1853 ministry, Mrs Ashton with Civil War ties, Miss Mary E Pretty’s typing feat, a home tonic for hair loss, Baroness Burdett-Coutts’ eighty ninth birthday, and a claim that a seven minute mile trains grace and lung power.
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H. L. Higginson
Radcliffe College
Agassiz
Indiana
St. Petersburg
Penelope. Gardiner
Hesper
Kan
Ashton
New Albany
Ind
Pension Bureau
Mary E. Pretty
Philadelphia
Washington
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Lady Burdett-Coutts
New York Dry Goods Merchants Promote Silk Scarves and Hats
Listings describe washable silk scarfs and ties, Chantilly lace, matching parasols, mohair suits, bloom hats with abundant flowers, boucle cotton ensembles, lace and lisle gloves, pongee coats, taffeta gowns, chiffons for millinery, Biarritz gloves, hand embroidered neckwear, pique belts, small fans, tuxedo mesh veils, jabot ends, and sunburst pleated skirts across fabrics like mohair, voile, etamine, and lace.
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Chantilly
The Wireless Messages of God Sermon at Marble Collegiate Church
Reverend David Burrell argues that hearing God requires attunement to His nature. He uses wireless telegraphy as a metaphor for spiritual receptivity, warning that pride, skepticism, and reliance on the physical senses block divine communication. Faith and openness determine whether one receives divine messages through Scripture and creation.
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New York City
David James Burrell
D. D
Marble Collegiate Church
Burrell
Cape Cod
Pol Dhu
Cornwall
Marconi
Pupin
Earth
God
Midian
Bryant
Peter Bell
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Chamounix
Samuel
Theodore Parker
England
Sir Isaac Newton
John Milton
Isaac Newton
Milton
Jerusalem
Christ
Simeon
Nathaniel
Nazareth
Charles Darwin
Paul
Psychikos
Will
Holy
Elijah
Horeb
Abraham
Chaldees
Jesus
Titian
Raphael
Athens
Mars Hill
Bartimaeus
Palms
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Sue
Neery van Bplay
The
Seven Seas
Boyd
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