Orphan on a Farm Shows Harsh Harvest Change
Maurice, an orphan from the city asylum, visits Uncle Zeb’s farm to help harvest and writes letters home about farm life. The piece contrasts old time frolics and huskings with modern mechanized farming, noting fewer communal gatherings, greater woman’s work, and the shift to paid labor and market sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeb
Maurice
Pittsburg
Allegheny
Dejon
Butler
Weermmoerderd
Big City
Hulds
Labink
Sam
The Music World Warns Pittsburg on Summer Amusements
The piece argues Pittsburg should embrace open air concerts and summer opera as city life expands beyond baseball and circuses. It praises Garrow troupe at the Duquesne Theater and notes strong public support for year round music, with calls for parks, paths, and a municipal role in free concerts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Traffc
Alleghenyes
Partia
Garrow
Duquesne Theater
John &. Brand
Henry Hallam
Laura Clement
Charles H. Drew
Maniacer Mancus Maren
London
Adelina Patti
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Uncle Zeb Recollects Old Time Farm Frolics and Mrns of Change
In nights before sleep Uncle Zeb tells Mooree about barn-raisings and rural revels of fifty years ago. He notes farmers then were richer in mirth and skill, contrasts with cheap lumber and new barns today, and recalls a ravine where Aunt Hulda wanted underbrush cleared to curb snakes. Zeb laments past neglect before a late planned road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ting-House
Zeb
Mooree
Rechesy
Weenmoreland
Tallrochs
Hulda
Cyinn
To Blaine on the Monongahela and Return
Advertisement offers free railroad tickets to Blaine and return with maps price lists and full particulars about the new town now of interest. Apply at Somers & Co 1 Fourth Ave for details and materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaine
Return
Somers & Co
Long Leap Into Water Sets New Kansas City Record
The Swedish diver Joseph Leavenmark, late of Stockholms Royal Swimming School, broke the high diving record at Washington Park Kansas City. From an 80 foot 35 inch platform he leaped and plunged cleanly, surpassing G A Blake's 75 feet 7 inches set in London in 1888 by 4 feet 3 inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Joseph Leavenmark
Washington Park
Royal Swimming School
Stockholm
Sweden
Leuvenmark
McGinty
G. A. Blake
Lambeth Bath
London
England
General Schofield Eyes Private Contracts for Big Guns
Major General Schofield attended an Ordnance and Fortification Board meeting in New York. Plans for Atlantic and Pacific coast fortifications and a new big gun were reviewed. Bids for 100 new guns were discussed with Schofield favoring awarding contracts to private manufacturers to accelerate arming the defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Schofield
Ordnance and Fortification Board
Army
Atlantic
Pacific
Kentucky Chivalry Exposed in Proposed Constitution
A Pennsylvania writer denounces Kentucky’s new proposed constitution for stripping women of rights in marriage and child custody. It attacks property, guardianship, and age of consent rules, contrasts Kentucky with reforms in Kansas Iowa Nebraska Wyoming and England, and calls Pennsylvania women to push for representation and amendments at the November constitutional convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brougham
Great Britain
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Josephine Henry
Blackstone
Wyoming
Kansas
Iowa
Thane
Blake
New Jersry
Lord Salisbury
Henry
Behin
Besse Braweix
Two Set Speeches Continued From Jonah Page
The speaker extols science's reach in predicting celestial events and distant planets. He contrasts precise astronomical forecasts with the impossibility of predicting public works costs, finish dates, or local jobs with such certainty. The text mixes reverent prophecy with satirical critique of municipal planning.
Peruna prevents summer stomach ailments and offers relief
The article promotes Pe-ru-Na as a preventive and cure for colic cholera morbus cramps and summer diarrhea caused by heat and fruit. It advises a tablespoon before meals for protection and outlines severe case dosing with wine and returning to normal after. It also advertises a special excursion to Atlantic City for ten days at ten dollars round trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
B&o
Rahursday
Washington
D. C
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Ashington
National Capital
Columbus
Aillantés City
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Uncle Zeb
Rand
Darnyard
Isis Big Love
Eitwaye
Tom Wouter
Papa A
Piremroso
Tom
Cosmes
Hove
Macron
Hutua
Asylum
Mavning
Pen
Eld
Alleheny County
Walter Scott
Roy
Ehyme
Herrick
Ceres
Genesee National Savings and Loan Association
Henry C. Covell
K. Y
F. M. McKelvey
THE
Duquesne
Chicago
New Opera
Edwin Arnold
Asia
Musical London
Maurel
Lara
Brother Foxi
Morriz Moszkowski
Ema Sveccer
William Castie
Chicago College of Music
Annie D. Foower
Sixth Presbyterian Church
Fourth Avenue Baptist Church
John Q. Everson
Perkins
Minos Btute Music Teachers’ Association
America
Constantin Sternwrene
Gustav Hinricks
Liege
Vieuxtemps
Nikiach
Charles E. Locke
Arizona
Judk
Mr. Locke
Con
Creditor
Locke
Dette Coun
Cole
Hassan
Florence
Peri
London Musical Times
Opera Musica
Swill
Royal Academy of Music
Laura Scamperr-Matheson
Henry Mapleton
Marie Koze
Mia
Mapleson
Pennsylvania State Music Teachers' Association
Carter
Ad M. Foerster
Aenora of
Kaffis
Shem
Japhet
Ham
Fexrchange
South Africa
Belle France
Holland
Gladstone Bagsides
Europe
Bayreuth
Mabinfried
Wagner
Monongahela
General Schofield
Women OF
South
Jonah
Mortal Eye
Ipene
Alaska
Cuba
Thesun
H McMahon Bros
Adams
Tou
Iron City
Ayer
Oo. Mande
E. Pitts
Aeion
Lowell, Maas
Dolla
Peifect
Mellon’s Bank
TLR
North Irwin
West Irwin
Pennsylvania Plate Glass Works
Gor
Theg
Keystone Bag CO
Irwin Brick CO
Irwin Window Glass Works
Prospect
Irwin
Irwin Electric Light Plant
Larimer
Union Station
Black & Baird
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