Women Clubs Propel Progress in Home and Society
A longtime advocate argues that women’s clubs lift home life and public affairs. They broaden education, curb idle gossip, and promote reform through discussion of history, science, and social questions. The piece cites Mary, Mrs Craven, and Abigail Adams as examples and stresses clubs as recreation and civic force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pitssbore
Woman
Eli
Confederation of Woman's Clubs
Chicago
San Francisco
Pittsburg
The Table The Boudoir Home Decorations And Hygiene
The article describes a girl entering adolescence seeking autonomy through personalizing her sleeping space. It argues that desire for a room she helped furnish signals the budding home making instinct, valuing simplicity and daintiness in decor and personal expression.
How to Make a Dressing Table in a Teen Room
A guide on creating a simple bright sleeping room for a young girl. Emphasizes sunny air filled spaces, bare floors with a few rugs, pale wall tones, and a white iron bed. Advises personal choice in room layout and a modest, practical, non elaborate design.
The Table and Bookshelf Craft by a Young Girl
A young girl creates a dressing table by painting an unpainted white table, adding turned posts for a mirror, and finishing with white enamel and gold lines. She decorates the top with Dresden pieces and a two inch framed mirror, calling it a pretty Maid Marian style piece. The article notes white china toilet pieces with Dresden patterns for cosmetics and storage.
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Martin
Bas
Simple Window Drapery and Furnishings for a Girl’s Room
A guide to affordable bedroom decor for a young girl featuring brass mountings, sunshiny buff fabrics, and dainty sateen bed covers. It covers bed frames, curtains, dressing tables, washstands, window drapes, and small furnishings with emphasis on light, bright colors and practical, low-cost items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maid Marian
Dresden
Two Pennsylvania Women Named to World’s Fair Board
Mary E. McCandless of Pittsburgh and Mrs. John Lucas of Philadelphia are chosen as Pennsylvania’s lady managers for the World’s Fair Board. The article praises their public service, charity work, and fitness for demanding duties, noting McCandless’s legal lineage and Lucas’s long record in charitable causes and silk culture advocacy.
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Petes
Dorcas
Mary
Miss Smiley
Sre
Presbyterian Synod of
New Jersey
General Assembly
Dr. Cox
Clifton Springs
Jane G. Swisshelm
Isabella of
Spain
Pocahontas
Virginia
Pittsburg
Woman's Club
Pennsylvania
Sweet Charity
Dispatch
John Lucas
Philadelphia
Mary E. McCandless
John Woodside
William McClelland
United States District Court
Buchanan
Sarah Collins
Elihu Spencer
D. D
Trenton
N. J
McCandless
Pattison
National Board of
Lady Managers
Miss McCandless
John ‘Lucas
Staffordshire
Tenth Ward Philadelphia Society For
Infants’ Home
Woman's Homeopathic Hospital Association
Newsboys’ Aid Society
Indian Hope Association
Italian Protestant Episcopal Mission of
New Orleans
Mra Lucas
Senate
Washington
Harrisburg
England
Scotland
Lucns
Silk Culture Association
Woman seeks answers as curtain rises on second act
A Detroit Free Press fiction snippet shows a woman asking for information while a man chews cardamom seed at the start of the second act. The dialogue centers on "George" and a whispered query about cardamom in whisky and other spirits.
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Detroit
Time Is Money Reflected In Quick Purchase
Dialog demonstrates the idea that time equals money as characters discuss rapid decisions and swift actions during a property viewing with Mrs McCorkle and Mrs McCrackie noting the immediacy of their interest and a perceived romance at the site.
Local Bitters Blocked by Legal Action Over Deceptive Labels
A brief note warns that an attempted sale of fiery local bitters and trashy tonics as similar to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is largely foiled by legal measures. The genuine product features a St. George vignette and a bronze label with a handwritten directive for use.
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Hostetter
St. George
Dra
Hoatetter
Women Need a Siste or Notebook for the Mind
A columnist argues that memory is finite for busy women and memory fatigue leads to forgetfulness. She advises using external aids like a kitchen slate and a dressing table pad to track household needs and personal matters, reducing mental strain and lost tasks.
How Ladies Can Make Money with Plating
A woman describes earning 10 to 20 dollars weekly by using a plating machine to plate old knives forks and spoons with nickel silver or gold. She notes ease of operation and invites readers to obtain a machine through F Delno & Co in Columbia Ohio or GC Wren and suggests profits similar to a previous successful case.
Reading Habits of Boys in Wartime Family Narrative
Jessie Benton Fremont recalls how two brothers chose books and activities reflecting their temperaments during a Civil War voyage and early California years. The account highlights Robinson Crusoe Hans Andersen Arabian Nights and other works shaping their resilience and learning as war unfolds.
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Lane
California
Mr. Beecher
Robinson Crusoe
Haroun
Hans Andersen
Gulf of Mexico
Admiral Semmes
Lafitte
Gulf
Sumter
Hatteras
Jeff Davis
Ohioes
Cooper
Marryatt
Sterilized milk and heat rise to curb infant deaths
The piece argues one quarter of US deaths are children under one, many from germ diseases via uncooked milk. It cites European scientists like Tyndall and Pasteur, notes German strictness on heated milk, and describes American use of genuinely sterilized milk improving infant digestion and health.
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United States
Rouzd
Europe
Gereman
Tyndall
Lister
Pasteur
Koch
Escherich
Germany
America
Diangres
Laying a Wood Pavement Stirs Paris Test of New Method
An inventor proposes splitting wood into short segments and laying them end to end on a gravel base to improve durability. Paris authorities reportedly back the trial, arguing moisture and compaction of wood chips create a stronger surface.
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St. Louis Glote-Democrat
Paris
Dr Price Extracts Vanilla Beans For Flavor Lead
A Price Flavoring Extract Co statement claims over 100000 dollars spent on vanilla beans in six months, the largest purchase by any manufacturer. It argues high quality requires Mexican vanilla beans, proper curing and aging, and one year before sale. It promotes Dr Price extract as offering superior flavor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price Flavoring Extract Co
Dr. Price
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Clube
Pittebury’s
Despond
Satan
Arles Dickens
Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle
Martin Luther
John Milton
Hypatia
Mary Somerville
Dean Cockburn
Annie Besant
Abigail Adams
White House
Cretenne
Helen Watterson
Enak Belongengs
the World's Fair Board
Mary E McCandless
Midland
Woman's Silk Culture Association
The
Union
Maine
Fee
Our Lady Managers
Mary TemrPie Bayard
Detroit Free Press
Hilow
Gofer
Mr. Greatheart
Jessie Benton Fremont
Jack
Scherezade
Jessiu Benton Fremont
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