Windsor’s marble carver pioneer Alice Rigg breaks barriers
Miss Alice Rigg of Windsor Canada proves women can enter new trades. She opened a path in the tombstone engraving trade, fighting hard to win her place among hard winners. Her work is now acknowledged as the city’s most successful marble carver. Her two years in a male field followed her first experiments with her father’s trade.
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Younes Canadien
Mies
Alice Rigg
Windeor
Canada
Maine
Serid
Eat Iigle
Mise Rigg
Winsor
Aed
Noted Woolmeat Artist Shapes Marble Monuments
Mise Riggie emerges as a skilled marble and granite carver known for original, thoughtful designs. She handles large orders, carves intricate figures for monuments, and also drafts patterns for other carvers in town and beyond. Her craft requires a sculptor’s eye, steady wrist, developed strength, and disciplined technique.
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Marlie
Her Supernatural Fascination and Civil War Virtues Theme
A fragmented passage discusses a woman's allure and virtues in crisis, contrasting her tenderness with strength. It then shifts to praise for heroines of the Civil War, highlighting courage, devotion, and selflessness from Bull Run to Appomattox, praising their sacrifices amid devastation.
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Abe
Alreays
Bisa
Low
Angela
Bull Run
Appomattox
Fragmentary historic hospital scene misread in OCR
A damaged OCR fragment describes a hospital setting with garbled phrases about the gory field, southern star and a compassionate women’s home. The readable content centers on a troubled hospital scene and unclear references to a northern star and a people’s work.
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Vette
Selsome
A Curious Tangle of Dialogue and Domestic Advice
A fragmentary column blends social chat on conversation at dinner and reflections on love and marriage. It cites examples from the Philadelphia Times and discusses female tact, loyalty in love, and the idea that a man need not be a perfect myth. It also offers a method to fortify coffee with beaten eggs for invalids.
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Lome
Ghent
Courting Widow Fashion in Leap Year Courtship
A fragmentary dialogue depicts a sheriff, a widow seeking courtship guidance, and a judge as a tense scene unfolds. The exchange hints at social constraints, religious tones, and gender roles amid an old time setting.
Childish things and dignity as signs of age
A Congregationalist reflection warns that fascination with trivial matters shows our haste to live and forget, while excessive regard for personal dignity may signal premature old age. The text urges sympathy with childish things to ward off decay of spirit.
Baby’s Pittow Embroidered in White Linen
A baby pillow is handmade with white linen embroidery showing a crescent moon near the top and graceful lettering beneath. Below, several small figures of people are shown nodding as if going to sleep, reflecting a delicate decorative piece.
Tea gowns adaptions promise you fashion
Fashion notes describe tea gowns with vivid detail, citing green peau de soie fabrics, epilogue styles, handwork, and velvet embellishments. It highlights a model with a V neck, elbow sleeves, lace bands, and a two piece belt. A second item covers cleaning methods and baking tips.
White Fashion Notes for Winter Coats and Dresses
White corduroy and white cloth dominate this winter's evening wear with simple loose coats and lace collars edged in dark fur. White frocks in frieze, crepe de chine, and broadcloth appeal for young girls and stylish adults, while sable and black velvet trim add chic contrast.
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Kiet
Idle curiosity and odd questions amuse a living skeleton
In a whimsical exchange from Youth's Companion style humor, a talking elastic skin man asks a skeleton about engagements while the idle figure muses on wishes. The dialogue highlights oddities of a carnivallike cast with playful, surreal banter.
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Tale
CLOUD CAPPED TOWERS AND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
A narrated journey near Calgary describes the awe of the Rockies with snow caps and purple shadows. The narrator recalls travelers’ chants and imperial praise, the vast landscape, and final hours of a sunset journey through pine slopes and purple peaks.
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Derond Mekvoy
Toronto
Calgary
Ind Shipto
Suil
Gollar
Beauties of Mt Assiniboine and a Wedding Scene
The piece admires Mt Assiniboine from the north and west, noting the Pyramid peak’s aesthetic from different faces and the rugged south wall. It then quotes a Chicago Tribune wedding inquiry where a justice asks if the couple will wed, the bride lamenting the license fee as the groom holds the money.
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Mt Aminiboine
Mt. Assiniboine
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Sis
Ani
Pildelphia Times
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Murlon Longino
Mictssingi
Audher
Vk Bool
Clara
Tom
New York
Brown
Chlekens
Papa
New York Journal
Jerlee
Phitheine
She
Mr. Soodlekins
Leaha
Justice of the Peace
Chicago Tribune
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