Prayer for Every Woman at Regent House
Ada Patterson recounts a study circle at the Regent's Manhattan residence where women hear a reading of a prayer for all women. The piece emphasizes avoiding pettiness, needing calm, straightforward action, and kindness, urging women to grow large in thought and deed.
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Ada Patterson
Regent’s
Grammercy Park
Wilm Cumming
Manhattan
Daughters of the Nerican Revolution
John
Hanity
Liv
London
Hard Sledding for Cupid in Vincennes
William Davis a 65 year old farmer and Miss Myrtle Adams 23 failed to marry here as Davis could not raise the license fee and tried to borrow the money from courthouse attaches. They plan to return but if the license is void the clerk’s record will be affected. Robert L. Robeson and Miss Ethel Baird went to Lawrenceville to marry but returning found high water blocked the way to Robeson’s farm. They walked three miles along the levee and reached home safely. A. Collman plumber poth phones 297.
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Vincennes
Ind
William Davis
Myrtle Adams
Davis
Court House
Robert L. Robeson
Ethel Baird
Lawrenceville
Robeson
The King Drinks by Nell Brinkley
Nell Brinkley contrasts Briton Riviere’s lion at a desert waterhole with a baby in a cozy home. The lone king drinks from a blue china bowl of milk under his father’s protective roof, while the other king drinks beneath wide sky amid five elements and looming danger.
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Riviere
New York
Nell Brinkley
My Secrets of Beauty by Mme Lina Cavalieri
The essay argues air harms beauty by stripping oils from skin and hair. A western woman recounts using suet for facial care, while noting cold winds dry the scalp and hair. recommends feeding pores with lanoline Vaseline and various oils to protect skin and hair.
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Western Plains
Ely's Great Balm Opens Stuffy Noses and Head
An advertisement touts Ely's Cream Balm as instant relief for catarrh and nasal congestion. It claims immediate clearing of air passages, reduced discharge, and headache relief with a small bottle available at drug stores.
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Ely
Cuticura cures skin disease claim in 1912 notice
An advertisement from 1912 promotes Cuticura Soap Ointment and related products as a cure for a skin disease described by Mrs. J. H. Fowler of Greenville Mississippi. It includes usage instructions, a sample offer, and a request to write to Cuticura Boston for a Skin Book. The note claims complete cure in under two months and lists shaving stick product details.
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Walker St
Greenville
Miss
J. H. Fowler
Cuticura
Dept. T
Boston
Guard Against Skin and Scalp Robbers Warning
A brief health note cautions readers about skin and scalp irritants likened to a common olive oil product. The advisory emphasizes careful product selection and storage.
Heavenly Bliss and the Manicure Lady's Writer Dream
The Manicure Lady longs to be a lady writer like Dorothy Dix and Ella Wilcox. The Head Barber cautions her on spelling and choosing a worthy topic. She reads a self written poem Heavenly Bliss that impresses but does not persuade them she belongs among major league writers.
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William F. Kirk
George
Hall Caine
Dorothy Dix
Billa Wheeler Wilcox
Winifred Black
Ella Wilcox
Marrying a Career
A narrator, the only spinster among married women, overhears advice on choosing a husband by profession. Doctors demand chores, engineers fix homes, and artists risk finances, while a potential sea captain promises freedom. The piece ends urging that a woman’s character matters more than a man’s calling.
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Elizabeth Howe
Long Lost Daughter Found By Joplin Heiress in unread news story
Mrs. T. P. Fisher of Joplin Missouri learns through a newspaper account that her long lost daughter Mrs. Pansy Lesh, recently acquitted at Sedalia Missouri of poisoning two women, is connected to the Luttrell estate. Fisher plans to claim her inheritance from the Morgan court as heir to the uncle Luttrell.
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Grand
West
Pener
Jacksonville
T. P. Fisher
Joplin
Pansyllen Lesh
Sedalia
Luttrell
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Regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Cupid
A. Collman
Commerce Street
San Antonio Loan and Trust Company
Trust Building
Crockett Street
San Antonio National Bank
THE
San Antonio
WEST TEXAS BANK @ TRUST CO
F. McCaleb
Leon N. Walthall
H. Savage
W. B. Hamilton JR
Alex P. Vildaret
Tate Bank & Trust CO
Alamo Transfer Company
Evan Shelby
Our’s
Maverick-Clarke Litho CO
Texas
West Commerce Street
Mme, Lina Cavalieri
France
R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo, N.Y
Dr. Pierce
M.D
Union Meat Company
Beef and Pork Packers
Union Stock Yards
San Antonio, Texas
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