Married Life the Second Year Reads Between the Lines
In a domestic scene, Helen argues with memory as she packs away winter clothes for summer. The scene recalls gifts, theater tickets, and tender marks of a strained marriage with Warren as Delia aids in sorting and list making before his arrival.
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Mabel Herbert Urner
Helen
Stummer
Warren
Kitten
Delia
Helen Lat
George
Reform Kindergarten in Fairhope A Model School
Ella Wheeler Wilcox praises teachers while describing a novel Fairhope Ala reform kindergarten. Younger children learn via music story telling nature observation and outdoor activities, with limited book use until age ten to protect sight health and concentration.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
America
Boston
Fairhope
Ala
Hay
Mobile
Lydia E Pinkham product hailed in testimonials
The text promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with multiple testimonials from women in Richmond Missouri and Jonesboro Texas praising its remedies for female ailments. It notes the product’s thirty year history, root and herb basis, and offers free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. It also contains ad style dialogue about fashion powder and domestic concerns unrelated to medicine.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Richmond
Woodson Branstetter
United States
Jonesboro
Texas
E. Pinkhaw
America
Tom
James T. Lawrence
Munich doll artist spawns lifelike peasant figures for empire
A Munich artist creates jointed plaster dolls modeled after real children in Bavarian peasant dress. The empress gifted such dolls to royal children, boosting demand across Germany and later the United States as factories seek her new faces and outfits. The article notes a contrast between farm land gains and the surge in farm property values.
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Munich
Bavarian
Germany
Empire
Harper’s Bazar
Stop Being a Nuisance at Home and in Public
A reflective essay urges readers to curb irritation in crowded life. It lists habits that annoy family, friends, and strangers and challenges readers to examine their own behavior. The piece ends with a plea to reform now.
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Cited as Cure
Mrs. Anna Pelzer of South Omaha Nebraska endorses Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a sure cure for coughs and colds. She says it cured her daughter and neighbors with rapid relief and notes broad neighborhood praise from Edwards King Drug Co and A Collman Plumster at 446 Main Ave.
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Foley
Anna Pelzer
Ferson St
South Omaha
Neb
Benson
Edwards King Drug Co
Fashionable Writing Paper and Envelopes Die Styles
The article notes writing paper trends closely tied to envelope shapes and monogram dies. Circular monograms remain popular, diamond dies top pages, while long narrow drop letters and deeply interlaced script resemble hieroglyphics, reflecting shifting fashions in design.
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Harper’s Bazan
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Carawomother
Saeia A
Dorothy Dix
Europe
California
London
Paris
A. Collman
Plumster
Main Ave
Cabot’s