Facts of Interest To Women Readers. A mix of essays and advice
A long column discusses the “new woman” in Europe and America, with quotes from Judge Lambert Tree and reflections on women’s roles. It cites American resilience, contrasts with European labor norms, and includes poems, recipes, household tips, and moral commentary on gender expectations.
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Lambert Tree
Chicago
Walter Wellman
Europe
England
France
Dusiness
America
Paris
London
Penny in the Slot Doctors Herald New Auto Medical Machines
A ragged essay previews penny in the slot automatic medical devices. It imagines a future with automated doctors, ambulances, and even haircuts or extractions by mechanical means, warning of self diagnosis and unintended dangers. It questions medical gatekeepers and envisions comical, troubling consequences.
Not Their Style A Negotiation With Proxies Involved
A couple in a talk from the Chicago Post discusses an arranged engagement between Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough. They note the matchmaking by mutual friends and the use of proxies, while one character rejects European innovations and the idea of proxies.
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Chicago
Missy Consuelo Vanderbilt
Duke of Marlborough
Colonel Blaine Impostor Tangles Bus Ticket Scheme
A pompous colonel vaunts facial likeness to James G. Blaine and uses his status to pull a petty con on travelers with a small ticket trick. The piece portrays him as boastful, self important, and prone to grandiose speech at the boardinghouse table.
Surprise of ophil and the nickel stealing colonel
The text describes a boastful colonel recounting how he exploited a streetcar fare system. He bought six tickets for a quarter, used five, dropped tickets into the box, and kept five nickels, reclaiming his quarter. He then admits becoming less polite and mocks the company for not hiring a conductor.
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Schiller Street
Lam
Salam
Insured Man Proposes Odd Death Claim at Insurance Office
A man with a red nose visits a Louisville Life Insurance office and proposes a deal to fake his death over whisky. He says his policy is in his wife’s name and offers to pay 25 cents for a life ending to collect $5000. The official consents, then hesitates as the man exits.
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Louisville Times
Ufe Insurance Company
Eny
Better Than A Deed He Held the Land by Shotgun Logic
A Detroit Free Press reader recalls a poverty cabin near a North Carolina border where a man claims ownership via force. He owns a "powerful lot" of land but has no deed and keeps a double-barreled shotgun for protection against squatters.
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Detroit Free Press
North Carolina
Peculiar Paris Sect Promotes Naked Primitive Living
Paris reports a new Montmartre sect led by Gravelle seeking salvation through a return to natural state. Members publish a weekly paper and plan experiments living naked and disavowing work, with a landowner offering his estate for a test in central France.
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Paris
Montmartre
Ecct
Gravelle
Nausceau
France
Toronto Citizen Reveals 19 Months With Heart Disease
L. J. Law of Toronto relates a dire six year struggle with heart disease. He recounts spells palpitations and inability to lie down, detailing failed treatments and eventual use of a pill remedy before partial relief. The account stresses hardship and medical uncertainty.
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Bea
Toronto
L. J. Law
Canada
Scranton Stove Works Offers 2000 Stoves at Foundry Prices
The Scranton Stove Works reports 3088 loaves baked during Easter dockash range with seven days and 11 hour peak. Weather warm and stove trade dull as the firm auctions 2000 stoves at foundry prices for thirty days to keep shop running this winter.
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Easter Dockash
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Dolly
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Midland Monthly
Arthur L. Salmon
Ehece
Amber
Chicago Times-Herald
Trey
Beemoth
New York Press
Bishop Seymour
Minnesota
God
Jesus Christ
Christ
Casa County Tribune
Prio Times-Herald
Harper’s
Aesculapius
Oater
The
Chicago Tribune
Colonel Blank
James G. Blaine
Beauty
Scranton Stove Works
EvuUwilue
Strong
Penn Avenue
W. & Doud
Lackawanna Avenue
Foote & Shear CO
North
Washington Ave
Q. J. Hughes
South Main Avenue
Hi. D. Swartz & CO
L. C. Smith's
Remington
Eprace Street
Pons and
Wyoming Avenues
Harriond Typewriter
Hammond
Perfest
Philadelphia
Este Ee Eee Typewriter Co
F. A
A. J. Branda
Spruce Bt
Scranton
Gall UP
Pilsener
Theas
Mercereay & Comirgll
Lackawarya
Li and
Chew Ua
Arey
GouTiut
Depsin
Ghpital
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