Remarkable Story of Law Robbing Woman of Property Rights
A Pittsburgh widow recounts how Pennsylvania law allowed her husband to control a million-dollar estate and life interest, depriving her of the store and income after his 1891 death and the 1893 panic. She urges suffrage activists to push for legal change to grant women voting and property protections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Pennsyl
Mia
Trout Company
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Canned Dinner Dishes and Savory Duck Pie Notes
A home cook outlines a multi dish meal featuring smothered potatoes, bread, fruit tea, and a clam and duck dish. Instructions describe a clove of steps from dressing a mock duck with breadcrumbs and onions to baking, browning gravy, and serving with apple sauce and mashed vegetables. A separate clam recipe uses milk, flour, and butter to a hot boil, then strained for serving.
Family Fry Kit Instructions Mixed with Baking Steps
Step by step notes describe frying beef with flour and milk, making batter from flour rye meal and sour milk with eggs sugar soda salt and lard, baking in a hot gem pan. Also instructions for frying pork slices, onions, potatoes with water, and cooking a large marrow or white squash until tender with skin removed.
Raspberry Peach Layered Sponge Squares
A sponge cake baked in an oblong pan is cooled and cut into squares. Centers are removed to form shells then filled with alternate raspberry and peach layers, sweetened to taste. Finished with whipped cream tinted pink from raspberry juice.
Parry Reclaims Health. Father-in-Law Reports Return
Byron Phelps, father-in-law of Will H. Parry, returned from California yesterday with news that Mr. Parry has regained his health and will be home in a few days.
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Byron Phelps
Will H. Parry
California
Parry
Newport Girls Ready to Greet Taft in Summer Fun
Newport Aug 10. The town buzzes as President Taft visits with eager crowds. About 200 young women, led by Angelica Brown, pose to charm the president, hoping for a chance to dance with him and create a lasting Newport memory.
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Newport
R. L
Taft
United States
Newport Girls
Angelica Brown
Amtie
No Royal Husband for Princes Pat
King George approves Princess Pat’s marriage to Chas. H. A. Paget marquis of Anglesea. The youngest daughter of Duke of Connaught had previously spurned many royal suitors including Alfonso of Spain and Manuel of Portugal. England notes the match ends royal wooing battles that plagued her youth.
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United Press
London
Pat
Charlie
King George
All England
Edward
Duke of Connaught
Daya
Chas. H. A. Paget
Anglesea
Europe
Alfonso
Spain
Manuel
Portugal
I Wonder Why Cooks and Sweets From Boston Transcript
The item blends household tips with a playful verse about cooking and prices. It notes a sugar dissolving tip for lemonade and a fragrant sachet recipe using Florentine criss root rose leaves tonquin musk almonds and a method to blend ingredients. A humorous poem about why things go awry in daily life follows.
Cruelty of Women's Fashions Stirs Federal Action
The Washington Post reports 150000 birds slain in Hawaii last year for women's wear, violating US law. Pirates traffic plumage to ports like San Francisco, with 23 captured and two tons seized. England acts with a Commons bill by Percy Alden banning killing of various birds and the sale of plumage for millinery.
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Hawaiian Islands
United States
San Francisco
California
Revenue
Customs House
England
House of Commons
Percy Alden
Washington Post
Hans Christian Andersen, Danish storyteller and poet
A short life sketch of Hans Christian Andersen from Odense, detailing his poverty as a child, his early struggles to fund education by singing in a choir, his persistence in writing stories, and his eventual recognition as a celebrated author in Denmark and abroad.
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Odense
Funnen
Hans
Lewsona
England
America
Hane Christian Andersen
Woman's smile or frown more potent than ballot
A discussion on how a woman's expression influenced political outcomes, citing Mrs Longworth and other First Ladies as examples. The piece questions why Mrs Longworth frowned at the Ohio convention and explores the broader impact of wives on their husbands' political choices.
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Ohio
Longworth
Washington
Columbus
Buckeye
Frank Stockton
Supreme Bench
White House
Mra
Clevelland
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Massett
Cleveland
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Princess Patricia
Novelty Mill Co., Millers
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Cynthia Grey
Stork
Boston Transcript
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Bunset
Main
Pike
Dreamand
Stevens
Mt. Main
Oriental Pool
ONDON
Elco
Garvey-Buchanan
G.B. Co
G.E. Co
Flair Goods
G.B Co
Foff Satin
James Dine
Carlson
Watch London
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