Woman executive urges intuition and drive in business
Ruth Abeling profiles Mrs. Laura B. Merrill, secretary of Commonwealth Hotel Construction, who stresses personal site visits, direct investor contact, and strong belief in women’s limitless achievement. Merrill recalls starting at six dollars a week at eighteen, valuing seriousness, sincerity, and intuition in business.
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Ruth Abeling
New York
Laura BH. Merrill
Commonwealth Hotel Construction Corporation
Reer
Merrill
Commonwealth Corporation
New York City
Hill's Manual of Social Etiquette an Era’s Arbiter
The piece surveys Hill's Manual of Social and Business Form a guiding book for manners from cradle to grave. It notes its status as a best seller and authority alongside Cushing Hoyle and the Marquis of Queensbury. It highlights table manners examples and sample love letters showing era etiquette in daily life.
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Hill
Iil
Cushing, Hoyle
Marquis of Queensbury
Orphan Famine Hits Adoption Lines Across Nation
New York reports an acute shortage of adoptable children with Orphans Preferred noting high demand. The Children’s Aid Society, largest adoption group globally, says it cannot meet requests, with most inquiries from Middle Western states as families adopt two or three children at once.
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New York
Children's Aid Society
Correspondence on Love and Caution Between Gentlewomen
The text quotes a flirtatious exchange in which a gentleman and a gracious lady writer discuss a declaration of love at first sight. She deflects with gentle reproach and proposes friendship at first, with the aim of cautious acquaintance within a home setting.
Imposter French Count Confesses Fraud in Rome
In Rome on December 26, a man posing as a millionaire French nobleman named Ferdi nand d'Eglise was revealed as the son of an Italian butcher. He was arrested on fraud charges and has made a full confession.
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Rome
Ferdinand d’Eglise
Seeley Truss Expert to Demonstrate in Seattle
Seeley a famed Chicago Philadelphia truss expert at the Washington hotel in Seattle offering demonstrations December 27 to 30. He cites the Spermatic Shield as a rupture treatment claiming rapid opening and no surgery and notes U S government documents available for inspection. He states all claims verified before Federal and State Courts and will demonstrate without charge.
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WH. Seeley
Chicago
Philadelphia
Washington
Seattle
Seeley
England
Spain
United States
Washington, D. C
P. S
F. HH. Seeley
North Dearborn St
News Briefs from Tacoma to Siam and Bangkok
A Tacoma report notes theft of $900 and clothing from the home of P. K. Yuckert on Christmas Eve. A Bangkok despatch states Princess Laohash reshu wed Prince Naradlim by the king’s order, following a royal betrothal twist.
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Tacoma
P. K. Yuckert
Bangkok
Siam
Laohash
Reshu
Naradlim
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