Wealthy Widow Met as Banker in Gotham Tale
A long City feature traces the rise and fall of Hetty Green, famed financier of New York. It depicts her vast holdings from railroads to mines while noting her hollow wealth and personal loneliness. The piece contrasts her fortune with a modest life enjoyed by a NYC stenographer and others nearby.
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Mstens
America
Russell Sage
Midas
ForMetty Green
Boston
San Francisco
Michigan
Nevada
Missouri
Ietty Green
Wonman
New York
Mistress of Finance in Not a Happy Woman
A vivid portrait of Howland Robinson Green, an elderly woman controlling vast fortunes. The article describes her presence on Broadway and in finance, noting her power, wealth, and influence as she directs corporate destinies from a mahogany roll-top desk.
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Broadway
Broadway Magazine
Moener
National Chemical Bank
Wen
Assura
Ign
Fretty Howland Robinson Green
Help Agency Fakes Delude Youths in Large Cities
A Chicago Tribune reader cites C A Latterson ranting about employment agencies. He claims agencies mislead youths and collude with disreputable employers to trap workers with fake contracts and no future job. He argues reputable firms avoid agencies.
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C. A Latterson
Chicago Tribune
Hooded Snakes Lose Fearsome Hoods In Natural Decline
The piece explains hoods on hooded snakes were once weapons of intimidation but have grown oversized through evolution. In fights, the hooded snake overbalances when striking, then a mongoose or certain birds seize and kill the creature by tearing the neck area.
Hair Bleach Claim Sparks Mock Debate in London Telegraph
A quarrel over hair treatment erupts between Miss Blondlock and Miss Ravenwing with one asserting a false bleach claim. The London Telegraph notes both sides acknowledge the rumor, detailing social reactions and defences.
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Blondlock
Miss Ravenwing
London Telegraph
Miss Elder and Miss Peppery Banter on Gray Hair Jest
The dialogue shows Miss Elder and Miss Peppery joking about course of an idea that Lis pretends her hair is gray. Miss Peppery calls the notion ridiculous while Miss Elder confirms it and notes the pretend gray hair.
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Miss Elder
Lis
Health tips and household remedies from old time notices
A compact row of health and home advice cites Syrup of Figs as a reputable laxative, with emphasis on authentic manufacture by California Fig Syrup Co. It also offers kitchen hacks like drying stale bread and restoring polished wood with salt and oil, reflecting practical domestic guidance.
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Ford
Alwata
California Fig Syrup Co
Surprising Kitchen Tricks and a Cautionary Thought
To keep butter fresh press it into a bowl then add salt to water and refrigerate to prevent tainting. Sealing catsup bottles by corking and dipping in paraffin. To sweeten rancid butter melt and skim then add raw potato. A warning about deception shows two can play at that game.
The Handy Doctor in Your Vest Pocket
An advertisement touts a portable enamel box of Cascarets sold as health insurance. Six candy tablets claim to exercise the bowels and liver, avoid purging or stomach upset, and act like a bowel muscle massage. The West Pocket box costs 10 cents and promises genuine Sterling Remedy Company quality.
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West Pocket
Sterling Remedy Company
Hints on horse care and farm duties from advice column
The excerpt urges regular checks on horses feet legs and wounds to prevent danger, compares neglect to wasting soil in an orchard, and advises applying manure every few years if keeping sheep. It also suggests starting a son early in life to study and work, emphasizing practical farming discipline.
Home Economy Tips From A Past Gardener
Pick up trimmed branches and haul them to burn before grass grows. Rotate farm crops between fields and apply to the garden. Clean blankets, store on wide shelves with newspaper and soap to deter moths. Keep a pocket apron for clothespins when hanging laundry. Brown flour in a pan to brown gravy and fill a can. Use a wire rack in pots to prevent pans from resting on bottom. Brighten tinware with baking soda and water solution. Roll out carpet to sweep away dampness. Fix teapot spout with a cork cut to fit the hole.
Dr Talks of Food and Grape-Nuts Endorsement
A health official advocates proper food choices and cites personal relief from malnutrition and heart palpitations after using Grape-Nuts with milk. He claims the product supports a rational diet and urges readers to read The Road to Wellville for context.
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Lagalm
Wellville
Value of life beyond wealth and price
The essay argues true riches lie in love, friendship, family, and moral living rather than money. It compares priceless joys to art, sunrise, and motherly care, urging open hearts to beauty and virtue. It warns against chasing wealth at the expense of character and spiritual grounding, citing moral law and Jesus.
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Henry F. Cope
Hfe
Lfe
Ufe
Jesus
God
Christ
Man Should Discover by Rev John R B Mackay
A review quoting Luke 10 26 and Macaulay notes how language grows with new science and war. The piece discusses words revealing deeper human nature and mirrors in literature.
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John RB. Mackay
Macaulay
Hymns You Ought to Know True Worship
Poem urging faithful daily work as prayer and worship. Encourages seeing God in work across loom to science, art, and commerce. Calls for living one’s heavenly birth by aligning all tasks with divine will.
Don’t Fear Truth and Labor in Gos Vineyard
A crowded admonition urges readers to seek truth and work, do all possible to bring heaven to earth, avoid empty prayer, and avoid wasting energy fighting shadows while warning against idleness and nonproductive aims.
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Gos Vineyard
Heaven
Short Meter Sermons Burst From Parched Prose
A fragmented religious column urges engagement with world affairs not withdrawal. It cautions against pride, extols kinship in adversity, and argues wealth alone cannot forge a moral commonwealth while critiquing performative piety and hollow religious routines.
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F. A. Gapen
Sidney
Nebraska
McGill
Univerity
Walter Damrosch
Chicago
Mendelssohn
Henny Drummond Wolff
Lord Guillace
Marie
Re. L. C. Wallburton
Engibh
Ss. Sark
Dr. Haliburton
Herts
Milliana Hetty Green
Western
Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
W. D. Scott
Ottawa
W. V. Bennett
New York Life Building
Omaha
Neb
Howard Bros
Buffalo, N.Y
Guarat
Hall
F J Chaney & CO
Toledo
Tiv
Viall
Earth
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