Secret Society of Westield Men Hide Meaning for Twenty Years
A peculiar literary society in Westield Hamilton county formed twenty two years ago to bar women from membership. The Society of Thant Less Jilting Maidens or STJM kept its letters a mystery as members pledged secrecy. Courts, divorces, and community taunts failed to reveal what the initials stand for despite public curiosity and local gossip.
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Clas
Company of Indies
Mech
ST. J. M
Weatfel
Sarah Jackson
Society of
Crawford
Worfield
Tady
Myrtle ‘Aylor
John Wingate
Mofeena
Maleettus
Cnartyra
Women in High Positions at Large Railroad Firm
A major railroad company bars women stenographers from promotion and pension eligibility. The Baltimore American notes this policy reflects resistance to women’s advancement despite their growing presence in various fields. The piece cites past views on women in skilled work and suggests internal resistance from male workers may drive the exclusion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore American
Weenury
Western Railway Corporation
Relics Unearthed in Paris Underground Railway Project
Parisian geologists and naturalists receive new documents as excavations for the Metropolitan underground railway reveal hundreds of fossil finds. Mammoth bones and teeth of ancient creatures surface beneath Place de l Opera and Montmartre, with barnacles, gypsum, and possible traces of antediluvian life noted by scientists awaiting further discoveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raitroad
M. Bienvenu
Paris
New York Times
Pirce de Opera
Montmartre
Aug
Atlee
Place de la
Metropolitan Railway
Boner
Renea
M. Horthelot
Trade tensions and oil fields in Kansas and Asia
The piece notes Manchurian and Chinese trade dynamics with American goods facing competition from Russian and other imports. It highlights oil activity in Kansas with wells in August numbering 170 and a daily field output of 6,847 barrels, plus prospects around Neodesha and Peru. It ends with a colonial-era note on Vienna’s long‑running newspapers and a joke about a dog catcher collector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Industrial Department
The
Santa Fe
Kansas
Independence
Neodesha
Rumboldt
Nedesha
Peru
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Universal Keyboard
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Burlingame & CO
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Anderson
Avery
Bere
Jewelv
Waten
New England Watch Co
Waiecbuer
ODD Secret Society
Indiana
T. J
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Westield
Hamilton County
New York
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Arapahoe Nt
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Placer and Lode
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