World of Women Panel: Rich Field for Women Pro and Con
A 19th century critique surveys women in work and society. It argues women excel in architecture and house planning yet face barriers, contrasts modern fashion with moral concerns, and notes European labor roles for women, including Stockholm’s harsh depiction of female debasement.
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Stolkholm
Europe
Merrie England
France
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Holland
Stockholm
Women at Work in Stockholm’s Building Trade
In Stockholm women perform heavy labor as hod carriers and brick layer's assistants, carrying bricks and mixing mortar. They endure twelve hour days for about one kroner. They also sweep streets, haul rubbish, unload bricks, tend parks, garden, row ferries, and manage the dairy business, replacing horses and dogs in milk delivery.
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Stockholm
Skeleton of a Child Found on Shore After Tidal Wash
A group discovers a skeletal remains of a girl buried in sands after a long burial in the shore. An old fisherman aids the recovery placing a beard as a marker and vows the grave is known to God but not to man. The scene is set by a fierce northeast gale and foaming sea.
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New York
Fawcett
Cambridge
England
Boston
Herat
Miss Fawcett
Fancrett
Mother Eve
Journal
Tommy
Terpoze
Laura
Dr. Thompson
Alfred Tennyson
Coton
Tennyson
Arnou is at dinner proverb origin in France
A New York Ledger tale explains why people say Arnou is at dinner to avoid intrusion. Henry of Bourbon, Prince of Conde, privately mortgaged Muret. while a notary Arnoul dined, the prince waited in silence. The notary later admitted the client and wrote the deed with blanks, then filled the name after the prince’s reveal. The line “Arnou l is at dinner” spread as a local proverb.
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France
Department of the Garonne
Arnou
New York Ledger
Henry
Prince of Conde
Great Conde
Jouis
Muret
Arnoul
Arnon
Arnonl
Conde
Henry of
Lourbon
Prince of the Blood
Strcken
Autumn sowing and self seedings boost bedding plants
Autumn sowing yields earlier strong summer bedding plants and self sown volunteers. Pansy seed age affects bloom quality, so buying reliable florist seed is wiser. Scarlet salvias germinate slowly but bloom boldly in late summer, lighting gardens as nights cool. Autumn transplanting and spring sowing offer earlier flowers, with salvias ideal for corsage use and window gardens.
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Augst
Vivk’s
The Matate Game At Sanitier Camp For Troyn
In a children’s activity note the Matate Game is described as a balancing contest using potatoes, two soup plates, and teaspoons. Players balance potatoes on spoons, moving along a floor of double parlors while onlookers react. the winner gains choice of successors.
Summer Camp for Days on Canandaigua Lake
Prof Arey of the Rochester Academy has started a month long camp on the west side of Canandaigua Lake for about sixty boys. Under military discipline they engage in boating, fishing, swimming, lectures, natural history, geology, astronomy, and microscopes with excursions and entertainments. The program aims to train in useful arts and sciences while keeping youths engaged in wholesome recreation.
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Iays
New York
Arey
Rochester Academy
Canandaigua Lake
Canandsigna Lake
Vick’s
The Casabianca Lesson and Clover Meadows
A tale recalls Tommy a literal boy who ignores warnings and the dangers of misreading rules. In a leafier scene, young Jack Murch, visiting a meadow with clover, endures a comical bumblebee swarm, chasing honey, milked by a day of farm work and a comic bee attack that ends with bandages and soda.
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Alr
Jack Murch
Buttercup
Mareh
Rish-A
Rasha
Risha
Rash-A
Jack
Jel
Jeff
Jeff Jong
Ten
A Civil War Captain’s Whisky Misprint Tale
Seargeant Major Martin of the Park Commission relays a Civil War tale about Captain Patrick O Flaherty a devout Catholic temperance officer who rises from the ranks and orders a single gill of whisky for Private Jones. The sutler misreads gill as gallon sparking a comic episode when canteens are used and drunkenness erupts, ending the captain’s prescription practice.
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Martin
The
Park Commission
Patrick O'Flaherty
Horace Greeley
Jones
John
Company A
O'Flaherty
Gill—Gil
Wn Gill
Philadelphia Degairer
Notable Portraits and Anecdotes of Famous Figures
The piece sketches Max Blouet a Parisian satirist, and General Sheridan with sharp observations on bearing and parade. It offers humorous vignettes from gospel tents, light verse exchanges, and quick sketches of social scenes including a thief of boasts, a naïve child, and street-smart tramps.
Sermons for Sunday and a Woman's Quiet Faith
A Sunday scene mixes a sermon fragment on treason against God with a long anecdote about Dr. Thompson and Tennyson, then follows Miss Rush and Miss Iris in a busy church day. Iris and Margaret, the nurse, reveal quiet piety as the minister's daughter endures fatigue, while a hospital ward and prison reading test her devotion. In Youth's Companion, a contrasting vignette shows a wife pondering a husband's past and happiness.
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Miss Rush
Bob
Margaret
Miss Rash
Morning screen tale shakes New Jersey society
A New York suburb tale of a society belle engaged to a New York businessman prompts gossip over a wedding wardrobe screen. A married guest learns the screen hides an awkward morning scene and the town debates its fate, while East Orange ladies consider visiting the bride. The anecdote shifts to a Sheridan anecdote from Chicago about a blunt Irish corporal who misreads orders.
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Brito
New York
Trousseau
Monsel
Charley
Hild
Severn
East Orange
New York Mercury
Startling Discovery and Tales From Hartford and Americas
A fragmented 19th century-style passage reports startling discoveries about fever and medicine, praises patent remedies, and recounts a dinner tale about a dangerous blanccmange mishap with a hoptoad. It also notes a rattlesnake exhibit at A P Boltons store in Americas Georgia and a local tale of moral caution. The text mixes sensational medical claims with anecdotal notes.
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George
Feveramlague
Hostetter Storgach Bitchers
Investments in the South and Rvanaville Race Tickets
The Rvanaville Race will sell round trip tickets from Chicago and all Itaines stations on Sept 0 and Oct 14 at one turn for travel to Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee and Texas. Tickets allow return passage within 30 days. Trains run from Chicago to Nashville with through connections to southern cities. South’s growth in agriculture mining and population attracts investors as pamphlets promote low rates and opportunities. William Henn General Messenger and Ticket Agent Co and ELL RR in Chicago handle tickets.
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South
Rvanaville
Chicago
Itaines
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Tennessee
Texas
Nashville
Union Depot
Liberto
Northwest
Aisoo
William Henn
Massenger
ELL RR
Lions in India Fear Railways Threaten Habitat
The London Daily News notes the extension of railways pushing lions toward extinction in central India. Fewer roaming Hons remain beyond Kattywar where a steady, small race persists. Prince Albert Victor recently visited the region.
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India
London Daily News
Mr. Ruskin
Nampur
Kattywar
Prince Albert Victor
Home-Seekers' Excursion Offers Great Western Travel Deals
Excursion offers on the Chicago eek Island and Pacific Railway to Kansas Nebraska Texas New Mexico Wyoming Utah Minnesota North and South Dakota Colorado and Indian Territory with one fare round trip tickets on Tuesdays September 9 25 and October 1. Tickets valid thirty days for return travel by first class trains with destinations through Red & Pty Agt Chicago.
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Chicago
Eek Island and Pacific Railway
Kansas
Nes Orisha
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Texas
Neve Mexvico
Wyoming
Utah
Utahe
Minnesota
Northwestern
South
North Dakota
Memtini
Colorado
Nur
Rome
Red & Pty
Txo. Senashan, G. T. & PB. Agt
Chicago, ML
Harvest Excursions Sell Tickets On Regional Lines
The Thurlitztan Route Co along QR RR will offer Harvest Excursion Tickets from main stations on September 6 and 16 and October 14. Tickets cover farm regions in the West Southwest and Northwest. Further details and contacts available from local agents.
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Thurlitztan
Co. le and
QR. RR
Hnes
Holt Riviea
Cor Thekers and
Firther
Andress TY
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Sheridan
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Larisiana
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Artrer
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Samiploot
Mihst
New York City
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Los Ange
Pasadena
California
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Reinalien
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California Fig Syrup CO
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Juane
Lanteptens
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Nnee
Sucules & CO
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Anfide Taliban & Tall
AGIR
Washington, D.us
Avery Tone
Densio Jon Ww. Morris
Washington, D.C
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Gen
Pisia
Felix
Kalins Orient
Tevegiste Co Faocy Goods Deaiers
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Owen Electric Belt & Appliance
North Broadway
St. Laura
Broadway
Foevesta
Vevivns Chemical Planet Ohio
Con Oul
D. H. Ingraham
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Amsterdam
D. R. Dyche & CO
Druggiste
E. T. Hazevrnn
Warren
Sappho
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