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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1892
Page
3
A portrait of Lady Salisbury as a strong, tactful partner shaping her husband Ord Salisbury’s career. It highlights her refined presence, moral influence at home, and belief that a wife may further a Tory leadership by subduing personal views for the greater good.
The article reviews the origin of wives adopting husbands’ surnames after marriage, citing Dr. Brewer’s Roman-era view and later usage in Europe, with counterpoints from Catherine Parr and Lady Jane Grey. It notes Braeton’s law and the Ben versus Smith case, and mentions obscurity of the practice’s origins. It profiles Harriet H. Robinson, a noted suffragist and author, and her daughter Harriet R. Shattuck, with Robinson’s literary contributions and public activity.
A Boston Traveler quote highlights an earnest suffrage advocate who founded multiple women’s clubs and serves on the General Federation of Women’s Clubs advisory board. The piece also notes decorative and practical home crafts and bedcovering lengths from various periodicals, including palm leaf photo frame mounting, improving portraits, old gloves repurposed into pouches, and bed linen guidance from Table Talk.
A bride's garter tale notes lucky keepsakes worn by bridesmaids. Miss Margaret C. Shaw, Rev Anna Shaw's niece, gains admission to Michigan University's civil engineering course, making her the first woman engineer in the class of 1894. Railroads hire colored ladies' maids on Chicago limited trains to care for women and children with sewing, hair brushing, and other services.
The notice describes three parcels in Clermont County Ohio with detailed metes and bounds in Williamsburg Union and Batavia townships. Tract values are 3900 dollars, 2113.75 dollars, and 50 00 dollars with sale terms requiring two thirds minimums and mixed lump sum and deferred payments. James B Swing is administrator.
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