Tensorial attire and clubs in early Boston society
A witty essay mocks fashion and language as a schoolma’am recalls bearding and early clubs. It discusses the Boston Conversational Club, the Trans Mississippi Club, and the rise of women’s groups in co education, plus a reflection on marriage duties and courtesy in public life.
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Indy
Indiana@polis indies
Teems
Woman's Cult Movement
Boston Club
Boston
L. M. S. Society
Knox College
Dubuque
Concord
Trans-Mississippi Club
Concord Paper
Mary Newberry Adams
Spoitie
Fragmented Q and A on birds, plains, cattle and deep-sea life
Questions touch on Merriwell and graduates, perching birds and leg muscles, fielding rules, Texas plains names and Maverick branding, crops in the Philippines, and the lantern fish. The text blends scientific trivia with nomenclature origins, cattle history, and marine biology curiosities.
Advice to Graduates by Rev Lyman Abbott on Cooperation
Abbott argues this era moves from individualism to cooperation in industry and government. He urges graduates to guide competition into productive collaboration that preserves individualism’s virtues while embracing unity in labor capital and empire. The minister says religious authority comes from inner conscience, not the Bible alone, and future leaders must interpret that voice in the twentieth century.
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Housewives’ Association
Johnny
Freddy
Susy
Lyman Abbott
Pennsylvania
Laborers’ Union
Waiters’ Union
Chicago
Universal Brotherhood
Italy
Egypt
India
Australia
Hawaii
Philippines
British Isles
Detroit Free Press Hearer Claims 20 Years of Conspiracy
The narrator asserts a twenty year pattern of secretly harming others under the guise of humanity or reform, claiming a long running scheme hidden from public view and authorities.
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Detroit
Should We Have Loved Then The Door Would Close Behind
A reflective poem recalling love’s pain and loss. The speaker laments that knowing pain might have altered loving, then stands weeping before a closed door, personifying absence and longing. The verse centers on sorrow, memory, and the ache of parting.
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Kias
Josephine Dodge Daskam
Promoter Pranks and Balloon Scheme Moral
Two con men plan a Balloon Ascension as a money making scheme in a rural community. The Manager extorts 7 percent, keeps the cash, and promises ongoing chances until the marks are exhausted. The tale ends with a cautionary moral: Never doubt a Business Man.
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Reud
New York
Jersey City
Committee On
Patsy Bolivar
Bert Howard Russell
Prairie Wilderness
Piblic
Yap
Main Street
Yalf
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Booth Tarkington
Noe
Ae F. Hopkinson Smith
Baltimore, Md
Jesus Christ
England
Congress
Chesapeake Bay
New Orleans
Nassau
Daniel Webster
Joshua R. Giddings
High Seas
Questions and
Rey
Merriwell
Texas
Estacado
Samwel Maverick
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Balnt Annatt
Mathan
St. Joachim
Virgin Mary
Indiana
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Edison
Baron Pierre de Coubertin
Rue de Lubeck
Paris
France
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Douglas
Columbus (D
Indianapolis
Wil Rint
Possi
Kentucky
Red River
Lorenzo Dow
Wesleyan Conference
Reuben
Richard Gottheil
Asia
New South Palestine
Wales
Tasmania
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Siberia
New Zealand
Asia Minor
Victoria
Persia
Arabia
Europe
Austria-Han- Turkestan
Gary
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United States
Mexico
Germany
Central America
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Dutch Guiana
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Norway
Weden
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Portugal
Rumelia
Rumania
Bervia
Tunis
Morcero
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
Tripoli
Cyprus
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Clover Belt
Bunko
Meredith Nicholson
Philadelphia Telegraph
the Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers
Hmoy
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Los Angeles
ST. Louis
Shasta
Puget Sound
Denver
Manitou
Glenwood
Scenic Colorado
Salt Lake
Livingston
Yellowstone Park
Black Hills
St. Paul
Rio Grande
Colorado
Salt Lake City
Burlington
Billings
L. W. Wareley, G. P. Agt
St. Louis, Mo
Vine St
Cincinnati, O
Lilly & Stalnaker
East Washington St
H.T. Conde Company
Stanhopes
H. T. Conde Company
Wisnivest
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Goat Lymph Sanitarium Association
North Illinois Street
Illinois Street
East 32D Street
Phunes Bos
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