Domestic Servants Training School Aids Boston Women
The Boston Young Women's Christian Association runs a 16 year old Domestic Training School turning ignorant girls into competent servants. Classes cover cooking, cleaning, laundry, sewing, and etiquette with English instruction, notes, and practical practice. Graduates gain good wages and placements. about 700 have graduated since the founding.
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Catty chat on a Cortlandt Street ferryboat
A young man, well dressed, chats up a stranger on a Cortlandt Street ferryboat claiming familiarity. She recalls meeting him at last year’s First Congregational church subscription bazaar and notes plans to repeat the event this year. Tickets are $5, the same as last year.
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Telegram misread as stalling at wire pole joke
A telegram message in a Detroit Free Press humorous anecdote is mistaken by a Black messenger as stalled en route to a pole. The messenger believes a paper scrap on the wire proves the telegram will not reach its destination, prompting him to warn others to “knock it off the poles.”
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A Postage Blunder Tale Turns the Tables
A mailing clerk at a large town firm recounts a bet over exact postage. He underestimated, used stamps to balance, and miscounted the weight of advertising catalogs. Johnson confirms the error, proving the required postage was seven cents.
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