Excursions Santa Fe Route Ticket Offer
Home seekers can purchase Santa Fe Route excursions to Texas Colorado New Mexico Utah Wyoming Arizona Idaho Arkansas Louisiana and southwest Missouri with tickets on October 9 valid for twenty days and a round trip surcharge of $2.00. The State Journal notes its wide reach in the Weut and Miscellaneous columns, while a testimonial praises De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve for burns and skin ailments, including relief for a scalding accident involving a child.
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Texas
Colorado
Mexico
Utah
Wyoming
Arizona
Idaho
Arkansas
Louisiana
Southwest
de Witt
KE Jones
Statz Jocuxat
Dinner Etiquette Rules From Old Guide
A fragmentary etiquette passage warns guests to drink little, peel foods with a knife, keep feet off floors, avoid arms on the table, cut meat with a single glide, keep elbows close, avoid hurried meals, eat shellfish with lemon only, sip soup quietly, avoid fidgeting with utensils, and place glasses down before tasting. It emphasizes punctuality and discreet behavior at meals.
Crafting a Dust-Proof Newspaper Pocket Case
A practical 19th century guide outlines making a linen and galloon pocket purse to protect newspapers from dust. It describes cutting and folding a cer tain sized piece of card or linen, sewing a decorative cover with embroidery or stitchwork, and mounting the pouch on a backing for a secure dust-free storage solution.
How to Repair and Assemble Domestic Fixtures and Labels
The guide describes crafting a pocket with woven colors and embroidery, a round wooden rod used as a curtain holder, and securing it to a pocket back with linen straps. It also covers repairing mirrors by removing tarnish carefully, applying a small mercury drop to reattach silvering, and pressing the repaired area. It concludes with removing labels from bottles by soaking and steaming to loosen the adhesive.
Women and the Vote Across Time and Labor Debate
A compilation of opinions on women's suffrage and equality from 19th century sources. Mrs M Walters advocates voting rights and labor and marriage fairness, arguing voting taxes and laws affect all. London crime reformer Miss Gould highlights soldier discipline as a lever for reform. A Rochester suffrage address urges renewed petition drives and legislative success to reach the ballot.
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M. Walters
Womns
Arab princess Alice Azeez to enter Harvard annex
Miss Alice Azeez, a 29 year old Arab princess living in Brooklyn, plans to enter the Harvard annex this fall. She aims to gain university titles in America and England before publishing and founding a grand library to honor her father. She pledges to devote her life to improving women in her race in the Orient and to integrate a public library into the school system. Her linguistic fluency spans Arabian, Assyrian, Grecian, Latin, French, German, and English. Her work is shown in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Peabody Museum at Cambridge.
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Minn
Alice Azeez
Harvard
Orient
Miss Azeez
Brooklyn
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Cambridge
Bryn Mawr Dean Carey Thomas Notable in Educational World
The Bryn Mawr dean Carey Thomas, age 27 at her appointment, is celebrated for her English manner and refined tastes. She resides in Thy Deanery, hosts young artistic friends in Bryn Mawr, and counts Agnes Repplier as a close admirer and intimate associate.
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Bryn Mawr
Misa M. Carey Thomas
Kendal
England
Britain
Graystone
A Popular Teacher at Smith and Vassar Praised by Students
A Smith college girl recalls Miss Jordan as the brightest professor of literature and rhetoric. She stood out in Vassar's strongest graduating class, with a brilliant, magnetic voice and striking manner. The description notes her sharp intellect and distinctive appearance, including hair piled high and a red shawl.
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Jordan
Smith College
Vassar
Fashion Plate Highlights New Rain Seal and Elegant Millinery Trends
The latest maires are soft and pliable as undressed silk with a new rain proof seal for capes and jackets. A large granny bonnet suits maidens from two to eight, while lavish furs, tartans, and jet jewelry accent golf capes, wraps, and evening bonnets. Velvet, satin, and brocade fabrics appear in vivid colors and patterns for day and night wear.
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New York Post
Railroad Ties and Empire of Steel Across America
The piece notes Waterloo London as the world’s busiest station and cites 6466 railway surgeons employed across the U S and Canada. It mentions moving a 2000 cubic meter granite boulder for a Mexican Central track and a Pittsburg Beech Creek link funded by Philadelphia and Pittsburg capitalists. It also claims Chicago and Northwestern Pacific terminal value rising from 11 million 890 to 30 million dollars.
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Waterloo
London
United States
Canada
Pittsburg
Beech Creek
Philadelphia
Chicago
Northwestern Pacific
Reporter and an Unknown British Visitor in Washington
A reporter recalls a night in a Washington hotel when a distinguished British visitor checked cards, puzzled over names, and finally produced a book to search for the reporter before admitting he did not know either gentleman. This anecdote highlights cross Atlantic misidentifications and social mix ups.
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Washington
Mr. Post
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