First Woman Votes in Sigourney Water-Plan Ballot
In Sigourney Iowa the 20 000 water system question drew women to the polls under a special law. Ida Robison, W R Hollingsworth and W H Cohrs led early voting with Robison first. Turnout ended at seventy two votes for and fifty eight against with twenty six uncounted ballots.
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Sigourney
Iowa
Ida Robison
W. R Hollingsworth
W. H. Cohrs
The
Presbyterian Church
Ehoir
Mra
W. R. Hollingsworth
Review
England
W. Brunt
Mra Brunt
Ladies Aid Drunk Gentleman In City Streets
In New York two women found a drunken man in a fine suit and diamonds lying on the sidewalk. They aroused him and fetched an officer, protecting the gentleman until help arrived. He thanked them and offered money, but one woman refused, saying she did for him as she would for her own son.
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New York
Jove
Chinese General Yeh Praised For Corea Campaign Feats
A London Times dispatch details Gen Yeh’s 4000 strong force joining the main Chinese army at Ping An on August 23 and a 350 mile retreat through difficult terrain. Yeh earns an imperial edict reward for his victory over Japan at Ping An and is cited as a rising candidate to succeed Li Hung Chang.
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Gen. Yeh
Corea
Low Wing Fook
Tonkin
Hung Chang
Tien Tsin
London Times
Yeh
Ping-An
Asan
Chung-Chow
Liu Ming Chuen
Formosa
Liu
Li Hung Chang
Curious Hair Dressing Engravings and World Leaders
A period engraving from 1830s shows Queen Adelaide and European contemporaries with portraits of Marie Amelie Caroline Augusta and others. The piece contrasts famous monarchs and warriors including Yeh of the Black Flags, amid tales of Mongolian rebellion and royal salons. A separate anecdote centers on a Bromfield Street Sunday school baptism and a Chinese learner’s humorous misinterpretation of baptism.
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Queen Victoria
Queen Adelaide
Marie Amelie
France
Caroline Augusta
Uses of a Camel and Milk Solids Standards
A Central Park keeper recalls a man asking the hump’s purpose for camels. The piece notes a camel’s hump as essential to its attraction and includes a milk solids study citing 12.5 percent as common total solids and 3 percent fat as a Basle minimum.
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Central Park
N. Y
Schmid
Thergau
Chem. Zeit
Basle
Gifts to Women Colleges Rise With Gifts to Wellesley
The New York Ledger notes women’s colleges gain larger gifts as male colleges have long enjoyed. It cites a $10 000 donation from Mrs Fiske of Boston to Wellesley for building a new cottage. It questions Barnard’s future funding compared with Vassar’s growing legacies.
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Fiske
Boston
Wellesley
Vassar
Barnard
N. Y Ledger
Some Wit and Humor from Moral Tales
A humor piece on immoral suasion with lines about temptation and virtue. The excerpt references Isaac and Dicky, noting aging and pious smiles, and ends with a quip about the devil arriving with a feather. Source attributed to C. F. L. in Truth.
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Isaac
Dicky
Imepious
Barns and Twins and Other Country Tales
A collection of brief humorous vignettes from farm life and old timer anecdotes. It includes a New Hampshire family whose trio of barns burned in succession and a farmer who jokes his way into twin-barn luck. A doctor and captain share ribbing on a rabbit hunt ending with a ground hog.
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New Hampshire
Harper
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Admiralty
Oleron
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Clynton
Imperial Chinese Army
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Bellichine Bows
Anam
Two
Quangs
Canton
Mongolia
Austria
Louise Marie Therese
Belgium
Alexandria Feodorowna
Frederica
Frederic William III
Prussia
Russia
Yaria Christina
Donna Maria Gloria
Portugal
Louise
Maria Christina
Spain
John Chinaman
Bromfield Street
John
Cholly
Wales
Puck
New York Bay
Rhodesland
Rhode Island Boy
Keppler & Schwaremann
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