A Brave Schoolmaam and Miss Da Swete Scene
A fragment from a July issue shows Clara J. Denton’s Brandeis era verse about a social wedding fund and a fading prairie schoolhouse tale. Nell Benson, a conscientious teacher, faces a hard year teaching twenty small scholars as she contemplates diploma goals and family pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pee Ae Opert
Nell Benson
Oxford
Well
Sue
Lill
Kate
Nell
Aleck Somers
Aleck
Backfire saves school as prairie fire menaces students
Nell Benson, a dedicated teacher, orchestrates a daring backfire with Aleck and Jimmie to defend the rural school against a fast-spreading prairie fire. Amid scorching heat, smoke, and tumbling tumbleweeds, the children lay oil trails and beat out flames, preserving the classroom and securing safe return home for all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nell
Ward
Uttle
Tommy Morton
Aleck
Neil
Nellenna
Harry
Jimmie
Somers
Jenna
Lill
Marie Nantz
Gilpin’s Early Cable Message a Costly Pleasantry Wins
An old Philadelphia Press item recounts Governor Gilpin of Colorado paying $147 in gold for an early Atlantic telegraph message. The 1866 cable, initially mocked, finally connected Denver to New York and Paris, with Gilpin allegedly dispatching a bold directive to Napoleon III that never expected to be delivered. The tale mixes humor, national pride, and the triumph of a new technology.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilpin
Colorado
Denver
Buchanan
Queen Victoria
United States
Western Union
Alaska
Behring Straits
Russia
Europe
Cal
New York
Paris
Newfoundland
Denveh
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
France
Bohemia
Grilprs
Philadelphia Press
Ingalls
Senate
Manderson
Nebraska
Hoar
Massachusetts
Frye
Maine
Harrison
Pat
White House
Senator Hoar
Senator Manderson
Tanner
Ohio
Blaine
Chicago Times
Executive Department
Mexico
Brazil
Guatemala
Congress
Conan Ah Kinley
Hiba
Republic
Rio
Bahia
Pernam
Ybuco
St. Louis Republic
Democratic Party
Cleveland
Republican Party
Miscellaneous items underscore daily life and industry
A collage notes taxation in Turkey and quirky odds and ends from early press. It recalls a tax rule, a cryptic address query, latent heat origins, a fatal dispute in Kansas, a crane of odd anecdotes, haberdashery trends, a mother’s concerns, wartime wampum value, and a Chrysanthemum flourish. It also promotes a new domestic teaching role for improving housekeeping practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Robinet
Wagram Avenue
Black
Scotland
William
Fort Scott
Kan
William Davis
Detroit Free Press
Shay
Mr. Rambo
Emile
Polytechnic
Caucasus
Odessa
Caucasian
Batoom
Charterhouse
Thackeray
Colonel Newcome
Newcomes
London
Philip
New England
Phillip
Hamburg Board of Trade
Europe
Holland
China
Japan
India
America
The Woman Physician and Her Noble Calling
A reflection on Dr. Susan Dimock, her bravery and medical skill, and the crucial role of women physicians in caring for women. The piece praises empathy, female authority in mental and moral illness, and advocates women doctors for vulnerable patients, including those in reformatories and asylums, stressing moral support over brute treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Dimock
Boston
Henry L Bowl @itch
Samuel Cabot
Dimock
Josephine Lowell
Waco
Texas
W. D. House
House
Woman's Chronicle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Anna
Abe
Clara J. Denton
Cablegram
Gotham
Lawnville
Land Sakes
N. Y
Texas Sittinga
Windom
Charles Foster
Treasury
Foster
Warner Miller
Foraker
Maj. McKinley
Republican Nomination For President In 1892. the New Secretary of the Treasury
the Treasury
Albany Argus
Brooklyn
Hoar and Manderson
Brooklyn Eagle
Jim
Supreme Court
Grover Cleveland
Evansville
Ind
Quay
Harper’s Weekly
Jung
Mr. Blaine
Oie
Iy Snow
Mr. Harrison
Aldrich
Lite
the Woman's Column
Ux Amdt
England
Trin
Osacon
At Me
Xavier
Vienna
Dred
Lonpos
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