Hannah Sinclair and the long awaited reunion
In a London home, Aunt Hannah, now Hannah Sinclair, recalls a life of service to family, a lost romance with Mike Vivian, and a late chance at happiness. When Mike unexpectedly returns nine years later, she learns he heard the old ruse about her being away, and the two finally speak, confessing enduring love as Polly the parrot squawks in the background.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
Robin
Sam
Hannah
Aunt Hannah
Elith
Mike
India
Thad
Hannah Grey
Hannah Sinclair
London
Ailsie
Mrs. Grey
Baby
Edith
Bobby
Jaden
Tim
Old Blazer’s
Tom
Ruth
Mendelssohn
Grey
Mr. Vivian
Tex
Darling
Blackguard
Miss Hannah
Hannah, Pertickler
Mr. Grey
Simple yet stylish children’s clothes trend in England
The article argues for practical, simple children’s dress over elaborate fashions. English styles, navy flannels, and wool stockings lead the way, with calfskin shoes and handmade village cobbler craft favored. It stresses practical patterns, easy washing, and avoiding over-elaborate designs from pattern houses to maintain neat, sensible wardrobes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
N. Y
Some Simple Remedies for the Household Scrap-Book
A compendium of old fashioned household tips. Bees and wasps sting relief with earth and water paste. Chest cold treated by warmed flannel and turpentine. A lemon for ringworm, raw egg with milk and nutmeg as an appetite aid after meals. Burn or scald relief with baking soda paste. Egg white on broken skin to seal air. Wood ash bath for ring signs. From Good Housekeeping.
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Toledo Blade
Boston
Louis Republican
Fantasies in Furniture Fetch High Style and Craft
The article surveys current furniture fashions highlighting electrolet pitcher plant designs, ornate mahogany pieces in Renaissance styling, butternut libraries, and a range of wood species. It notes wall paper trends, frames in oak with bronze, conch chairs in East Indian cane, and solid gold drawing-room furnishings in Renaissance manner, with inlays of amaranth, ebony, and pearl and eclectic blends across styles.
Tomato grafting and shade city notes from home and farm
A collage of agricultural tips and remarks from Home and Farm includes experiments with grafting tomato scions onto potato stalks, notes on Washington’s shade trees and yellowing peaches caused by borers, and wry maxims on servants and labor. It also offers simple recipes for baked squash tapioca cream chocolate custard meat salad and practical farming guidance on stock feeding and farm management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Lucretia Mott
Views of a Prominent New York Wholesale Merchant
A New York wholesale merchant laments clerical dishonesty and moral risk among young workers. He recounts a case where a clerk allied with gamblers, lost funds, and ruined a budding career, urging employers to warn and guide staff. The note includes Maurice Thompson on hunter compensation and quail shooting.
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New York
Sam
Jewelers’ Weekly
Food for Swine: Substituting Grains for Corn
Field and Stockman discusses feeding pigs a varied diet instead of corn alone. Mixing bran shorts oats barley boiled potatoes roots pumpkins and other foods improves bone and muscle growth, milk for sows, and overall health, though pork may be less fat. Hogs gain vitality with freedom to forage and diverse nutrition.
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Ines Np
Betten —Furn, Field and Stockman
How is my boy getting on at the boarding school
An anxious father questions the principal about his son at a boarding school. The pompous teacher replies the boy excels at everything except penmanship, claiming he is the worst writer in the school. The father retorts he will personally ensure the boy becomes a better writer.
Chicago Women's Club Aims and Actions in Reform
The Chicago Women's Club formed in 1876 to direct practical work alongside the Fortnightly. Its six committees include Education, securing kindergartens and industrial art. they press for women on the School Board and helped appoint two assistant superintendents. They partnered with the W C L U to place matrons and a physician in state institutions, prompting investigations into food and clothing quality. Letters from a maligned source spurred protests about sensationalized content in Sunday papers, raising calls to stop the deceit.
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Chicago Women's Club
Chicago
Reform
Women’s Club
W. CLI. U
Reform Committee
State Board of Charities
State Board
Maury E. Reedy
Woman's Journal
Doyle's Brutal Assault Leads to Light Punishment
Emily P. Collins reports from Hartford on Doyle's trial for a June Bristol assault on Lizzie Getterman of Westfield Mass. The woman fought back, Doyle fled, was bound over to the Superior Court, and received a light jail sentence as the judge deemed mercy. The piece also notes naturalization papers granted to foreign-born men and local opposition to native-born citizens.
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Doyle
Crane
Emily P. Collins
Woman's Journal
Hartford
Conn
Michael Doyle
Superior Court
Bristol
Lizzie Getterman
Westfield
Mass
Prang
Terryville
Tkaly
Cimnen
Swedish Parliament Advances Women Rights in Last Session
The last session of the Swedish Riksdag passed several bills favoring women. Proposals for independent women on poor-law and school boards won support, while a National Health Department resolution to allow voting for women on the Board of Health passed in the second Chamber. A motion to include women on the Riksbank was rejected, with suggestion to place women in smaller branch offices instead.
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Triysilag
Herr F. T. Bey
National Health Department
Board of Health
Rigsdag
Herr Gore
Boards of
Kerr Angust Rokstroom
Riksbank
Government Bank
Lngliskioman
Bad Letters Exposed in Respectable Journals
A St Paul correspondent criticizes the continued publication of the Clara Bella letters in Sunday editions. The piece questions journalistic standards and whether the Woman's Press Associations should address the matter amid debates over propriety in prominent newspapers.
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St. Paul
Clara Bella
Notices and society notes from a 19th century paper
Miss Mary L. Booru returns from five months in Europe and other society items list Mrs Susan C. Voat of the Woman's Journal, Miss Anice Guernsey, Miss Muller, and many ladies with travels, lectures, and suffrage events. A piece on cooking notes the rise of canned foods and minimal equipment for meals.
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Mary L. Booru
Europe
Susan C. Voat
Woman's Journal
Mary Burin McGoneGat
Clear Lake
Anice Gueernssay
Wareham
Mass
Young Crusader
London
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
Muller
Gryeral T. R. R. Coss
Atlanta
Photographer Sarony
New York City
Erren Rossins
Bar Harbor
Anna W. LonisHorr Potts
England
Ireland
Scotland
Boston
Potts
Philadelphia
Woman's Medical College
E. E. Martory
Springfield
Chicago Times
Kansas
The Stage A Profitable Place For Women
An article on stage women and earnings in Mayga rite notes that the profession offers adequate remuneration while low ranks pay little. A chorus singer earns fifteen dollars a week, a governess four dollars, and a shepherd girl six to eight. The piece argues stage life offers opportunity, acceptance, and potential fortune, contrasting with other livelihoods.
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Lincdn Scott
Ike
Siuthy
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van Wert Bulletin
Summersett
A’nold
Betsey
Mountain
Pink
Jacqueminot
Butt
Nellie F. O' Neill
Polly
Murray
Clothing For
New Yorker
Armer and Manufacturer
Maurice Thompson
Woman’s Department
Women's Club OF Chicago
San Francisco
Women IN
Sweden
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