Girls Who Clerks and Cyclone Cellars in Town Tales
A Raleigh-like piece laments women workers in downtown dry goods stores earning starvation wages while rich clerks attract customers with attire and status. It argues class tension, contrasts wages, and suggests reform clubs could pressure better pay. A second item stacks cyclones as escape plan humor, praising cyclone cellars for privacy and peace of mind amid debt.
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State Street
Taca
Sangamon Street
Offi
gasLam
Inter-Ocean
Maiden lovers and old fashion vows in verse
Fragment from a rustic scene describes maidens and their judgment of good wives. A farmer and a beloved girl exchange lines about marriage and affection while the narrator notes the town’s voices and the sea’s imagery. The piece blends longing, labor, and rural romance as a couple contemplates wedlock.
Second Hand School Books Trade Expands Across the U S
A veteran dealer explains the growing market for second hand school books through a formal exchange. Discarded volumes are traded for replacements, with dealers and school trustees tracking usage nationwide. About half price is typical, with strong demand in farming districts and the south.
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United States
Ter
South
New York Mail and Express
Horrors of Morphine and Oddities From California
A morphine fiend pleads for another dose at a drugstore on William Street, is refused by the keeper and handed to police after repeated pleas, a fall, and injury. The piece also notes California's prolific peculiarity of cranks and blunt language in a San Francisco World column, plus a hotel fire escape joke, and mentions the Transcaspian railroad reaching Merv.
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Wiliam Street
New York Journal
California
Earth
Thad
Actor Talks Training Across Nations and Audiences
A veteran actor discusses harsh rehearsals in Europe, contrasts German, French, and English methods with American training, and notes audience differences. He explains magnetism and hard work as keys to stage success, drawing on personal roles to illustrate how performers model against living examples.
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Eni
Richard Mattsfield
Carleton Club
Billingsgate
Coquelin
Sardou
Mme. Bernhardt
Fiquimaux
Crea
Prince Earl
Ming
Germany
Sugar Grove
Warren Conlal
Aulgood
Thorugh
Atticesche Department of Music
Peruns Withim
Germain
Re Wis
Rived Pal
Staat Grove
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Minnesota
Estelline Bell
Texas
Aunt Amias
Annie
Ned Brown
Suzy
Trafic
Merv
Tyo
Nentleman
Sea Girl
Sugar Grove Seminary
Central State Normal School
Haven
Pal Furm
Vail
Beard
Warren
Wotlinen
Jon
Rod
Mio
S, Korbley
Bank and Bar
ANS
Pismond Turk
Lunstall & Thompson
Warren, Pa
John Sill
Change Brock
General
Walter A. Wood
W. Anson
The
Meadow King
Oliver Chilled
Buford'’s
Tiger Steel Tooth Hag
Buckeye
Jackson
Wetherill
Beecher & Copeland
Peter Greenland
Prout
Episcopal Chosen
Desire
Water Street
Episcopa Church
High Street
Hazel and Gaure
P. Greenlund
Scbellbammer & Lesser
Schellhammer & Lesser
Nelson Greenland
Warren County
Harry Spitler
General Hardware
TIN
IRON
H. Spitler
North Clarendo
N. K
Rogers
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