Must Be a Diplomat for the Sleeping Car Conductor
A New York Sun report outlines the strict hiring for Wagner Car Company conductors. It stresses diplomacy, thorough interviews, bonds of 500 dollars, wages from 75 to 100 dollars monthly, and the wide duties from ticket handling to passenger arbitration. It notes four thousand rejected applicants per one accepted and classifies nightly travelers into three sleep and wake behavior groups.
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Wagner Car Company
New York Sun
Education Triumphant Mistress Dialogue
A brief humorous exchange from Bridget and a servant underscores the value of education. Bridget insists education is superior, while the servant admires the result, noting there is nothing like education after all.
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Bridget
Scando
Woman Intervenes to Help Proposal Fire Drill
Miss Isabel McGallon, a public school teacher, accepts a marriage proposal in a novel scene staged as a fire drill to avoid classroom disruption. The incident ends with a betrothal kiss as pupils return, prompting readers to note the moral about poker and business.
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Oolteacher
Isabel McGallon
Miss McGallon
Buffalo Express
Duse Turban and Other Brief Notices Reflecting Fashion
The piece describes the Duse turban a low crowned rolling brim hat with a veil praised for slender faces and travel use. It notes the hat’s origin name from an actress and contrasts with the plain sailor hat. It also includes short anecdotes about dreams not coming true and a Be Cheerful moral urging optimism.
The Photograph of the Future in Early Media Debate
A Pittsburgh Dispatch excerpt notes multiphotography promises a future portrait that shows faces from all angles via mirrored reflections. The piece argues such accuracy could override flattering posing, weakening art’s influence over appearance.
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Pittsburg
Substitutes in Perfume Chemistry Rise From Flowers
A Chicago Herald note explains that chemistry can imitate banana scent and create perfumes from lab processes. It adds that some fragrant plants may gain surgical value as substitutes for cultivated varieties, while certain oils show antiseptic properties and resist pests and fungi.
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Chicago Herald
Cheerfulness and oddities from a bygone page
A blend of advice on cheerfulness from Mrs Edmund Gooss, notes on chamois skins and tanning, a historical reference to Pan Zoologica Mineralogia, a playful Ruth anecdote, a dialect quip about Arkansaw Thomas Cat, and a wry remark on a boy’s conscience about sweets.
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Edmund Gooss
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W. Jarvis
Water St
O.H. Hunter & Son
Second St. Warren
A. Weiss
Bis
Detroit Free Press
Warren Elliott
Wilmington and Weldon
Mr. Elliott
New York Press
Augusta
New Yorks Ledger
Robert Clarkson
Woman's Medical Journal of
Cleveland
Anita Newcomb McGee
American Medical Association
Orell
Oxford
Rabelais
Ruth
Arkansaw Thomas
Scott Bowna
All Druggista
Lee
Jas
Pamphisi
Keystone Watch Case Co
Philadelphia
AL Grove
EK. Thompson
Triesville
J. K. Ronne
Wanamaker
Hickory St
Warren, Penn’a
J.k.ronne
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