Training children in good manners and home life
A collection of essays and letters on child upbringing, parental authority, and gentler discipline. The author urges love as the basis of manners, warns against public reproof, and stresses home as the best school. Also includes notes on wives pocket money, women’s co operatives, and social views on class marriage.
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Eliza R. Parker
Good Housekeeping
Girls’ Co-operative Society
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
New York World
Cottage Furnishings And Costs From A Sumptuous Sale
A narrative lists household items purchased for a cottage, detailing chairs, rockers, cushions, a dining table, a lamp, curtains, and bedding. Values range from 31 to 150 dollars, with colors and materials described, concluding with a note on summer renovations and changes by the boys.
Dont Blind the Babies Bright Screen Deters Infant Vision
A Philadelphia Call note warns parents against using bright colored baby carriage screens that shade a baby’s face. It argues the upturned gaze toward bright coverings risks irreversible eye injury and urges choosing darker denser shades despite fashion.
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Philadelphia
Decorating Nursery Walls Panels by a Thoughtful Mother
A mother devised wooden framed panels covered in unbleached cotton with colored pictures and painted prints. Panels hung from sticks at ends, bordered with gold paper, and updated with verses or descriptive text. Children loved the changing displays and requested new selections.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Poisoning first aid as given in old practice
Instructions advise inducing vomiting with warm water and mustard, then seek a doctor. For acids use magnesia or chalk, for alkalis use vinegar or lemon juice, and always emetic first. Laudanum cases get strong coffee to keep patient awake until medical help arrives.
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Philadelphia
An Honored Fitle and the Meaning of Syoman
An excerpt discusses the term syoman as a broad title a man uses for his mother or wife. It asserts the speaker’s high regard, claiming no better designation exists. The passage hints that some disagree or reveal differing views on the term’s scope.
Under Italian Skies A Make-Believe Regicide Bailed
Special Correspondence from Milan recounts a dramatic incident as a sergeant tried to kill King Humbert in Monza but survived. He later admits the motive was a personal dispute over a watch and a jealous lover, while the king calmly faced the storm in an open carriage. The piece then reflects on titles of nobility and France’s republican era, noting exile politics and royal pretenders.
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Zenas Dane
Jennie June
New York
Charles A. Dana
York Tribune
Barnum’s Museum
Arthur’s Magazine
Godey
Jennie Jane
Humbert
French Republic
MaLan
Eighty-eighth Infantry
Monza
Italy
Francisca
Alano
Signorina Delilah
Franceschi
Vittorio Emanuele
Milan
Piazza del Duomo
Alphonso
Spain
Otho
Bavaria
France
Republic
M. Grevy
Grack Greenwood
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Robert
Lland
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Omaha Herald
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Globe-Democrat
United States
Lucy Stone
Boston Globe
New Orleans
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Louisiana
New York Sun
Cleveland
Boston Transcript
Hall
Journal of Health
Sweden
Stockholm
Venus
Long Branch
Stella Isaacs
Demorest
Jad Lafagen
Grace
Greenwood
Hood
Ista
Ww. Garr
Hamilton
C. A. Arnold
Arnold
C. J, Swoon &Coo
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Mass
Seis
Penn Ismat Shies
Abason
Thal
Vgree
Totadaatet
Golden Medical Discovery
Bullsough Syruys
Maye
Thomas’ Efertrie Ofi
Wa Kiey
Ptyaeutle Avenue
Buttalo
Adads
Eo Pinkham
Lidia E. Pinkham
Ibrary Hall
Wagner A
Ezra F. Kendall
Hugh
Geto
Seme Odoh Conklin
Robert Gibson
Catharine Miller
J.C
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BR. Ash
Fred Morek
W. HL. Belknap
Anchor Oj Company
Louis Fair
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Leobens Jones
Ane
J. M. Waldwell
BG Morrison
Admr
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W. J. McCullough
John Praby
Reed
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A.W. Marek
Aclellasn
Kheyal Getive
Union
Waiteh
McCletue
Thomands
Western
Bentsslvana
West Virgina
Porapyer Agency
Uniitress Phate Pleming
Laerge
Good Tran House
State Font
Balin
Tide
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Linnierhille Parssessiote
W. Balley
le Hanaville
Bradford County
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Arthur MckKinney
Brokengtraw
Warien Co
Warire McKinny
Wwinane
Warren Co
Board of Directums
People's Gas Company
Whiten
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Beatty Block
Warren, Fa
Caipitel
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WM. Knapp
Warren, Pa
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J. K. Ronne
Liberty Street
Postoffice
Carl Fudenz
Malltreet
North Clarondon
Tis Hatch
Nat Vigare
Carl Pudenz
As National Bank
Myron Waters
Vianess Henry
Panulee
Geroudd
Ass't
Francis Henry
HH. A. Inimieson
J, Davis
Y Johnson
A. Wertzel
Brown
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Permdee
A. T. Scofield
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O.H. Hunter & Son’s
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