A New Sisterhood: The Christian Helpers of Brooklyn
A band of devout women trained to care for the sick poor forms the Christian Helpers. Initiated by Dr. Arnold H. Catlin and Rev. Dr. Darlington in Brooklyn, the order trains three sisters and others through lectures. They wear a blue serge dress, white collar, and white cap, and don white for prolonged nursing. They maintain a home donated by a sister’s late father and remain ready day or night for a call.
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Arnold H. Catlin
Darlington
Brooklyn
Mary
Lydia
Augusta
Catlin
Order of Christian Helpers
The Uniform and the Order of Christian Helpers
The piece describes an emergency bag carried by sisters, containing a hot water bottle and syringes with diverse medical supplies, plus a nursing apron. It highlights the order’s reach from Oregon to England, how women join for philanthropic service, and its one month warning and year of study requirement. It notes support from St Mary’s School Garden City and St Paul’s Cathedral School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sisters of the Order of the Christian Helpers
Oregon
England
Order of Christian Helpers
St. Mary's
Garden City
Long Island
St. Paul’s Cathedral School
Russian silk vest with velvet revers and decorative braid
Describes a dress vest style featuring a silk body with dark velvet revers and collar, a wide belt at the waist, decorative braid, and center-front closure. The design includes deep bust darts, a double bust dart lining, and a long back extending below the waist.
Basque Styles for Women in Autumn Dressmaking
The text outlines basque designs for women suitable for street and early autumn wear. acceptable fabrics include cloth serge diagonal and novelty goods while braid passementerie or plain tailor finish with visible machine stitching are noted. A medium size basque requires two and a half yards of forty four inch material.
Pioneer Woman Hunter in Potter County Norway Colony
In Potter County Pennsylvania Mary Andreason and her husband managed Ole Bull's Norwegian colony. The young widow, called Mrs French before marriage, hunted wolves and drove logs on Kettle Creek with crews. She treed wolves to survive a winter, killed five at a single tree, and earned daily wages while pioneering a rugged frontier life.
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Potter County
Pennsylvania
Mary Andreason
Ole Bull
Oleona
Andreason
Kettle Creek
Henry Andreason
Mrs. Andreason
French
Curious Florida Sink and Lake Formed by Subterranean Passage
The Galveston Sun describes Payne's prairie near Gainesville as a 50 000 acre waterlogged savanna fed by a hidden subterranean sink. When opened the lake drains, leaving mud and a corridor of honeycomb ground with sinks 25 to 100 feet deep. Thousands of cattle graze the border while alligators and fish perish or relocate. The land, owned by individuals, could be drained at low cost to yield vast productive acres.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Payne’s Prairie
Galveston Sun
Gainesville
Florida
Pleasant Manners Advice For Young Women In Society
A timeless guide urges young women to cultivate pleasant manners and respect in marriage. It counsels speaking clearly, avoiding self pity, and showing genuine interest in conversations to prevent unwanted attention or headlines. It emphasizes modesty and guarding against flirtatious public exposure.
Empire Coat for Little Girl in Yale Blue
Pattern for an eight year old girl coat features Yale blue smooth fabric with ribbon frills and black mohair braid. Simple shoulder and under-arm seams with center-front closing and pearl buttons. Two back box plaits and epaulettes with ribbon trim. full turn-over collar. taffeta lining with plaid hints. Requires one and three fourths yards of forty four inch material.
A Stylish Model Skirt Described for Winter Wear
The design features five gores shaping the skirt to fit smoothly at the hips with back gores in overlapping plaits meeting at a center back. A six inch hair-cloth interlining adds stiffness, a narrow belt finishes the top, and taffeta or alternative linings are suggested. Materials include serge cheviot cloth velour and silks. Five and three-eighths yards of forty four inch material needed for medium size.
Seals Lured by Whistling Hunters On Ice
The text describes Esquimo hunters softly whistling to attract seals. Seals rise out of the water and move their heads to the rhythm, drawing closer until one bold animal approaches. The hunter then jumps up and claims the seal while others retreat.
London Cutlers' Company Feast and Its Yorkshire Toast
The Cutlers' Company of London, founded in 1624 for cutlery makers, grew its annual feast into a stately national event a century later. Its notable toast once proclaimed May Yorkshire wives, like Sheffield knives, be highly polished and well tempered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cutlers’ Company of London
Yorkshire
Sheffield
Aerine liquefied air touted as future power carrier
An Electrical Engineer writer describes aerine, liquefied air, as a new product that requires high pressure to form but remains compressed in air until heated. It could solidify mercury, freeze a thermometer, and enable distant water powers to be used by compressing air into a liquid and shipping it globally for industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electrical Engineer
Croquet Mallets Return Grow More Fearsome
The article notes mallets reappearing with new design in croquet. Old light playful tools now built of tough lignum vitae with brass shoes, larger heads, and strengthened for vigorous play, even suited for Hercules.
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Croquet
Mademoiselle
Fitzsimmons
Hercules
Ballarat’s Band Barton Albion Mine Deep Under City
A sweeping description of Ballarat Victoria as a vast underground gold region. The Band Barton and Albion claim is cited as the world’s greatest mine yielding over 150 million dollars. It spans 100 miles of tunnels beneath Ballarat with many shafts, while the city’s residents live above the extensive network.
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Ballarat
Victoria
Band
Albian
Barton
Albion
Underground City: Victoria Mine Teems With Labor and Ore
The Band Barton and Albion mine in Victoria uses a multi level shaft system with levels 300 400 feet apart and 25 degree ledge angles. Workers blast and haul ore through inclined drives while a vast underground population operates with minimal fatalities and clean air.
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Assay
United States
Barton
Albion
Victoria
Strasg
The King of Wheat in the Northwest
The article extols hard wheat as the aristocrat of all grains, grown mainly in the Northwest across Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Manitoba. It notes the Scotch Fife lineage, the gradual reduction milling process, and the high gluten content driving flour yield and price. It covers regional limits, planting practices, and harvest timing through August.
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Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Manitoba
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Prairies
Scotland
Hudson Bay Company
Northwest
Red River Valley Wheat Growers and Woman Health Claims
The Red River valley is hailed as the Bread Basket of America with rich soil and record wheat yields. The article praises hard wheat quality, describes threshing season, and notes the region’s vast production rivaling eastern Washington and Willamette Valley. It also promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women and its claimed benefits for motherhood and well being.
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Red River
Hudson Bay
Minneapolis
Duluth
Red River Valley
America
Volga
Russia
Sicily
Mt. Aetna
Washington
Willamette Valley
Oregon
Florence Hunter
Corley, A Co
Ark
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Stories of Elephants From Bengal
Marie A. Millie recalls a Bengal elephant that cared for a six month old infant beside a veranda. The elephant fed the child’s guardian and guarded the infant while the family slept, then waited patiently with gentle snorts for fruit and cakes offered from the veranda.
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Marie A. Millie
St. Nicholas
Mrs. Millie
Bengal
Chaprasi
Paraguay Offers Cheap House Servants And Staff
The article notes in Paraguay servants cost about 2.45 dollars a month for the best, 1.64 dollars for ordinary help. A cook may be hired for about a dollar a week, fair ones about 3.20 dollars a month, gardeners average 6.40 dollars monthly, with food cheap but clothing and shoes comparatively expensive.
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Paraguay
Commodore Lachmund, West Steamboat Leader
Mrs. Ida Lachmund, known as "the Commodore" in Clinton Iowa and along the Mississippi, is praised as a shrewd businesswoman and trusted steamboat supervisor for David Joyce. She finds life on the Robert Douds and in steamboating endlessly fascinating and rewarding.
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Ida Lachmund
Clinton
Iowa
Mississippi
St. Louis
St. Paul
David Joyce
Robert Douds
Robert Dodds
When Walnuts Are Right for Pickling
The guide states that only medium sized walnuts are suitable for pickling and that nuts tender enough have a heart soft enough for the process. A coarse needle should pierce to the heart to indicate readiness for making good pickles.
Rush to Klondike revived tale of Sheltuga gold fields
A German-Russian paper recounts 1880s Manchurian gold rush in the Sheltuga valley. Thousands flocked from around the world, establishing a strict five-district republic that met brutal punishment. Russia and China united to crush the revolt. most diggers were killed, leaving only twenty-seven survivors.
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Klondike
Sheltuga
Manchuria
The
Tageblatt
Riga
Lebedkin
Amoor
Transbaikalia
el Dorado
Russia
Sheluga
Ghostly image of judge’s dead friend appears before him
Illinois Supreme Court justice Jesse J. Phillips recounts a Hillsboro tale of a spectral visit. While driving, the life size vision of a vanished friend appeared beside the dashboard, foretelling the friend’s death the day earlier. The event left Phillips convinced by a supernatural encounter.
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Phillips
Illinois Supreme Court
Jesse J. Phillips
Illinois State Supreme Court
Hillsboro
Ill
Jonathan
David
Judge Phillips
Montgomery County
Critics Target Tent Shows At Fairs As Harmful Attractions
The passage denounces illusionary schemes at agricultural fairs led by fast talking fakirs and doctored wheels. It argues these shows distract attention from competitive exhibits and prize work, degrade morals, and deter quality patrons. Managers are urged to keep such features out of fair grounds.
Lost art of horseback riding in the country suburb
The piece laments the decline of horseback riding in rural areas as buggies replace horses. It recalls happier days when country youths rode to church and events, notes the shift to city life, and contrasts rural restraint with urban prestige while urging practical use of rooms for family and guests.
Train Schedules Across Dunkirk and Buffalo Routes
On Sundays Train 6 departs Dunkirk at 4 30 pm, Falconer at 5 45 pm, Warren at 6 37 pm and arrives at D G Moon Superintendent Dunkirk New York. The service extends to Buffalo via No 308 Exchange with agents H N T and N Y Mes Gen's Passenger Agent in New York City.
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Sheffield
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
New York
Pullman
Sunbury
Lancaster
Philadephia
Baltimore
Washington
Erie
Williamsort
Williamsport
Washngton
Kane
Warren
Phiadelphia
J. B. Hutchinson
J. R. Wood
Gen’l
New York Central
Hudson River R. R. Co. Lessee
Mos
Sun
Daily Gun
Cooseee
Aidemy Seocceres
Rochester
Ceos
Niagara Falls
Dunkirk
Aronia
Peescceeeess
Lair
Falconer
Sweeeees
Ses Oeess
StPeot Catb
Ccceeses
Seses Ffowsdusz Cccesese
Cevierees Ackicy
Nas Valley
Titusville
Loy
Oil City
Pittsburg
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Warren Mail
Warren, PA
By A
Ole Ball
Univ Rsslavor
London Cutlers’ Company
A. A. Davis & Co
Serous
King OF
Great
Castoria
Fae
Consumer
Rsce
Kopf & Henry
Grocers
Water Street
C. Smith & Son
Baker & Bowman Co
Utz & Dunn
Levis & Pifer’s
Ladies’ Fine Shoes
Goker & Son
Golden Horse Shoe
No. 309
Second St
H. S., Thomas Estate
East St. Crat
D. A.V. & P. Railroad
Warren Pa
Telephone
Acme
Acme Cycle Co
Elkhart
Ind
Agricultural
the Mail Office
Wright
Italy
Connecticut
Louisiana
Texas
New Mexico
Southwest
New York Sun
Princess Louise
Prince Henry of Rattenberg Memorial
Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad
Vibe
Kinzua
Bradford
Salamanca
Olean
Qirr Nly
Freigh
Waren
Iinton
Tionesta
Buffalo Express
Leffard
Warren. R. Bell
J. A. Fellows
Gen
Motor
Exner
Uaea
Clinton Streets
Buffalo
Tionesta Valley Railroad
Sheffield Junction
Lamona
Shef
Shefield
Sheffield Team
Anes
Jerry Crary
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
East
Wéstk
Tralee
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