Country girls long for city life yet face drab city toil
A reader contrasts rural life with urban work revealing city toil, long office hours, crowded sewing rooms, and strict routines. The piece questions the appeal of city thrills and urges appreciation of country comforts and healthful tasks, like milking and chores, as a wiser choice. It also highlights notable figures Miss Clara Greacen and Miss Miner and covers fashion notes and social customs of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mfe
Mother Nature
Bose
Lome
Inferred jumps and rabbits on the ice tale
Loose, fragmented dialogue from various papers discusses inference versus assumption about a boy on ice, a rabbit chase, and a dead rabbit. Wonky lines reference readers and a comical hoax, with stray ads and notes about medicine and patents included as filler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caltaly
Cap
Mitten
Washington Post
Air Cushion Rubber Stampa and Pristing Outfits Ad
An advertisement snippet offers air cushion rubber stamps andpristing outfits with pricing and local agents in Fort Wayne Indiana. It cites a Minnesota address and references train routes and express trains with an April 1901 rate note. The fragment mentions crops in Germany and a general promotional tone without a clear article event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Ind
LockBox
Fort Wayne, Inc
Black Sheep Wool Cloth From Anaterlitz Experiment
A Norwegian style note reports black wool cloth produced from undyed wool by G W Peterson at Anaterlitz. The project used a flock of black sheep, with wool saved spun and woven into a brown black fabric. Cough remedies and business promos appear among the readable fragments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaterlitz
G. W. Peterson
Peruna praised by Minneapolis reader in 1900s issue
A letter from a Minneapolis reader praises Peruna for curing chronic head catarrh after three months of use. The writer, a member of Northwestern Legion, asserts the remedy is the medicine of the age and urges others to seek early treatment. The note includes an address to Dr. Hartman of the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio.
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Burt
Directoire
Dan. A. Grosvenor
War Department
Washington, DC
Daz
A. Grosvenor
M ‘Fipwaing
Rees iv. Council
Northwestern ‘Legion
Honor
Minneapolis
Alion
Polk Street
Perong
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Obi
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St. Jacobs Oil
Security
Carter
Cure
Ois McAige
Paso
Clara Grencen
Secretary of the Treasury
Gare
Miss Greacen
Hor Res Greacen
Kalkaska
Mich
Columbian University
District of Columbia
Controller of the Treasury
Miner
Florence Hart Miner
Chicago
North Dakota
Hansbrough
Hansborough
Mary Berri Chapman
Maxamogen
Washington
Eleles
Mira
Hanabrough
Fabrica
Nola
Mr. Tucker
Mrs. Tucker
Indianapolis Sun
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Staggists
Canada
Lane
Acta
Belgium
France
Russia
J. W. O'Mines
Third Avenue
Minneapolis, Minn
Germany
Buffalo
C. A. Aaterlin
R. J. Hamilton
Greene
Kemp
Mary
Brown
Mrs. Austin
South Australia
Exposition
C. A Asterlin
The
United States
T. P
Fort Waynes
Brehard
Split
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