How Clara Barton Spends Her Sunset Years in Quiet Glen Echo
The aging humanitarian Clara Barton, once famed for relief work in wars and disaster zones, now lives near Washington in Glen Echo. She writes by day and rests by night, mentored by Dr. J B Hubbell, while a park and summer visitors surround her secluded home. She travels to Oxford Massachusetts in summer, stays engaged with current events, and remains beloved by former comrades and students who remember her courage and care.
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Washington
Alstoric
John Isridge
Clart
Barton Ip
Clara Barton
Sasha
Umea
Miss Barton
Glen Echo
Potomac Tula House
Johnstown
Barton
Oxford
Mass
GARK
Misa Barton
Miss
Russia
Armenia
Cuba
Galveston
Germany
Baden
Austria
Servia
Turkey
Switzerland
Spain
America
Frederick
Deeda
Atmosphere lunches and weddings in New York society
New York society notes a new trend of atmosphere themed meals linked to plays in Manhattan. Reports on spring weddings, including Miss Marjory Turnbull and Miss Ethel Rockefeller, with weather delaying gowns, and theatre season wrap ups at the Manhattan Opera House and other venues.
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New York
Manhattan
California
Mission House
Archbishop Farter
Marjory Turnbull
Charles de Loosey Melichs
Europe
iMr
Charles Melrichs
Sroom
Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller
Marcellus Hartley Dodge
Fifth Avenue
May Tuckerman
Bayard Tuckerman
G Hermann Kinnicut
Church of the Incarnation
Tuaedo
Hempstead
Manhattan Opera House
Lida
Higoletto
Carmen
Marta
Mefistofele
Grace George
Nas
Cyril Scott
Prince Chap
Joe Weber
Grand Opera House
Broadway
Women in Proverbs Across Cultures and Critiques
A compilation of proverbs from Spanish Arab Persian and other cultures on women, showing broadly harsh or ironic views. The piece notes the lack of friendly depictions and contrasts with witty or cynical modern reactions from Chicago News and Catholic Standard and Times.
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Chicago News
Queriel
Shade
Vex
St Peter
Pittsburg
Hiab
L Pj
Lobert
Paris Gadlois
Statue of NC's Famous Wit to Be Placed in Capitol
The North Carolina legislature authorized a statue honoring Zebulon Baird Vance to be installed in the National Capitol marble pantheon. The piece notes Vance as a wartime leader, reformer, and famed orator whose humor and honesty shaped North Carolina's postwar era, with anecdotes from his military and legal career and public life.
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North Carolina
Washington Capitol
Zebulon Baird Vance
National Capitol
Vance
Lincoln
Rebgion
Tell
Switzerland
Bruce
Scotland
William of Orange
Holland
Rencom
Raleigh
Statehouse
Tres
Vange
South
Titanie Strugsla
Sworth
Gov Vance
Washington
Confederacy
Kalpattick
New York
Kilpatrick
Porter
Blackstone
Pearson
Fearne
Appomattox
Tom Corwin
Ohio
Congress
Corwin
Zeb
Hood
Dickens
Senate
Zebulon
Capt Vance
Adolphus
Jarvis
Metons Bantheon
Piblic
Servanta
Poem Echoes and Salary Talk Amid Street Exchange
A fragmentary scene juxtaposes a taunting line about being a poem with flirtatious head tosses and a claim of poetic flair. A brief aside notes uncertainty about a person named Penner and a salary change to $16, then 7 percent, hinting at shifting wages amid casual conversation.
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Philadelphia
Penner
Fragmented overheard remarks in a late edition vignette
Snatches of dialogue from multiple papers drift into a collage piece about salaries fashion and social notices. The lines reference Penner’s pay Decallete and a ball last night with remarks about dress and propriety. The tone hints at a satirical roundup of gossip and urban observations.
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Decallete
The
Houston Post
Pure Blood and Inherited Troubles Warn of Health Risks
An advertising piece extols pure blood as vital for health and links inherited taints to scrofula, rheumatism, catarrh, and bone diseases. It promotes S. S. S. as a safe, mineral-free blood purifier and tonic for all ages, promising root-level cleansing and long term cure with a free book and medical advice from The Swift Specific Company of Atlanta.
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S.S
S. S
Swift Specific Company
Atlanta, GA
Dr. Reed
Seventeenth Street
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