The Thirty Five Dollar Week Homemaker Dilemma
In a long reflection on costs of living and marriage, the author argues that a $35 weekly income cannot sustain true homemaking or secure a future. He urges readers to choose between the “People Who Stand for Plus” and flashy displays, noting work, thrift, and partnership as keys. The piece contrasts traditional homemaking with professional life, urging practical effort over appearances.
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United States
Nate Dee
New Kerk
New York
Chicago
Yea
Rose
Howe
Marty
Tess
Bern
Bayer
England
Prince of Wales
Europe
Berry of Bork
Hong
Jedger
Reed
Ivo
Kipling
Domestic Ideals and Real Costs of a $35 Week Homemaker
A fragmented, period voice discusses whether a couple can live on $35 weekly. It contrasts ideals with practical limits, noting the impossibility of expensive hats, cigars, or dining while maintaining frugality and honest living. The piece reflects midcentury gendered expectations and economic constraints.
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Sacy
Frugal Meals and Household Budgeting in Hard Times
The passage discusses keeping meals under tight costs, detailing budgets from eight cents for a plain meal to thirty-seven cents for a full family dinner. It describes how households ration food, estimate rents and utilities, and rely on domestic workers and settings to stretch limited funds. The text notes the social roles and patterns in managing home economies during scarcity.
Crook Farren and gang stage bold bank check scam
In a New York crime saga Mike Farren and ally Gordon hatch a scheme to raise 2000 for a jail bait and use a Philadelphia bank to back a fake deal. After a web of real estate plots and a forged check, police nab them while a banker’s misstep triggers a costly civil lesson about bank procedures.
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Farren
Tim
New York City
Lewis
Gordon
Wiley
Kingdom Come
Mike
Comptroller of the Treasury
Jerry
Mike Farren
Philadelphia
White, Grayson & Co Private Bankers Bourse
New York
Seventeenth National
Lewis Gordon
Congressional Limited
White, Grayson & Co
Germantown Junction
Jones
Mr. Brown
Attie Brown
Brown
Jones & Smith
Bronx
Browns
Warren
Due Farm
Marron
Jerclock
Tomorres
Guying
Walt
Brownwell
Philadelphy Bank
Barren
Lewis Gordyn
Canale
Lewis Geidon
Belleve-Stratford Philadelphi
Jane
Newark
New York Ward
Juin
Big Finger
Grand Jury
Wallie
Wever
Whig Clayson & Co
Warren 7
Tarren
Darren Text Cage
Artis
Jimmy
Mustang and Broncho: Wild West Herald of the Ring
An excerpt describes rodeo life with ponies and broncho busting, detailing a loop of events from nerve wracking shows to the crowd’s praise for daring riders. It mentions the bridle, saddles, and a prize challenge rewarding riders with silver coins for breaking in a stubborn broncho.
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Piane
Maere
Cnet
Wid West
Royal Cigarette Factory of the Sultan Revealed
A fragment describes a royal cigarette factory in the palace with a small room, a bale of tobacco, and simple hand cutting machines. It notes the Sultan’s cigarettes as the finest, produced from Turkish leaves with high rejection rates before royal use.
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Royal Palace
Turke
In Defense of Big Hats
A Sewern Telegraph op ed defends expansive brimmed women's hats. It argues hats impede whispered grudges among women, sparing men from awkward shows of derision and impropriety, and helps avoid social snubs during encounters.
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Toad
Atlante
Pacific
Pook
Beij
Wien
Lwspaper
Crook
Iis
Cassidy S Saloon
Read
ATDA
Gralebush
Juld
Nike
Staith & Co
Vernon Avenue
Mike Farcen
New Haten
Ofc
Mulberry Street
Rogues’ Gallery
Wrey
William Davis
Jersey City
James O Leary
QC Leary
Treland
Davis
Pittsburgh
Ol Cary
Mr Davis
Nut
G Leary
O'Leary
Royal Cigarette Factory
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