Women’s Onion Beds Prompt Uniforms for County Labor
A northern Ohio onion region story notes women in onion fields wear blue overalls to protect skirts as they replace scarce male help. Wages run about 1.50 a day, nine dollars weekly, with the narrator praising West, Ohio and Connecticut’s onion regions. The tale also mentions Miss Wallace’s School on 1707 P Street and its September opening, plus a quip about mistaken identities at a social gathering.
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West
Ohio
Lake County
Connecticut
Miss Wallace
Margaret Wallace
Stt. Louis
P Street
Washington
Teachers’ College
Columbia University
New York
Princes from Japan Landed at the Navy Yard in 1800
The article recounts Washington’s reception of Japan’s second embassy in 1800 led by Tycoon diplomats with three ambassadors and a large retinue. They arrived by the Philadelphia steamer, met President Monroe era figures, presented a vast treaty box, and rode in splendor through a city of official ceremonies and parades.
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Japan
Navy Yard
Muay
Commodore Perry
Commodore Dupont
David D. Porter
Sydney Smith Lee
Washington
Georgetown
Congress
Dahlgren
Willard
Goddard
Auxiliary Guard
Omniibus
State Department
President’s Mounted Guard
Peck
Washington Light Infantry
Davis
National Guards
Tait
National Aifles
Montgomery Guards
National Blues
Georgetown Light
San Francisco
Buchanan
White House
Cass
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Winfield Scott
House of Representatives
Perry
Wiliam H. Seward
New York
National Senate
Commodore Buchanan
Upper
Potomac
Virginia
Stimson
Evans
Holsten
Lincoln
Tommy
Nagasaki
Gregory III
Rome
Spain
Portugal
Society of Jesus
School Day Memories From Boarding School Dorm Tales
A reflective dialogue recalls chilly school days and reminders of boyish rivalries over soap towels and bath supplies. The narrator contrasts youth memories with a older partner who recalls frolics and tight quarters in a stern boarding environment. The tale highlights shared rituals and home comforts that defined dorm life.
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Joan
A Plentiful Menu The Orang Lauts Have Variety in Food
A traveler returning from the Melay Peninsula praises theJakuns Sea Orang Lauts for the diverse diet. He notes they eat all fruits and a poisonous Yam prepared with slaked lime, and they consume monkeys deer wild pig birds fish porcupines lizards squirrels rats mice and snakes with equal appetite.
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Melay Peninsula
Sea
Heat detection by Prof Nichols measured faint stellar warmth
The astronomer Prof Nichols built a delicate instrument at Yerkes Observatory to detect heat from Vega and Arcturus, measuring warmth from a face at 2,000 feet and from the stars far beyond human imagination. He found Arcturus emits heat comparable to a candle six miles away. A Newport magistrate's five day jail for a speeding chauffeur is noted as a road safety measure amid broader road tragedy at an St Louis auto race track.
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Nichols
Yerkes Observatory
Vega
Arcturus
Earth
Newborg Worth
Newport
R. J
St. Louis
Duty of Millionaires: Markham Urges Rich to Aid Slum Children
Edwin Markham argues that American millionaires must intervene in urban slums to help children born to foreign parents. He cites tenements, sweatshops, and a lack of wage fairness, urging labor cooperation and philanthropy as paths to uplift the poor and reform society. He highlights boys clubs as a start and stresses the need for the wealthy to lead by example.
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Edwin Markham
Mr. Markham
New York City
Tithig
Milionaire
Markham
Tenement
New York Tenement
Despond
Ellis Island
Metropolis
Central News and Press Exchange
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Peeterers
Oxford
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WM. Hahn & Co.’S
Reliable Shoe Houses
Seventh
K Streets
Penna
N. W
Penna. Avenue S. E
Kandell
7Th St
Messrs
Fus*n
Eugene D
Charles Francis Carusi
Columbian
van Doren
F Street
Shington
Wolf € Cohen Hee
G and
Fourteenth Streets
Wi Op Gurley
Fost
Ameri
A. M. Hutterly
H.W
Aeant House
Gsouth
Floyd E. Davis
Corseith
R. P. Andrews & Co
la. Ave
D St
Heiskell & McLeran
Tg Propeliea
Distret
Columbia
Commierd
F St. N.W
Alexandria
B. B. Earnshaw & Bro
M Ste
McGill & Wallace
E St
R. Bal Baughman
Oflice
Phono L. T Bulldio
Osteopath
L Hodges
H Stearns
Pope
Allee
M. Paterson
D. C. Wilbur L. Smith
D. D
Geo. E. Hebbard
Madera
Ninth Street
Hebbard & Wingman
Philadelphia
Miss Bright
Capital
Great Bear Spring
Great Bear Spring CO
Philadelphia x
Hassel
Dabster
D. J. Kaufman
Pa. Ave
Crocker’s
Crocker
Golden Oak
Chippendale
Golden Gas Extension
Bigelow Body Brussels
Portieres
Clark, Davenport & Co
Twelfth and
F Streets
Ing
Maerzen
Senate
Heurich Brewing Co
Pneumatic Water Works Co
Washington, D
Hubbard Heating
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