Notes on home care and garden from the era
A collage of home economics and garden advice. Coverage includes winter garden protection for perennials and roses, ventilation and clean air in homes, budget tips from Miss Gibbs, lemon uses for cleaning and health, simple household hacks, and a short feature on Kellogg Durland's Russia piece and a factory noon lecture series.
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Potomac
Camden
N. J
Kellogg Durland
Russia
Woman’s
Tolstoy
Winifred S. Gibbs
Association For Improving
Moenu
Eastwenty-third Street
Miss Gibbs
Library adds 10 volumes to Commons collection
The House of Commons library gains ten volumes mainly of political literature history biography and poetry. Its collection totals nearly 70 000 volumes and contains no novels. Notable items include all journals since 1547 and complete debates with bluebooks from 1800.
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House of Commons
British Museum
House
DRESSING AND MOUNTING SKINS Into Rugs And False Heads
A long article describes the leather trade turning wild skins into decorative rugs and taxidermy heads. It explains processes from tanning to mounting, notes lion and polar bear skins command high prices, and lists major markets in London Leipsic Nijni Novgorod and others with vast annual trade volumes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lomdop Dacks
Leipsic
Germany
Nijni Novygered
Russia
New York Lawyer Mary Coleman Sparks Suffrage Banter
Miss Mary Coleman a New York lawyer mocks male supporters at a suffrage meeting on Wall Street saying men must not steer the movement. A retail clerk helps a tall woman guess her husband collar size, joking that husbands select their wives ties. Washington Star.
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Miss Gibbs
New York Tribune
Mary Coleman
New York
Wall Street
Snccoms
Miss Coleman
Haberdashers
Med
Washington Ster
Quote on willpower from New York Prensa
A pithy aphorism notes that appealing to a man's sense of strong will yields influence. The New York Prensa frames willpower as a social instrument, suggesting persuasion rests on recognizing resolve rather than force.
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New York
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Mary Street Whitten
Broadway
Jon
Notime
West Indies
California
T. B. Terry
Parmer
United States
HobCom
Wauwatosa
Milwaukee
Sanitarium
M. P
Watosa
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