Duchess of Marlborough calls for women's political action
The Duchess of Marlborough urged American women to engage in politics and public work after twelve years in England, arguing personal obligation to society and urging support for philanthropy and education led by women. She highlighted American examples and called for working women to join, stressing practical study of conditions and action.
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Duchess of Marlborough
Humphrey Ward
New York
Playground Association of America
England
Republic
Jane Addams
Helen Gould
Arthur Dodge
Russell Sage
Grace Dodge
Schuyler van Rensselaer
Robert Abbe
James Speyer
America
Harper’s Bazar
Novel party games and culinary curios at a luncheon
A hostess devised a souvenir sale using violet paper boxes, bid by guests for candy prizes, followed by a baby and grown-up photo guessing game with a prize for perfect matches. Another party featured a dark room “witchs cocktail” served in flaming mandarin cups before a toast. A Buffalo dinner offered a lettuce salad with a creamy Camembert Roquefort Philadelphia mix in sherry.
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Buffalo
Philadelphia
Silent Status of Women Across the Orient
A traveler reports the absolute non existence of women in social, industrial and religious life across Asia and Africa including Turkey, Arabia, Persia, India, China and Japan, with women not named or counted and excluded from public life while male summaries omit daughters and focus on sons.
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Egypt
Palestine
Orient
Asia
Africa
Turkey
Arabia
Persia
India
China
Japan
Morocco
Tunis
The
Soudan
The Woman's Cause and Society's Stagnation
An essay argues that oppression of female education keeps nations from progress, declaring that when half the population is immobile the other half cannot advance. It cites threats against girls learning to read and echoes Tennyson that the woman's cause is a man's. The piece appeared in Woman's National Daily.
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Tennyson
H. B. B. Woman's National Daily
The Real Cowboy Shows Modern Western Work Ethic
The real cowboy is not a college man nor a gunfighter. Barbed wire and railroads reshaped the job with steady pay and company ownership of ranges. Cowboys today are educated readers, work hard, and prize riding skill over marksmanship in a changing West.
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Out West
Southwest
Arizona
Colorado
Montana
Dakota
Red Saunders
Sealed companionship for Sydney Cavill on San Francisco swim
A lonely baby fur seal joined long distance swimmer Sydney Cavill during a Baker's Beach practice. He coaxed the creature ashore as it followed him into the surf, later sheltering under his arm at night. Cavill plans to adopt the seal and take it on future swims, noting the animal seems as at home in salt water as he is.
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Louise D. Mitchell
Sydney Cavill
Market Street
Baker's Beach
Arctic
Cavill
Caville
San Francisco
Convincing Evidence of a Fiery Mare
Col James Plummer of New York, an automobile hater, bought a brown mare to match Barbary Belle. His groom John warned the horse is temperamental, noting she kicked him from the feed box twice. The colonel believed it would settle, but the incident provided convincing proof of her spirit.
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Col. Plummer
New York
John
Pittsburg Press
A Learner in Politics Dialogue Question
A Baltimore American quip frames a student’s query about the grandfather’s clause and its relation to the grandmother’s fund. The exchange uses light political satire to probe voting rights and family reform in a historical context.
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Pop
Baltimore American
Advertise in This Paper to Reach Local Readers
Classified notice urges merchants and individuals to place ads in the paper to reach home readers. The brief copy promises visibility among local households and emphasizes community reach for products services or notices.
Senators Who Are Chums at the Capitol
The piece surveys friendships and feuds among U S senators, noting many pairs who mingle and drink or clash, including Philander 2sn0X of Pennsylvania with Murrey Crane of Massachusetts, and historic rivalries like Bailey and Culberson of Texas, Chandler and Gallinger, Hale and Frye, and Beveridge and VP-elect Fairbanks, reflecting a mix of cordial ties and sharp disputes.
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United States
Philander
Pennsylvania
Murrey Crane
Massachusetts
Crane
Edmunds
Vermont
Allen G. Thurman
Ohio
Capitol
Washington
Committee On Judiciary
Senate
Gallinger
Maine
Hale
Frye
Raynor
Maryland
Gorman
Kittredge
New Hampshire
Gamble
South Dakota
Texas
Bailey and
Culberson
Pairbanks
Beveridge
Foraker
Hanna
Boston Herald
Remarkable Alpine Fall Yields Vision of a Glassy Heaven
Albert Heim, a German scientist, fell from a penknife of rock in the Alps and survived. As he plummeted he envisioned a blue heaven with crimson clouds and a moving snowfield, then lost consciousness upon impact. He later recalled keeping his glasses and recalling his inaugural discourse, while friends reached him about half an hour after the fall.
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Alps
Albert Heim
Arman
Anon
Earth
Chicago News
Auto Ascends Stairway At Electric Show in Chicago
At a National Electric Light association gathering in Chicago, a Studebaker electric car was wheeled up two flights of stairs in the Auditorium hotel as no elevator could accommodate the vehicle. Enthusiastic crowds watched the feat, with Studebaker also staging private electric vehicle showcases at their salesrooms all week.
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National Electric Light Association
Chicago
Studebaker
Auditorium Hotel
Studebaker Company
An Awful Mistake Story of Eskimo Love Told by Shackleton
Lieut Shackleton narrates a pathetic tale of Eskimo romance in an A expedition report. A young Eskimo loves a lass but lacks the necessary number of scalps to win her hand, illustrating peril and pride in harsh Arctic life.
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Lieut. Shackleton
Snow Bridge Abduction Fable From Glasgow Tale
A tale from Glasgow tells of a thwarted romance where a passionate youth plans to cross a snow bridge to abduct his beloved. He instead abducts the sleeping old man, destroying the bridge after crossing, highlighting a mix up that ends with a grim, ironic twist.
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Glasgow Herald
Alaska Gold Output Seen At 26 Million This Season
Preliminary Alaska gold yield estimates exceed 26 million dollars with distribution across Tanana Fairbanks Seward Peninsula and Southeastern Alaska. New districts attract miners as laborers head north in large numbers. over three thousand already gone under contract. First shipment of Alaska gold worth one million from Fairbanks arrives via Dawson within a week.
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Alaska
Cea
Covvissee
Borclo
Fairbanks
Dawson
All-Purpose Lemonade Syrup Recipe for Quick Use
A Delineator sponsored method to make lemon syrup from twelve lemons and six lemons rind, steep overnight, then combine with thick sugar syrup. Bottle airtight for instant lemonade, or use in cakes pies puddings and custards. Economical way to maximize sugar and fruit value.
Beautiful, Easily Grown Vines For Veranda Coverage
The article reviews hardy wall climbing vines ideal for verandas and fences. Boston ivy, Virginia creeper, Virgin's Bower, clematis varieties, wistaria, and Crimson Rambler are highlighted for their growth, scent, bloom, and suitability to verandas, walls, trellises, and rustic structures.
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Boston
Virginia
Japan
English Chauffeuse praised as safer personal driver
A 75 year old nervous woman insists on a female chauffeur, finding men drivers too reckless. Another admirer expresses praise in verse, claiming a chauffeuse provides reliable and fearless company, ending with poetic lines about an enchanting chauffeur maid.
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England
Precocious Waterbury Boy Passes Yale Exam at Seven
A Waterbury boy born in 1750, John Trumbull, passed Yale examinations at age seven and entered Yale at thirteen. The Bristol Dispatch notes his precocious intellect overbalancing his frail health, earning him lasting honor in scholastic and political realms before his death in 1781 at age 31.
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Conecticut
Waterbury
Yale
John Trumbell
Bristol Dispatch
Hartford Courant
The Tourist's Paradise in France as Profit Source
The article argues France is the tourist's paradise par excellence with annual income around £100,000,000 to £120,000,000 sterling, equating to more than £3 per person. It contrasts this with a per capita export of domestic products at only £5, highlighting tourism as a major economic driver.
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France
Romances of Australian mines and the Coolgardie find
A period piece on the Coolgardie gold discovery of 1892 in Western Australia. Bayley and Ford endure trials until water appears, then strike a reef yielding vast gold hoards. The story emphasizes perseverance, the early rush, and the wealth from Bayley Ford and related reefs like Londonderry and Wealth of Nations.
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Coolgardie
Western Australia
Bayley
Ford
Australia
el Dorado
Cooltachie
Aca
Londonderry
Wealth of Nations
Hunting Eagles Nest Captured For State Normal School
James Carpenter of Atlantic City Wyoming volunteers to descend a cliff to capture a bald eagle nest for the state normal school. After lowering 100 feet he beat off eagles and will attempt again next week to lift the nest. Prof Adams reports a second immense closed nest atop Crow creek cottonwood, about 50 years in use, four by four feet and weighing several hundred pounds, to be moved to the school with ropes and men.
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James Carpenter
Atlantic City
Wyo
State Normal School
Carpenter
State Normal
Wyoming
Prof. Adams
Crow Creek
Adams
Greeley Cor
Denver Republican
Asparagus Time Tale From New York Times
Senator Beveridge at a Indianapolis dinner relates a humorous asparagus anecdote about Fontenelle living to 100 due to asparagus and archbishop Dubois, Mme de Tencin, and a pallid messenger. The tale concludes with Fontenelle ordering asparagus with oil and vinegar for all.
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Beveridge
Indianapolis
Fontenelle
Dubois
Mme. de Tencin
Mme. de Tenein
End Missing Aboard A Man Of War In A Long Tow
An Irish deckhand on a warship is ordered to haul in a very long towline. After pulling forty or fifty fathoms with growing fatigue and muttering of the task, he breaks into a jest about someone’s cat at the far end, provoking a wary exchange with the officer of the watch.
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Watch
Pathfinder
Covina Feasts Big Rail Launch With Urn Pot And Roast
At a Covina California municipal celebration for an electric railway, 250 gallon coffee urn served about 50 000 cups, 200 gallon beans pot, twelve steers and twice as many sheep and hogs roasted in a 44 foot trench. A giant coffee pot 9 feet high was pictured in The Popular Magazine and was twice emptied.
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Covina
Cal
Popular
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