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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1894
Page
12
A fragmentary article traces Frances Willard's temperance work and her tough path to leadership. It recounts mentor Mrs. Livermore urging Willard to dedicate herself, her early struggles with funding, and her steadfastness as she builds organizational strength through personal sacrifice.
A fragmented instructional column on children and parenting recalls humorous exchanges with twins named Phander and Lightning, a boy asking if God makes dudes, and a mother scolding irregular eating. It notes a passerby missing a poor man and includes anecdotes about George Washington and Yankee Doodle told to illustrate early 20th century childrearing views.
A collage of kitchen tips and recipes including crab meat salad with oil and vinegar dressing, clam broth for invalids, bean salad with vinegar and butter, spinach preparation, turkey satay salad, raspberry sherbet and sorbet variations, and stuffed cucumbers with bread crumb stuffing. Contains many archaic spellings and measurement quirks.
A female art model writes about the rough treatment from female students she poses for, praising male artists for courtesy. She notes women models face poorer treatment and that male students often objectify them. Separate items report Lady Carlisle training women gardeners and a praised landscape project by Mises Wilkinson opened at Vauxhall Park by the Prince of Wales.
A Circassian slave named Lalla Kia rose from Tangier to the Moroccan sultanate’s palace, winning favor through music and charm. She, like many wives, became central in the vast harem of a sultan famed for his 2,000 wives, as he selects favorites from a pool of potential concubines in the palace gardens.
A lengthy feature describes rugs collected by Baron Albert Rothschild in Paris, praising Persian and Turkish weaving. It notes age, value, and wall-hanging beauty, outlines labor from farms to looms, mentions prayer mats with Quran verses, and explains washing customs and social prices for Turkoman brides. It also details a baazar washerwoman tournament novelty and the scarce use of sacred rugs.
Margaret Copley, heiress and self styled conservative antiquarian, settles with her family in Munich. Amid relics of Maryland lineage she dreams of a radiant future as Paul Harcourt, a Johns Hawkins Hospital surgeon, presses hopeful letters. A German city life and heritage push her toward love and ambition.
Competitors paid a small entrance fee with part funding prizes and bazaar profits. The novelty of the event drew spectators who supported the fund and activities at the bazaar, aiding overall earnings and community engagement.
A distressed Margaret Copely discovers a cruel Baltimore scandal via a Maryland Historical Society notice and a hidden envelope. She confronts bearing a letter that could ruin her father’s name, while a secret parchment catalog reveals immigrant records and personal letters linking past Cavaliers to the present.
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