Keeping Up Appearances and a Middle Aged Wife's Struggle
An excerpt from Daily Eagle explores women’s social confinement and domestic burdens in 1650s settings, detailing how appearances mask unequal burdens. It contrasts the ornate parlor with the neglected kitchen, noting the pressures on wives to maintain grace amidst moral policing and economic strain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gratiano
Ro Gay
Gratigno
Peng
Limwif
Witsch
Symi Gous
Wright
Ein
Stoly
Bunmelf
Pollos
Kiya Bor
Dafereber
Harper's
Ham
Selling by Photo Informs Drummers Dropping Gripsack Age
The piece argues that color photographs replace bulky samples for selling wares from machinery to bric a brac and that traveling salesmen, or drummers, abandon their gripsacks for compact pictorial catalogs. It notes color photos reduce authenticity, details, and tactile quality, and describes the rise of photographic catalogues used by crockery and furniture sellers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wemes
Préso
Keer
War
Worcester and Royal
Bohersign
Clara Scolaiss
Theresa Rhas
Atresia
Joer
Hardens
Patie
Costas
Bern
Tie West Wit
Senda
Art Instituta
Chicago Times
Beauty myths and powders draw critique in Harper's Bazaar
A long excerpt from Harper's Bazaar ridicules sensational face powders and beauty claims. It rebukes cosmetic tricks as vanity, praising simple oils and perfumes while warning against dangerous substances.
Fragmented Memoir Sketches From a Prison Cell
The narrator recalls a chaotic scene of confluence among inmates and guards, a cramped cell life, and odd sensory details. A sudden instruction to drain a basin reveals a peculiar line of communication through a wall, hinting at unconventional interactions and unsettling discoveries within the facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Getestiom
Mesolit Pace Railroad Route Summary
A garbled OCR fragment mentions a railroad route to Kansas Citations with references to Chicago, Wyoming or Wisconsin, and a fast in North, presenting unclear place names and scattered partial phrases. The readable bits suggest a transportation context but lack coherent facts or dates.
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Daily’ Eagle
America
Reston
Sis
Ife
Fela
Mia Crousas
Dimeal
Li Chandler Moulton
Chicago
Abe
Shearm
London World
Roman
Ska
Amen
Atlanta Constitution
Cen
Ted
London
Meurtse
I Palace
Bonne
Parle
Suggemsia
Courilie
Phair
New York
Artis
Detroit
Dts
Trule
Matey
Paris
Abiocin
Olean
Bering
Deaton
Prewure
Willem Haklock
United
Tates Ervlogical Servey
Low
Prrsing
Seite
Arsansen
Ting
Westing Nerve Force
Terbune Berrick
Harper's Basar
Tviis
Usele
de Mivent
Kansas Citions
Cho
St Louis
Ansas
Puebo
Leaver
Wiith
Pullin Butler
Shertist
Kansas City
Pullmac
H.C. Townsend
Gon, Puss, & Ticket Ast
St Louw
Houck, Thomas CO
Works and Sarcoxie, “Mo
Wichita, Kansas
Sedgwick Block
Globe Iron Works
A. Flagg, Prop'r
Wichita
W. H Fonda
Kansas
Sellers
J.P. Allen
Wichita, Kan
EC Job
Vier
Henry Schweiter
H. Schweiter
Emporia
Wichita Mercantile Co
South Market Street
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Wichita Eagle
M. M. Murdock & Bro
Jua- Hees
Prin i
Chicas
Fateon
Adiies
Dustness Communications
R. P. Murdock
Lombard Mortgage CO
State National Bank
Cor
Main St
Doublasaye
Hawn, Herron & CO
Heshon & Gu
Zephyr
PAE
Rincock Seksetae, T&l Sr
O'Gara Trustees and
Leasure
L. C Jackson
Hackner & Jacekson
Wichita National Bank
Directus
Camera and Foreign Exchange
U. & Bonds
Loldwnes
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