Women Journalists and the Athenee des Dames Ahead of Their Time
A century ago women formed the Athenee des Dames in Paris to press for social progress and feminist defense. The group aimed to publish writings by women and feature portraits and biographies, but its activity waned after a wigmaker Bouhourt was executed for murder, used by satirists to mock feminist efforts. Also notes the star names Ursa Major and Ursa Minor and the term cynosure linked to the pole star.
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Napoleon
Josephine
Eugene de Beauharnais
Senate
Athenee Des -Dames
Paris
Iit
Athenee Des Dames
Athenee
Bouhourt
Ursa Minor
Minneapolis Tribune
Household Hints From Mothers Volume On Cleaning and Cooking
Practical tips on cleaning tarnished brass and silver with salt and soda. Whitewash with lime and skim milk, coloring with paint. Choosing a chicken by breast lump and back fat, white legs. old chickens have rough legs. Remedies for heavy flower vases with lead shot. Handling egg yolks when separating whites using a cloth. Securing shoe laces with loops through the knot. Proper lamp maintenance to avoid odor. Prevent yellowed mats with a wash of strong all water solution. Stains on table linen from eggs are best treated by cold soaking rather than boiling.
Nora Causes a Tip Windfall at Summer Hotel
In a hotel corridor a bright Irish chambermaid named Nora helps an aged scrubwoman carry a heavy pail of water upstairs. The bystanders praise her kindness and note she consistently earns more tips than two other girls, often enough to pay the proprietor for the privilege of working there.
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Nora
Oddities of Color Blindness Explained
The text describes incomplete color blindness including red green and violet deficiencies. It cites how red blind see green and white stars on a violet field while green blind see red violet stars, and violet blind perceive normal stripes with stars in a brownish gray field. Total color blindness alters blues to light yellowish brown and reds to dark brown.
An Idol Shattered by a Humble Hero
An admirer reports meeting her favorite author and finding him unglamorous. She recalls him lean on a garden gate in shirt sleeves swearing at a grocery boy, close cropped hair, unshaved, the most terribly human specimen she ever saw.
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Atlanta Constitution
The Wickedest Sea: Cape of Good Hope as the wickedest
The author argues popular myths misname the roughest waters. He states the true wickedest sea lies when rounding the Cape of Good Hope toward the eastern parts of the Cape Colony, not in the Dover or English Channel, nor in the Mediterranean or Cape Horn routes.
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English Channel
Dover Strait
St. Jean de Lutz
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Colony
What a Scotsman Wears
A Scottish correspondent writes that a Scotsman wears a kilt, not kilts, noting Harry Lauder wore a single kilt to amuse the king. The column declines the request, stating Scotsmen almost always wear trousers instead of kilts.
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Harry Lauder
London News
Gushing Actress Seeks Stage Debut With Noted Actor
A young lady declares she longs to perform on stage and expresses excitement to a popular actor. The actor casually responds, acknowledging her ambition in a light exchange typical of the era.
Yachting Cap Quip Linked to Brother’s Yacht Tale
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes a dry exchange about a yachting cap, turning a light remark into a note on ownership. A second line from Eliot praises beauty as an element of language and goodness in finish.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Eliot
Young Folks Corn and Beans Game Rules
A children's game where a professor reads questions from a card set and players hold answer cards. Players use corn and beans as counters, shouting Corn or Beans to claim answers. The first to dispose of answer cards is the model scholar, the first to run out of counters is the bankrupt, and the player with the most counters at end is the millionaire.
Proverb Game With Players In A Circular Setup
A guessing game has players each calling their assigned word simultaneously. Repeats allowed. The guesser learns best by listening to one player at a time. He may stand at equal distance from all, or sit in a circle with him in the middle.
How convection heats the air in weather
Chicago News explains convection currents as heated air rising and cooler air taking its place. The process heats the earth’s atmosphere, driven by heat from the surface rather than the sun, with the surface re-radiating heat that rises as warm air and is retained by the surrounding air.
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Chicago News
Telephone Election Service Demonstrates Bell System Reach
The article details how the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company coordinated with the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Bell affiliates to gather and distribute election returns across New England and beyond. It notes 34 sections, rapid bulletin circulation by telephone, and direct New York transmission to synthesize a national picture using 8 million miles of wire and 4.9 million subscribers.
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New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Bell
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
Boston Globe
New England
Boston
Somerville
Jamaica Plain
Newton West
Quincy
Worcester
Fitchburg
Greenfield
North Adams
Pittsfield
Springfield
Salem
Lowell
Brockton
Buzzards Bay
New Bedford
Massachusetts
Portland
Lewiston
Augusta Waterville
Bangor
Bath
Rockland
Houston
Maine
Concord
Laconia
Rochester
Lancaster
New Hampshire
Bellows Falls
White River Junction
Rutland
Burlington
St. Albans
St. Johnsbury
Montpelier
Vermont
New York
Bell System
Koran Written in Arabic Noted for Mixed Style
The article notes Mohammed urging that the Koran was written in Arabic not a foreign language for scholars alone. It cites uneven style with much prosaic passages and occasional bursts of sublimity as observed by the New York American.
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Mohammed
New York American
Dustin Stax
Washington Star
Piano at Home copyright deposited by White-Smith 1908
White Smith Music Publishing Company Boston deposits the title Piano at Home a new set of easy brilliant pieces for pianoforte Moonlight Redown by E Mack Boston with rights claimed as proprietor under U S copyright laws Librarian of Congress Thorvald Solberg Register of Copyrights renewal for 14 years from December 23 1908
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White- Smith Music Publishing Company
Boston
Mass
E. Mack
White-Smith Music Publishing Company
United States
Llerbert Putnam
Librarian of Congress
Thorvald Solberg
Register of Copyrights
Library of Congress
W. Smith Music Publishing Com
Herbert Putnam
Thorne
Librarian of
Congress
C. A. White
J. W. Turner
Boston, White, Smith & Co
Herbert Fulham
White-Smith Music . Publshing Company
Whitetton
Little May
Edward M. Read
White-Smith Music Pub. Company
Herbert
White-Smith Music Publishing Co
E. T. Baldwin
Boston, White, Smith & Company
Barcarolle Inc
T. P.ryder
White-Smith Music * Publishing Company
White- Smith Music. Publishing Company
J.W. Turner
Publication notice for music title Fane Quickstep 1908
Library of Congress records a deposit by W. Smith Music Publishing Co of Boston for the work Fane Quickstep attributed to E. with Herbert Putnam as Librarian. The notice dates October 15, 1908 and December 23, 1908.
Fairy Feet March Copyright Deposit Notice
Library of Congress records a copyright deposit dated October 17, 1908 for the musical composition Fairy Feet March by Edward M. Read published by White-Smith Music Pub. Co. Boston. The document, signed by Thorvald Solberg on December 28, 1908, lists White-Boston Mass as the depositor and notes copyright ownership under U.S. law.
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Library of Congress
White- Smith Music Publishing Company
Boston
Mass
Edward M. Read
White-Smith” Music ‘Pub- Read
White-Smith Music Pub. Co
White-Smith Music Pub. Company
Smith Music Publishing Files Copyright for Jingle Bells Version
The document lists Smith Music Publishing Company and C. A. White's Secular Quartettes for Mixed Voices including Jingle Bells Sleighing Quartette in E flat, registered with the Copyright Office on December 24, 1908, via White-Smith in Boston. The filing references the right er' tn am and a December date.
Smith Music Publishing Company claim note 1908 rights
Patent style record notes ownership claim by Thorvald Solberg dated December 17 1908 for the song I Alone the Cross Must Bear with words and music by C A White published by White Smith Music Publishing Co Boston.
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Fiat
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Er’ Tnam
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