Womans World: Annie Peck Tops World Mountain Climbers
Miss Annie S. Peck, former Smith College Latin professor, is hailed as the new world champion mountaineer after ascending Mount Hauscaran in Peru at about 25,000 feet. The article notes her prior climbs including Sorata in Bolivia and stresses the dangers and physical demands of high altitude climbing.
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Annie S. Peck
Smith College
Hauscaran
W. W. Graham
Miss Peck
Matterhorn
Alps
Mount
Sorata
Bolivia
Medicines to Take on a Journey
Practical guidance on travelers medicine kits. It lists bicarbonate of soda for indigestion, antiseptics like peroxide, and carbolic acid solution for disinfecting small wounds. Emphasizes hygiene and readiness with gauze, bandages, and adhesive plaster for emergencies.
The Woman Who Makes Good In Letters And Debates
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a woman and a man discussing making good through letters and debate. The readable parts hint at instruction or correspondence about virtue and effort.
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Letra
Books For Wedding Gifts From Mrs Asquith Style
A London trend favors giving books as wedding gifts. Mrs. Asquith, England’s prime minister’s wife, sets the example by gifting books to brides. Recommend durable sets like Kipling Thackeray Hawthorne and American history volumes, as a polite, lasting option.
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Mrs. Asquith
Lmelight
England
London
Kipling
Hawthorne
Producing Money Trick for Married Women
An old instruction describes a mischievous trick where a wife steals her sleeping husband's trousers to magically produce coins on a table. The method involves pocket tricks and returning items, with a feigned rent explanation if confronted.
Jars and Home Canning Essentials Note
The guide praises clean jars with new rubbers and airtight sealing to prevent fermentation. It advises using pint wide mouth jars, porcelain lined kettles, graniteware, and specific tools like long handled spoons, a pestle, pans, scales, a grocer's funnel, and ample towels and jelly jars for safe canning.
Suffragists Run War Song For Rights Drive
English suffragists adopt a new war song first sung by Edmund Cooper at an at home hosted by Miss Janette Steer in Sloane Gardens London. Refrain urges women to rise up and vote with a warning note that they are bound to win the fight.
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Edmund Cooper
Janette Steer
Sloane Gardens
London
Dainty Ways of Cooking Apples
Guidance on using tart apples like Red Astrakhan for jelly and jam. Instructions detail selecting fruit, preparing juice, sugar ratios, cooking times, and flavors such as pineapple lemon zest quince and rose geranium, with tips to avoid scorching and to achieve firm clear jelly.
Brass watering pot with decorative indoor appeal
The brass watering pot moves indoors with its plate and is both useful and ornamental. It suits the growing number of indoors flowers and costs from $2.50 upward depending on decoration.
Curran Outwitted by a Brisk Irish Widow
A biographical anecdote notes John Philpot Curran, famed Irish wit and lawyer, being tricked by a lively widow named Honor at a coffee house. He suggests Honor and Honesty, then the widow toasts to Curran’s absent friends, turning the moment into a witty reversal.
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Emerald Isle
John Philpot Curran
Curran
Emperor of Austria Collects Rare Menu Cards
A description notes the Austrian emperor’s hobby of editing an official court journal and amassing menu cards. His collection grows with contributions from other monarchs, including a notable black marble card used at a dinner for President Faure, painted by a renowned French artist with ivory dish names.
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Austria
Faure
Five Button Coasts Reflect Confucian Virtue in Chinese Fashion
The article notes a new fashion trend of wearing five buttons on coats or capes among Chinese attire. Each button is said to symbolize Confucius five moral virtues humanity justice order rectitude and prudence guiding wearers' ideals.
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Confucius
Two Kinds of Dusters at Village Store
An automobile stops before a village general store where a proprietor chauffeur asks for a linen duster. The clerk replies they are out of linen dusters but offers a feather duster instead.
Effect of Clothes on Women in Reforming Behavior
The piece argues clothing greatly shapes the feminine mind and can calm or reform criminals and the insane. Examples include inmates in a reformary dressing by behavior, from stripes to lace house gowns, and a starving girl recovering hope upon seeing a pair of worn dancing slippers, suggesting clothes mold dignity and conduct.
Dyeing Feathers Method Described in Old Advice
The article outlines a home dyeing process for feathers using soap suds and gasoline, then a paint and gasoline mix to achieve color. It warns women to test on a small white feather before attempting wholesale use with more feathers.
Beauty tips for hair, face and skin care from old advice
The article offers era specific beauty guidance, stressing head poise to enlarge eyes and avoid a double chin, peppermint essence for digestion and children, gloss via brushing and shampooing, and natural remedies for burns using egg white. It also describes exercises to lift the chin, cold water baths, and massage techniques for facial and scalp care.
Auctioneer David Floyd Markets Sale in Boston and Winthrop
David Floyd, auctioneer at 34 School Street Boston and in Winthrop Massachusetts, offers a sale event with detailed terms and contact points for bidders. The notice highlights the locations and the professional scope of the auctioneer.
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David Floyd
School St
Boston
Winthrop
Mass
Mortgagee's Sale of Real Estate in Winthrop Massachusetts
Foreclosure of mortgage from Charles R Ford to Homestead Co operative Bank dated October 13 1897 records show on September 14 1908 at 4 PM public auction the parcel in Winthrop Suffolk bounded Bowdoin Street John G Schuler land Jane A Tewksbury Lord and Daley heirs of Martha A Tewksbury sale terms include $300 bid at purchase and further terms at sale.
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Charles R.ford
Homestead Co-operative Bank
Suffolk
Winthrop
County of Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bowdoin Street
John G. Schuler
Jane A. Tewksbury
Lord and Daley
Martha A. Tewksbury
Julia DeWelles
Daniel Eldredge
Mortgagee's Sale Of Land In Winthrop Mass
Public auction to sell Lot 5 on plan in Winthrop Massachusetts by mortgagee James P Prince under Wilbur F Stafford deed dated May 8 1908. Sale Monday September 21 1908 at 2 pm on premises. bids subject to prior mortgage and other terms. lot described as 5348 square feet bounded by Linden Street and adjacent lots.
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Wilbur F. Stafford
James P. Prince
Suffolk
Winthrop Mass
Linden Street
Mortgagee's Sale of Winthrop Land and Buildings
Public auction on September 30 1908 at 3 pm for a parcel of land with buildings in Winthrop totaling 8855 square feet. Property bound by Pleasant Street Somerset Avenue Wharf and Tewksbury land. conveyed to Osman B Ingalls by Isaiah Wharf et al February 5 1900. Sold subject to a $3500 first mortgage and unpaid taxes. Terms $200 deposit. Details at Harry Bergson Boston office. William Horwitz assignee.
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Osman B. Ingalls
Julia A. Ingalls
Anthony E. Navin
Suffolk
William Horwitz
Winthrop
Pleasant ‘Street
Somerset Avenue
Somerest Avenue
New
Tewksbury
Fleasant Street
Vleasant Street
Isaih Whar
H. T. Whitman
Channing Howard
Harry Bergson
Sourth Street
Boston
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Health and Beauty
Wortgageer
Walter H. Roberts
Congress St
William Jlorwitz
Castoria
G “Kaz
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