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...themselves to a marked degree in their colored engravings with topics of equal or greater moment today than at their time of issue. Thus those of 1852 and 1860 are titled "Progress of Bloomerism or a Complete Change" and "Swimming for Ladies." The figures depicted by the engraver John Leech show that though the costumes of this day would today be conspicuous for their superfluity, at that time they represented what the younger generation would do despite the protests of their more staid mothers and grandmothers...
...article. I wrote to Secretary Davis, and herewith hand you his statement concerning the matter, which is most satisfactory and very creditable to the Department and to Secretary Davis. I feel sure you will make the necessary correction when you have all the facts before you. J. W. LEECH Leech & Leech Attorneys at Law Ebensburg, Pa. Anna Komarmicka, Chicago milliner, had last spring gone to visit her sick father in Poland. Later, in Paris, her permit to re-enter the U. S. was stolen. From the U. S. Consul at Paris she understood that she would have no trouble...
...letter of the Secretary of Labor, Subscriber James J. Davis, follows: My dear Mr. Leech...
Cannot something be done about this spirit-sapping parasite? Like a leech it clings to our educational system: why? no one knows. Final examinations are little more than comprehensive reviews of the amount of information a student receives in a given course, while they could be made to be objective and really useful...
...presume that you consider that the advertisements on pp. 2, 37 and 41 appeal to a higher class of intelligence than George Cruikshank and John Leech...