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Newspaper
Albuquerque Evening Citizen
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1906
Page
6
A historical report narrates a striking case of moral corruption by a young boy. The piece highlights the startling extent of wrongdoing observed at an early age and notes community reactions to the boy’s conduct. It reflects period attitudes toward juvenile vice.
New York September 29. A father Frederick Hommel battles a dissipated son who salvages meals from his children, then seeks money from them. The incident sparks a police case as the family turns to the authorities. Separately a Broadway building reports a “skyscraper marriage epidemic” with six marriages among twenty clerks and stenographers. The piece closes with sidewalk humor about a dog snatching a hat and bird, and a spectacle in Broadway traffic causing nose and glasses mishaps.
A historic church on the Neck Road in Sheepshead Bay, once a worship site for the Knickerbockers and Roosevelts, has become a school for jockeys run by the Coney Island Jockey Club. Teachers educate stable hands in reading and doctrine while sessions run afternoons and evenings in winter.
News reaches that Bud Don Athan was severely injured while tamping a two round dynamite charge into rock using a steel bar. He was blown thirty five feet, both eyes destroyed, right hand nearly blown off and rock fragments lodged in his body. Arch Van Winkle and others were hurt. contractor Van Winkle overseen Pensaco Telephone line extension to Cloudcroft. Unclear if tool usage followed instructions.
In New York the fashion scene notes warm weather linger, autumn items loom, with talk of broadened cloth and new ladies garments arriving. Rumors of additional facing fabrics and elegant outfits accompany the season's shift as designers tease upcoming collections.
A survey of fabrics for evening wear and day dresses notes satin finish and chiffon weight poplins. It highlights colors, trims, and materials like muslin silks organites and velvets plus new jumper suit designs and skyward trends for coats and capes in a refined Paris inspired style.
Fashion notes discuss autumn hat styles from Paris and Vienna with a focus on darker reds purplish blues myrtle greens and browns. Describes plaids stripes and braids for belts and necks with broadclothes favored over velvet and chiffon for princess dresses indicating enduring streetwear practicality.
The excerpt describes a Parla designed hat priced around 80 dollars, featuring gray ostrich plumes and velvet, with a ruching bandeau back and jet side. It then details an evening gown in bordered silk from a princess design, mounted on a nine-gored slip foundation, with lace yoke, standing collar, puff sleeves, draped center front, and decorative borders reaching to the feet, plus variations in blouse reverses and luxe fabrics like cashmere and chiffon mohairs.
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