One Piece Frock in Black and White Striped Silk Styles
Fashion notes describe the season’s lean toward one piece frocks and princess fits. A black and white striped silk model features a white chiffon fichu bodice, white lace vest, short sleeves, and a Greek key hem plait. Changeable pongee fabrics offer gleaming mercerized surfaces and playful color interweavings, including an apple green and golden brown version with a low square neck coat and gold braid embroidery. The ensemble pairs a smart elbow sleeve with moire accents and fringe details, keeping silhouettes flat at the waist and finished with brown folds at the hem.
Hot Water Can Promises Cozy Storage Solution
A compact, roomy hot water can stands shown in the illustration, designed to keep contents warm and prevent chilling. The item suggests ample capacity for a fairly large water cab, highlighting practical utility for domestic use.
Cozy blanket feature for hot water storage use
The article describes a warm blanketing cosy to store hot water away from morning use, noting its simple two‑sided construction and a scarlet or navy applique trim reading hot water. It emphasizes a practical, snug design suitable for placing outside a bedroom door.
Red arms cure through circulation and creams
A beauty expert and family physician advise methods to treat redness in the arms from poor circulation. Keep extremities warm, drink nourishing foods, avoid tight or damp garments, and use daily massage with first days soap lather. An alternative paste with calomel, Scotch meal, borax and ammonia is applied then wiped away.
Fashion notes on foundation skirts and sheer chiffons
The piece discusses matching foundation skirts to frocks with color nuance and contrast. It highlights a gray chiffon veil from a newly arrived trousseau, embroidered with a flower design in several tints from blue to pink, worn over an old, velvety taffeta foundation that blends colors softly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Savera
Rhodes
Patchwork edging for a decorative textile finish
Instructions describe preventing unraveling along edges by lining with a second blanket layer, turning in the outer edge, securing with slip stitches, trimming with matching cord, sewing over the join of two sides, and shaping into three loops with two fringed ends at the top.
Polka Dots Rise as Summer Fashion Rival to Checks
Polka dots replace stripes and checks as a dominant decor in summer fashion. Polka dot chiffon appears in white or pale grounds with colored or dark dots, in various sizes and patterns. Black and white polka dot combinations are noted as especially stylish, with bordered chiffons used for thin sheath gowns.
Navy blue alpaca frock for a little girl
A navy blue alpaca frock for a girl features a plaited blouse and skirt with white pace trim. The blouse has white lace neck trim and cuffs, with gimp and under cuffs in white alpaca. White patent leather belt completes the outfit.
Shirt Waist With Kimono Sleeve Attached
A practical guide to sewing a shirt waist with a kimono sleeve. Use silk beneath as the foundation and attach the sleeve around the shoulder, joining under the arm. The method avoids extra linings and cutting precision, simplifying construction.
Sam Houston the Rover and Lone Star Hero
Sam Houston rose from a farm boy in Tennessee to a Cherokee ally, lawyer, and governor. Adopted by Chief Oolootelta, he learned languages and led Cherokee troops before earning fame as an ensign in the War of 1812. He later became a Texas commander, playing a decisive role in battles leading to San Jacinto and the birth of Texas.
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Bam
Sam
Tennessee
Oolootelta
Homer
Rover
Tobopeka
Rsk
Jackson
Coffee
Thea
Richard Brown
Russell
Nfe
New Orleans
Lfe
Jesson
Oolooteka
Texas
Herdamaga
New Estramadura
Alamo
Goliad
San Jacinto
Santa Anna
Sam Wwouston
Tonxas
Eye for Discipline in Army Life and a Stunned Ear
A naval captain recalls a Royal Engineer barracks incident where a gallery pistol shot nicked a servant’s ear. The ear injury prompted no alarm as the soldier explained he was simply seeking the severed ear fragment, illustrating strict military routine over personal harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Gambler
Royal Engineer Barracks
Andrews
Gambler
Nurse Nathalie Comstock’s Maple Sap Bear Encounter
Miss Nathalie Comstock a Deer Lake schoolteacher led students on a nature study trip to a sugar bush. A bear approached during sap boiling. she dumped boiling syrup at it, climbed a tree, then fell onto the bear, stunning both. The pupils helped subdue the animal with maple syrup poured down its throat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Rapids
Minn
Nathalie Comstock
Deer Lake School
Here
Miss Nathalie
Nat
Nathalie
Girl Dances on Hotel Roof in Wild Celebration
New York reports a woman clad only in two union suits dancing on the Werald Square hotel coping. She sang Spanish songs and shouted about Spain and a birth of a Spanish heir, froze the street, mocked bystanders, and was overpowered by a janitor before being taken to Bellevue Hospital where she claimed to be Annie Loftus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Werald Square
Aim
Spain
Bellevue
Annie Loftus
Madrid
Last Year's Anthracite Production in Luzerne County
Luzerne county produced nearly 40 percent of the U S total anthracite coal in 1906 with output of 26,260,978 tons. This compares with 26,555,815 tons in 1905, a drop of 368,337 tons. The decline stems mainly from a six week idle period last April and May during miner negotiations between Hillier Rial operators and unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lusorns County
United States
Luzerne
Tie Hiller Rial
Canary causes explosion in Cleveland kitchen disaster
A pet canary perched on a cigar owner Patrick Dooley's sleeping boarder caused a kerosene and gasoline blaze in a Cleveland home. The bird was burned, the kitchen and interior damaged, Mrs. Dooley escaped with minor injuries, and the bird likely died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Patrick Dooley
Award of the strike commission cited mining counties
The award notes that the remaining sixty percent was mined in Carbon Dauphin Lackawanna Northumberland Schuylkill and mentions the Philadelphia Record as the source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbon
Columbia
Dauphin, Lackawanna
Northumberland
Schuy]kill
Philadelphia Record
Man Charged With Stealing Clothes From Corpse
An unusual charge in Louisville accuses Robert Price, a Black man, of stealing clothing from a corpse in an undertaker’s establishment. The report notes Price’s demeanor and the community’s reaction as authorities pursue the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gorpse
Louisville
Robert Price
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Sam Houston
Chicago News
Derry
Washington College
Ben
Allegheny Mountains
Hla Firat
Minnesota Wood
Bruin
Oan
Nann
Nannit Nannanl
Annem
Espana
Bird
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