Mareorama to Bring Illusion of Ocean Voyage to Falls Exposition
The Falls Exposition will feature a new panorama titled mareorama a lifelike sea voyage. Visitors enter a ship deck scene with authentic apparatus from Marseilles to Naples and Algiers. motion lighting and wind effects simulate a full sea cruise with optional below deck viewing.
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Philadelphia
Eiffelmer
Marseilles
Mich
Algiers
Sfax
Naples
Mice
Constantinople
Rules of Physical Culture For Women And Home Fashion
A vintage column lists Lent color rules and spring dress ideas in gray tones with aluminum hat and steel gray velvet cape. It also gives etiquette tips on greeting, standing posture, leaving rooms gracefully, and mentions a Parisian court and its vulgarity.
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Paris
The Pernicious Grumbling Habit Warning
A moral note from Ladies' Home Journal warns against grumbling and urges early remedy of causes of complaint. It advises enduring acceptable evils, changing one’s environment if possible, and bearing ills in silence rather than causing disruption or seeking unknown comforts.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Horseless carriage demo sparks Academy veto in Paris
During Louis XV era, Vancanson built a spring driven wheelless carriage. The Duke de Mortemart and M. de Lauzum rode it around a Paris court before the Academy of Sciences ruled it unacceptable and the project ended.
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Louis XV
France
Vancanson
Duke de Mortemart
M. de Lauzum
Paris
Academy of Sciences
Poor Divvil At The Club In A Snippet Of Stage Gossip
A humorous salon scene unfolds with Mrs Jones-Ann Smith absent from the club and Mrs Johnson voicing suspicion of a rooster pecking. The ball room boarder jokes about cultivating a taste for strong drink while characters debate tights and support. Murdoch's mother-in-law is back at his house.
City of Bridges in Ghent Belgium Reveals Island Network
Ghent in Belgium spans twenty six islands linked by eighty bridges with three hundred streets and thirty public squares spread across the island system. The description emphasizes the city’s intricate water and road network and its unique urban layout.
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Ghent
Belgium
Egg Industry Demands Soar Beyond Table Use
The calico print works consume 40 million dozen eggs annually while wine clarifiers use 10 million dozen. Photographers and other industries also demand large quantities, with total needs rising faster than household table use.
The Secret of Beauty and Fashion Trends
A physical culture teacher links grace to effort, noting how selection and practice shape poise across social strata. The piece discusses rising fashion fabrics and silhouettes, from black silk patterns to moire and embossed velvet, and hints at memoirs in progress by Princess Metternich detailing pivotal years in European history.
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Forsooth
Princess Metternich
Prince Metternich
Louis Napoleon
Diamond Bodice Fashion Feature Sparks Spotlight
A diamond bodice competing for style and economy is described with trimming that forms a large central diamond across the bust. The look uses satin or silk diamond pieces halved and joined at the yoke center with ends sewn into the armholes, optional lace or passementerie, and removable trimming.
Free to Millions A Little Book On Digestion And Health
An ad promotes a free booklet from F A Stuart Co on stomach digestion and its link to illness. It explains common digestive issues cause headaches fatigue and other symptoms and promises diet tips and a table of digestion times. Readers mail a postcard request to Marshall Michigan for the book. The page also notes Manila houses using oyster shell windows and includes a testimonial about Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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Toople
F. A. Stuart Co
Main St
Marshall, Mich
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted Amid Cure Claims
An advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal remedy for catarrh, claiming constitutional action through the blood and mucous surfaces and offering one hundred dollars if it fails. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills. The text ends with a brief joke about a plumber and a thawed pipe.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney& Co
Toledo
Ti. Hall
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup The Saintly Husbands
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething pain gum relief and wind colic at 2c a bottle. It contrasts with husbands praised for saintlike actions as part of a humorous crowding line.
New Corn Prices and Farm Seed Catalogue Offer
Advertises $3,000 corn with yields of 813 bushels per acre and farm seeds like Big Four Oats and bromus grass. Promises pasture and potato yields, and invites readers to send to John A. Salzer Reed Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin for a free catalogue. Ends with a proverb about approachability.
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Salter
John A. Salzer
Perfection Poultry Ad and Anecdotes in One Page
A mix of old ads and humorous anecdotes appears, promising wages for sales with Perfection Poultry Mixture in Kansas and a testimonial for Seth Arnold’s Cough Killer. Included are classroom jokes about The Old Oaken Bucket and a Frederick the Great anecdote about a battlefield diagram.
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Hugo d’Elesi
Fottie Twinkle
Ratz
Murchison
Mr. Pebbly
Meally
City of Bridges
Eugenie
Tuileries
Spain
Manila
Perfection Mig. Co
Parsons, Kansas
Seth Arnold
Cornish
Waynesville, Ill
Bessie
Frederick the Great
Hans Joachim von Ziethen
Ziethen
Frederick Wisfied
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