Stylish cashmere waist model features gilded trim
A fashion note highlightsashmere and wool waists this season with a dahlia cashmere model. It features a tucked front and is trimmed with white braid outlined in gilt braid and small gilt buttons.
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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
2
A fashion note highlightsashmere and wool waists this season with a dahlia cashmere model. It features a tucked front and is trimmed with white braid outlined in gilt braid and small gilt buttons.
In a dim city hospital a young man, Frank Hamilton, injures himself after a railway yard accident and falls for a night nurse known as Lady Disdain. He proposes, faces rejection, then, after weeks of illness, shoots himself, dying near the hospital as the nurse tends him. Meanwhile King Victor Emmanuel restructures royal residences, moving Capodimento Palace into royal use.
The piece tells of Miss Matilda Hemming of Cheltenham who spent fifty years crafting a beaded house titled the Castle of Liberty. White beads form windows and chalk beads outline walls. opal-tinted roofs crown three stories with tiny balconies. After decades of devoted labor she died unfinished, and her niece Mrs. B Miller hopes to complete the monument honoring the eccentric artist.
Mrs Ruth S Etnier describes her 18 months in Porto Rico focusing on education and temperance work. She notes no drunkenness among natives before the war, scarcity of desks, shared ink and pens, and playful book pricing debates. She observes social norms, chaperoned courtship, and strict gendered proprieties in wealthy households.
The passage warns that new bread is unwholesome and heavy in the stomach. It advises avoiding soft bread with crust or hard biscuits, noting morning irritability. If fresh bread is necessary, reheat in oven or on the griddle to improve digestion and provide work for teeth.
Holiday special notice announces a December 27 trip for a three day personally conducted tour of Washington with stops at the National Capitol and major galleries. Round trip rail fare plus hotel and guides priced from 11.50 to 18.00, with ten day tickets and reduced hotel rates at select venues. Inquiries to Ticket Agents and Geo W Boyd, general passenger agent.
The Pennsylvania Railroad offers round trip tickets to Washington from all line joints at single fare for the centennial celebration. Tickets good December 11 for outbound and return by December 14. Central Railroad of New Jersey also offers round trip tickets from all stations at one fare, valid December 11 for outbound and return by December 14.
The Missouri Pacific Railway system promotes 1900 1901 weekly personally conducted excursions to Los Angeles and San Francisco and inexpensive trips to Mexico. Special tickets available to The World's Sanitarium Hot Springs Arkansas. Details from J P McCane and W E Hoyt at 391 Broadway New York.
The Pennsylvania Railroad announces the first 1900 1901 per sonly concert tour to Old Point Comfort. The trip includes luncheon risk and three days four hours board with direct return by regular trains within six days. Rates start at 15 dollars from New York 13 dollars from Trenton 12 dollars 50 cents from Philadelphia with proportionate rates from other points. Tickets from ticket agents tourist office 1196 Broadway New York 4 Court Street Brooklyn 789 Broad Street Newark or Geo W Boyd Philadelphia.
Schedule notices list streetcar arrivals and departures to and from Asbury Park with times for Freehold Point Pleasant Ocean Grove and Trenton plus collections and deliveries. It notes arrival from Newark Philadelphia and other points and a mail collection window with carrier deliveries in the day.
Fragmented OCR lists multiple street intersections and alarm notes around Aspliry Park with references to 9 man 9 and 386-Second and Main. Entries mention Cookman, Banga, Grand, Emory, Sewall, Heck, Krespler, Fourth, Grand, Seventh, Bond, Webb, and a general alarm 666. Fire out.
OCR fragment lists addresses and names such as Clayton's Btore Main Avenue 83 Surf and Beach 4-Embary Beach 21-Tabor Way in Das Ivania 34-Heck and Whitefield 42-Corlies and South Main West Grove 48-Unexcelled Engine House Weat Grove noting a fire alarm entry and general notices.
The text lists flag signals for weather including No 1 white flag for fair weather, No 2 blue flag for rain or snow, No 8 white flag with black square for Cold wave, and No 3 with No 4 indicating warmer or colder conditions with local rain. It outlines combinations showing fair weather, rain, snow, and temperature changes.
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