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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1900
Page
2
A period home sewing feature presents a satin finish biscuit colored jacket with a high corselet and brown velvet trimming. It describes six pattern parts and suggests fabric choices from tan gray to ladies’ cloth with dark velvet, detailing sleeves, collar, and decorative enamel buttons.
A lonely young woman in a provincial village meets a gypsy at a stile. She trades a sweetheart’s sixpence for a fortune that foresees Destiny as Archie's rival, with roses and thorns ahead. The narrator contemplates love, self, and the cost of fate.
A narrator recalls a long road trip filled with chance and fate as a mysterious woman tosses a sixpence for luck. By a hedge of wild roses and honeysuckle, the path leads to a turning where fate arrives in the form of Archie-Madame ready to declare love and pledge life.
The New York Sun notes unique dress trends in pale biscuit shade fabrics with Grecian cuts and varied widths creating raised effects. Ribbons in floral striped and spotted designs, cloth lace edges, and cream appliques decorate gowns and revers. Girdle belts, gold and rhinestone accents, chandeliers of chiffon flowers, and white satin liners feature in evening wear and outer coats.
Brass furniture gains lasting shine from lacquered surfaces learned from orientals. English lacquer lasts longer than American. avoid dampness, scratched finishes, and damp cloths. Move pieces gently with cheesecloth, and relacquering small lamps may be needed due to heat. For hot items, scour with rotten stone and chamois as needed.
The Academy cites two amusing misprints from Huxley in proofs for the Nineteenth Century. In one instance a printer allegedly changed "unwilling porters" of the devil to "porkers" and, in another, "current formula" became "canting formula" while Huxley drafted notes on the Lord's Prayer.
A fragmentary note describes a Paris drama snapshot titled L'Alglon featuring a skyline of characters in elaborate costumes and a dazzling performer in her prettiest attire, promising a vivid stage moment.
Washington holiday tour offered December 27 by the Pennsylvania Railroad. A three day program covers the National Capitol sights including the Congressional Library and Corcoran Art Gallery. Round trip rates from New York 14.10 Philadelphia 11.50 Trenton 13.00 include hotel and guides with several hotel options and side trips at reduced rates. Tickets valid ten days with post tour hotel coupon extensions.
Harriet A. Luak reports a formal New Year’s wedding at a distant Arizona army post. Lieutenant Knox wed Migs Porter as orders to the Philippines loomed, with a flowered veranda chapel, blue uniform guards, a bridal party of children, a string quartet, and a welcoming regimental band as guests congratulated the couple at Colonel Southwick’s home.
Snapshot by Bushnell notes Jessie Bartlett Davis among topliners. Keith, a renowned vaudeville magnate, has lured her with a massive offer to appear on his comprehensive circuit, and she is now touring it.
The Missouri Pacific Railway promotes weekly personally conducted and economical excursions for 1900 and 1901 from St Louis to Kansas City via its routes to Denver and Los Angeles San Francisco. It also offers excursions to Mexico and special tickets to The World's Sanitarium Hot Springs Arkansas with information available from J P McCann and W E Hoyt at 391 Broadway New York.
Pennsylvania Railroad offers personally conducted tours to Old Point Comfort leaving New York and Philadelphia on Thursday December 27. Tickets with luncheon and return by regular trains within six days cost 15.00 from New York 13.50 from Trenton 12.50 from Philadelphia with proportionate rates from other points. Tickets available via city agents and George W Boyd Philadelphia Broad Street Station.
A reader column lists numerous names including Allen Mathews Mrs Hanah pplegstetthews Miss Grace Shanley David Staten and John Wordley among others. The note appears in the Journal’s cent a word column indicating unclaimed mail with miscellaneous names and initials.
An article surveys rapid electrical advances including free duty on electrical machinery in India with a five percent duty on dualprem goods. It highlights Montana’s planned 200 mile electric railway between Billings and Great Falls and notes London's penny in the slot gas delivery inspiring electric light trials. It also reports Albany and Hudson electric railway cars carrying 60 passengers at 37 miles per hour and calls the road the longest third railroad in the world, an experimental but promising effort.
Schedules list outbound and return trips for the Metis to New York Philadelphia Trenton and points north and south. It includes times for Ocean Grove Freehold Point Pleasant and various way stations with morning and afternoon departures and arrivals. Collections from letter boxes occur at several times and deliveries by carriers follow specific daily slots.
Fire alarm records list locations including Second and Grand, Fourth and Grand, Sunset and Webb, Main Avenue, Pilgrim Pathway, and Broadway. Signals show several general alarms and multiple incidents with fire out of town noted, reflecting a busy period for the Inknor Engine House zone.
The text lists flag signals for weather conditions such as clear or fair weather, warmer or colder temperatures, and precipitation. It describes combinations of numbered flags indicating conditions like rain or snow, local rain, cold waves, and stationary temperatures, with references to pairs like No 4 and No 2 or No 5 for context.
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