Fads and Fashions: New York Styles Drift From Monotony
New York fashion highlights a bold shift from plain gowns. Skirts shorten with braid and soutache trimming, fur hats dominate with feathers, and velvet heels show intricate tracings. Black and white trims, dyed flesh-toned gloves, and scenting muffs return. Darker, softer millinery colors prevail with rich plumes and eggplant and Nile green shades. Semi fitted coats rise, pleated skirts vanish, bold scarf and fringe accents appear.
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New York
Oats Condemned by Georgia Pure Food Inspector
Pure Food Inspector P A Methvin returns from Macon reporting 12600 bushels of mixed oats seized as stock feed for containing worthless ingredients and not meeting state law. Packages will be labeled to show contents. three railcar loads were banned from sale. Emphasis on promoting Georgia cottonseed meal and hulls as compliant feed. Methvin praised for ongoing enforcement.
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Atlanta
P. A. Methvin
Department of Agriculture
Macon
Georgia
Methvin
Yates Lost Life at a Sawmill
Moultrie Georgia November 17 Stewart Yates a sawyer at Harmon and Co sawmill near Tallokas in Brooks County was killed this afternoon he stumbled crossing the mill house and fell across a circular saw his head shoulders and lower limbs were severed the accident was sudden and stunned fellow workers Yates a young married father of a two year old is survived by a wife and child
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Moultrie
Stewart Yates
Harmon & Co
Tallokas
Brooks
Yates
J. M. Yates
Brooks County
New York Gossip on Crime Society and Parkhurst
The piece reports Dr. Parkhurst’s resignation from the Society for the Prevention of Crime amid speculation over aging and mission. It notes satire about apples, a court martial, a New York Court of Appeals face rights ruling, And Ananias Club yarns from Boston, court referee blunders, and public demand for splinters of King Edward’s Oak in Central Park.
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New York
Society For the Prevention of Crime
Parkhurst
Gotham
Aked
Ananias Club
Boston
Europe
Ligones
Diamond Shoal
Coney Island
Eer
Central Park
Edward
Prince of Wales
Greater
Bartow County Wins Prize at Georgia State Fair in Macon
The Bartow county exhibit at the Georgia state fair won first prize, earning $1,000. Worth county took second, Bibb third with $500, followed by Spalding fourth and Camden fifth with $200 prizes. Individual displays by R C Durden and B D Lamaden of Bibb topped the list. The report notes strong local pride and mentions Canria’s prohibition movement gaining attention in Canadian police circles.
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Macon
Bartow County
Central City Park
Worth County
Monk
Sylvester
Bibb
Bibb County
Ben Jones
Georgia
Camden
Baldwin
R. C. Durden
B. D. Lamaden
Typewriters Through Time Inventions From An Era Of Curiosities
Washington D C recounts a collector’s tour of rare early typewriters tracing the evolution from Mills patent efforts in 1714 to Sholes and Glidden and later American inventions. It notes devices like the coffee mill globe maskline and Danish writing globe, their quirks, speeds, and failures shaping modern machines.
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R. M. Cheshire
Washington, D. C
Henry Mills
England
Washington
Columbia
Odell
Rover
America
United States
Japan's Pearl Oyster Farms Flourish as New Industry
The Pall Gazette reports a booming Japanese pearl oyster industry along Hondo’s coast. Large farms, scientific culture, and seasonal cycles drive pearl production with vast beds in Age Bay. Oysters are cultured in two age-based sections from spat under three years to older stock.
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Giriet
Beautiful Bay
Japan
Pall ‘Gazette
Hondo
Pacific
Spat
Wealth That Kills and the Ills of Rich Living
A Pittsburg Press discussion links Bright's disease and organic heart trouble to wealth, noting rising death rates in wealthy cities from 1871 to 1907. It argues riches add only “spices” to life, increasing anxiety and pretense while offering no true health or happiness.
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Pittsburg
Bright
New York
New
Dross
Saintilent
Barroom Opening on Fifth Avenue After Election
The New York Herald notes business rising since the election and mentions an elaborate barroom opening on Fifth Avenue the election night. It does not specify how many Democrats drank away sorrows nor any Republicans involved.
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New York, Herald
Fifth Avenue
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