Vesselmen Ready for Great Lakes Spring Busy Season
The Great Lakes vessel fleet readies for a bustling season as about 130 Detroit vessels prepare to carry passengers and freight. Twenty five passenger steamers, set for 7,805,558 summer travelers last year, undergo extensive outfitting costing about 175,000 dollars for the 25 ships. Scrubbers and dope masters prepare decks, while painters, upholsterers, and decorators fit interiors. Furnishings, linen, and silver services are meticulously prepared, including 4,400 silver pieces and 5,500 yards of carpet for City of Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Detroit
A Texan greeting reimagined with blunt humor
A critic laments worn out greetings and shares comic anecdotes about persistent replies. He recalls a rich misfit who greets with overlong platitudes, a Plano-loving lady who jokes about being plano, and a typewriter Miss Jones who always says she is well. Ultimately he praises the direct Texan greeting.
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Miss Jones
Witty Exchange Over Hair Parting In London Office
A young merchant's clerk mocks an older bald coworker for parting his hair center, contrasting his own narrow parting with the other's wide one. The exchange, relayed from London Tit-Bits, highlights wit and office banter among clerks.
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London
House of Commons' Vegetarians in Dining Rooms
Vegetarian meals have proved a success in the British House of Commons with a special vegetarian table d hote long provided in the members dining rooms. A small number of MPs strictly avoid flesh and fish while many more are reducing their meat intake.
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House of Commons
Brave Woman Foils Burglar In Keokuk Home
Ms Amos Van Horn returned home with her two children to find a burglar had ransacked the house and stolen 65 dollars. She seized her husband’s revolver, fired at the thief as he leaped through a window, and wounded him as he fled. Neighbors joined the search but the intruder was not caught. Police were notified and two officers investigated. The thief had gained entry by a rear door using duplicate keys.
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el Louis
Amos van Horn
Keokuk Street
van Horn
Hast
Louis
Peeping Tom on Roof Inspires New York Art Class
New York art students at the New York School of Art painted a rooftop life class scene featuring a chauffeur dubbed Peeping Tom. Under Robert Henri's visit the group created a panoramic, composite mural with naval and political figures, signed by Mr. Comstock for a moral touch.
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New York
Peeping Tom
New York School of Art
Artisia
Robert Henri
Henri
McPherson
Hannibal Preziosi
United States Navy
Prezios
Lookout Mountain
Fairbanks
Simeon Ford
Pat McCarren
Mr. Comstock
Trapper Carries Wildcat Nine Miles For Bounty
Moses Harshbarger of Matawanna trapped a large wildcat on the Black Log mountains. He transported the animal alive in a sapling-hoop sack to Mifflin county, nine miles away, stopping to replace sacks after the cat bit through them. The cat died at night. he plans to apply for the bounty.
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Lewistown
Black Log
Moses Harshbarger
Matawanna
Mifflin County
Harshbarger
Proper Poises for Healthful Walking and Footwear
Advice on women's walking posture and breathing for health. emphasizes correct body carriage, chest elevation, relaxed shoulders, and diaphragmatic breathing. Warns against ill fitting shoes, sloping heels, and oversized footwear. Includes cautions about head posture and avoiding stooped walking.
Cow Bouts Sheriff in Wild Lakefield Cattle Scene
In Saginaw Michigan Deputy Sheriff Mc Millan attempted to seize cattle at Lakefield under a court order. A red cow resisted, tossed him over a rural mailbox into a ditch, then he returned to attach two other cattle as planned. No serious injuries reported.
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Saginaw
Mich
McMillan
Lakefield
Boussie
Bull Terrier With Glass Eye Wins Honor After Auto Crash
Glen Ridge New Jersey society man John Newell presents his bull terrier with a glass eye after an auto strike to the dog leaves the eye knocked out. The grateful dog then defeats a sworn enemy in a display of regained vigor and tenacity.
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Glen Ridge
N. J
John 0. Newell
Des Moines Man Sparks Fire to Halt Approaching Train
Stewart Dunbar, of Des Moines, used a $20 bill set alight to wave at a train crew after his foot was caught in a cattle guard near Lake City. The bill burned, but the other ten dollar notes remained unburned. he escaped with his life as the train slowed.
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Lake City
Stewart Dunbar
Des Moines
Designs In Place Cards Offer Wide New Variety
Decorative place cards for meals vary greatly with standing cards outnumbering flat ones. A new French metal device holds cards upright. Popular designs feature Gibson girl motifs, Watteau and colonial figures, dancing figures, and flowers. Japanese hand painted scene cards appear as affordable novelties.
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Gibson
Fine tucked maline net in fashion yokes and gowns
The article notes fine tucked maline net replacing silk lace in yokes and guimpes for coolness and low cost. Awning of chiffon is used to support the net. Lace is minimized except in evening wear with point de Venise dominating fashion over Irish lace.
A New Mascot Ring From Ancient Superstition
A new mascot ring has been introduced. It is a bar of gold with a wolf or badger tooth set in it, polished to resemble ivory or white coral. The old superstition links wearing an animal tooth to warding off bad luck, and the talisman joins other historically reputed mascots.
Trimmings Return In Fashions as Soutache Braid Resurges
Trimmings such as soutache braid are returning to popularity while gold braid remains used on new dresses. Ordinary lace like valten ayaqnes or mechini is now woven with gold or silver threads or decorated with four fancy stitches.
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