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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1908
Page
1
The piece surveys fashion trends with long knee length coats paired with contrasting waistcoats and skirts, noting biscuit colored fabrics, pale greens, and blue combinations. It highlights the return of skirts differing from coats, varied sleeve cuts, and the new thatch straw hats with side turns and feathered crowns, plus vibrant artificial flowers and intricate waistcoat detailing.
The article surveys evolving hairdressing trends, from restrained early styles to dramatic modern coiffures. It highlights Greek knot accents with green enamel leaves and acorns, empire turbaned looks with tulle scarves, and pearl framed deb highlights for debutantes, tying hair color to dress fabrics.
In New York hotels and cafes a growing free lunch culture shifts status for regulars and even millionaires. The article notes meals once shunned by high society are now common at top hotels with chef prepared varieties, while many patrons spend as much as a full lunch on beverages and tips. It calls the trend a distinctly American development and a shift in class perception.
Gossip from Highpoint and Chittenango reports a split between W Gould Brokaw and wife Mary Morris Blair Brokaw. Brokaw, tied to prior divorce and a $250000 breach suit, allegedly left Fairview estate after a tense Christmas party incident over champagne versus ginger ale.
Well groomed sports and gamblers in Manhattan discuss the rise of striped suitings for spring and summer as Paris and London lead. Notable figures and bets on fashion converge in a chophouse meeting near Forty-second Street, with wagers testing whether horizontal or vertical stripes will prevail beyond jail confines.
The piece argues Peruna is a catarrh remedy and lists ingredients Hydrastis Canadensis Golden Seal Corydalis Formosa Cedron Seeds Copaiba Cubeb and Collinsonia Canadensis. It cites United States Dispensatory Bartholow Scudder Millspaugh and Dr Scudder to claim Peruna’s efficacy and support the claim with authorities.
New York society women escalate the Merry Widow waltz as a fashionable figure development method. Donald Brian, guest at Vanderbilt and Whitney homes, demonstrates steps. he credits the dance with weight loss and stamina, while Ethel Jackson notes it obviates need for massage.
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