Home Beautiful and Fashionable Finds in New York
Sidney Earle highlights the Shopper’s season in New York with features on the magazine Home Beautiful its home decor guidance and affordable luxury. He praises Lichtenstein's for high class curios fur lace gowns and imported fabrics while noting tariff effects on prices. He also notes fashion trends hats gloves and corsets and urges readers to request samples and mail replies. The column blends consumer advice with social commentary and mentions beauty culture and depilatory methods.
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New York
Parkhurst
Lichtenstein
Keyser
Chicago
Speer and
Revile
Mrs. Watson
Gotham
Best & Co
Sya
Sidney Earle
West 114Th Street
Miss Mary Proctor Daughter of Astronomer Gains Fame in Science
The daughter of Professor Richard A. Proctor builds her own career in astronomy and myth descriptive studies. She lectured at the Columbian ExpositionChildren’s building with improvised lighting and now promotes children friendly astronomy and related topics. Her talks, including Giant Sun and His Family, draw adults, while she credits her father for early inspiration and guidance.
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Mary Proctor
Richard A. Proctor
Mies Proctor
Dublin
Lindsay
England
Convent of Notre Dame
United States
Knowledge
Potter Palmer
Miss Proctor
Proctor
Misa Proctor
German women researchers tour to study the woman question
Fran Professor von Grzyski of Berlin leads a committee of German women visiting other countries to study the woman question. Two delegates travel in London Fran Hanna Bieber-Boehm and Frau Jeannette Schwerin express delight at the progressive utterances of English women leaders.
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Fran Professor von Grzyski
Berlin
University of Berlin
Indies
London
Fran Hanna Bieber-Boehm
Frau Jeannette Schwerin
Milwaukee Woman's Club Forms Stock Company For Athe Neum
The Milwaukee Woman's Club led by the governor's wife organized a stock company to build the athe neum, the city’s first literary institute, run entirely by women and offering 5 percent return in its first year akin to Philadelphia's New Century clubhouse. India rubber used to erase pencil marks was known in England by 1770, with a half inch cube costing a shilling.
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Milwaukee Woman's Club
Wisconsin
Atheneum
Century
Philadelphia
India
England
Paris Institute for Girls in Paris Draws American Aid
Our Brooklyn letter discusses the American Institute for Girls in Paris aiding earnest students with limited means to study music or art abroad. Miss Smedley directs the institute from New York and will move to Paris later. fees are five francs per day for instruction, with nonresident options living with French families under institute protection.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
American Institute For
Paris
America
Europe
France
Germany
Walden Pell
Caithness
Duchess of
Pomar
Comtesse de la
Eleanor Kire
Locomotive Built for Brazilian Railways Named Fourth of July
A locally built locomotive was shipped to Brazil for use on its rail network. The Brazilian authorities bestowed the name Fourth of July on the engine reflecting a patriotic gesture.
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Providence
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