Restoration of National Statuary Hall at Capitol Under Way
Congress funds restoration of the Capitol’s Statuary Hall. Marble figures are boxed, scaffolding up, and stairways opened as the hall regains its original decor. Houdon’s George Washington replica gains attention beside Frances E Willard statue from Illinois.
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Uncle Sam
United States Capitol
Washington
Statuary Hall
National Statuary Hall
United States
House of Representatives
Webster
Clay
Adams
Calhoun
Republic
Congress
George Washington
Houdon
George Washinton
Capitol
Richmond
National Gallery
Frances E. Willard
Ilinois
Night Runner Defies Capitol Street Patrol
A dark street encounter near Capitol avenue ends with a horse driver refusing to halt for a patrolman. The officer warns of arrest for delaying mail collection as Collector Clem Abrams asserts federal duties. The driver insists on completing a corner before stopping.
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Capitol Avenue Boulevard
United States
Clem Abrams
Uncle Sam
Wives of Ex Presidents and Their Living Widows
Four living presidential widows remain from Garfield Harrison Cleveland and McKinley. Mrs Garfield lives in Pasadena with her son a cabinet member. Mrs Harrison resides in Indianapolis at the old Harrison homestead. Mrs McKinley stays in Canton visits her husband’s tomb daily. Mrs Cleveland resides in Princeton with her family and attends to her children. All receive government pensions.
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White House
Executive Mansion
James A. Garfield
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
William McKinley
Garfield
Pasadena
Cal
Los Angeles
Harrison
Indiana
Statesman
Indianapolis
McKinley
Canton
Buffalo
Mr. McKinley
Cleveland
Washington
Princeton
Washington Herald
Close Corporations Rule Adjutant General Office
A District street merchant notes tight discipline at the adjutant general’s office. He describes being routed through the chief clerk to reach a division chief, with only the adjutant general allowed telephone access and visitors restricted during office hours without permission.
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F Street
Adjutant General's Office
War Department Exchange
Adjutant General
Fishermen Statesmen Angling A Capitol Pastime
A number of officials are described as anglers enjoying fishing along turbulent streams. Senators Foraker and Proctor are highlighted as prominent fishermen, with Ohio’s senator often taking bass trips on the upper Potomac. A. C. Conrad of the postmaster general’s office and Maj. Sylvester, Washington chief of police, are also noted anglers with notable reputations.
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Senator Foraker
Senator Proctor
Capitol
Potomac
A. C. Conrad
Maj. Sylvester
Washington
National Police Association
Curious fire origin at Manchester telegraph office
Reports say a sunlit glass paperweight focused heat onto documents beneath it at the Manchester New Hampshire telegraph office. The heat buildup caused the papers to ignite, starting the blaze as sunlight concentrated through the window.
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Manchester
N. H
New Coat and Skirt Models Debut in Fashionable Outdoor Costumes
New coat and skirt designs for street and outdoor wear are showcased with novelties including a side or box plaited skirt with crosswise tucks. Coats range from plain semifitting to braided trims and bias cuts, with looks in linen, cloth, voile over silk, and mixed fabrics.
Styles for the Hair in Modern Fashion
A guide to current hairdressing trends describes curls and loose coils with soft tendrils and a left sided part. It notes pompadours drooping over the brow, back swept sides, and the use of large endules, combs, and pins plus silk bows. Tortoiseshell accessories, sequin leaves, birds and wings, flowers, and maidenhair fern decorate evening styles.
A Little Hat Hint Showcases Exquisite Hat Models
The piece praises current hat styles described as chefs d'oeuvre of independence imagination and art yseign supreme with colors and evoked styles. It notes a conquering air in hats and emphasizes the discreet yet crucial role of the velvet or tulle barrette as the base on which a hat rests.
Keep Dresses Fresh With Perfumed Silk Sachets
To keep dresses, especially evening ones, fresh sew tiny silk sachets inside the lining. Use a one inch square sachet with soft white wadding and sachet powder. Attach to skirt or bodice to impart fragrance and deter moths when stored.
Choosing the Hat In Fashion Advice
The article advises women with thin sharp features to avoid hats that lift the face and to select hats that bring the face forward. It warns against plain fashion with angled edges and suggests adjusting hair, avoiding sharp hats, and using crushed designs to mystify. It cautions small faces about picture hats and emphasizes well formed faces suit most hat designs.
Garment Description of Dotted Foulard Blouse
The item describes a blue dotted foulard blouse with white spots, ruffled shoulder panels, guipure collar and cuffs edged in plain silk with tassel tips, and a knot and girdle of plain taffeta.
Frock Trimmings Highlight Silk Voile Styles
Tulle and lace adorn the yoke and sleeves of silk voile gowns while Liberty satin trims are popular. A broad band of Liberty satin around the skirt bottom completes the fashionable frocks.
Unnamed 400-Foot Beast Skeleton At Local Museum
Kansas City museum displays bone remains claiming a creature 350 to 400 feet long with a 60 to 80 foot height. Skull weighs 440 pounds, seven and a half feet across, from nasal tip to head top twelve feet. Teeth from mammoth and mastodon sections, plus diverse Oriental and Egyptian relics, Crow beaded belt, and a rare wooden Seth Thomas grandfather clock.
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Kansas City Museum
Little Bear Creek
Cherokee Strip
R. H. Phelps
Wichita
Kan
Oklahoma
Second Street
Lydia Avenue
New York
San Francisco
Kansas City
Seth Thomas
Plymouth
Clark Salmon
Orient
Leo XIII
Queer Welsh Wedding Invitations Prompt Unusual Gift Rule
The text describes wedding invitations in Wales that urge guests not to come empty handed and promise that any donations will be repaid in kind at a future occasion. It notes a demand that all gifts be returned on a specified date and expresses gratitude for favors granted.
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Wales
Memorial of a Lady Shows Dangers of Tight Lacing
Rude carving on a headstone depicts a young woman in evident discomfort from tight lacing. A smaller figure of a man on horseback fetches the doctor, viewed in Springkell churchyard near Eccles Fechan as a quaint historic memorial.
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Springkell
Ecclefechan
Dog mother adopts abandoned kittens in Delaware City
A Delaware City dog mother mourns four stillborn puppies then adopts two surviving kittens, carrying them to her box and nursing them as her own. The feline pair thrive while the dog guards, guides, and corrects their kitten language and play, until further surprises arise.
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Delaware City
Del
America
Rainmaking device by Ussukuma chief described
A Ussukuma chief unveils a rainmaking device. At the village entrance a flat stone is hollowed to serve as the core of the apparatus. Details of its construction and use follow this brief description.
Raincraft by the Ussukuma Chief Seeks Sacred Herbs
The chief of the Ussukuma claims a rainmaking rite works without fail. Two stone balls are placed with two pots buried in the ground. The magician beats sacred herbs in a hollow stone and transfers the mass to the pots to invoke rain.
Two Strange Trees in California's Mysterious Landscape
The article describes a personified mystery tree in California and an unusual Mojave yucca as a hybrid endogen plant with concentric bark rings. It also profiles Monterey’s creeping oak, a spreading, gnarly tree whose branches root where touching the ground, forming multiple trunks and expanding over acres.
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California
Monterey
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