New Dress Fashions Highlight Velvet Coats and Box Wraps
The latest fashion from New York notes velvet brocade and moire short coats rivaling empire cloaks for evening wear this season. Box coats with open sleeves, white satin lining, and chiffon trim appear easy to wear, while skirts stay floor-length unless slashed at the seams. Fabrics favor square-meshed weaves, various plaids, chenille dots, and black materials with white chiffon, grenadine, and silk veiling. high-class fabrics include poliennes, etamines, crepes de chine, chiffons, mohair, and embroidered batistes. Applique decorations and sable or mink accents complete the refined look for street to evening wear.
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New York Post
India
Hints on Spring Hats From Florid Fashions in New York
Spring hats show floral realism with roses and French models prominent. Large round hats use foliage shapes, shaded roses, green leaves, and back bows. Spanish scarves with ends draping hair are noted. Excessive decoration signals vulgarity. most hats favor size and ornate draping over elegant simplicity.
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New York Post
Chantilly
Wheat Flour Truths From Washington Star
A Washington Star view explains wheat as the premier cereal and details flour chemistry. It describes grain structure, grinding effects on color and gluten content, flour quality tests, and the trade off between whole wheat meal and decorticated flour.
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Washington Star
Recipe for deviled eggs in a rich mushroom sauce
A historical recipe details preparing boiled eggs chopped fine then folded into a creamy sauce with butter flour milk salt pepper yolks cream English mustard chopped parsley and canned mushrooms. The mixture forms into shapes, breaded, fried in hot fat, and served with parsley. An oblique note mentions a conductor on a southern rail and a passenger complaint, indicating a clipping from Ledger Magazine.
Murder tale told by Col Henry Watterson in Philadelphia
Col Henry Watterson related a Philadelphia tale of a battered old lawyer in the mountains who sought a claim. A local gunslinger, famed for killing many, visited the lawyer daily until angrily expelled. The desperado sobbed outside, mocked by the crowd for being unable to shoot a crippled man.
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Philadelphia
Henry Watterson
Philadelphia Times
Desperado
Dark Side Habit of Pessimistic Thinking
The text warns that a habit of dwelling on the dark side and believing worse outcomes will, over time, dwarf confidence and self belief. It discusses recurring worry and self depreciation as a pattern that erodes perceived ability and foreshadows continued failure.
Apple Custard Dessert From Old Family Recipe
Take six large apples peeled and quartered. Cook with half a cup water until soft, then mash. Add grated lemon peel and sugar to taste. When cold, place in a baking dish and cover with custard made from one cup milk two eggs and sugar. Bake about twenty minutes.
Premium on eggs sparks town contest winner April
James Lloyd offered a premium to the resident selling the most eggs. In April Miss Maggie Nickels led with 194 dozens, followed by Miss Lillie Walker at 155 dozens, earning a $3.00 premium. A busy Sunday saw family rides, visits to Washington Park, and local notices of illness, funerals, a new baby, and community events across Virginia and nearby Butler.
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James Lloyd
Maggie Nickels
Lillie Walker
C. W. Wolfe
Robert
Grif. Park
Susan
Butler
H. H. Flesher
Ida
Washington Park
Nyhart
Bailey Beckett
C. H. Morrison
Dickerson
Virginia
Mount Carmel
John Alberton
W. Park
A. H. Culver
Card of Thanks from Park Family in Kansas City Mo
The Park family expresses gratitude for kind acts and comforting words from neighbors and friends during the prolonged illness and at the death and burial of husband and father Washington Park. Mantua W. Park and Family thank everyone in Kansas City for support and note dates in June.
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Washington Park
Mantua W. Park and Family
Simon Sam Leaves Hayti Amid Turmoil and Later Proclamations
In Port au Prince on May 13, Simon Sam departed on the French steamer Olinda Rodrigues with the American, French and German ministers present. Clashes among rival presidential factions followed, Gen Defi loyalists clashing with Gen Colin supporters, leaving several casualties. News from Cape Haitien said Gen Firman was proclaimed president as northern Hayti declared for him.
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Port-au-Prince
Hayti
Simon Sam
Olinda Rodrigues
M. Boisroud Canal
Colin
Defi
Hotel de la Place
Paulace
Cape Haitien
Firman
Paris
Backset for Statehood in House omnibus bill clash
Washington May 13 The conference report on the omnibus elvine bill occupied time at the opening of the house session Mr Underwood Ala raised a point of order alleging conferees added items not authorized by either branch and discussion followed Speaker Henderson sustained the point of order This rejected the entire conference report ending the measure showdown
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Washington
House Thesiay
Underwood
Ala
Congress
Henderson
Senate approves half million aid bill for West Indies
Washington May 13 Soon after the Senate convened Tuesday Mr Cullom from the committee on foreign relations reported a joint resolution appropriating 500000 including 200000 already appropriated to be expended under the direction of the president in such manner as will most promptly and efficiently relieve the stricken people of the French West Indies and St Vincent The resolution was adopted without comment
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Washington
Senate
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
French West Indies
St. Vincent
Chance for Rathbone Testimony Review by Cuban Court
Washington on May 13 reports President directs Secretary Root to grant Cuban court of appeals power to review Estes G. Rathbone’s testimony in the Cuban postal fraud case with authority to take extra evidence if desired. The move is expected to have the court act promptly. Senate action follows a joint resolution by Mr. Stewart to implement Indian territory district realignment by July 1, 1902. House military committee opposes War Department’s plan for four large militia camps, targeting Fort Riley and nearby states.
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Washington
Root
Cuban Court of Appeals
Estes G. Rathbone
Senate
Stewart
Indian Affairs Committee
Indian Territory
House Committee On Military Affairs
War Department
Fort Riley
Kan
Sam Brown to hang for murder in Missouri
Missouri supreme court sentences Sam Brown to be hanged in Wayne county for the murder of George L. Richardson, who carried $700 on his person. Execution set for June 13. In a separate case at Hickory Grove near Clinton, Harry Kidd fatally wounds David Green during a horseshoes dispute. Kidd is still at large. Charles G. Dawes named president of Central Trust Co of Illinois, a $4,000,000 institution opening in Chicago. William Branham and wife celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary at Tuscola.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
Sam Brown
Wayne County
George L. Richardson
Richardson
Hickory Grove
Clinton
Harry Kidd
David Green
Kidde
Liberty
Charles G. Dawes
Central Trust Company of
Ihnols
Chicago
Tragedy Erupts In Harbor Disaster Aboard Roraima
James Taylor, an officer of the Roraima steamship, recounts a harbor tragedy at St Pierre. Flames and a hot, ash-filled cloud swept the vessel, many passengers died or were dying, including children suffocating on ash clogged throats. Taylor’s escape involved a hot sea, a tidal return, and rescue by the Roddam and cruiser Suchet. Samuel Thomas, a gangwayman saved by Taylor, later died as a mother perished holding her child.
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New York
James Taylor
Roraima
Quebec Steamship Line
St. Pierre
St. Kitts
Island of St. Christopher
Samuel Thomas
Ile
Muggah
Kornaima
Roddam
Yater
Suchet
Taylor
de- Ketile
Vain
TRAIN THROWN FROM TRACK NEAR ELWOOD
A Prairie State express on the Chicago and Altoona line derailed near Elwood below Joliet after a switch opened or failed. Four coaches left the tracks and collided with a clay bank but no passengers were seriously injured. A Wilmington Delaware woman Miss Staelhte was cut by glass after being thrown through a window. Track damaged hindering traffic for miles.
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Joliet, I
Prairie State Express
Chicago & Alton
Chicago
Elwood
Joliet
Staelhte
Wilmington
Del
Beating tainted meat scandal shocks St. Joseph
May 14 investigations reveal tainted meats in local chop houses and cheap restaurants. Warrants issued for numerous offenders traced curessses of lumpy jaw cattle and other diseased meats from markets to consumers.
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St. Joseph
Beef Trust
Board of Health
Four Times Convicted in Guthrie Murder Case
In Guthrie district court Frank Fills received a life sentence for the killing of Ferris Clayton last September. Ellis, a former Indianapolis police officer, pleaded insanity after four failed trials. The case will be appealed to the Oklahoma Supreme Court.
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Guthrie
Frank Fills
Ferris Clayton
Ellis
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Indianapolis
Ind
Missouri Press Association picks Kansas City meeting plan
St Louis May 13 The executive committee of the Missouri Press association met yesterday and voted to hold the semi annual meeting at Kansas City July 23 and 24. From there members with wives and friends will travel by Santa Fe railroad to Denver Pueblo and other Colorado cities for a week long itinerary.
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The
Missouri Press Association
Kansas City
Santa Fe
Denver
Pueblo
Colorado
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Black Republic
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Rathbone
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Tuscola
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Tate
Jollet
Chengo & Alton Express
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