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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1907
Page
2
The piece describes a French inspired engagement medal given by the groom or a friend, two inches wide in silver and richly designed with portraits of the couple and a laurel motif. E. J. Roine, known for silver relief portraits, popularizes the idea with personalized dates and words like Bonheur and Souvenir de Mariage.
The article notes monograms as a current fashion on apparel and accessories. It describes small initial designs on underwear, gloves, scarves, purses, and cards, with options in gold silver gun metal enamel and jeweled letters, including sets and gift items tailored for desks and travel needs.
A pink dimity dress for warm weather features a plump tile neck lace tucker a full belt skirt with side plaits tucks and hem. A detachable yoke adds versatility and comfort while the design emphasizes nainsook insertion and fine beading with black velvet accents.
Mourning attire has greatly changed with waterproofed crape, once costly but now affordable. The soft finish crape suits current picturesque gowns and leads to empire and empress styles without heavy crape trims.
A collapsible cabinet device aids tuberculosis patients by delivering controlled fresh air from an open window. The design features adjustable curtains at the intake and a draft shield near the patient, with a extensible frame that fits various windows and rests on furniture.
Six skulls uncovered in Nebraska show two modern Indian types while four others display a low cranial capacity and features likened to an Australian type. A broken triangle knife was the only tool. skulls suggest a primitive type and support early American human presence, according to Professor Osborn.
The text describes a modern exodus to the West with 00,000 settlers yearly and advances in irrigation, pumping machinery, and reservoir use expanding tillable land. Scientific farming raises land value as the region anticipates permanent income from crops and pays high real estate prices based on net income.
Professor Ek von Behring claims milk fed to infants is the chief cause of consumption. Dr Brian Branwell of Edinburgh calls milk infection the main source of tuberculosis. Sir Frederick Treves warns that the reckless use of raw unpasteurized milk is a national health crime with costly ill health, disease, and death.
The article argues rheumatism often labeled wrong and attributes real rheumatism to uric acid buildup from overeating and lacking exercise. It details symptoms from after meals to mood changes, notes heredity as a factor, and warns of rare cases leading to severe mental distress or self harm.
A French eye specialist introduces glassless goggles using steel lenses with three slits to improve brightness and sharpness. The slits reduce rain mud and steam blur, and the design avoids stone damage while preventing eye swelling and conjunctivitis.
Italian researchers Costanzo and Negro report newly fallen snow as highly radioactive when quickly collected. The radioactivity fades within about two hours, with ground snow retaining power longer than roof snow. Weather, especially barometric pressure, influences the effect.
A new alloy for electricians acts as a platinum substitute using sixteen and a half ounces of silver four and a half pounds of nickel half an ounce of bismuth and fifty three pennyweights of gold. The cost runs about one thirtieth as much as platinum.
The Vienna Sero-Therapeutical Institute announces a new antidysenteric serum. Since 1905 experiments by Professor Maltani and Drs Doerr and Skraus show that forty cubic centimeters cure dysentery in days. The serum, used by Russians in the war with Japan, yielded excellent results in severe cases. further work completes and perfects the discovery.
On the Bengal Nagpur railway in India several carriages carry an experimental brake device. A passenger in danger can tear a paper cover from a small box to access a line that, when pressed, applies the brakes.
In Alsace Lorraine demesnial forests Germany cut 18 022 210 cubic feet of lumber last year for construction and fuel and sold it to the public. The mountains are never fully denuded. small ships are used for cutting, forests are thinned, and underbrush branches are sold as kindling while roots and stumps are saved.
Real estate notice lists multiple properties for sale or rent in the city. Otis Street offers a nine room house with 1615 square feet land for 32200. Portland and Sacrament Streets include 3 to 12 room houses and several land parcels priced from 23 cents to 55 cents per foot.
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