The Fable of the Unflinching Heroine
A satirical piece by George Ade recounts Mrs Wambo's cosmetic upheaval inspired by Mary Queen of Scots and the Seven Sisters hair craze. It follows her resistance to aging, battles with public vanity, and a life choice that ends with a social caution about a woman’s identity tied to her husband.
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Mary Queen of Scots
Mary
Sutherland Sisters
Ponce de Leon
Mra Wambo
Niagara Falls
Wambo
Sutherland
Eve
Cleopatra
Godiva
Coventry
Mrs. Wambo
Joan of Arc
Paris
Buster Y Brown
Police
Ernest Torrence
Wowsa
Elsie Jnols
Carrie Chapman Catt
Elsie Ferguson
Ethel Barrymore
Bebe Daniels
Queen Mary
Glenda Q Gollett
Union Central
Lih
Gert Bilia
Jose
Peacock Alley
Seven Men of Preston and Birth of Teetotalism
The 1982 centenary marks the Seven Men of Preston, founders of the modern total abstinence movement. Joseph Livesey drafted England’s first total abstinence pledge in 1882, with signatories including John Gratrix and Edward Dieckingen. Dick Turner popularized the term teetotal after signing the pledge at Livesey’s meeting in Preston.
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Preston
Lancashire
Joseph Livesey
England
John Gratrix
Edward Dieckingen
John Broadbelt
John Smith
David Anderton
John King
Livesey
Dick Turner
Cockpit
Marriage by arrangement harms kin ties and ancestral worship
The text argues arranging a daughter's marriage for profit breaks family bonds. After departure, she must obey her in laws and abandon former parental worship. She ceases honoring her own ancestors and serves only her husband's clan shrine Fu Jen Pelive.
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Fu-Jen
Lavish Shirring and Tucking in Early 1910s Fashion
A 1912 Western Newspaper Union fashion note observes lavish shirring tucking and braiding in costuming. It highlights allover shirring on heavy fabrics, tucked black chiffon frocks, and braided evening dresses, noting practical day looks and ornate millinery trends.
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Tme
Parla
Milan
Waatern Newspaper Union
Flexible millinery sets fashion with varied brims and toques
The piece declares the current hat fashion flexible with many styles from shallow to deep crowns, berets, sailors, and Turkish fexzes. It notes new trends like high-back tricorne toques and casual brimmed hats, urging personal conscience in style.
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Ballibontl
Women Set Trends In Striped Suitings For Spring
Women show demand for striped suitings with sales of hairline flannels and plain tailored salts rising. Men’s homes are surprised by orders once thought men’s fabrics would dominate. Worsteds and mannish twills highlight the season with tan tones evoking classic tailoring.
Milliners Highlight Colorful Ribbon Trims and Hats
Milliners stress multicolor ribbon trimming in erode palettes such as yellow and black and combos like orange green navy. Talbot mixes pale gray with turquoise for a high crowned directoric sailor. Tiny crin horsehair wells and torule shell motifs appear among smart millinery trimmings.
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Talbot
Ultra Chic Lines by Cherie Nicholas
Ultra chic lines describe a cherry colored matelasse velvet wrap with fingertip length and crinoline lined full sleeves. The collarless neck closes high and paired with jeweled buttons, signaling the new fashion for the younger set.
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Ultra Chic
Cherie
How I Broke Into The Movies by Hal C Herman
Hal C Herman recalls his journey from vaudeville to films, detailing early stage life with parents, encounters with Bernhardt and Langtry, Shubert offer, Schenck advice, five two reel comedies, WWI service, and later MGM stardom. He highlights his shift to comedy and key credits including One Week and The Navigator.
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Sarah Bernhardt
Lily Langtry
Bernhardt
Shiberts
Keatons
Joseph AL. Schenck
Shuberts
Comique Film Company
Camp Kearney
France
Mr. Behenck
Shlp
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Company
William Crane
Macao the Monte Carlo of the Orient described in travel notes
An American travel sketch extols Macao as the Monte Carlo of the Orient. It highlights fan tan gambling, opium and firecracker works, Portuguese China ties, historic barrier gate, eerie barracks scenes, and a view of colonial life beside Chinese and Eurasian society.
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National Geographic Society
Saehaien Fh
WNU
ACAQ
Macao
Heungehin
Macao Island
China
Orient
Far East
China Sea
Fort Guia
Hitle
Kwangtune
Camoens
Goa
India
Ohio
Mississippi
Africa
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Monrovia
Upper Nile
Campens
God's Acre
Hongkong
Portugal
Sao Paulo
Maceo
Sagoo
Magellan
Philippines
Legasp
Cebu
Permisson
Gibraltar
Britain
Spain
Mae West Early Life and Rise to Stage Fame
This sketch traces Mae West born in Brooklyn on August 17 to theatrical parents. It details her childhood debut at five, Broadway beginnings in Follies Berger and A Ja R Broadway, vaudeville imitator years, and later hits Sex and Lamond Lil establishing her fame on stage and screen.
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Mae West
Miss West
Brooklyn
Vera Violetta
George M. Coban
Eddie Foy
New York
New Wayburn
Miss Weat
Lamond Lil
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George Ade
Bell Syndicate
WRU
Pillsbury
Rockill
Mr. Wambo
Alwys
By Cherie Nicholas
Hal C. Herman
Buster Keaton
Monte Carlo of the Orients
Macaca
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