Singer Sewing Machine Excels at Paris Exposition
Notes from the Paris Exposition praise the Singer Sewing Machine exhibited by Singer Manufacturing Co of 149 Broadway New York in Group XII Class 79. The device won the Grand Prize for design construction efficiency and adaptability to family and factory stitching, echoing prior recognition at Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition. Readers are urged to visit Singer salesrooms across the United States to learn more.
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Singer Manufacturing Company
Broadway
New York
Singer
Singer Sewing Machines
Paris
Wi Fury
Chicago
Binger
United States
Absent minded doctor during marriage ceremony anecdote
Spare Moments recalls a humorous exchange about a doctor husband at the wedding. Elsie notes he is loving yet absent minded, while Ada recounts a moment when he checked her pulse and asked to see her tongue, promising not to repeat it.
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Elsie
California's splendid showing at the Paris Exposition
A California exhibit by the Southern Pacific Company in Paris impresses French fruit growers with California climate, irrigation potential, and vast orchards. Mills describes panoramic forest and orchard displays, noting California as a potential world fruit orchard and stressing irrigation as essential to artful cultivation.
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California
Wm. H. Mills
Paris
Southern Pacific Company
Mariposa
France
Republic
Germany
Vaca
Wrecks and Wives in Bremerhaven and China
Bremerhaven records show 350 sailors died since 1894 in shipwrecks or fires. The Church Missionary Society of England reports over 2 million dollars in contributions in the just completed year. In China a man cannot talk about his wife. he speaks only of his sons with great pride.
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Bremerhaven
Germany
Church Missionary Society of England
Pretty Toques and Millinery Lose No Fall Charm
The piece describes late fall and winter hats with adaptible designs by clever milliners. Velvet leads trims while silks furs and laces appear, with toques featuring gray blue velvets roses buckles and ostrich plumes in varied styles.
Unusually Charming Fall and Winter Picture Hats Displayed
A catalog of striking hats outlines fall and winter picture hats with white velvet bell crowns and mushroom brims, gray velvet toques, black velvet bows and buckles, lace appliques, and bold feather plumes. Elegant Paris models feature chenille, spangles, and rhinestone accents.
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Paris
Make a Cider Press From Everyday Farm Tools
Instructions describe building a cider press from 2x12 plank pieces, hoops and staves, a barrel grinder, and simple hardware for about three to four dollars. The article notes cider can be produced once apples ripen and that decayed fruit can be salvaged into cider in winter.
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A. C. McPherson
Ohio
Palmer
Swallow Arrows in Navajo Fire Dances Told
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes a Navajo fire dance feat where ten men swallow long barbed arrows without harm and withdraw them to transfer healing power to a sick chief. The piece adds a separate observation about Hungary lacking doctors in many small towns within ten miles.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Hungary
Storing Apples: Caverns and Ventilation for Refrigeration
The Wisconsin Agriculture outlines storing apples in underground caves with northward entrance to avoid winds. Ventilation is achieved via an underground pipe with valves and top flues to equal the cave vent capacity. Proper walls and hay insulation plus soil cover stabilize temperature for long-term storage.
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Department of Agriculture
Gus E. Mitchell
Wisconsin Agriculturist
Dressmaker and society queen in a tale of toil and cure
A ballroom dress scene contrasts luxury with overtaxed nerves and sleeplessness. The article argues nervous exhaustion stems from social demands and praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, citing letters from Mrs. Porewax and Mrs. Puysmas who report relief from female troubles after use.
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Society
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dean
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