Hippopotami in Central Park Zoo Share Breeding Legacy
Central Park Zoo New York hosts Caliph and Miss Murphy with eight offspring since 1889. Hippos thrive in captivity due to calm temperaments, herbivorous diets, and minimal care beyond feeding and water temperature.
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Central Park Zoo
New York City
Caliph
Miss Murphy
Zoological Park
London
Hippopotamus
Central Park Menagerie
Chula Mo Earns Fame With Southwest Limited Sighting
Country editor Smith E H Smith of Chula experiences a map making moment when the Southwest Limited train on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul route is reported passing through Chula On the day of the event the town bays in excitement with band music a gala depot scene and a telegram from the general passenger agent The Missouri town briefly gains notoriety before realizing the whole episode was a misread and the train did not actually stop at Chula
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Smith
Chicago
Kansas City
Chila
Southwest Limited
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Chula Town
Niantic
Union Station
the Southwest Limited
Chillicothe
China
Limited
Hmited
Chicago Record-Herald
Smith College Students Embrace Baseball in Spring Term
In a spring term at Smith College athletic girls take up baseball. President I Clark Seelye responds to a visitor’s doubt that baseball may make the girls masculine, remarking that if pitching the ball is their only fear they have no fears on that score.
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Smith College
I. Clark Seelye
Seelye
Simeon Refuses to Turn the Grind Stone
Amos Saunders of Rowley Massachusetts once employed a boy to turn the grind stone for him. The boy grew tired and refused. Saunders pressured him repeating turn or die, and Simeon chose to die rather than continue turning.
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Simeon
Amos Saunders
Rowley
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Saunders
Ju-Jitsu Champion in Japan Offers Cash for Victory
The Japanese ju jitsu champion offers 5000 dollars to any man who defeats him in mat wrestling. Tarro adds 100 dollars to any opponent he fails to defeat in ten minutes and 5 dollars per minute for five minutes of resistance, as reported by the New York Press.
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New York Press
Tailor-Made Fashion Emphasizes Rich Broadcloth and Velvet Embroidery
The season favors long-coated suits in rich broadcloth with a jacqueminot rose shade. Velvet edging suggests a vest, taffeta border runs front to back, and a curved ceinture shapes the fullness. The coat features hip seams, center plaits, a gigot sleeve with an outsize cap shoulder and high stiff cuff.
Girl’s Dancing Dress Description from White Embroidered Tulle
A young girl wears a white embroidered tulle dress over white silk with white satin ribbon trims and Valenciennes lace. The skirt features small fan-shaped ruffles. The blouse has a guipure yoke bordered by satin ribbon. the corset girdle is white liberty. Short puffed sleeves finish with ribbon and lace.
Nightingale sleeve for tea gowns option and crafty fit
The nightingale sleeve is comfortable and attractive and can be home made. If the sleeve is large and flaring at the hand, slit it up to the shoulder to form a wide opening. Create eyelet holes for ribbon ties or sew embroidered rings to thread ribbons for bow ties.
Brilliant Colored Feathers Blazing in London Millinery Fashions
London milliner showcases dyed feathers in vivid hues for winter hats. Peacock tail plumage appears in metallic blue and brick red while a Gainsborough purple hat astonishes shoppers. Ostrich feather accents and amber marabout plumes are dyed to match gowns, creating bold empire evening adornment.
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London
London Daily Mail
Housewives Hints From A Column On Everyday Care
Tips on piano key care with alcohol cloths and salad dressing timing. Advice covers storing carrots and turnips in sand, sealing macaroni, boiling before cooking, using borax for towels, and cleaning crusts with practical home hints.
Velvet and egg preservation amid fashion notes
The article discusses using egg white to seal the yolk and keep juices from soaking, along with tips on preserving clothes by boiling lines and pegs. It notes velvet collars as a near universal coat feature, and describes coat varieties like long, Empire, and bolero sharing this common trait. Velvet trims resurface as popular fashion elements including bands, revers, collars, buttons, bows, and girdles.
Hair-Dressing Style Adopted by School Girls
School girls embrace a new hair dressing inspired by a leading actress. A family photographer from years ago uses a front wave in natural fusion, a loose parting, and two long braids crossed at the back to form a head fillet.
Fashion Notes on Winter Moods and Accessories
A description of sealskin boleros with cloth skirts and mushroom hats, amethyst tones, lace stripes, and love ly gowns. It highlights picture hats, satiny leather blouses, gold braid belts, two skirt ensembles, black Irish crochet opera bags, and gun metal mountings as stylish details for the season.
Waist fashions with tucked mousseline and pink satin
The description outlines a separate waist in mousseline desoie with Richelieu plaitings to mark groups, a coarse Irish crochet holero, pale pink satin ribbon trimmings, a puffed sleeve, and a rounded ribbon ruffle. The pale pink satin ceinture completes the ensemble.
Louis Seize Coats Use Velvet and Satin for Winter
A fashion note describes a Louis Seize basquine of a dinner-frock in two rose shades of velvet and satin with velvet buttons and a mousseline fichu. It notes the style remains popular this winter as many frocks and coats feature velvet trim.
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Willow Plumes Reign In Day Headgear
Willow plumes dominate day headwear with their soft falling style and artificial air. The tinsel feathers are modish aristocrats of fashion, though none of these tinseled pieces will be seen next season. The period of their reign remains memorable.
Short Waistlines Return in New Gowns
The supreme dress authorities unveil gowns with a short rounded waist and long skirt lines from the belt, a change that pleases naturally short waisted women who found it hard to wear the previously long bodice and waist.
Dainty Crepe de Chine Waist Blouse Description
Pink crepe de chine blouse features groups of fine tucks and lace insertion with applique embroidery. Yoke and elbow sleeves repeat the trim, corslet girdle and knots of short taffeta complete the detailing.
Chon Suey Recipe Steps for Chicken and Mushroom Dish
Instructions to cut half a chicken into strips and prepare onion mushrooms celery and Chinese potatoes. Fry chicken in fat, add onion, simmer with Chinese sauce and mushrooms, then fold in celery and potatoes with thickened gravy. Serve hot with boiled rice.
Reception and Dinner Gowns Describe Silk and Velvet Creations
The left gown, wine bengaline with a gathered full skirt features a circled bottom band of silk with frill edges and a bolero corsage with gold embroidery. It has a chemisette of white lace, puffed sleeves, a green liberty girdle, and choux accents. The second gown, a reformé toilet in green crepe de chine, shows a fitted princess skirt with silk embroidery and gold silver accents, a velvet bolero, and a white silk chimisette collar with chevron sleeves and velvet lace trims.
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