The Tea Room Girl and the Beauty Arts of Tea
An exploration of tea room culture as a beauty ritual with London and New York practices. It urges gentle hot tea for complexion, elegant hostessing, and careful dress and coiffure to charm guests while highlighting the tea room as a social parlor and club.
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Beauty ‘Arts OF the. Tea ‘Room Girl
London
Queen Alexandra
Windsor
New York
Western men in New York become power players in finance and industry
The article notes prominent western and southern leaders like Theodore P. Shonts Thomas F. Ryan Paul Morton and D O Mills J B Haggin James R Keene and U S Steel head E H Gary along with John W Gates Henry C Frick Norman B Ream Wm H Moore and Daniel G Reid shaping New York’s high power scene through transit insurance steel and major corporations.
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D. O Mills
J. B. Haggin
James R. Keene
California
New York
Theodore P. Shonts
Thos. F. Ryan
Virginia
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Jas. H. Hyde
Paul Morton
South
West
Morton
Equitable
E. H. Gary
U. S. Steel Co
John W. Gates
Henry C. Frick
Norman B. Ream
Wm. H. Moore
Daniel G. Reid
Delicately manicured hands praised by foreign visitor
A visiting foreigner comments that nowhere in America is the tea cup girl so highly developed in the art of pleasing the tea drinker. The piece urges careful grooming of hands and graceful finger curls as a sign of refinement.
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America
Consecutive Flush Not a Winning Poker Hand
A novice at poker builds a large chip stack through beginner's luck before a big pot forms. The dealer reveals a full house while the novice shows a flush. the pot finally ends as the crowd absorbs the suspenseful moment. The remark about a consecutive flush is noted as a curious description.
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Noice
Tales of a Photographer in a Day of Odd Encounters
A newspaper sketch describes a photographer facing unusual tasks from distant portraits to society scandal, including a woman who bought and destroyed letters after 200 mile photo requests, and a man found in a divorce case photo. It notes funerary pet pictures and a London case of a king Lear costume tied to a suicide.
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London
When the Circus Came to Town
Marie Lappin, under the strict eye of her aunt Miss Lappin in Boisville, defies bans to join a circus parade. Marie vanishes after pursuing a night of revelry. neighbors learn she boarded the circus train with a performer. The aunt mourns and a local opinion suspects heredity and rigid upbringing as factors in Marie’s departure.
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Marie
Miss Lappin
Boisville
Marie Lappin
Ture
Martie
China
Sympathetic advice on a cold and graveyard sounds
A friend warns another to beware a cold. He calls it dangerous with potential pneumonia and consumption. He recalls a friend who died after worrying, urging the listener not to dwell on illness.
Postum Coffee Secret Boosts Health Says Customer
A grocer recalls trying Postum Food Coffee and changing his view after a customer explains proper brewing. He discovers it tastes Java-like when boiled fifteen minutes and claims relief from stomach and kidney troubles, endorsing Postum as a food drink rather than medicine.
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Postum
Wellville
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