Women at Nashville at Centennial Fair Feature Enid Yandell Statue
Nashville centennial exposition highlights include the Woman's Building with diverse displays from handmade Indian hammocks to modern housewife appliances. A 40 foot statue of Pallas Athene by Enid Yandell, modeled after Frohner, stands before the Parthenon with Tennessee women backing the project through fundraising led by Mrs. Van Kirkman.
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Iiss Enid Yandell
Nashville
van Kirkman
Woman’s Department
Centennial
Pallas Athene
Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
Centennial City
Tennessee
Sara Ward Conley
Kirkman
Cuba
Memphis
Episcopal Sisters of St. Mary
Fairmont College
Monteagle
Paris
Europe
Mr. Kirkman
Anthony Wayne
Caswell Macon Thompson
Jacob Thompson
Buchanan
Enid Yandell
Kentucky
Frohner
Pallas de Velletri
Louvre
Pink Lawn Bodice For Summer Wear
Isabel A. Mallon describes a pale pink lawn bodice with narrow lace detailing on the sides. The look features a high white linen collar, a red silk cravat tied in a bow, a red silk belt with a jet buckle, and sleeves with turned back cuffs.
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Isabel A. Mallon
Ladies’ Home Journal
Lace Waist Garments Described by New York Ledger
The New York Ledger describes lace waists with white lace flouncing, a scalloped yoke over the bust, and flouncing extending to the waist or over the dress skirt. Sleeve puffs use lace at the tops, while many choose silk for the lower sleeve portions.
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New York Ledger
Ancient Structures in New England Described
Exeter News Letter describes the scarce surviving 18th century houses in New England. It notes large chimneys at Boscawen and Danning houses, stone structure at Guilford, and brick houses in Exeter, with shifts from wooden to brick and gambrel roofs. 1759 to 1775 era saw fine dwelling art, later square forms dominated by 1800s magnates.
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New England
Boscawen
John A. Dix
Danning
Guilford
Conn
Exeter
Darling
Peavy
Newmarket Road
Water Street
Nathaniel Ladd
James Gilman
Dennett Gilman
Amos Tuck
Great Bridge
Simeon Folsom
Wolfe
Quebec
Portsmouth
Newburyport
Salem
Queen Anne
N. H
Gunpowder Origins Traced to Medieval England Claim
The article notes gunpowder likely evolved from earlier compositions including Greek fire and rockets. It cites Oscar Guttmann finding a royal wardrobe entry for saltpeter and sulfur tied to Thomas of Roldeston’s work for King Edward III, suggesting English use at Crecy 1346 and Berthold Schwartz as a 1318 inventor figure.
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Oscar Guttmann
Marcus Graecus
Albertus Magnus
Roger Bacon
Balliste
Guttmann
Edward II
England
Thomas of
Roldeston
Crecy
Berthold Schwartz
Schwartz
Popular Science Monthly
Antony Earns Blood Toga Mock Trial Quip
The passage depicts Mark Antony revealing Caesar’s blood stained toga and blaming Brutus for the murder. A gallery voice queries why Antony does not pay the debt to Brutus, provoking further dramatic tension in the scene.
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Mark Antony
Caesar
Brutus
Royalty and dignitaries master humble trades
The youth Prince of Wales learned stocking making while the Duke of York trained as a ropemaker. Czar Nicholas II plows and reaps, Emperor William typesets, King Humbert cobbles, Oscar of Sweden wields an axe. Destitute English abroad seek repatriation via consuls guiding captains. Wine tasters bite bread with cheese to guard taste. Tulips in Mignonette and yellow pink white create a dinner table centerpiece.
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Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Nicholas II
William
Humbert
Oscar
Sweden
The Little White Wagon Poem Fragment
A fragmentary poem recalls Edith and a cradle with a white wagon passing by. The speaker’s fear for a child’s safety drives urgent emotions and a plea that the wagon never stop at a darkened door. The lines blend memory, maternal fear, and rural imagery in a period voice.
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Edith
J. L. Heaton
Customs in Belgium as Observed by a Visitor
Clare de Graffenried recalls Belgian dining manners breakfast courses with plate changes and knives kept for each course while English guests mix practices. She notes pricey meats and fruit, California fruits, and peculiarly polite yet unfamiliar morning customs at weaving schools and Charleroi. Positive, amused tone about cultural differences.
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Belgium
Brussels
Lairy
Mademoiselle
Charleroi
Monsieur
Clare de Graffenried
Harper’s Magazine
Hat Trick of Courtesy Sparks Political Satire at Opera
In Detroit a man clutching a shiny silk hat frets that a stage illusion will prompt a magician to request a hat loan. He hopes the audience will finally address him politely after ten years of political abuse, expecting a moment of public recognition. He notes an alderman in front with a brown derby may imitate the gag, hoping for the same spin.
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Detroit Free Press
Cow Causes Clock Mystery In Louisville Household
A Louisville family faced a baffling incident when a cleaned clock disappeared from the kitchen steps and later chimed from the cow’s vicinity. The boy traced the sound to the cow, and at six o clock the clock extended a loud hour from inside the animal. An emetic later revealed the clock inside the cow, still ticking though discolored.
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Louisville
San Francisco
Alfred Pleasonton confronts man in saloon over cowardice claim
In a Washington saloon a man attacked the character and courage of Confederate soldiers. Alfred Pleasonton revealed his identity, recalling how he had drummed the man out of his camp for cowardice before Antietam, and told him to leave the premises.
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Pleasanton
Washington
Alfred Pleasenton
Antietam
Man Who Does Not Ride a Wheel Defends Himself
A fragment notes a man who refuses to ride a wheel or care to ride one must still defend himself, highlighting a stance or attitude in the passage.
English Women Rise Through Independence in England
A San Francisco Argonaut summary notes Elwyn Barron’s view that English women are advancing while men stagnate. It highlights limited early roles for daughters of professionals and widows, the shift to financial independence, and new work paths such as librarians, nurses, and office work led by the Dickens daughter head of a typewriting office employing several well-born young women.
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Elwyn Barron
Old Country
England
Charles Dickens
San Francisco
Death of Mrs Massingberd Founder of the Pioneer Club
Mrs Massingberd president of the Pioneer club in London died recently at Llandudno. She founded the club and spent over £20000 establishing and furnishing it, aiding English women seeking a meeting place in the metropolis. The club is praised as a model, with varied rooms including a Moorish smoking room.
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Pioneer Club
Modest fabrics trends for girls’ frocks in spring colors
Emma M. Hooper notes that little girls wear clothes matching mothers, with small patterns and white, baby blue, pink, and spring greens favored. Colors include golden brown, red, French and navy blues, pearl gray, pale yellow, with black reserved for trims. Laces, net tops, and insertions in white and butter shades complete the look.
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Emma M. Hooper
Ladies’ Home Journal
Teaching a Lost Art in a Wheeled Era
A Chicago Post quote notes a New York woman teaching women how to walk as wheels grow cheaper. The anecdote reflects gendered business sense and shifting social customs in urban life.
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New York
John
Chicago Post
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