Faster Gowns Are Now Eel Tight in Paris Fashion
Paris fashion notes the eel tight gown becomes the spring vogue descended from the Princess style, clinging to the ground with a fitted hip seam and lace drape. Fittings focus on waist, hips, and side seam precision, with minimal trimming. Decollete necklines rise, low backs flatter certain figures, and Lawson pink foulard with pale pink and blue patterns headlines Easter week gowns. American gown production increases despite duties.
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Paris
Worth
Cleveland
Dollie Warden
Renlly
Eliot
Lawson
Newport
Tragedy and mercy in a railroad layoff tale
Will Werden, a freight department clerk with an invalid wife and six children, faces dismissal as Santa Fe retrenches. Dean Waters offers a path to promotion to save his colleague, persuading the head of the department to keep Werden. Werden is revived by this act of generosity, and his family celebrates his retained job with gratitude.
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Santa Fe
Will Werden
Werden
Dean Waters
Will
Hut
Acts
Mr. Blank
Dean
Mary
Wil
Santiago
Spider Thread Looms and Yankee Anger in Unexpected Tale
A curious lesson describes using spiders to spin silk for thread reels and fine cloth, paired with a brief vignette of Anglo American pride. The tale shifts to a humorous exchange where a Yankee boasts of American merit and proposes an Anglo American union, provoking a sharp English retort.
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Ty Tiree
Wake Island in the Pacific Bargain for Coal Stopover
Wake Island sits lone in the central Pacific as a strategic coal stop for ships traveling between the United States and Manila. The note recalls Wake Island’s isolation and lack of sovereign claim, delaying any strong use or ownership. On a Bennington voyage, the captain was ordered to take Wake Island.
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Pacific Ocean
United States
Philippines
Wake Island
Manila
Hie
Bennington
Literary speed and prolific English novelists of the era
The piece surveys prolific writers led by Halsey and S de Crockett, noting dozens of authors and their yearly output. It cites figures for Barrie, Maclaren, Jerome, Weyman, Moore, Macquoid, Gissing, Hayward, Schreiner, Meredith, Humphrey Ward, Hardy, Pluckmore, and Henry, highlighting ranges from one book per year to over a hundred in a career, as it discusses productivity and writing pace in late 19th century fiction.
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Halsey
America
S. de Crockett
Ickit
Mr. Crockett
Mr. Blackmore
Little Minister
Barrie
Ian Maclaren
Mr. Jerome
Stanley Weyman
Frankfort Moore
Olive Schreiner
Ukely
George Meredith
Hitle
Humphrey Wid
Me Hardy
Pluckmore
Henry
Misa Bracken
Wake Island Claimed for United States by Flag Ceremony
Sailors from the Bennington raised Old Glory on Wake Island in a formal claim ceremony. The island, declared American property, was saluted with 21 cannon booms as a brass plate was affixed to the flagstaff base. The crew then sailed away, leaving the flag flying over the isle.
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Bennington
United States
Wake Island
Hennington
Names of Ireland Through Antiquity and Its Varied Mentions
The article surveys Ireland’s changing fame across eras, listing ancient names from Ptolemy Sco tia to Strabo Trene and Caesar Hibernia. It notes the Irish derivation from native I r or Ire and discusses scholarly disagreement on when Ireland’s name became common.
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Ireland
Ptolemy
Scotia
Todorus Siculus
Lys
Iriai
Vholius
Aristotie
Trenne
Trinus
Strabo
Caesar
Tacitus
Pliny
Hibernia
Mela
Plutach
Ogygia
Irom
Mysterious Death Explained in Inquest
A local note reports Vicory died after a savage cold. The inquest found the death accidental when he bound flannel around his neck and drank seven horses of drink, moisture causing the bandage to stand him to death. The case initially raised suspicions of foul play but was dismissed as accidental.
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Vicory
The Age of Wind and Pluto Speak of Earth
In a Puck excerpt, Pluto notes attention to Earth affairs and a waning vigor as he and the god of war discuss Dugilism, Spanish wars, and a lasting war cloud over Europe. War is sold to a figure named Avolus, signaling a transfer of power and perilous times.
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Mars
Earth
Pluto
Europe
Avolus
Puck
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