Paris Spring Fashion: Slim Lines Rule Runways
The April fashion column notes a shift to slim figures, tailored gowns with close hips and minimal fullness. It describes new fabrics, layered jackets, and bold trimming, highlighting costly, showy outfits designed for American buyers lingering in Paris.
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Plants Thrive In Warm Homes Says New York Tribune
The New York Tribune notes dry furnace air hinders plant culture. It suggests placing water pans in cellars or on pipes and claims kitchens provide moisture from kettle steam. A discouraged woman failed with leafy greens but succeeds with vegetables like lettuce radishes and parsley in a sunny sewing room window.
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Winter Garden from Potted Plants and Water Culture
A farmer’s wife describes creating a winter garden with stacked boxes for beauty and taste. She cultivates echêp lettuce, radishes, and siwe berries, starting in November and expecting ripe fruit soon. She notes easy growth of the Chinese lily and evocus bulbs in shallow water, plus hyacinths and cathis in water. A balm geranium thrives with sun and daily watering, eventually filling a southern-windowed room with blossoms, even in a nonheated area.
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Algernon and danger in the dust cloud chase
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a terrified girl exclaiming that her papa is pursuing them as Algernon jokes about slipping out to change a storage battery. The pursuer lags behind in a car whose power is nearly spent, and muffled cries echo from the buffeted parent.
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Giant St. Bernard Reported in Sparta Town. Owner Claims State Best
Local notice describes a St. Bernard living in Sparta. At 18 months the dog reportedly stands inches high and spans feet long weighing pounds. Owner asserts it is the top St. Bernard in the state.
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Edison’s Wizard Kruest and the Birth of the Phonograph
A fragmentary obituary notes Johann Kruest, a key Edison collaborator at Menlo Park, who helped pioneer the phonograph. Born 1848 in Switzerland, he joined Edison’s circle, contributed to the phonograph prototype, later helped develop the electric light and Schenectady works, and died after a career shaping early electrical invention.
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