Fashions in Autumn Street Gowns and Embroidered Silks
The article outlines autumn street gowns with tunics, boleros, and elongated fronts. It notes hats with matching linings, eccentric tunic shapes, and new embroidered silks and satins, often in black or silk with satin embroidery. It highlights brilliant linings and fabrics showing blue and pink depending on angle. It mentions a gown made for an American woman near Newport in September.
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Newport
Styles for New Bodices and Trimmed Skirts
Trouville August piece notes French fashion shift toward lighter garments for growing girls. Gowns feature box-pleated skirts, fitted bodices, and bell sleeves with satin belts and yellow topaz accents. Corsets remain, but Empire revival and practical design drive new silhouettes.
Fashion notes on satin waist and sleeve styles
The description outlines waist satin ensembles with diagonal black silk braid, double breasted fronts, smoked pearl buttons, long neck chain, and bell sleeves varying from very long to elbow length. It describes bishop sleeve lace, draped tunics, belts, gathered tunics over deep flounces, finishing trims, and a soft felt hat as a chic accessory.
Ice cloth outfit with rose taffeta accents described
The description details an ice cloth ensemble featuring a short skirt nearly ankle length lined with Jack rose taf feta. An Eton coat with white silk reverses uses the same ice cloth and rose taffeta. Silk revers turn over the throat with a Drouse and a blue gingham dress shows a red thread in the plaids.
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Eton
Johnny's Heroiss Dinner Count Sparks Quip
Mrs Box protests a crowded meal saying there are thirteen at table while Johnny insists he can eat for two, adding a humorous note to a family gathering.
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Mrs. Box
Latte Johnny
Woman’s remark triggers sharp exchange in paper column
In the Philadelphia Press excerpt a woman jokes about choosing words to praise or harm other women. A counterline notes she can sting more with silence, illustrating the column’s playful yet pointed tone about public discourse and personal rhetoric.
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Philadelphia
How to Run According to Randolph Farles
Randolph Farles, former Inter-Collegiate champion and Penn educator, prescribes running form. He urges erect posture, minimal arm motion from the shoulder, synchronized arm and leg movement, and toe or ball-of-foot strikes depending on distance. A seven-foot stride is ideal, with cautious gradual increases to avoid wasted energy and fatigue.
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Randolph Farles
Amateur Athletic Association of America
University of Pennsylvania
Deities and customs in Chinese worship and daily rites
The text describes practical walking advice cautions on heel strike and light ground contact. It then discusses Chinese deities with emphasis on the god of war and the god of wealth, noting his widespread worship and household image practices alongside temple reverence.
Kitchen God and Boxers Belief in Chinese Customs
A descriptive piece explains the yearly kitchen god ritual where a one square foot engraving is burned after a grand feast to send the god to the supreme deity Juhhwang-ta-tl. It outlines the Boxer faiths offering prayers to many gods for storms, life, and other needs, noting the variety of deities worshipped.
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Juhhwang-ta-tl
Lue King
Lue-po
Tau-mu
Stone soles for shoes from quartz and glue mix
An inventor reveals a method to add stone soles to boots and shoes. A waterproof glue is mixed with clean quartz sand and spread over the leather sole as a foundation. The quartz soles are flexible and provide a firm grip even on slippery surfaces.
Brazil Adolescent Coffee Habit Alarm Circulates
A visitor reports Brazil is perennially intoxicated by coffee, consumed from awakening to sleep and even fed to babies. The habit is said to cause trembling hands, twitching eyelids, dry skin, and chronic excitability worse than whisky.
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Brazil
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