Patient milliner finally weds patient fiancé at last
Inga Lindquist, a Chicago milliner, waited six times at a church for Alfred Rasmussen who repeatedly vanished before the altar. After a dramatic ruse and months of elation and heartbreak, they married quietly at the church with a small bridal party and a future trip in view.
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Chicago
House of Worship
Inga Lindquist
Alfred Rasmussen
Alfred
Ti Rasmussen
Sweden
Igna Lindquist
Alfred Rassmussen
Cederquist
New York
Rasmussen
Inga
Milwaukee
Miss Lindquist
Miss Inga
Rasmussix
Why There Is More Blindness Among Arabs Than Any Other People
A traveling man notes Arabs in desert sun wear no shade as the Koran forbids eye coverings. An Algerian village card explains believers avoid brims to their heads, claiming this practice leads to greater blindness among Arabs than elsewhere.
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Fez
Boarding house lighter and wax tapers story
A boarding house mistress sends Bridget to deliver a gas lighter and wax tapers to a short male boarder who must stand on a chair to light the gas. Bridget tells him the lighter will prove useful on late returns when a match is hard to find.
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Bridget
Roosevelts Ice Clash and Tea Production Costs
An excerpt recounts Peary’s ice floe battle aboard the Roosevelt with dramatic churn of ice and ship as crew endure pressure and triumph. The piece notes 354 hours of ice clearance and vivid frontline endurance. It ends with tea costs in India, 7 to 9 cents per pound, citing 1 450 acres and 1 308 acres under cultivation.
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Robert E. Peary
Pole
Roosevelt
Peary
India
Salcutta
Night Whispers on the Step with Miss Twiggs
A chilly evening scene unfolds as Mr. Bangs and Miss Twiggs share a moonlit moment on a doorstep. He wrestles with nerves, nearly touches her hand, and she gently encourages closeness while discussing the night and warmth.
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Beth
Miss Twiggs
Mr. Bangs
Pennsylvania moves to fight tuberculosis with state sanatoriums
The state allocates 600000 for free sanatoriums. One facility opens in the Mont Alto forest reservation Franklin county with capacity for 500 patients. A second sanitarium is planned in the west by Dr Samuel G Dixon. Plans include 150 dispensaries across the state to reach incipient cases and prevent incapacity.
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Pennsylvania
Mont Alto Forest
Franklin County
Samuel G. Dixon
Jet Returns to Favor as Fashion Shifts to Humble Ornament
The article notes a coming jet boom after years of declining fashion with Paris and London shops highlighting new designs. It cites jet mining mainly from Yorkshire and reports strong, growing factory activity to meet demand. It also includes brief vignettes on science, art, and daily life shows.
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Paris
London
Yorkshire
New Method of Economy in Household and Industry
A satirical scene shows Mrs Caudle II accusing her husband of drinking and economy schemes. Candie II claims a prearranged plan to economize, noting drinks cost 15 cents or two for a quarter, while teeth and witty asides pepper the dialogue. The item also mentions a kid’s Sunday lesson about trusting the Lord and avoiding princes. It then shifts to a technical note on electro magnets: using controlled current to lift heavy materials, shape- tuned poles, and breaking castings for recycling.
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Mme. Pompadour
Candle II
Denver
Mamma
How a Flea Jumps Described in Nature Text
A natural history snippet explains a flea can leap about 200 times its height and usually lands on its feet. It notes six legs and heavy limbs aid balance, while smooth surfaces hinder foothold. Flea wings are scales, useless to the insect but informative to entomologists.
French Scientist’s Discovery of Retinal Vessels Through Light
A Philadelphia report notes Dr Forlin’s method using mercury vapor light blue glass and a pinhole screen to reveal retinal vessels two thousandths of an inch diameter beating with each heartbeat. The piece contrasts ordinary light and new imaging potential.
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Forlin
Homemade Album Crafts For Girls At Home
Women and girls learn to make heavy cartridge paper photo and post card albums. No cover needed, covers glued on, sewn with silk thread, and decorated with photos, words, and crayon. Large books for photos, smaller ones for single pictures, often gifted to family and friends as keepsakes.
Decorative Laundry Bag From Print Scrap
A circa design notes a decorative laundry bag made from a print scrap finished with a thick cord. The back bears the embroidered word Laundry, the front lines with white sateen, roomy and simple, with three removable ribbon bows as accents for personal use.
Waistband Trim Techniques for Neat Waistlines
A guide to preventing blouse bulge at the waist by drawing down fabric under the belt and pinning. It recommends using slim pins or an elastic waist fastener with taped ends and a button to secure the blouse, preventing slipping and creating a tidy silhouette.
Baby Dress and Fall Millinery Notes
A sewing guide covers growing baby sleeve ease using tucked hems and tied ribbons, plus lace finish. Fall millinery features two hats: gray felt with velvet band and ostrich tips, and a purple felt cha peau with scarf and purple roses. Also a tip to renew worn shirtwaist necks by inserting a sheer handkerchief as a rake and replacing cuffs.
London Favors Simple Suits and Knockabout Hats
London shows a return to old fashioned tailor-made silhouettes with three quarter length coats, four-button waistline, and black satin trims. Sleeves vary between long and three quarter, skirts emphasize empire drape at front. Dark striped fabrics in autumn tones. knockabout hats in gun metal felt feature feather accents.
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London
Paquin's
Put Back Glove Catches and Dressing Table Cover Notes
Practical sewing tips describe mending glove catches by re threading with a shallow overcast stitch and guiding the hole around the button groove. Additional guidance suggests white linen dressing table covers with hand embroidery and initial monograms, plus fashion notes on new velvet collared collars and stiffened blouses.
Make a Window Conservatory Frame for Plants
The sketch guides a low cost conservatory added to a house window. A 2 by 2 inch frame forms three openings sized for a four paned storm sash. With beveled joints and corner boards, the sash is fastened and the top and bottom rafters support sheathing boards for a compact plant shelter.
Song Helped a Sick Man and Jenny Lind’s Birdlike Voice
Anecdotes recount a singer’s comforting songs for a gravely ill youth and the tale of Jenny Lind inspiring relief through her concert songs. Other vignettes describe seven year old Tommy’s appetite for buckwheat cakes and five year old Margaret noticing her baby brother’s first tooth.
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Jenny Lind
Tommy
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Margaret
Near-Widow's Dilemma Plays on Hospital Doubts
A physician reassures a wife about her husband’s likely recovery. She reveals she sold his clothes after hearing the doctor doubt his survival a fortnight ago, showing the emotional strain of medical uncertainty.
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Bartlett
Teddy
Charles
Ruggins
Skinner the Grocer
Mr. Caudle
Philadelphia
Harp- Weekly
William
Georgia
South
Fritz
H'm
Willie
Hig Womans Corner
Fall Millinery
Der
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