Golden hair fades in modern beauty era and science
A column ponders changing hair color trends from golden to darker shades, noting blonde ideals fading as intermarriage and global blending alter appearances. It jokes about Edison abandoning money for pure science and mocks speculative futures, while praising Canadian Pacific founder Sir Thomas Shaughnessy at a Toronto banquet and commenting on British politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Herald
Scandinavia
Italia
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy
Canadian Pacific Railway
Toronto
Sir Thomas
United States
Canada
Canda
England
Thomas ‘Maughneesy
Willam Wem Horne
News Notes Busy Man Happenings of the World Told in Brief
Roy Young, 15, pleaded guilty to burglary, larceny, arson and riot tied to the Springfield race war and was sentenced to Pontiac reform school. Mrs. Marshall Field Jr wed Maldwin Drummond in Westminster registry. Kermit Roosevelt began a hunting trip in the northwest. Bryan jnr spoke in St. Paul to farmers and political supporters. Hisgen of Massachusetts was formally named the Independence party presidential nominee in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Young
Springfield
Ill
Pontiac Reformatory
Marshall Field, Jr
Chicago
Maldwin Drummond
Westminster Registry Office
Drummond
Edgar Atheting Drummond
Kermit Roosevelt
Northwest
William J. Bryan
St. Paul
State Central Committee
Gov. Johnson
William Jennings Bryan, Jr
Helen Berger
Milwaukee
Thomas L. Hisgen
Massachusetts
New York
Independence Party
Rawhide Nev Fire Wipes Out Mining Town District
A large fire in Rawhide Nevada destroyed much of the mining town, leaving about three thousand homeless and wiping out the business district with property losses exceeding 750000.
Vast mixed news items from battles to aviation and politics
A sprawling collection notes calamitous forest fires saving Calaveras trees, Springfield grand jury indictments, Michigan primaries, Wrights aeroplane tests, Cornell flight, Spanish war veterans encampment, Manila sultan hanging, Arkansas two cent fare case, police shootings, Aleutian natives' misery, Niles bank failure, navy veterans color lines, Taft and Foraker Toledo meeting, aeronaut Charles Jones death, G A R parade, suicide at Mifflintown, Flemington Melbourne review, Sidi Mokhri interview, bank dynamiting near Joliet, Pittsburg terminal foreclosure, Wisconsin and Vermont primaries, Ville de Dieppe landing, jail reform protests, Oklahoma school law ruling, Atlanta factory fire, Pottawatomi chase, Rev Cummings arrest, gas explosion in Wellington, Queen Louise balloon incident.
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Calaveras Big
Springfield
Michigan
Fred Warner
Orville Wright
Fort Myer
Ithaca
N. Y
Cornell
Tacoma
Wash
Territorial Supreme Court
Manila
Sultan of
Dunaharra
Parang
Mindanao
J. W. McDonald
Vandeventer
Robert Olsen
McCulloch
First National Bank of
Waterville
Grand Army of the Republic
Toledo
Taft
Foraker
James S. Stackpole
Stackpole Brothers
Lewistown
Mifflintown
Flemington
Melbourne
Sperry
Paris
Sidi el Mokhri
Abd-el-Aziz
Deven
Illinois and Michigan
Channahon
Joliet
Pittsburg-Wabash
Pittsburg
Mercantile Trust Company of
New York
Wisconsin
United States
Isaac Stephenson
Neal Hrown
James ©. Davidson
J. A. Aylward
Vermont
Ville de Dieppe
Niagara Falls
George McLaughlin
Commission of Prisons
Harry K. Thaw
Dutchess County
Poughkeepsie
A. H. Huston
Atlanta
Atlanta Trunk Factory
Empire Printing & Box Company
Early Boston childhood glimpse of Harriet Hosmer the sculptor
An old school friend recalls Harriet Hosmer as a child known as Hattle who found a clay bank while berrying and molded her first figure of a yellow dog. She later made hand casts at boarding school and kept a crow's nest relic in Rome, tied to her early love of nature and collecting animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Thomas A. Edison
Tom
Chicago Daily News
Harriet Hosmer
Mrs. Sedgwick
Rome
Right and Left Handedness From Infant Vision Reports
Dr J C Stevens of Seattle reports experiments showing objects seen indirectly often appear larger in the right field than the left, with reversals among fewer subjects. He suggests origin of handedness lies in vision phenomena, noting right or left handedness develops around seven months and may be reflex from the arm nearest to the best-seen object.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Stevens
Seattle
Stevens
Vast Paris Exhibition Displays Fifteen Thousand Pictures
Paris hosts fifteen thousand paintings across two grand salons, covering about three acres. Without breaks, viewing every work at one minute per piece would require ten days and ten hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
New Yorks Large Import Trade Balance Record
Treasury records show the port of New York had the largest positive trade balance in its favor for the 1907 08 fiscal year. Nationwide, the United States balance reached 666 million 457 thousand 103 dollars, beating the prior peak of 664 million 457 thousand 103 dollars in 1900 01 by about two million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Treasury Department
United States
Not a Wiser Generation Headline Trend
Hatmaker notes rising head sizes as a humorous Yonkers Statesman item. Dill jokes about increasing heads and fatter times, reflecting light local social chatter in Yonkers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dill
Yonkers Statesman
A Simple Safeguard in Buying Paint Materials
A guide warns buyers to avoid adulterated white leads filled with chalk and zinc and to choose genuine Pure White Lead from National Lead Company. The ad promotes the Dutch Boy trademark as a purity guarantee and offers a free painting test book from the Woodbridge Building, New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National
National Lead Company
Woodbridge Bldg
New York
The 47 Chews Tale From Puck
A health quip from Puck relates a rich man who chews every bite 47 times restoring health and salvation. He swallows a gnat and two camels after constant chewing, and the camel becomes slim enough to pass through a needle's eye, enabling him to enter heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingdom of Heaven
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endures for Sick Women
Classic patent medicine appeal highlights Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a longtime remedy for female ills. It cites testimonials from Mrs F Ellsworth and Mrs W P Boyd, offering advice and inviting letters to Lynn Mass for guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
F. Ellsworth
Mayville
N. Y
W. P. Boyd
Beaver Falls
Lydia E. Pink
Fam
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Ferdinand News
Henry Haake
Ferdinand
Indiana
Pole
Peary
Arctic
North Pole
Hhe
Polo Steels
Williem Redmond
House of Commons
General
Rawhide
Nev
Salt Lake City
Washington
Ohio
Youngstown
Gov. Harris
Gov. Hughes
Beveridge
Albany
Indianapolis
Niigata
Tokyo
Japan
A. S. Waters
Tampa
Fla
Hot Springs
Ark
Peter J. Schollert
Great Britain
Mulai Hafid
Henry M. Nevins
Red Bank
N. 3
W. L. Gillman
Roxbury
Mass
Womans’ Relief Corps
Chester Jordan
Honorah
Somerville
Boston
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yale University
Frederick Cooper Hewitt
Owego
Daniel Walser
Detroit
Earl Hallam
George Richardson
Frederick T. Austin
Omaha
Neb
West
Frederick Cornelius
Muskogee
Oklo
Misa Babbie
Edward Burnett
Chicago River
William C. Cummings
Eviacopal
Ionia
Mich
Sante Marie
Gald
George Bailey
Lida Dane
Rers 'Er Les
Cincinnati
Louisville
Slicker
Gage
Syrop
Depota
London
Cluirterhouse Sq
Nuede la Pals
Australia
R. Towns & Co
Sydney
Tudia
Pant
Calcutta
China
Hong Kong
Drag Co
I. Kokio
Russia
Ferrein
Moscow
Africa
Enngas Td
Cape Town
Wl.douglas
Ana
Beite
L. Douglas
the Paxton Toilet CO
Bestes
Val
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