Debate on Skirt Lengths Sparks Paris London Protests
A Paris fashion correspondent reports a global debate over ankle length skirts. Critics fear dust and mud catch on long walking skirts while designers and fashion houses push wearers toward near ground sweeping hems. The London protest includes painters and designers joining the call. In Paris, leaders expect continued use among the fashionable. the observer notes ankle length skirts gaining popularity among the public.
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Paris
Boston Globe
London
Eminent Painters Endorse Moderately Full Skirts and Wide Hats
The article notes painters agreeing on fashion favoring moderately full skirts revealing ankles and very wide hats covered in taffeta. It describes two hat styles and millinery trends with gloves, crepe de chine, and an array of artificial flowers in unusual materials including glove kid and metallic net.
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Gmail
Aimilar
Pretty Summer Frocks with Embroidered Medallions
Embroidered medallions decorate summer frocks, mostly on skirt areas, with hand motifs and contrasting bindings. Frills frame or fringe stitches, and accompanying coats and wraps feature high backs, white soutache details, and georgette collars in coordinating colors.
Sabotage Origin and Meaning in Labor Strikes
The piece traces the word sabotage from its French roots to its Anglo usage in strikes. It explains the shift from a harmless term for cutting wooden shoes to a label for deliberate damage to machinery or goodwill, noting how disruption during French strikes broadened its meaning in commerce and industry.
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Apme
France
Women's Rights Parody Sparks Satirical Defense of Independence
A satirical essay frames women's rights as a historical awakening, mocking male reactions and stereotypes. It traces shifts in domestic roles and attire, from washing machines to knickers, and imagines men adjusting to new freedoms with humor and irony.
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Mirtle Arileman
Madison Strets
Selfiah
Wwe
Tom
Aew
Police Gazette
Vin
Wight
Moline Teen Hero to Receive Carnegie Medal
Roy F Barnes Toy F Narnea of Moline, age 3, has been recognized by the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for saving Minn Lerengwell. He snatched Lerengwell from under a passing train in Moline on January 1, 1920, and will receive a medal and a $1,000 prize.
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Toy F. Narnea
Moline
Carnegie Tero Fund Commisston
Minn Lerengwell
Parnes
Loffengwell
G Tran
Flames Sweep Mining Town in Nanty-Go Block Loss
Townstown reports a devastating fire destroying an entire center block in Nanty-Go, a mining town near here. The blaze caused an estimated $125,000 in damages, gutting several storms, an ice cream factory and a hotel among the buildings.
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Nanty-Glo
Pennsylvania
Townstown
Nanty-Go
Here
Rabe Tres for Mines Planting Trees in South Africa
Rabe Tres, a South African mining company, pledged to plant 250 acres of trees to supply pillure for underground operations, outlining a sustainability plan tied to ore extraction needs.
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Hon Hag
Maturity’s Debt to Youth Education Eternal Speech
A quotation from President Fisher of the English Hoard of Education proclaims that maturity owes an eternal debt to youth and education, framing learning as a lasting obligation of later years to earlier generations.
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Fisher
Mutiny Report in Vatican Sparks Guard Repass
London dispatch from Rome reports mutiny among garrison personnel serving in the Vatican in an honorary capacity. They cried long live the pope death to the commander. the barracks were secured by Swiss guards.
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London
Rome
Raya
These Clatening Days The Smit Voice Commentary
A clipped quirky note comments on listening and bearing the burden of time. The speaker’s tone hints at public fatigue and a call for deeper attention amid social chatter.
How Copper Is Hardened
There are several known methods of hardening copper, the most common being to combine with its small quantity of cuprous oxide. The metal tale cites mechanical working as a form of hardening.
Elizabeth Barnes Durnes Heads New Woman's Clean Government Group
Elizabeth Marott Durnes elected president of a new nationwide Woman's Clean Government organization. The group aims to study civic affairs among women with a research department and trained investigators to track government matters, headquartered in Washington.
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Elizabeth Marott Durnes
Woman's Clean Government Organisation
Eliic
Thin Nationwide
Pontetlon
Washington
English inventor’s chain saw mounted on piston boiler
A fragment describes a portable steam setup with a hose feeding a boiler to power a tree felling saw mounted on a piston framework. The garbled text mentions Boston Transcript and phrases like never, with us, and those who ad fault rarely find.
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Tavdr
Boston Transcript
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