The Chiffon Craze and Oriental Ventures in 1903
In 1903 chiffon dominates fashion as a versatile gauze used from veils to bodices with new forms like dotted veils and waistmaking puffs. A notable profile is Dr Yami Kim, a pioneering Chinese woman physician in Amoy, who built a hospital from her own dwelling. The piece also notes practical hatpins and a growing market for feminine crafts in the Orient, urging venturesome women to seek opportunities abroad.
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New York Herald
China
San Francisco
Yami Kim
Women's Medical College of
New York Toubin
America
Ning Po
Shanghai
New York
Honolulu
Amoy
Dutch Reform Board
Kit
Tran
Orient
Turkey
Cyprus
Syria
Crimea
Woman's Place In Golf and Unusual Feminine Vocations
The piece notes women broke hours restrictions at early American golf courses, proving skill with rising mixed play. It highlights Georgia women delivering mail and farming labor, a Savannah widow thriving as a government contractor, and the world’s only female railroad dispatcher in New London Northern Railway, underlining varied female roles and public acceptance.
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America
Morris County
Earth
State of
Georgia
Mungomery County
Savannah
London Northern Railway
the Road
Flowers For the Hair Declining Floral Wreaths Reach Low
The article notes shell combs worn are vanishing and full dress ornaments such as weak aigrettes bows and wreaths of flowers have declined to less than half a wreath or a single rose reflecting changing fashion trends.
Newest Fashions Feature Monograms and Velvet Accents
Small boys display initials on caps while neckwear favors broad velvet bands. gowns showcase navy cloth with cut work on lettuce green satin, and silk skirts are offered in light colors with narrow rosettes. Lace stockings omit open work, favoring from the top to the shoe. Veils boast triple edged beaded borders and varied colors with dotted motifs.
Odd records made in 1901 show a year of swift marriages and vast travel feats
A New Year’s Day tally in Kentucky records 30 violent deaths, while Chicago’s Gretna Green celebrated 27 marriages in under two hours. The year brought fast divorces, remarkable auto and rail feats, record livestock receipts at Chicago yards, huge gold shipments, and a surge in national wealth and crop yields.
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Yentieth Cenry
Kentucky
Giatrimenial Mart
St. Joseph
Mich
Chicago
Gretna Green
J. M. Maughey
Mason City
Billy
Pekin
Oklahoma
Dakotas
G. Krueger
Henry
United States
San Francisco
Henri Fournier
Coney Island Boulevard
Arthur J. Eddy
Automobile Club
Michigan
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Canada
Charles Bellamy
Burlington Railroad
Great Northern Railway
England
Sydney
Australia
London
Charles ©. Vittmorris
Elmer Pfeifer
Carlyle
Tarry
Binck
Sam
Mwe
Europe
United States Treasury
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Comptroller
Washington
A. ZL. Schaoffer
Ndgar County
Kansas
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Union Stock Yards
Chilcago
Masonic Temple
Milwaukee
Viadosta
S. A. Stephens
Dayton
Park
A. J. Stiles
New York Sun
Donts And Palm Care From Household Hints
Advice from Ladies Home Journal notes avoid refrigerating butter in wrappings and frying with it, preventing custards in open vessels, and avoiding boiling water on china. It warns against dampening food for teeth, using steel knives on certain foods, scrubbing with warm water, and staining tablecloths. Palm care covers dust removal, watering, avoiding scale insects, washing with alcohol or mild soap, soil mix, deep pots, and new growth care.
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T. Rover
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
W. M. Kuper
RouseHoup Recipes Tell Sweet Potatoes Almond Cake
Grilled sweet potatoes are prepared by boiling or steaming four or five medium potatoes, slicing, buttering, sugaring, and broiling quickly to brown without burning. Almond cake uses sugar butter milk and flour with baking powder, then adds chopped almonds and raisins with a hint of rose oil. California is noted as the most diversified agricultural state in the Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drruggiste
Potters Stampa
Cheesebrough Manufacturing CO
State Streat
New York City
Rothschilds Auto Hothouse In Paris
Baron Edmond de Rothschild has built an auto hothouse in Paris costing 15000 francs to transport hothouse plants from his country estate to his Paris residence. Previously a two day journey required lodging three men overnight. now travel is done in one day, promising substantial economy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rothschild
Paris
Baron Edmond de Rothschild
Hall's Catarrh Cure and other patent remedies ad
An 1886 Toledo advertisement page offers Hall's Catarrh Cure with a notary public attestation, praising internal use to affect blood and mucous surfaces, plus testimonials. It also markets Hall's Family Pills Garfield Tea Mother Gray's Sweet Powders and a moralizing note about cranks and good deeds.
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Omio
Crry
Lorene
Leras
Trann J. Chen Ke
Ira
Cuxsver & Co
Toledo
Staty
Hal
A. W. Gleason
Hall
Tree
J. Cugsxer & Co
Miss Bonnie Delano Testimony on Pinkham Remedy
A Chicago woman recounts relief from long standing menstrual irregularities after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits improved health and absence of pain after four months and urges others to refuse substitutes. The ad asserts widespread proof of the remedy's safety for ovarian and womb troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Pinkham
Bonnrm Delano
Indiana Ave
Chicago
Jydia E. Pinkham
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Oe i Snewest
Austria
Brance
Belgium
Germany
Russia
Italy
Africa
Cairo
RouseHoup
California
Union
Mother Gray
Allen 8
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Bonnie Delano
Dean Mrs. Proxaam
Miss Bonniz Delano
Capsicum
ISHN
Mny Omtolat
Salzer Seed CO
Ee la Crosse, Wis
H. M. Greene
Rines
Uso
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