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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1902
Page
3
Fashion notes describe the Breton hat in felt with a contrasting trim, bright apple green velvet, and green parrots with satin rosettes. Large toques with flat trim and lace drapery appear, while high collars fade from vogue. Applique and lace trends rise, with cut out cretonne motifs and veiling adding mystery and subtle shadow.
The article notes a long-predicted comeback of earrings with preference for the short drop and screw styles over hoops. Real pearls and imitations are discussed, along with features like small diamonds on the screw end. It also mentions wedding cake traditions, ribboned boxes, and a shift toward form fitting skirts with circular flounces in the era's style.
A Home Notes excerpt argues that women juggle duties with exceptional conscientiousness, while men are suited for breadwinning. It contends daily toil dulls the mind, hobbies sustain spirit, and recreation prevents health decline, preserving individuality and empathy amid modern work.
The New York Tribune notes fashionable sleeve trends favor tight cuffs and elbow drapery with scarves or lace slashes. It highlights bagged elbow sleeves, five inch deep cuffs, and gradual expansion to reveal the arm contour. Collars vary in size, with rich embroidery and fine buttons on bodices.
Fashion trends highlight winter hats with white roses demand and separate silk drop skirts over linings. Lace trims in Irish crochet and filet top gowns and wraps, with guipure waists finished by fur bands. A wedding feature shows bridesmaids wearing sweet pea wreaths instead of large hats. Brown cloth tailored outfits with Persian embroidery and gold accents appear, while spangled nets over brocaded silks and chiffons create bold, costly looks.
A children’s verse laments stars and warmth before presenting a European social game. Two blindfolded youths wield rolled paper cudgels and try to strike the other’s head based on voice cues, while the other may move to avoid the blow.
In New Haven during the Yale Princeton game crowds watched a student perilously cling to a fifth story ledge as smoke filled the Hutchinson building. Firefighters freed him after a long delay. the upper three floors burned away while lower floors suffered water damage. About 50 students faced displacement that night.
Five year old Dickie runs from a lively farmyard turkey that seems to chase him. The turkey is really fleeing from Sam the black cook, while Dickie fears the bird and his own imagined danger. A calm farm day escalates into a comic chase before Thanksgiving.
In a New York Tribune piece a boy named Dickie becomes the center of Thanksgiving humor on the farm. His father pushes him to stand up to a pursuing turkey while Sam the dog hauls it away. The next day the child, in a high chair, eats a small piece of white meat as elders tease him for biting the turkey he defeated.
Grace Adele Pierce recounts the myth of Clytie a water nymph who loved Apollo and withered in longing. Her transformation into a sunflower is told through a child friendly tale set in a sunlit Greek landscape and preserved by the reader in a Women’s Home Companion piece.
A Greenpoint schoolboy was asked to name three Long Island towns and offered Crosstown Downtown and Out of Town. The remark follows the World’s humorous line about self-praising contortionists.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat analysis exposes how unredeemed pledges auctions deceive unwary buyers. It details hucksters using loud touts, sad backstories, and staged urgency to push jewelry and watches at inflated prices, with bidders manipulated through multiple shops and fake bids.
The Athenaeum notes the bagpipe’s turbulent history as it resisted grafting into city life and yet endured. It recalls a Chicago jury deeming it not a instrument and praises its survival as a primitive need fulfilled without cranks or formal bodies. The piece highlights its rise in British and Indian regiments as a military asset.
An longtime White House attendant recalls President Arthur’s wardrobe. He changed shirts and suits multiple times daily during social season, favored low-quarter shoes tied with wide silk strings, owned 50 pairs of good shoes and at least 100 pieces of neckwear, and was kind to servants and all at the Waite House.
A British census report recounts a humorous immigrant tale. An applicant claimed his mother was a Kaffir and his father an Irishman turned naturalized American who later served in the French army. He was born en route between Yokohama and Lolombo aboard a Spanish vessel, and officials labeled him a Scotchman.
The article notes platinum now exceeds fine gold at $21 an ounce, up from $10 in 1890, driven by rising demand. It resembles silver in look but is duller, highly resistant to acids and corrosion, and remains scarce, keeping prices high and likely to rise further.
A Muskegon correspondent in Electrical Review suggests the new term atmography as a concise substitute for wireless telegraphy. It blends atmosphere and graphy, and would be pronounced like geography, aiming to ease repetition in aerial signaling descriptions. Lavender yields $100 per acre. pure lard scented products fetch $6 to $7.50 per pound, while fine cologne from lard extracts can reach $17 a pint.
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