Ping Pong Waist and Hat Styles In Fashion Reports
The Ping Pong waist returns in pongee fabrics with silk contrast stitching, matching stock and cravat, and hat and ball embroidery. Hats rest forward or off the face, some with black velvet bands, pink roses, lace, and butterfly bows. Indian girls at a Santa Fe school learn domestic skills like sewing for Paris dolls, bed making, and American cooking in a stark contrast to their tribal roots.
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Millinery Trade Review
Santa Fe
Paris
Santa Me
Ainslee
Jewelry fashions and gem settings of today and past trends
The piece notes rising jewelry wear and design interest, detailing Louis Quinze and Louis Seize motifs, cabochon shapes, and emeralds. It describes corsages, coiffure ornaments, enamel wreaths, and the trend of gem-setting old lace, with New York Commercial Advertiser as source.
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Louis Quinze
Louis Seize
New York
Return to Past Modes in Summer Fashion Notes
Article surveys nostalgic summer dress elements with grenadine fabrics, chipped straw hats, lace insertions, white fichus, and Watteau style bodices. It links full skirts, flounces, fichu, pelerine boas, and ostrich feathers to 19th century silhouettes, urging harmonious pairing with loose fits.
Old Fashioned Swing Adds Fitness to Youthful Play
A Philadelphia Record note extols the old fashioned swing with rope loop and chalked board, praising its accessibility for ages from sixteen to sixty. The piece contrasts it with modern raisled seats, lauding the exercise, safety, and muscle development from momentum and coordinated movement. It cites a New York News view on swings building strength through natural play.
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Philadelphia
New York News
Women in History and Achievements Across Nations
In Cape Colony and British Burma women participate in voting through tax or local means. Miss Helen Gould donates two paintings to Greensboro Normal and Industrial College after a recent visit. Flemington Woman's Club gifts a $400 drinking fountain serving people and animals. Emma C. Sickels earns a gold medal in Paris for bravery in suppressing the 1800 Indian war. Mrs. William Tod Helmuth to represent the US at the Copenhagen council. Jenny Hirsch, Berlin pioneer for women’s education and opportunities, dies at 72. Virginia Meredith leads Minnesota agricultural school girls department and breeds cattle in Indiana. Hortense Adams of Boise may be the only woman to discover a valuable mine, later declining a quarter of a billion dollars in her claims.
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Cape Colony
Helen Gould
Normal and Industrial College
Greensboro
N. J
Gould
Woman's Club
Flemington
Emma C. Sickels
International Society of la Savateur
Paris
France
Copenhagen
Denmark
William Tod Helmuth
United States Council
Jenny Hirsch
Berlin
Virginia Meredith
Agricultural School
University of Minnesota
Indiana
West
Hortense Adams
Boise
Idaho
Fashionable Summer Laces and Gowns Stir Seasonal Style
Fan shaped motifs edge many laces this season and long black tulle sash ends enhance evening gowns. Silk finish and openwork in summer fabrics, Barege with lace, shallow scallops and vandykes decorate skirts. Parisian and home dressmakers favor linen and duck blouse suits in delicate colors. Unlined blouses feature point esprit and net with lace medalisers. The faillette persists in new forms, black net with spangles and steel beads shown. Milliners drop Irish crochet lace though dressmakers keep it in trims and combos.
Spherical phonograph records and new printing method described
A report notes a sphere shaped phonograph record offering compact lengthier playback. An apparatus printing photographs yields many images per frame with less effort. Colchester reports diphtheria antitoxin reducing deaths at 56 percent versus 28 percent with other methods. A hollow bronze life size head possibly Tiberius is found during foundation work. Incandescent lamps emit most heat. a large Dresden heating plant heats multiple Elbe buildings with low heat loss and complex piping details.
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Curin
Tiberius
Wichard Guenther
Frankfort
Germany
Dresden
Europe
The Maimed Machinists and the Planing Machine Danger
A Halifax factory act hearing reveals that factory inspectors found few workers with all fingers among joiners and planing machine attendants. Despite awareness of dangers, many attendants lose fingers over years of work, illustrating how seemingly safe occupations can be perilous.
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Halifax
New York Mail and Express
His Special Grace
A Chicago Record-Herald excerpt shows a South Side teacher explaining the multiple meanings of grace to students. A pupil Freddie recalls his father’s blunt breakfast table remark, highlighting language humor and everyday life in a classroom vignette.
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South Side
Freddie
Chicago Record-Herald
The Plane Lady Leaves Carpenters’ Supply House
The head of a Chambers Street wholesale carpenters’ supplier allowed a wife advocating equal rights to run a plane department. A different salesman handled each line and the plane department was headed by the wife who then quit in deep disgust.
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Chambers Street
New York Sun
The Nizam City of Hyderabad and Its Enclosed Walls
A dated portrait describes Hyderabad City as the ancient home of the Nizam, built in a valley with Deccan Trap rocks. It notes the nine gate fortifications, prohibited European sleep inside walls, permit required visitors, and a harsh guard by two Nizam armies with targets on outsiders.
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Hyderabad
Pittsburg
Wise Words and Aphorisms From Various Authors
A collection of maxims and proverbs with authors including Napoleon Beranger Pope Tasso Shakespeare Italian proverbs Ruskin and others. The lines offer reflections on virtue labor judgment wealth and personal freedom.
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Napoleon
Beranger
Pope
Tasso
Gevius
Willmott
Shakespeare
Ruskin
What Credit Is Based On
A concise lesson from O. F. Marden on credit relying on character, reliability, and business aptitude rather than wealth. Hard work, perseverance, and sensible conduct distinguish successful young entrepreneurs from those with inherited fortunes but weak business sense. Credit is earned by merit, not money.
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Marden
Prince Edward's Frog Gift Amid Influenza Tale
Prince Edward of York, recovering from influenza, vows to send a gift to a nearby girl also ill. He loves his prized frog most, preferring to send it over his bust of Lord Roberts, calling the girl sensible and wishing to brighten her illness with the frog.
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Prince Edward
Prince Edward of
York
Edward VII
Lord Roberts
Golf settles Kettering board and urban council dispute
The Kettering School Board and the Urban Council, having clashed over the site of a proposed refuse destructor, resolved the dispute by a game of golf. The Urban Councilors won, and the School Board withdrew their opposition.
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Kettering School Board
Urban Council
New Styles and Trim Details Highlight Season Fashions
New York City reports box pleats on shirt waists with May Manton styles in white mercerized cheviot, paired with black liberty satin. Fabrics range from madras to silk waisting cloths, while jewelry trends revive long-forgotten stones and turquoise hues. Ribbons appear in stocks and plaided effects, with pearl trimmings and new carniere designs noted.
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New York City
Cutting Waist Size From Material Options
Instructions describe waist reduction for a medium size using different fabric widths. It lists yardage requirements: four yards of 21 inch width, three and a half yards of 27 inch width, two and three quarter yards of 32 inch width, or two yards of 44 inch width.
Woman's Eton Jacket in May Manton Fashion Spread
The feature showcases an Eton jacket design in bold black moire velours with a wide batiste collar edged in guipure. It suits odd skirts and gowns as well as cloth etamine and cheviot, with a seamless back, under-arm gores, and a long centre elongation. Fabric yardage varies by width.
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Eton
May Manton
Batiste
Colors as Symbols of Courage and Love Across Gems
The passage explains color symbolism with red for courage and intense love, emblematic ruby. white for youth and innocence, shown by pearls and diamonds. yellow topaz for wisdom and glory but jealousy for November births. violet with amethyst as a friendship and love amulet. green for hope and joy, represented by emerald.
Delicate hats and Gibson dress fashions for girls
A description of an elaborate hat with ostrich plumes and rhinestone buckle, paired with a fashionable Little Miss Gibson dress. The May Manton model features a white pique gown with a fitted lining, deep front pleats, back box pleats, and bishop sleeves, designed for an eight year old.
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Gibson
Miss Gibson
May Manton
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Colchester
England
Hyderabad City
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