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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1901
Page
3
Mrs. Nichols of Brooklyn, a pioneer among American women architects, blames the small number of women in the field on the lack of women allowed in architectural courses. She argues architecture offers a fair field for women in home building and improving household economy, urging women to study architecture as they do music.
Mme Melba recalls a snowy Philadelphia night when a white haired grieving woman begged for a rose to keep as a memory of her voice. The moment, amid roses and tears, stood out as the most beautiful event of her career. The National Society of the Daughters of American Pioneers plans an exhibit of relics and rooms of early settlers. Membership is open to women descended from early settlers with chapter approval. Officers include president-general Mary Barr Warfield Gibbons and several officers from various societies.
The New York Sun notes violets decline in women spring headgear as roses rise in Paris and New York, inspired by Queen Wilhelmina's wedding style. Paris mills set the trend for American milliners, with violets likely to return if future royal weddings revive interest. The article also recalls Vassar College's 1865 opening and its early curriculum for 353 students.
The article lists subjects taught such as philosophy languages math and science and details a rigid timetable from 6 a.m. prayers to 9 40 p.m. retiring. It notes strict controls on girls movement off grounds and required consultation with the lady principal before any expense, reflecting limited student liberty.
This piece promotes abdominal breathing and deep lung filling for women. It explains how stress and fatigue reduce breaths per minute, offers gradual routines of slow inhalations and prolonged exhalations, and recommends sunlight and open-air walking to improve respiration and aid weight loss. It cites Home Advocate as the source.
The article details fashion trends such as flower hats with foliage crowns, ready-made underwear in pink or blue ribbons, black hemstitched petticoats, belt buckles with hook and eye clasps set with brilliants, and advice on skirt lines. It discusses sleeve and front openings, lace insertions, cretonne designs by Paquin, decorative velvet trims, and fleur-de-lis style yokes with Renaissance lace trim for gowns.
A compact collection of quotations on prudence sincerity inquiry and personal conduct. Notable lines caution against insincerity applaud quick use of the moment and emphasize sharp minds in a velvet sheath. Various authors including Euripides Cicero Lavater Paine Voltaire Eliot Confucius and Shakespeare offer moral reflections.
The government’s reindeer introduction in Alaska employs 86 Laplanders to instruct Eskimo women in clothing making food prep and reindeer driving. Mrs Kemi travels between stations teaching daily lessons while expanding native skills and a shifting diet. Alaska’s pasture capacity supports up to 9 million reindeer under Norwegian standards.
A concise meditation on why women across eras prize gems, from medieval beliefs in talismans to modern mas capatistic styles. The piece links jewel fascination to myth, evolutionist ideas, religious offerings, royal exchanges, and historic rivalries over prized jewels, quoting Chicago Times-Herald and Washington Star remarks on glory and voice.
A Washington Star piece extols railway mail service clerks noting their numbers, routes, and extraordinary mail handling. It details pay rules after death or injury, dangers of head on collisions, and the immense scale of letters and other mail moved annually, praising civil service merit and memory for names and locations.
The Roumanian Danube blessing involves a cross of ice on the river or on its bank. Turbans of colored paper and long white wands mark participants who imitate Pontius Pilate and Herod while singing hymns. Nobility and priests oversee a half hour service after which the ice or cross is retrieved with a chaotic scramble and penalties for disputes.
Letters from New England women praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing inflammatory bladder issues painful periods and nervous prostration. Anonymous testimonials cite relief after doctors failed and urge others to try the remedy, promising improved health and gratitude to the founder.
In 1790 North Carolina ranked third in population and now sits fifteenth. Europe supplies large mineral water imports. A Dickinson County Kansas cooperative colony, formed three years ago, reports profit from the stuart with net earnings of 1,842 last year. It operates a ranch, general store, bank and insurance feature.
An ad notes Gnary-O a grain based coffee substitute sold in 8 15 and 26 cent packages claiming gentle digestion and easy taste. It urges readers to ask for Gram-O. A separate item reports the Marble Arch in London slated for demolition built by George IV at 400000. It argues the arch diminished the palace’s prominence and quotes a remark about “plenty of gate and very little palace.”
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