Massachusetts Franchise Taxes and Dust, War Wit Highlight Freeland Item
The item notes 1899 state franchise taxes on corporations totaling 3 330 086 21 dollars. It mentions doctors linking grip to flying dust and suggests keeping streets clean is cheaper than influenza costs. A South African war remark praises De Wet as chivalry’s crown and notes a Washington card party found a dollar, with women claimed to lose a silver dollar but a paper one was found.
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Tribune S Printing Company, Limited
Massachusetts
de Wet
Free State
Roland
Oliver
Washington
Record of life-saving service cost and impact
The life-saving service cost 1 585 096 dollars last year and saved about 7 500 000 in property plus 2607 lives. The report urges higher pay and safety for workers in this dangerous field. Also noted is Signorina Labriola becoming the first woman to lecture in Jurisprudence at the University of Rome, continuing Italy’s long tradition of learned women.
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Italy
Pera
Signorina Labriola
Antonio Labriola
University of
Rome
Philadelphia Record
Paris Debt and Costs Highlight Urban Governance
Paris carries a municipal debt of 350 million dollars, nearly half of France’s city debts and double London’s, equating to a per capita government cost of 25 dollars, the world’s highest. Berlin and St Petersburg reveal markedly lower costs, while Britain’s manufacturers push reform as England risks losing markets. Europe watches US efficiency as a benchmark.
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Paris
France
London
England
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Monument for Captain J. H. Barr Erected by Traveling Men
Kansas traveling men raise funds after years to construct a monument over Captain J. H. Barr of Humboldt who kept a hotel and was known as Beefsteak Carr among drummers. The note adds that new French stamps face much criticism in France.
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Kansas
J. H. Barr
Humboldt
Beefsteak Carr
France
Desperate case of Percival ends in heartbreak and thoughts of war
Percival absorbs a layoff of joy as he contemplates ending a flood of love. He torments himself over a breakup note and a looming separation while imagining enlistment and a heroic death. He plans a formal goodbye then leaves to confront the woman and the fate of their engagement.
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Spain
China
Percival
Cuba
Transitory. Your wife's book is a success, fant ity
A fragment from Brooklyn Life notes a wife’s book achieving success after more than three months, reflecting period commentary on publishing and reception.
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Brooklyn Life
The New Pocketbooks Description
The newest pocketbooks are oblong in shape and about four inches in width. They fasten deep down on one side with a jeweled stud and resemble small card cases.
Duke's American Grandmother Near Natchez On Louisiana Plantation
Mrs Yznaga grandmother of the Duke of Manchester is said to reside on a Louisiana plantation of two to three thousand acres about eighteen miles from Natchez. The frame home sits two miles from the Mississippi river. A brunette near six feet tall, she lives alone with a superintendent and servants.
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Duke
Yznaga
Duke of Manchester
Louisiana
Natchez
Mississippi River
Anne Srance
The Charming Women and Getting Rid of a Double Chin
The piece praises tactful speech and refined presence. It notes a dieter’s year and a half effort yields thinner flesh, with doctor’s claim that slow reduction preserves digestion and skin. It warns against seeking immediate rewards and relapsing to old diets.
Women patentees drive growth with practical partner aid
The London Express notes 574 women among 26 000 patent applicants last year, with many inventions succeeding after partnering with a practical man to navigate commercialization. Most innovations improved small luxuries or comforts, including 149 dress related ideas and 40 cycling improvements.
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London Express
Plan of Winter Gowning in Daily Costume Fashion
The general plan of winter gowning is most attractive in everyday wear costumes. Tailor gowns are smart and Tule artistic with limited erratic effects and wide fabric and style choice. Skirts range from severely plain to richly decorated, circular or shaped with three to seven yards as needed. Waist fashions vary from simple tailor finishes to ornate sleeves and fronts, including demi and full dress Parisian style reproductions, each unique and elaborately trimmed.
Neckers and hair bows trending in winter styles
A New York saleswoman notes necker neck trimmings and matching hair bows as a popular winter fashion. Black velvet bands with ten gold cords and a gold pin form a charming necker, with tassel finishes. Silver cords on white satin offer a dressy waist finish. Second mourning uses black chenille knotted around the throat over a black lining.
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New York City
Fashionable Shades of Blue for Winter Street Gowns
Fashion notes advise careful selection of blue shades for winter wear. Blue, a cold color, must have the right tint to be flattering. To ease choices, designers mix in warm red or mauve with gold and silver accents on several new street gown models.
Style notes on trims and coordination in coats and skirts
A Harper’s Bazaar excerpt discusses how stitch velvet revers and fronts with black and silver or black and gold braid create a smart coat. It argues against coloring skirts, preferring cut and design to carry beauty, with subtle braid as acceptable.
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Harper’s Bazar
Where the money goes in a $600 fashion gown
An analysis from a New York bookkeeper breaks down the $600 gown cost. Labor gets about $15 after cutting, material is $150, head designer $100, staff $150, capital interest $40, bad debts $55, leaving a $50 net profit.
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New York
New York Herald
Fads in Flowers Fade Yet Carnations Endure in Brooklyn
Brooklyn florists note fads in flowers change with fashion but carnations, violets, and roses remain popular for all occasions. Roses fetch high prices, carnations last longer in water and can be revived, and violets such as California single and English double are well known in Brooklyn. Helio tropes and forget me nots meet niche demand but are less common than staples.
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Alda Brooklyn Florist
Brooklyn Eagle
Fashion Notes From The Day In Fur And Velvet Styles
Fashion notes describe shopping bags of fur with silver gilt, gold pulleys, Perelan ribbons, and panne velvet shoulder knots. New turnover collars of crepe do chine with fine embroidery in white pink lavender green and ecru. Chinchilla hats with fur crowns and pink rose accents. Hair designs feature gold effects and black velvet ribbons. Applique trimming on evening gloves, lace or silk embroidery, white gloves with black and vice versa. Delicate tan shades and black or white contrasts dominate the hour.
Love and longing rhyme in a Chicago Herald piece
A lyric fragment from the Chicago Unie Herald speaks of love as trust, pain, joy, and desire. It blends metaphor with terms like wine and honey, hinting at emotional tension and hopeful devotion within a urban gossip voice.
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Chicago
Unie
Herald
Quotable Fragments of Wit and Wordplay Snippets
A collection of humorous quips and malapropisms from a past era. Odd exchanges involve golf, fortune tellers, marriage, pardons, and everyday miscommunications. The brisk chatter highlights social foibles with playful banter and misheard phrases.
Taken by Surprise a Match for a Million in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin tale recalls a farm lad who visits a town to buy a colt and ends up in a circus show. He accepts a wrestler’s $10 challenge, wins with a hiplock, then rises fast in a lumber camp to become a partner and millionaire, as recounted by the Washington Star.
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Wisconsin
Washington Star
Informal luncheon lights room with sunshine illusion
A Pittsburg Dispatch note describes an informal luncheon where guests, amid rain, are surprised to feel sunlit warmth. A large yellow foliage arrangement on an English window sill, gilt pillows, and a vase of gladiolus or has bitterum vines create a bright, golden glow, eliciting laughter at the hostess’s expense.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
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