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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1902
Page
3
The piece describes a fan crafted from simulated fish scales set in tissue. It shifts from gold to copper on carp and silver to bronze on salmon, paired with a dull mother of pearl sequined handle and a white gown for a striking, modern effect.
Practical skin care advice cautions against cold water after outings, recommending tepid water and buttermilk or rose water to soothe skin. The piece then surveys spring fashion with vivid purses and pocket books, leather textures, dragonfly mounts, and art nouveau colors. It explains hat trim and plumage veils, noting tulle covers and veil colors for white or black plumage.
A London Chronicle fashion piece misnames two duchesses as Consuelo, revealing a Spanish naming quirk. Consuelo means comfort and is masculine. Spanish women are mostly named Mary with regional variants such as Dolores, Carmen, Carmencita, Concepcion, and Consuelo linked to religious titles.
The article discusses difficulties for a plump matron to buy a silk stock and offers alterations such as cutting the upper edge or adding rosettes tulle or ribbon bows with forward hooks. It notes fit challenges avoiding choking and suggests extra long models from dealers of neckwear may improve style.
The article notes the latest fashion trend of drop skirts paired with waists, describing a full floor-length silk skirt with accordion plaiting at the foot. It cites a Parisian dressmaker famed for garments for the Countess de Castellane, who sews the drop skirt separately and fits it like a dress skirt, with the dress skirt added over it to complete the look.
A fragment describes millinery trends featuring flowers such as roses and Banksia specimens and mentions exclusive models using large sprays including La France. The note highlights creative use of floral motifs in headpieces.
The article surveys summer fashion evolves noting the toreador hat, plateau coronet, and two new European games the necktie and apple races. It then reflects on Women in the Professions tracing pioneers in law medicine and theology, highlighting Antoinette L Brown and Lucy Stone and the growth of women physicians versus clergy.
A fashion note filled with Paris hat details and seasonal styles. Describes low and flat rig models, panne and miroir velvet, satin, white chiffon boas edged in black and white, jet buckles and laces, mourning millinery finishes, and bold colors like orange velvet and crimson. Reversible silk skirts, two-for-one economy, new velvet ribbons, jeweled embroidery on bats and gowns, all silk hats and taffetas for children, color-matched coats, and a one-seam bishop sleeve model for shirts and dresses.
The piece urges self control and moral growth through discipline, study, and fellowship with virtuous people. It emphasizes that true progress comes from inner cultivation, not external rules, and that friendship and literature are key aids to living rightly.
A Home Magazine writer estimates 19th century wars cost nearly 20 billion dollars, equal to about six dollars per second of the century. The piece compares wartime spending with church and city buildings, education spending, and global riches, while noting Chicago’s pioneering free transport for crippled schoolchildren and urging reform in education funding.
Roof dwellers in downtown New York live in regular cottages perched on building tops. These cliff men, mostly janitors and superintendents, enjoy sunlit, sequestered yards with flower beds and even vegetable patches. They overlook a changing harbor and cityscape, watching storms, fog, and trains from their airy homes while entertaining friends above the streets.
The Baltimore Sun notes a medical journal warns solitary meals harm digestion and overall health. It says many living alone eat without company, tiring of meals quickly and seeking social contact, linking loneliness to unhealthy eating patterns and bodily nourishment.
Love letters from her late husband the Emperor Frederick were laid with Empress Frederick in the coffin. The letters, silent after his loss of speech, were placed atop her heart before the coffin was finally closed.
The famous eagles that haunted the lakes of Killarney and bred in the Eagle's Nest mountains have been exterminated within the last three years.
Genealogical sketch by Rev. A. Stapleton of Carlisle Pa traces President McKinley’s ancestry to David McKinley, immigrant and Revolutionary War veteran who landed at New Castle in 1743. It details family lines from York county Pa to Chatfield Ohio, noting names Hannah Rose and James McKinley, with court records and land warrants cited. The piece notes McKinley’s gratitude for York county researchers and planned, then delayed, visit due to military events.
A digest of oddities and anecdotes: an old English house on the River Ver near St Albans, a curfew at 8 pm in Allesley, a German farmer subdued by a strong lass, a cowcatcher ride refused for safety, and the Osterlout family of Susquehanna known for hunting wildcats and rattlesnakes with Herman and Mrs Osterlout frequently joining hunts.
A scientist questions if the north pole will ever be found and a capitalist replies that a trust might be convinced there is money in it. The exchange hints at motives of funding and exploration, tracing a possible path to discovery through profit.
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