Spring Styles in Ready to Wear by the Ar biters of Fashion
Spring fabrics and light wool and worsted materials fill store windows and ready to wear lines. Intricate waists feature Persian designs and insertion with glass accents, while new yellows blue purples and velvet ribbons appear in hats and neckwear. Evening and day wear show lace yokes, surplice inserts, and elaborate belts with deep art nouveau buckles.
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Casey
Movel
Eton
New York Tribune
Novel Geographical Party For Holiday Entertainment
A unique holiday game invited guests to dress as places on a map. Players received papers numbered 1 to 48 with owner identifiers and had one hour to guess whose insignia matched each number. Prizes went to the top guessers, with consolation for fewest correct. Some emblems misled guesses, like Firth Finland misread as Fin land, or a water bottle read as Waterbury or Clearwater.
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Finland
Earth
Firth
Waterbury
Clearwater
Springwater
Spring fashions parade rich fabrics and novelty decorations
The article lists colorful spring styles including rhinestones hats and belt buckles with Chinese characters. It notes foliage trimmed hats, zigzag striped gowns, Sterling silver flexible belts, pearl embroidery on satin and lace evening gowns, and rose black velvet appliques as popular decorative novelties. Many shades range from old rose to oxblood, with white hats trimmed in pale blue ribbons and white flower sprays.
The Suburban Disease and the Commutation Period
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece argues suburban nervous disorders stem from commuting fears. It blames old methods and suggests a suburban doctors group discuss these ailments, urging science to dispel illusions tied to trains, tickets, and daily routines.
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Johnny
Chicago
Inter Ocean
One on the Officer McNally Aiding Lost Boy
Officer Martin McNally of the Seventh Police District helps a crying boy who says he is lost near Peebles Corner. The officer, recognized for memory of faces, carries the child toward his home, aided by Officer Pickles O Hearn, while the fate of the rebuke to the parents remains unknown.
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Martin McNally
McNally
Pickles O
O'Hearn
Master McNally
Never Touched Him Ice Cream Freezer Escape on Train
A dining car assistant cook nicknamed Pat fell from a moving Great Western Road train while making ice cream. The chef chased the conductor crying in French accents. Pat miraculously rejoined the train with the freezer on his back and quipped it jarred him some.
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Pat
St. Paul
Monsieur
Lippincott's Magazine
Standardization Drives Uniformity Across Engines and Rails
Industrial standards extend to engines dynamos and box cars with new uniform dimensions. AEC and IEEE committees set armature bore shaft space and bolt sizes for 25 to 200 kilowatts. Master Car Builders propose box car dimensions matching rail standards adopted by the American Railway Association.
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American Society of Civil Engineers
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
Master Car- Builders’ Association
American Railway Association
National Tube Company
Committee On Standardization of
Lst
England
The
Franklin Institute of Philadelphia
Kentucky Raises Marriage License Fee by Fifty Cents
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune notes Kentucky has increased the marriage license price by fifty cents. The new fee adds to the prior two dollar charge, affecting couples planning elopements and requiring the extra seal cost as directed by the State Auditor through County Clerk Yates in Covington.
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Kentucky
Yates
Covington
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Curious Facts From Various Realms From Food to Forestry
A collection of curious notes spans food processing by West Indians chopping fruits soaking in sea water then syrup heating Edison phonograph as a stenographic aid in a coroner’s inquest. It also covers fishing town swim prejudices cedar wood durability Washington cedar longevity bird mating habits and woodpecker behavior.
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Edison
Overstaying Her Leave and the Minute Tax on Pay
An old Treasury rule enforces a penny per minute deduction for clerks who exceed their annual leave. Salaries are prorated by minutes worked, excluding Sundays and holidays, with no fractional minutes. A Treasury worker fought over thirteen cents deducted for about a quarter hour, but authorities stood firm.
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United States
Treasury Department
Treasury
Washington Star
Coal as the Main Barrier to Italian Industry
Vanderlip argues coal supply is Italy’s chief industrial obstacle. He notes all coal for railways and factories comes from abroad, hurting the balance of trade and raising fuel costs. At Italian sea ports coal costs 7 to 10 dollars per ton, while Milan pays 12.4 per ton. German, English, and US prices are notably lower, creating competitive disadvantages for Italy.
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Italy
Milan
United States
Krank A. Vanderlip
Scribner’s
Surra Attacks Army Mules In Philippine Outbreak
The fatal surra disease, identified as a parasitic infection identical to the Indian form, is sweeping through Manila and affecting horses, mules, camels, dogs, and monkeys. Mortality runs high, with 75 percent for American stock and 100 percent for native ponies. isolation and further bacteriological study are urged as no cure exists yet.
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Philippines
India
Manila
Quartermaster's Department
Chaffee
Manila Board of Health
Surra
First Colored Messenger At British Embassy Revealed
The British Embassy in Washington appoints its first colored messenger, a sinecure handling state papers and private documents. The role, usually given to veterans, requires strict accountability for mail delivered to New York or Canadian ports and then to the Ambassador or First Secretary.
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New York
Richard Donaldson
India
Washington Post
Abandoned tram cars find new life on land or water
The London Chronicle notes electric tramways shift, selling old horse tram cars at nominal prices. Readily repurposed as tiny homes or seafaring barges, these former vehicles become affordable houseboats or harbor shanties, illustrating wide reuse possibilities for aging rolling stock.
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London United Tramways Company
London
London Chronicle
Resisting Inevitable Changes In Automobiles
The piece argues society underestimates rapid automotive shifts and clings to horsehorse analogies. It notes rural police diverting duties to manage cars, claiming safety rests with driver skill rather than speed, and predicts the auto trade will move toward France and America per the Westminster Gazette.
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Trance
America
Westmminster Gazette
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