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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1902
Page
3
Fashion notes describe the latest corset cover, originally designed to smooth the back, now emphasized as an outer waist piece mirroring the new front style. The trend signals a shift toward visible shaping garments as part of everyday attire.
A Woman's Home Companion excerpt urges guests to promptly accept or decline invitations, arrive five minutes early, and be entertaining and responsive. It frames hosting as a shared duty, noting that gracious behavior lightens the hostess's burden and that guests should feign interest if a partner bores them to preserve courtesy.
A historical society tale notes Lady Helen Stewart of London Derry ends her engagement to Lord Kitchener of Khartoum and marries Lord Stavor Dale. It attributes the breakup to French press caricatures of Kitchener as a Woman-hater. The feature moves to fashion notes on crepe de laine gowns.
The Philadelphia Record notes shirt waists appear with bold box plaits and novel touches as fashion shifts. It highlights a white velvet with black dot design, linen weave waists, and intricate detailing like pearl buttons, satin revers, and multiple tucks shaping the front and sleeves.
Notable bequest by Mrs Col lis P Huntington provides her home valued at a quarter of a million dollars to be converted into a hospital. Mrs Emmons Blaine ends eight hour relay housekeeping and boards. Mrs Alfred L Emanuel, first woman private citizen to receive the Kaiser-I-Hind medal for famine relief earns Lord Curzon and King Edward praise.
Dry Goods Economist notes new season items including hair ornaments in metal limestone and tortoise shells ribbons white lace parasols spring ties in crepe silk mull colors and lace trimmed night dresses corset covers velvet gowns umbrellas and automotive silk ties. article ends with a German life expectancy fact stating only one in ten thousand reach 100 years.
A recipe from Ladies' Home Journal suggests mending china by mixing water glass with powdered asbestos to form a thick cream. The paste is applied to the broken edges and pressed together, then left to harden for several days.
An artist notes replacing doors with portieres in apartments is a mistake retain some doors and adorn them with pictures or ornaments. Introduce soft silk hangings to break monotony and avoid straight alignments.
A Victorian style collection of recipes including Rateteene Veal Stew with onions tomatoes curry and rice steaming atop the meat two egg cream and rice omelet thickened with whites cheese toast bread fried in batter and fruit tapioca with currants cloves and lemon, all with per dish directions and serving notes.
A collage of humorous exchanges and comic quotes from 1920s papers. Jokes range from musicians to politicians, bosses and doctors, with lines about voting machines, nine lives cats, misheard tasks, and inflated entertainment costs. Notable quips appear from Philadelphia Bulletin and Baltimore American, among others.
Interviewed booksellers discuss how cover color affects purchase choices. A respondent notes red or a bright green attract attention, with gilt detailing and corner designs standing out on those colors. The title and pictures also sway undecided buyers, shaping initial impressions.
A Chicago Record Herald anecdote recounts young Willelmiod allowed at dessert with senior courtiers. She sits beside a favored general and questions why others fear her. The general replies with flattery, and the girl responds with a playful quip about the “weasies” in her dolls.
A famed New Yorker back from London recalls a quirky hotel stay with a wheezy elevator. After four days he notes a neatly posted sign beside the shaft declaring the lift is only for going up and guests should walk down stairs, a joke in the Magish sense.
Water wealth determines tree growth and seasonal vigor. Early seed selection and Fruita cultivation help beginners plant fruit trees, while engaging family in farm routine. Warm soil fosters germination with rye, winter wheat, barley, oats, flax, clover, peas, turnips, carrots, and beans showing varying thresholds. Rhubarb root demand grows as forced supply rises. a single acre can yield many roots, suggesting profitable potential for nearby gardeners.
An 1880s guide shares garden how tos from Vick's Magazine. It describes proper stake spacing for posts, mortise holes, and twine, then advises washing fruit trees with a thick soap solution to deter insects and protect bark. Emphasizes timing on dry days and reburying soil after washing.
A summary of Vanderlip's Scribner's essay praising American industrial reach. It notes U S cotton and cloths dominance, firms selling into Manchester and Asia, wheat bread from Minneapolis, windmills, phonographs, Chrysanthemum banner from Washington timber, Japanese and British ties, type setting machines, cash registers, sewing machines, bicycles, typewriters, electrical appliances, dynamos, London electrification, Pittsburg machinery, American shoes, and a Korean electric railway built with American material run by American motormen.
A Madras government report shows widespread emigration among pariahs to Burma Ceylon Mauritius and the Straits, depopulating villages and signaling a labor famine risk. Once tied to soil benefits now driven to day labor and migration. Also a Philadelphia Record excerpt discusses advertising writers earning high salaries yet remaining poor due to tempting ads.
A young man in overalls challenges an old farmer, claiming he planted twenty acres to potatoes last spring with a successful crop. The farmer, shocked, admits the young man is an agriculturist and expresses pride at the match for his daughter.
In a quip from The Argonaut a diminutive but elusively counsel named Else meets Joseph Jekyll the English wit and Solicitor-General. Else calls Jekyll a petty fogging scoundrel. Jekyll replies that he never called Else a pettifogger or a scoundrel, only “little Else.”
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