Fourth National Bank to Open Women’s Department in Atlanta
The Fourth National Bank will on August 1 inaugurate a women’s department with a woman teller to serve female patrons at a separate window. Miss Jennie Armstrong, linked with Girls' High School in Atlanta, was appointed teller in charge of the division. The move mirrors East Coast banks and aims to ease crowding, with a leather bound check and passbook, and payments in fresh currency at the new window.
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Chicago
Fourth National Bank
Atlanta
Jennie Armstrong
Fourth National
South
East
Fifth Avenue Bank of New York
Atlanta Journal
Mirror Use in Dress Buying and Color Theory
An old fashion note urges using a toilet mirror when selecting fabric and testing colors. It warns mirrors aid complexion judgment, advises against relying on sales staff appearance, and recommends trying material on the wearer at the point of use, noting color shifts above and below the face and the need to test near the wearer.
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Charlotte Corday
Mob
Use of Perfumes and Walking Exercise for Women
A discussion urges balanced perfume use, arguing excessive scent is vulgar and a single, delicate aroma is best. It advises matching powder, soap, extracts, and handkerchief scent, noting scented handkerchiefs can revive faintness. It extols walking as ideal exercise for female beauty, warning other activities may impair grace.
Embroidered Silk Gloves and Women’s Fashion Notes
A column on health through walking, then fashion trends for women including embroidered silk gloves with floral motifs, various glove styles, children's clothing with Russian blouse influences, hats, lace details, pleatings, and accessories. It notes durable coats, ostrich feather boas, and coordinated colors for evening wear.
Lousehold Tips for Brass and Fried Peppers
Household guidance describes two brass cleaning methods to restore brilliancy without gilt or lacquer. One uses sal ammoniac heated to powder then moistened and rubbed on warm ornaments, finished with bran and whitening. The other employs rock alum boiled in strong lye, dried and rubbed with tripoli. Also details frying peppers sliced crosswise, cooled, salted, floured, fried in olive oil, or broiled with butter for steak accompaniment.
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Tripoli
Mushroom soup from scraps boosts home catering appeal
A home caterer can create an elegant soup using assorted mushrooms kept cheaply as basket bottoms. Wash peel dice simmer in boiling water until tender, press through sieve, then blend with a mushroom cream made from four into boiling water and hot milk. Season and finish with mushroom puree for serving.
Proper Boiling Techniques For Vegetables
The guide warns against overboiling many vegetables and recommends boiling potatoes, asparagus, peas, and cauliflower in little water with steady heat and salting late. Beets are best cooked in cold water with salt and vinegar, carrots sliced and boiled thirty minutes, and string beans slowly boiled for two hours, all served with appropriate sauces.
Fried Green Bananas and Other Cuban Style Dishes
A list of recipes includes Fried Green Bananas cut and fried like potatoes, Tea Punch made with lemonade and tea, Egg Fondue with parmesan and toast, Scones with butter and cream, Mock Bisque Soup using bread crumbs and tomatoes. The instructions specify quantities and steps for each dish.
Vegetable mimicry in flowers with fetid odors
A survey of flowers that emit strong odors resembling rotting meat or animal scents. Carrion flowers such as stapelia aristoloclia arum and rafflesia attract pollinators and may even attract pests. Other genera produce musk like or brandy like scents. Odor and color can deter or attract depending on the consumer.
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Kerner
When the Tenderfoot Was It
A dancer recalls a trip to a Turian Territory where he wore a full dress outfit and became the center of attention among women while men stared. On a return visit a club arranged matching formal wear for all, making him the lone “has been” again as a tailor fixed everyone’s attire.
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Willie
Spain's cash and vigor despite loans, a future role
The Mexican Herald notes Spain has raised 65 million dollars at four percent and four times subscribed, showing money in reserve despite hardship. It praises Spaniards as virile and unspoiled, with a strategic European position and a potential great future.
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Spain
Lfe
Europe
Fruit Juices Kill Disease Germs Say Bacteriologists
Eminent bacteriologists urge fruit juices as disease fighters noting lemon and apple juices kill cholera and typhoid germs quickly. Lemon juice's citric acid and apple juice’s malic acid cited as key factors. A lemon in water can render it safe after standing fifteen to twenty minutes. A fruit diet is claimed to cleanse the stomach and remove many disease germs.
Our Bupcet of Humor and Clever Sayings
A collage of humor snippets and witty exchanges from various sources. Jokes range from time and money quips to politics and love, with snippets about hats, minds, laurel rests, and social foibles.
Warrant Says Hit Leads To Arrest During Baseball Game
In a grandstand exchange a stranger asks who the fellow at bat is. The answer names Bingull and a debt warrant is hinted, as Bingull hits a three base drive bringing in two runners. The crowd erupts while a pocketbook is produced to settle the claim amid the game.
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Phat
Bingull
Uve
Chicago
Canadian lynx at bay threats and ferocity in wilderness
Ottawa Free Press describes the Canadian lynx as a formidable, rarely seen predator once common in New England and New York gaining interest for its savage appearance and ferocious reputation. It details physical traits, habitat range, and hunting methods, noting its adaptation to extreme cold and reliance on skin for hunting value.
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New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Canadian
Labrador
Dominion
Ottawa Free Press
Words of Wisdom and an Awkward Stage Incident
A collection of maxims on temperance, action, and virtue contrasts with a humorous provincial-town anecdote. Philosophical reflections urge daily toil, wisdom sharing, and humane uplift, while the tale recalls a singer borrowing boots from a fireman, provoking a dramatic onstage interruption.
Greenland Population and Fatalities Between Census Years
Greenland's recent census reports a population of 1,074 with a male and female split. The population grows by about 100 annually and the territory records roughly twenty to twenty-five fatal accidents each year.
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Urcentual
Greenland
SxOo
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