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Newspaper
Freeland Tribune
Location
Freeland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1902
Page
3
The Ping-Pong waistline appears in silk and pongee garments with contrasting silk stitching. Hats feature elaborate embellishments including ping-pong hats and rose wreaths. Also described is Todian Girls at a Santa Fe school where girls learn sewing, cooking, housework, and doll clothing, with vivid contrasts between cultures.
The piece surveys current jewel trends with emphasis on Louis Quinze and Louis Seize styles, large cabochons, and bold emeralds. It notes decorative uses from corsages to enamelled wreaths and the novel idea of gem-encrusted old lace, praising Egyptian inspired bandeaux and fine coiffure integration.
Two old fashion elements return this summer grenadine and the chip straw hat with wreaths of flowers and velvet ribbon. Black grenadine pairs with color, white taffeta, and lace inserts, while a silver gray grenadine dress with a Watteau style bodice and crinoline evokes forties era charm. A long ostrich feather and a flounced pelerine boa complete the nostalgic, full-skirted look.
A Philadelphia Record blurb notes a cape like garment with long ends resembling a boa. It highlights the fabric’s adaptability to various ages from sixteen to sixty and beyond, praising its demure folds and versatile cosmetic appeal.
A New York News piece extols the old fashioned rope swing with a notched board, arguing it provides full body exercise, strengthens hands and arms, and offers safe, gradual athletic training for children of all ages in village yards.
The item surveys women’s voting rights in colonies and rural Burma, honors Helen Gould for sending paintings to Greensboro, a Flemington club donates a $400 drinking fountain, Emma C. Sickels receives a Paris medal for bravery in the 1890 Indian War, and international women’s council representation. It also notes Jenny Hirsch’s Berlin death, Virginia Meredith leading Minnesota agricultural studies, and Hortense Adams of Boise as a rare female mine discoverer who refused a large offer after locating her claims.
Fashion commentary highlights lace edgings on laces and fan motifs, black tulle sash ends on evening gowns, and openwork weaving in silky summer fabrics. Barege with lace and trimming remains popular for dresses, while tiny flounces and vandykes decorate skirts. Blouses in linen and duck appear in delicate colors with lace accents and velvet ribbons, and new uses for faulette emerge alongside net and ring spotted fabrics.
Inventions tease future tech including a spherical phonograph record and a high speed photo printing method. Antitoxin diphtheria results show 5.0 percent mortality among 286 cases versus 28.9 percent with other methods. An ancient bronze head, likely Tiberius, is uncovered during foundational work for a church enlargement in Colchester. Electric lamps waste heat, with only six percent light and ninety four percent as heat, raising fire risk. Dresden completes Europe’s largest long distance heating plant with 15,200,000 heat units and four to four and a half percent transmission loss.
A Halifax factory act hearing heard a factory inspector recount his search for a joiners planing machine attendant with all fingers intact. Five years passed before finding such a man. All observed attendants had one or more fingers lost in duty, despite workers’ awareness and caution.
A Chicago Record Herald quote shows a South Side school teacher explaining multiple meanings of grace to a class. She delineates grace as a girl's name beauty and a moral quality while a student frets about breakfast table manners spoiling his appetite.
The head of a major wholesale carpenters supply house on Chambers Street allowed a saleswoman to run the plane department, replacing the male salesman. The woman, not known for beauty, faced a rough start and quit in deep disgust before ever fully adopting the title.
A Pittsburg Gazette correspondent portrays Hyderabad City built in a valley of Deccan Trap rock. The article describes nine walled gates, strict curfews, permits for visitors, and a feared policing system with attacks as a feared threat from the Nizam’s regular and irregular armies.
A compact collection of maxims and sayings from Napoleon Beranger Pope Tasso Shakespeare Italian proverbs and Ruskin. The notes reflect on virtue labor judgment wealth dreams and secrecy with concise aphorisms.
The article argues credit depends on character, reliability, business aptitude, and willingness to work, not just wealth. It contrasts diligent youths starting small with inherited wealth lacking business capacity, noting creditors value practical merit and proven behavior over capital. O S Marden, Success.
Prince Edward of York, grandchild of Edward VII, fell ill with influenza and wished to comfort a nearby girl also sick. After weighing gifts, the prince chose to send his prized green frog instead of Lord Roberts bust, saying he valued the frog most and wished to cheer the girl with it.
The Kettering School Board and Urban Council, after cross purposes over the site of a proposed refuse destructor, agreed to settle their quarrel with a game of golf. The Urban Councilors won and the School Board withdrew their opposition.
New York fashion coverage highlights box pleats on popular shirt waists as shown by May Manton. White fabrics like mercerized chevret are modeled with belt and satin accents, with diverse materials and colors suggested. Jewelry trends revive older stones and pale hues, while ribbons and linen weaves introduce new plaids and decorative trims.
The text outlines fabric yardage for waist sizing in various widths. To cut the waist in the medium size, four yards of material twenty-one inches wide, three and a half yards twenty-seven inches wide, two and three-quarter yards thirty-two inches wide, or two yards forty-four inches wide are required.
May Manton features a black moire velours Eton jacket with a broad batiste collar edged in guipure, designed to pair with odd skirts and gowns or with cloth etamine and cheviot. The coat style sleeves have turn-over cuffs, a smooth seamless back, and adjustable fronts with darts and under-arm gores for a perfect fit. Material requirements vary by width: four and a half yards of 21 inch, or 1.75 yards of 44 inch, or 1.5 yards of 52 inch widths.
A compact overview of color symbolism assigns red to courage and intense love with the ruby as emblem, white to youth and innocence with pearls and diamonds, yellow to wisdom and glory with topaz and jealousy, violet to dignity, amethyst to friendship and love, and green to hope and joy with emerald as a representative gemstone.
A detailed fashion page describes a big ostrich feather hat with a rhinestone buckle and three plumage tips, plus a Miss Gibson dress in white pique. The May Manton model features a fitted lining waist with pleats, a circular skirt with box pleats, bishop sleeves, and a standing collar.
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