Crineline Fashion Fads Stir Summer Female Garments
The crinoline scare recurs as skirts widen and new supports appear beneath gowns. Designers favor five and seven yard hems with haircloth or crinoline facings, while sleeves grow large and puffed. Colorful silks, crepons, and linens debut with lace, ribbons, and jet trims in a lively spring fashion landscape.
Fields Open to Women
An essay argues that the gate to professional and industrial fields is open to women not by decree but by training and opportunity. It notes women succeed in real estate, laundries, hotels, furnishings, and drummers, and stresses the true question is women’s entry rather than fields opening.
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Dr. Johnson
Eight Day Clock Sales Pitch Stirs Over-the-Rhine Encounter
An jewelry store agent touts an eight day clock in Over-the-Rhine, claiming it runs without winding. A German bystander questions the claim, asking how long it would run once wound, highlighting humorous skepticism in the exchange.
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over-the-Rhine
Providence KHL Approves $400,000 for New School Buildings
Providence committee set to spend $400,000 on new school buildings aiming to expand facilities and relieve overcrowding. Officials emphasized long term gains for students and community.
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Providence
Khl
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Pure Blood and Renewed Vitality
The ad claims tiredness signals impure blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the standard remedy to purify, vitalize, and enrich the blood, prevent weakness, and build nerves. It includes a testimonial from Mrs. Anna L. Clark of Duluth describing her daughter Blanche's eczema and scrofula, improved after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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Blanche
Cora
Hood
Anna L. Clark
4Th St
Duluth
Minn
Hood’s Sarsaparilla and Chinese Forgeries Questioned
Report notes rising Chinese imitations of seventeenth and eighteenth century wares. Collectors lack confidence in distinguishing modern imitations from genuine relics as skilled forgers approach old standards. A Parisian claims to have invented an incombustible paper.
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Lippincott’s
Questions Women Ask Lydia Pinkham for Relief
A reader endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, claiming it cured her neu ragia of the womb backache and kidney trouble after doctors failed. She urges others with female ailments to try the remedy and notes a friend avoided surgery after using it.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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M. Wilds
Park St
Tioga
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