World News Flashes On Chimes and Fashion
A report highlights Mrs. Mary Griffin as the first woman to chime the Vandagen chimes atop Art Palace in Atlanta during the World's Fair events. It also notes Mrs Langtry promoting cycling in short skirts and fashionable gaiters. An omnibus paragraph mentions a London incident with a conductor adjusting a hat at a door. Shoes with side lacing revive an old fashion, praised for arched insteps and foot shaping.
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Art Palace
Atlanta
Mary Grif
Ieee
Eaya
London
SH MAKES FLAVORING EX TRACTS
A New Hampshire woman who long produced flavoring extracts for family use began thirteen years ago to sell them, using fruit-based processes rather than oils, building a growing New England market while facing health issues from rigorous work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire
Woendlt
New England
Woman Preacher Becomes Clergy Leader as Husband Fades
A wife, long active in her husband’s ministry, is ordained after he weakens and must retire. She takes his place, a rare act seen as heroism and pathos in a small community. The piece notes her rise amidcareful support and public reaction.
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Congregational
Littleton
Mass
Frost
Grees
Fashion notes on velvet fabrics and autumn styles
Fashion notes discuss dabnia, mulberry and reddish plum velvet and changeable velvets used by modistes for Loula XVI capes and opera coats. Autumn styles favor large sleeves, capes as wraps, matching jackets, dark fall fabrics, and silk for afternoon wear with plaided taffeta and sarah silk petticoats and ribbon trims.
Prank Exchange of Limbs by G A R Officers
Major John W Burst and Colonel Jack Stephens of Chicago, both war veterans who lost legs near the hips, swapped their artificial limbs after a playful morning mishap. Burst led the G A R National Pension Committee while Stephens was less inclined to jokes, but the friendship showed in a lighthearted room swap in Washington.
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John W. Burst
Chicago
Lawler
Jack Stephens
Burst
Stephens
G. A. R. National Pension Committee
Washington
Burt
Colonel Stephens
Pasteur and the birth of germ theory in disease defense
The passage credits Pasteur as the pioneer of fermentation studies that unveiled disease bacteria. It notes his findings that attenuated bacteria lose virulence, enabling inoculation of susceptible animals, and that protected animals resist subsequent virulent exposure. It also mentions serum transfer protecting other animals, marking a revolutionary shift in defending humans from disease.
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Paateur
Jn Thoes
Pasteur
Yellowstone Park Season Review Highlights Growth and Costs
Superintendent Huntley reports a fairly good tourist season with Montana residents visiting at record rates. Roads and hotels improved, road funding totaled 50 000 plus 30 000 previous year, and 200 miles of highways are urged. Buffalo and trout stocks rise as hunting remains restricted. fishing flourishes with rainbow Van Baer and Loch Leven trout. Next year predicted to be large as new Burlington route opens up the park to more visitors.
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Huntley
Yellowstone Park
Northern Pacific
Montana
Congress
Park
Wonderland
Loch Leven
Fire Hole
Burlington
Grand Canon
Frit Merits of the Telephone in a New England Town
In Melrose Massachusetts the local telephone exchange acts as a community information office. Residents call Central to locate a doctor pass along messages to tradespeople or learn the time, and the operator gladly coordinates these tasks to keep the town running smoothly. The piece suggests a new development in telephone use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Melrose
T We Telephone
Wasp dies from sting after bensine experiment
Frenchman M Henry tested bensine on jailed wasps. One wasp stung itself thrice and died, later two more did the same. He concludes desperate wasps may commit self death.
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M. Henry
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American Republic
Hadith Rockefeller
Harold Meik
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Puke of
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Paulee. Whitney
A. Almerie
Hugh Pay
Ethel V. Phelps-Stokes
B. Hoyt
Felicite Oglesby
George M. Pullman, Jr
England
Tiffany‘s
Femald
Margharita Ariina Hamm
Woman's Colleges
Lasalle
Teachers’ College
New York and
Brooklyn
United States
Tula
Fashion Notes
Sams
Intan
Paice Goin
Woodton
Wee
Ene
Wesaes Oe
Athienew
Wig Law and Notary Publig
Irekont
Indiana
Bamber
Rawr. G
Hilton House
Tidewater
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