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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1909
Page
4
New York City describes a softly draped evening waist praised for versatility across fabrics. The design pairs with plain cutaway coats featuring side slits and broad soutache braid, used as decoration on cuffs. Braid ends in a mitered finish with a silk tassel.
The Knotted Sash remains a smart feature of long skirts this season. Sashes knotted at the left side frontward, in silk or satin, stay on the bias and must be wide enough for a full look. Tassels or passementerie finish the bottom, with elaborate silk danglers and fringe.
The article praises circular skirts noting their graceful, novel lines and flattering fit. It describes a three piece construction with a wide front and two narrow side and back pieces, darts to ensure a smooth fit, and options for inverted pleats or habit style finishing. Broadcloth trimmed with buttons and stitching is illustrated.
A detailed description of a satin and lace dress features a fitted waist with draped back portions and an ornamental buckle across the sash. Sleeves display new slash-and-rose rosettes. Material quantities are given for several sizes including four yards twenty-one to twenty-four inches and lace edging.
Hand carved wooden parasol and umbrella handles cut in animal shapes are replicated as hatpins and tucked among other trimmings on an imported hat.
Fashion notes describe a craze for snug fitting sleeves with little fullness and a wrist to arm shape that hugs the limb for a tailored look. The trend highlights new sleeve designs emphasizing contour over volume.
A fragment describes assembling fabric with edges placed over side gates and attached as shown. It notes a concealed back closing and provides medium size measurements six and a quarter yards by approximately twenty four to twenty seven inches wide and four yards by forty four to fifty two inches wide.
Julia Bolton, twelve, granddaughter of H H Bolton a Mobile Jackson and Kansas City railroad agent, led a swimming rescue at Dupree's Creek near Hattiesburg Mississippi. Stella Breland disappeared underwater during a swim but Bolton dived and grabbed her heel pulling her to the surface where she was revived after an unconscious spell.
William Prell a Congress Hall musician was attacked by two large fish hawks while swimming off Asbury Park New Jersey. They nibbled at his head as he struggled to stay afloat until Life Guard Jackson arrived in a lifeboat and brought him to shore. He vowed not to return to the ocean.
George Shaw aged fourteen and William Flynn aged nineteen rescued a woman from drowning in the Delaware River near Spruce Street Wharf Camden New Jersey. Mrs Catherine Clark stepping into a deep water hole could not swim and cried for help as Shaw leaped in and Gripped her Flynn helped bring her to the boat. She was revived after doctors worked over her for thirty minutes to a half hour. About a hundred spectators cheered the rescue.
San Francisco Herald reports Mrs. Julian H. Arnold endured eight days among Formosan savages protected only by a small Japanese military detachment. She described a six foot tall chief in leather with a belt of knives and scalps, and a tribe that had recently decapitated another group. No harm befell her party during their stay.
The Santa Fe Railway Company gave Arthur Mullin a costly gold watch for saving a train during the Leon River floods near Temple Texas last May. Mullin crossed a washed out track to flag an approaching locomotive, narrowly averting disaster and earning the recognition.
An Atlantic Monthly plea argues for emancipation of the adult minor and ending legal disenfranchisement based on age. The author says the constitution allows removing political infancy by state action and cites disparities with Scotland as an example of anachronistic rules.
A weary traveler arrives at a London hotel after wandering the city seeking space. He balks at the bed, the landlord retorts a duke once slept there, and the exchange ends with a witty jab about the Iron Duke. The piece closes with a quip on bird flight and dragonflies.
An ad for Laxative Bromo Quinine features a promise to cure a cold in one day and notes a claimed 25 cent price. It references E. W. Grove signatures and claims worldwide use. The copy adds a statistic that about eleven percent of those who die are insured, attributed to New York advertising copy.
Mrs. Joseph Hall Chase and Mrs. A L Wetzel report relief after using Peruna from the Peruna Drug Mfg Co Columbus Ohio. They credit improved health with testimonial acceptance and suggest consulting a doctor and requesting a free Peruna Almanac 1908.
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