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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
3
The article surveys shifting trends in women’s hats showing a move from oversized picture hats to small close fitting styles like toques and bon nets. It notes a surge of variety in materials satin velvet beaver felt and tulle and warns against excessive feather use while highlighting theatre and dress hats and the conflict between large and small hat trends.
The piece surveys fur hats and turbans in velvet crowns, chinchilla and beaver blends, and bold Cossack shapes. It notes matching fur and dress, varied trims like sable bands and ostrich plumes, and calls out evolving silhouettes for afternoon and street wear.
Eskimo pipes differ from other North American designs with bow-like shapes resembling Chinese opium pipes. Early pipes were tiny to conserve scarce tobacco, with a wide rim, a pea-sized tobacco chamber, and a base hole lined with caribou hair. Ivory, stone, brass, or copper bowls fed curved stems, and skilled carvers etched daily Eskimo life on walrus ivory pipes, showing winter scenes on two right surfaces and summer life on two left surfaces.
Captain Henri Choppin publishes reminiscences about General Marquis de Gallifet who died recently. The general, famed for bravery and wit, saved a lady and her son from an express train while a major with the twelfth army corps at Limoges.
A man saved himself by grabbing a batter and swinging up as a train halted. A friend asked what he felt, and the Marquis confirmed the moment, noting his braces gave way and fear for what would follow.
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