A Hot House Rose and the Night of Passion
In a palm alcove Henning confronts Misa Vandeleur about Carleton Vennor’s death and their dangerous attraction. She reveals she seeks power and wants to be different, while hinting at jealousy and social games. The scene ends with Henning moving toward Mary Allingham as a crimson rose is found.
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Henning
Carleton Vennor
Misa Vandeleur
Mr. Henning
Miss Vandeleur
Mary Allingham
Arthur
Lord Stanhope
Straight Lines for Figure Is Absolute Edict of Fashion
A fashion column details the rise of straight silhouettes with padded waistlines and oblong pillows to create a straight bust to floor line. It warns about corset lacing mistakes, urging careful front hooks, center pulls, and tight lower lacers to maintain the straight back shape and avoid damaging bones.
Self Acting Doors At Astor Hotel
Reported here is a new self acting door system at the Hotel Astor. An attendant at the main entrance activates a bulb to cause the electric door to revolve, ensuring uniform speed as it swings open and closed.
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Hotel Astor
N. Y
Chicago women found a school for wives in Detroit
A Chicago initiative establishes a school for wives but faces a problem as participants do not plan to stay long enough to benefit, per the Detroit News Tribune.
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Chicago
Detroit News Tribune
Soutache Braiding Reappears in Elegant Coats of Old Style
Fashion notes describe coats covered in soutache braiding, revived from past styles. A green broadcloth coat features a seven-gored skirt, left-front buttons, and a black satin waistcoat. heavy soutache scrolls cover the surface for a dramatic look. Curtains and home decor tips advise color harmony and seamless transitions between adjoining rooms to improve overall results.
War of fabrics in dress goods top styles
In dress goods a merry war unfolds between rough tweeds and soft satin weaves. Both fabrics rise in popularity as women seek suits and gowns in opposite textures.
Facial Distortion and the Quest for a Restful Face
A column urges readers to curb facial distortion common among the young, noting examples like lip biting and brow squinting. It argues quiet, natural repose outshines forced expressiveness, suggests seeking family feedback, and warns that relentless self-consciousness harms appearance and well being.
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Milly
Margaret
Violet
Fashion Notes Highlight Bold Fox Fur Trends
Fox furs lead the season with directoire coats and oversized millinery wings. Sleeves shrink less in vogue as long lines dominate garments. The pillow muff returns, belts favor elastic, and hair parts endure. One piece dresses rise, high necklines gain, rose ornaments in helio velvet appear on hats and bodices.
American Beauty Waistcoat Fashion Tip
A black coat or suit can be brightened with a waistcoat in American beauty satin or velvet. It is a smart touch that signals fashion awareness and can be fastened down the center with black velvet or jet buttons.
Pocket gophers threaten crops across western Far West farms
Pocket gophers infest regions west of the Mississippi and parts of several states and Canada. They ruin orchards by eating roots, damage clover, alfalfa, and hay, and pile dangerous mounds that hinder crops and machinery. Poisoning with strychnine, trapping, and carbon bisulphid are described, with emphasis on cooperative control and careful baits in main tunnels.
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Mississippi
Illinois
Wisconsin
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Canada
Mexico
Biological Survey
Pulp wood fear unfounded says tariff pamphlet
The American Protective Tariff League cites Henry Gannett data to claim 1905 pulpwood use equals only 2 percent of annual merchantable timber growth. The argument contends US forests can sustain paper production, with pulp demand far from threatening forest self-perpetuation and noting large economic benefits from the industry.
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American Protective Tariff League
American Economist
Henry Gannett
United States Geological Survey
Bulletin On Lumber and Timber Producte
United States
Canada
Valuable Pandex Index Keeps Editors Informed
Street's Pandex of the News from 126 Market Street Chicago edited by Arthur L Street announces a new weekly index to current events. It provides ten pages with about 600 news digests from the prior week, arranged alphabetically for quick reference.
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Pandex Company
Alao
Largest press installed by The San Francisco Bulletin
The San Francisco Bulletin completed a double sextuple Hoe press installation claimed to be the largest west of Chicago with capacity for 144000 twelve page papers per hour. An Autoplate adds three plates per minute and completes full dress in 38 minutes, versus manual production taking about one and three quarter hours for 96 plates.
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West
San Francisco Bulletin
Chicago
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Ford Pub, Co
David E. Lantz
U. S. Bureau Biological Survey
California
Mississippi Valley
Protective League
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