Restricting Vote In South Features Row Over Amendments
The Goshen Daily Democrat notes Georgia’s post 1877 tax and qualification rules for voters, detailing new amendments aimed at disenfranchising the ignorant and contrasting with similar moves in Louisiana North Carolina South Carolina and Virginia. It also covers Hartford bridge history Japanese-American goodwill talks a mind power tale Sarasate obituary Northcliffe damages and a tidal power plant plan for Black Bay.
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Big Minors Declare Peaceful Split of Leagues for 1909
Representatives of the Eastern League and American Association reached a ten year membership accord while pledging not to invade each other’s territory. They rejected plans for a new third major league and limited cross-controversy with the National Association.
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A. A
Gophers Drop Carlisle in Western Football Action
The University of Minnesota severs football relations with Carlisle after a 11 to 6 defeat. Carlisle players accused of slugging and uncivil conduct toward the referee Endsley. Prospects suggest Minnesota may renew with Michigan and clash with Wisconsin Chicago for next season honors.
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Chicago
Useful Coats Designs From Early Tailoring Notes
Three coat designs described with materials lists. The first features a dark green cashmere coat with velvet collar and beaver hat. The second uses red serge with silk braid, collar and cuffs, plus a Tam-o-Shanter. The third coat in blue serge favors a plain lacque shape with silk or velvet trim and a soft felt hat.
Novelty Decor: England Imported China Flower Plants
Harper's Weekly notes a new line of center table decorations the china flower. These artificial plants replicate natural foliage including a pink rose bush and a purple fuchsia, with small four inch versions available. The collection includes geraniums dahlias primroses tulips hyacinths and pansies offering extensive in home decor options.
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China
Harper's Weekly
Dress Design for Home Wear in Cashmere and Velvet
Designed for home wear this dress uses old-rose cashmere with deeper velvet trimmings. The front and back are cut in one piece to hem with side seams under a waistband. Two shoulder tucks lead to a velvet strap, neck and armhole edges echo velvet, waistband in velvet, with a plain white silk under slip and lace details. Materials: five and a half yards cashmere, one yard velvet, two yards silk.
Two inch panel on sleeve trends in womens fashion
A line of two inch sleeve panels appears with trimming along the back from shoulder to wrist. Rosettes bows embroideries and rows of buttons decorate the panel. Transparent sleeves dominate while net panels and tucked satin insertions enliven cloth sleeves.
Honey Cream Emollient Recipe
A home remedy combines myrrh honey white wax rosewater and almond oil. Melt wax rosewater oil and honey in a jar over boiling water then stir in myrrh and cool. Described as an excellent emollient for harsh skin.
Muffs Described as Flat Large Laprobe Style Decor
The description highlights unusually flat and large muffs laid over the knees like laprobes. Neck ruffs are noted as enchanting, made from fur satin ribbon and plaited lace with mull frills, fastened typically at one side under a large bow with long wide fringed ends.
Blue Tones Dominate Color Schemes in Modern Fashion
The article notes blue leading color schemes with new shades such as Nattler gentian moonlight and navy advancing strongly. It highlights an evening pairing of blue and black in moonlight blue over silver tissue, enabling bold embroidery touches. It mentions Japan’s fresh aspects and a range of serviceable tones beyond bold hues.
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Floral Arrangements Vogue Says Emphasize Quality
Vogue urges artistic floral decorations with careful, studied simplicity over bulk displays, praising quality blooms and natural ease in arrangements for the season.
Dress for Old Ladies Fashion Portrait in a Busy Room
A stylish restaurant scene captures an elderly woman, around 63 to 68, in a white muslin dress with black dot pattern and a six gored skirt that sweeps the floor. The ensemble features Cluny lace panels, black satin trim, elbow gloves, and a jaunty Cluny lace bonnet with black satin ribbon. Her fan is black gauze with silver trimming. The piece notes the charm comes from care and smart tailoring, with fabrics affordable and adaptable for home wear or street warmth through silk capes and broadcloth coats.
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Haly
Hints to Housewife from a 19th Century Guide
Practical tips for household tasks from cleaning gilding to candle making. Bayberry candles fetch 50 cents a pair per Harper's Bazaar. Instructions cover making green wax from berries, headache relief with hot water therapy, painting upkeep with flaxseed cloth, glove staining with black ink and olive oil, removing gilding grime with gin soaked cotton, and patching torn wallpaper with children’s paints.
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Harper's Bazar
Cleaning Feathers for Pillows
Guidance on pillow feather washing warns against home cleaning. Soak feathers in soapsuds, rinse thoroughly, and dry in shade with a strong breeze. Sun damages drying. two to three days needed and knots or stickiness may persist. Steaming at a reliable establishment is advised.
Grape Juice Processing Instructions From Preserving Manual
Grape juice is prepared by stem removing several quarts of grapes and placing them in an agate preserving kettle with a quart of water. Boil until a boil is reached, then strain. Return juice to heat, boil once more, bottle and seal while hot.
Death Is Painless and Welcomed as Sleep in View of Mortality
Dr. Woods Hutchinson argues in the American Magazine that death is painless and often welcomed, likening it to sleep and the fading of a leaf. He notes poisons and disease erase consciousness before the end, easing fear for most patients and leaving loved ones to grieve.
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Woods Hutchinson
American Magazine
Woman With $20 000 Salary Miss Harrison Serves Rogers
The private secretary to financier H. H. Rogers is Miss K. I. Harrison, earning about 20000 annually. She runs the office in Rogers absence and handles all access, with Rogers and Twain cited as connections. Messages and requests must go through prearranged channels and written notes.
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Miss Harrison
Mr. Rogers
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Mark Twain
Benefit of Gymnastics to Golfera
Capt. Hutchinson of the Coldstream Guards notes five hours daily gym work harmed golf at first but later strengthened wrist and forearm muscles. He says he shortened his swing and adopted the overlapping Vardon grip, two changes that improved his game.
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Sam Camarillo's Homecoming From the Streetcar Ride
Sam Camarillo, after a night of drinking and stringing along debts, returns to wife Maria on Maxwell Street with a 19 cent punkus pumpkin as a peace offering. The gesture reconciles them, aided by a settlement worker who later warns him about legal consequences for further misdeeds.
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Perro
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Section
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Perro’s
Chicago Record-Herald
Two Huge Green Turtles At New York Aquarium
The New York aquarium welcomed its largest green turtle, weighing 360 pounds with a top shell 3 feet 8.5 inches long and a length of about 4.5 feet from beak to tail. A second large turtle, 318 pounds and 3 feet 5.5 inches, already resided in the same pool, making a remarkable exhibit.
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New York Aquarium
Better Acquainted with Sis The Young Man Georgey
A fragment from the Tribune notes a playful exchange with a young man and a girl in a ragtime era scene. The text hints at street slang and comic dialogue about an angel, a boy, and a humorous mishearing.
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Georgey
Wonloago Tribune
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