Paris Exhibit Details on French Tapestries and Ceramics
A Paris correspondent describes the vast French contribution to the Chicago exhibition. He highlights tapestry traditions from Gobelins Beauvais and Sevres and notes key figures like Palissy. The piece notes national pride, workshop methods, and the influence of royal and state patronage on French ceramic and textile arts.
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Chicago
Fumber
Atlantic
Seaboard
France
United States
Manu
Bauvais
Gobelins
Sevres
Paris
Heauvais
Limoges
Aubusson
Beauvais
Muller
Ivry
Avenue Des Gobelins
Jean Gobelin
la Lievre
Gobelin
Kirghese Marriage Customs and Early 20th Century Sculpter's Victory
Foreign correspondence describes Kirghese polygamy led by the eldest brother with a baibiche as mistress and deals with kalim payments, betrothal delays, and bride wealth complications. It also notes Miss Mary Redmond, Irish sculptor, winning the Father Mathew commission after a destroyed model and eventual public triumph in Dublin.
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Baibiche
Mary Redmond
Father Mathew
Dublin
Woman and Home fashion notes on stylish capes
A feature on current cape fashion discusses short and long cape combinations in silk satin and cloth. Describes nar row velvet capes with ruffles, pale blue satin linings, high collars, and a doe colored cloth cape with two overlapping capes. Also notes white satin lining, Vel ford cord trim with gold lace, and popular black satin capes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vedford
Hedford
If I Were Rich I Would Be Clean Beautiful and Happy
A woman in the Argonaut muses on the high costs of personal cleanliness and beauty. She lists lavish purchases from baths and towels to cosmetics and private services, imagining a life with extensive grooming, travel, and medical care to stay healthy and attractive.
Water-green satin gown with elaborate flounces and draped scarf
Description of a historical gown featuring a low round bodice and demi-trained skirt in water-green satin brocaded with pale pink and silver. Silk gauze flounces trim the skirt with satin and velvet accents, balloon sleeves, a dark green velvet scarf, and a bertha neckline in point d Angleterre.
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Bertha
Point d'Angleterre
Oriental Broche Satins and Persian Galloone in Fashion
Fashionable modistes use oriental broche satins for bias skirt borders and dress trimmings including vests revers and sape linings. Persian galloon borders add style to gowns in wool silks and poise. Patterns feature rich color blends and vine-centered motifs on green gold olive violet blue silver. Brill fabrics accompany the set.
Empire Princess costume and fashion notes headline
A fashion feature describes the New Empire Princess costume with cape collars and lavish trims. It notes Parisian wraps, gloves, and undergarments in silk and lace, plus tea jackets and luxury lingerie trends.
Tiger Dies From Cold at Parade
A tiger died after catching a lung cold on parade day. A giraffe also fell ill, reportedly from a cold exposure. The keeper cited a neck injury as the source of the illness and noted the visitor question about the animal’s illness.
Totling and Dimling Debate Debt at Death
Totling quips you need not worry about Flickers debt as he dies. Dimling questions the logic, and Totling cites a poet saying he who dies pays all debts.
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Totling
Dimling
One Woman's Fear and the City Editor's Woes
A fragment shows a humorous dialogue about fear and gossip in a city newsroom. Mrs Outside-Gracious complains of a drunken man while Mrs Candidde points to her own husband. Pruya quips about the nose for news as Wright notes the city editor's woes.
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Outside
Candidde
Facial
Pruya
Wright
Clerical Reformer and Gilded Youth Clash Over Hell Offer
A terse exchange shows a clerical reformer challenging a young man about hell with the youth replying he would attend a slumming party if it is not a permanent choice. The dialogue hints at generational tension and moral debate.
Theatrical Life and Foyer Possession in Court
A theater life story unfolds as Foyer-Possession is argued as nine points of law Thespis denies the case. Her first husband has just shown up bringing a new personal angle to the dispute.
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Mr. Hackers
Steenth Wrd
Miss Quickstep
Steenth
Amanda
Mr. Isaacs
Foyer
Thespis
Do You Wish the Finest Bread and Cake
An advertisement extols Royal Baking Powder as the purest strongest option for light digestible food. It warns against substitutes with gifts or prizes and lower prices that may contain alum lime or sulfuric acid. Decline substitutes for absolute purity.
Curious Onion Rites Then Mile Zucchi Marriage Gifts
A quirky 19th century item notes onions as medicine and a late night dish for a bride’s happiness. It also recalls Mile Zucchi’s wedding gift of 120 silver dancing slipper cups to Prince Basetchiko and mentions Jennie of the Rouge River tribe dying in Oregon after preparing a mourning robe. An unusual Tennessee birth with one eye and hairy body rounds out the column.
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Mile
Zucchi
Prince Basetchiko
Mille
Eden Theater
Paris
Jennie
Jacksonville
Oregon
Beecham’s Pills Featured Amid Patent Remedy Advice
An article warns against inferior bitters and praises Hostettler's Stomach Bitters for purity and bowel and liver benefits. It includes ad text for Beecham's Pills at 25 cents and other quack claims, noting dramatic cures and urging readers to consult Dr Kline at Arch Street Philadelphia for trial bottles and remedies.
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Eline
Kline
Arch St
Philadelphia
Pleasant safety and uses of Syrup of Figs and tonics
The notice touts Syrup of Figs as safe for ladies under all conditions with guidance to seek the genuine article from the California Fig Syrup Co. It also promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as strength tonic for all ages, Bancroft Hotel near the World's Fair, Creole Formula Tonic for female ailments, and Winston's Sparmac for teething with cheerful marketing and miscellaneous quips.
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California
California Fig Syrup Co
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Thompson's Eye Water
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Penelope
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Ecru
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Winston
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Durham Tobacco Co
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