Five Dollar Shirt Waist Suits Popular This Season
The shirt waist suit made for five dollars rivals hats in popularity this season. Many women may sew at home to achieve a 500d standard, using ginghams, chambrays, crash, percale, dimity and lawn. Styles shown include plaited skirts, waist with tucks and straps, lace trim, and varied trims like Irish lace and cambric piping. Dresses featured in grass green dimity and other cheap fabrics demonstrate the trend toward affordable, stylish home-made outfits.
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Miuat
Keeves Dessins
It Stands Alone Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription Ad
A vintage ad claims Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures lencorshea female weakness and womb issues with a $500 reward if not cured. It touts unmatched guarantees and urges readers to shun competing remedies while praising the product and Dr. Merce's Pills for constipation and headaches.
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Pierce
Home Weller
Fecret
Merce
White Dove of Peace visits Philadelphia court scene
The Philadelphia Sr Court No 2 saw a white dove land near Judge Barratt's chair, causing a stir among officials. The bird, captured by janitor William Collins, bore a metal panel inscription and sparked varied theories about the judiciary’s fate. McCain claimed pigeons bring luck, while others warned of trouble. In a separate New York note, a luncheon for 35 women featured an oversized egg shell setting with bucolic farm tableaux surrounding the guests.
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Philadelphia
Eirife
Pennypacker
Ldra
Big Geo
Ingrazh
Dudge
William Collins
Buy' McCain
Hishter
Littleton
News of Tragic Deaths On New Haven Tracks
In New York on April 4 Mrs Anna Tompkins aged 6, a Mount Kisco church worker, broke the news gently to her daughter after a fatal accident at the Mamaroneck tracks. Her satchel snagged on a picket as she crossed and she died shortly after at the station. Nearby, Willett C Wallace, a New York lawyer, was instantly killed by a New Haven engine while playing hide and seek with friends.
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New York
Pieane
Mra
Anna Tompkins
New Havan
Mamaroneck
Anos Gerlach
Mount Kisco
Bee
Avene Gate
Fonca
Nw Haven
Tompkins
Willett C. Wallace
George W. Wallace
New Haven
George Wallace
Willett
St Bernard Rescues Two Boys From Drowning
In New Jersey a 204 pound St Bernard named Manor Tucker saved a 6-year-old boy from drowning after the bank collapsed into a deep pool of the Second River. The dog swam to the struggling child, pulled him to shore by the collar, and delivered him safely. Manor also located and returned Harold Hollenslebin, grandson of Recorder Jacob G. Post, who had wandered into the Grange mountains.
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New York
Manor Tucker
New Jersey
Aitle Harold Hollenslebin
Jacob G. Post
Bloomfield
Grange Mountains
Local Vignettes and Oddities From City Life
A dash of city life notes small-town quirks including a young woman 18 the last noted age, a stubborn voting machine tease, and a doctor’s remark about a runaway marriage. We hear about a stammering school in Indianapolis, a teetotal telegraph operator with hot food woes, and a cedar nail in a tree linked to a barber’s curiosity. A rich man in New York boasts his heir will be worth 1000, while a Mount I Kiso birth yields $1000 for the grandparents.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolia
Ife
Br George
Traverse City
Midh
D. Squiera
W. J. Halstead
Tie
George Halatond
Mount I Kiso
Haletes
Plucked Tales from Verdant Indiana Fields
A chaotic clippings page notes quirky local items and misprinted anecdotes. Doc Stone touts a dubious horse remedy involving peppermint sauce, while other oddities report misadventures with beehives, a bee sting incident, and a home-made feud about weather and fortune.
Determined Pair Seeks Consent To Wed Poet with a Mill Boss
Captain Wells challenges Jack Moore to prove his fitness to marry Lela Wells within six months. Jack laboriously climbs from mill hand to capable suitor, studying German to thwart two con men eyeing Wells property. After near failure, Jack uncovers the plot, earns Wells’s blessing, and wins Lela’s love.
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Jack Moore
Capt. Wells
C Hair
Leila Wells
Eadfast
Jack
MIM
Cadla
Igek
Lela
Old Wells
Lelia
Storch
Lely
Lelia Hin
Flower request from two girls moves Madison governor
In Madison during a Roosevelt reception Gov La Follette saw two girls in the crowd asking not for gifts but for a single flower for their sick father. The governor granted a bloom and the children cried with joy as they carried the flower to cheer their ailing parent amid the bustling event.
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Madison
Wis
Roosevelt
Gov. la Follatti
Ornor
Rome
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