Armour Women’s Athletic Club Promotes Health Beauty
Mrs Philip D Armour leads Chicago Athletic Club for Women as America’s first athletic women’s club. It focuses on health and beauty with a $100,500 remodeling, a $10,000 marble pool, Turkish bath, Kre ms oak tearoom, and tapestried library. Membership limit 590. entrance $100, annual dues $40. no social features. Members’ mothers can pass privileges to daughters.
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Philip D. Armour
Chicago Athletic Club For
America
West
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Conner
Lfe
Lew Fenning’s Dramatic Rise From One-Armed Laborer to Spouse of Inglehart Heiress
The Chicago Tribune recounts Lew Fenning, the single-armed son of a lazy farming clan, who schemes to lift himself and the impoverished Inglehart siblings from poverty. By posing as a sorrowful, enterprising figure, he marries Liza, improves the shack, and gains local status while his family mocks his change in fortune.
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Pa Fenning
Ma Fenning
Lew Fenning
Lew
Bixby
Minera
Jacob
Liza Inglehart
Aivelihood
Liza
Ingieharts
Inglehart
Fle
Jacob Inglehart
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Brothers Fenning
Path Master
Chicago Tribune
English Spelled Game Turns Into Gentle Nursery Charade
Children host a spelling lesson for their mother in the nursery. She is pressed into the game and proposes a word linked to whitewashing gloves. The kids decipher the clue and shout pneumonia as the answer in a playful, instructive moment.
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Narhtha
Kitz tz Cafe Opens With Chicago Style Lunch
The sample room cafe-restaurant at 127 Court Street advertises business lunch hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in a Chicago style. Ey Kitz operates the venue offering dining in a refined, urban setting.
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B. Court-st
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Kitz
Gardner's Jewelry Ad Sparks Local Commercial Club
A fragment from a historic page highlights Gardner's Jewelry at 59 Commercial Street and references a local club event. The brief hints at a promotion or display tied to the shop and community group.
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Gardner's
Pauline Joran Becomes Baroness de Busch After London Wedding
Pauline Joran, Chicago prima donna and 25 year old wife of Baron de Busch, joined D Oyley Carte as prima donna. Her early start as a Chicago pianist at four and violinist at twelve led to U S tours and acclaim in Mexico City with torchlight processions. She added singing in 1890s and starred in Mascagni's L Amico Fritz.
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Chicago
Baron de Busch
London
D’oyley Carte Opera Company
United States
South America
Australia
Mexico
Mascagni
L’amico Fritz
Joran
Music Keeps Her Young in Danville Choir Leader Return
Mrs. Mary Louise Bushnell, 70, reappears as leader of the Dennisville M E church choir after nine years, praised for remarkable musical talent and a youthful spirit. Born 1829 in Lexington New York, she and Frederick Bushnell celebrated a golden wedding in 1898 and have long led local music. her recovery via an electrical device adds to the countywide interest.
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Mary Louise Bushnell
Dennisville M. E
Frederick Bennett Bushnell
Mrs. Bushnell
Lexington
Greene County
New York
Catskills
Sweden
N. Y
Danville Church
Upholstered Box Seat for Hall or Chamber
A simple box seat fabrication in hall or chamber style can be made from a clothes or shoe box or toy receptacle. Limit height to 14 inches and attach strong hinges. Line the interior and lid with plain fabric, tack firmly with small-headed tacks, and finish with a gathered drapery flounce. The top can be cushioned or made as a movable seat.
The Parisian Girdle Effect in Modern Dress
A detail of dress notes narrow belts of satin or taffeta stitched invisibly to front to create the Parisian girdle effect. This design shortens the back and elongates the bust to waist line, distinguishing the smart from the dowdy woman.
Mocha Silk-Lined Gloves Feature Dual Clasps
The Mocha gloves come silk-lined with heavy stitching and two clasps for closure. Available colors are tan gray and black only.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Cure Ad Claims Permanent Results
An advertisement argues rheumatism cures come from removing the cause, not the effect. Hood's Sarsaparilla is promoted as eliminating the cause for a permanent cure, while Hood's Pills are said to be non gripe. Appears in a period trade ad with price and vendor notes.
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Hood
Tours of All Mexico by Iron Mountain Route
The Iron Mountain Route offers personally conducted excursions to Mexico's palaces and points of interest. Spe cial westbound and eastbound cars with sleeping dining and observation service will carry parties in both directions. For maps and full information contact G A Deane Jr T P A Iron Mountain Route 231 McCreast Indianapolis Ind.
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Mexico
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Av-Deane,Jr
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Irons-Mountain
McCreast
Indianapolis
Ind
Christmas Gift Advice From Harper's Bazaar
The article offers practical and humorous gift ideas for Christmas. It suggests using a caddy bag as a stocking substitute, notes a tested bag can carry candy oranges and toys, and advises on thoughtful personal gifts. It emphasizes simple handmade presents like embroidery pies poems and warns against costly impractical gifts.
Whimsical Exchanges and a Sunday Hare Question
A comic chat recounts party guests debating stale jokes and whist tricks while a Scots serf asks if hare shooting on Sunday is a work of necessity. John replies with a cautious, humorous defense about Monday's absence.
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John
In The Kitchen: Quick Sausage Prep and Leftover Tips
Practical kitchen notes cover how to prevent sausages from shriveling by chilling, boiling, then frying. It explains cupful versus half pint measures, salt to taste, croquette tweaks from mashed potatoes, and preserving lettuce celery with damp cloth and newspaper. A beef juice extraction tip uses grilling then lemon squeeze and salt.
Sonnets of Strife and Immortal Youth by Lowell
A compact verse meditation urges steadfast life and noble deeds. The speaker calls souls to widen, grow strong through duty to others, and strive to elevate humanity. He envisions enduring fame as offspring of time, guiding future generations toward virtue.
Lighting the Christmas Tree With Spiral Hole Method
A paper extracts a lamp keeping technique for decorating a Christmas tree. It describes thinning branches, laying the tree flat, drilling spiral holes along the trunk, inserting graduated sticks as supports, and painting them bright colors. The outer end holds a candle, securing it to prevent fires.
Morrow’s Kidney Aids Promoted by Indiana Endorsements
Indiana readers hear from Mrs. Sarah Miller who credits Morrow’s Nid-ne-oids with curing her kidney pain and nervous restlessness after a few days. The remedy comes in wooden boxes for two weeks and sells for fifty cents at druggists and at the Schen Drug Co. Descriptive booklet mailed by John Morrow & Co.
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Sarah Miller
West South St
Morrow
Notice of Liquor License Application in Indiana Ward 13
The subscriber Lee Graff gives notice to voters of Thirteenth ward Center township Marion county Indiana that she will apply to the Board of County Commissioners at January term 1900 for a license to sell intoxicating malt and spirituous liquors in quantities under five gallons with on premises drinking. The business is located at 616 Virginia Ave Indianapolis in a first floor room and includes pool table and bowling alley privileges in the same room.
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Center Township
Board of County Commissioners
Marion County
Indianapolis
Indiana
Virginias Ave
Lee Graff
Eleventh Ward
Board of Commissioners
State of
Russell-ave
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