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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
5
Mrs B D B Graham of Denver Colorado turned a failed hooked skirt into a global invention that keeps skirts and shirt waists in place. Using a tin can and shears she devised a contrivance now sold worldwide, sparing wearers from ruined garments.
A stage manager berates a chorus of young women practicing a costly London English skit. Grace Tremaine escapes, then reads a letter from a distant town, contemplating leaving poverty behind to return home after six months in the city and a pawned watch.
A new star rose in New York society, Miss Leslie Munro heiress to millions, a lawyer editor and editor of The Impressionist. Her talents span publishing charity work equestrian sport and social leadership as she engages writers and manages editorial tasks.
In a fragment from the Chicago Tribune, a weary path and a small-town merchant reshapes a life as a girl named Tremaine returns to old ties. A maid announces visitors, a sunburnt brother questions the future, and a vow to remain with family closes the scene.
A collage of jokes from New York Weekly and Puck about a country boarding exchange and a composer bragging about ratings, plus a trolley accident in Syracuse Herald where a man from St. Louis is crushed by cobbles then saved. The excerpts blend light humor with a sudden violent incident.
A lyrical imprint from Harper's Bazaar depicts a speaker echoing springtime birds and winds to woo a beloved. The poem compares human affection to natural love motifs, with lines about sweetness, plumage, and the shared fate of hearts.
A Detroit Journal item hints at a thrifty fellow and a maiden who plots. She eyes his pelt and imagines shirts waist designs she might tailor herself. The brief piece conveys cunning and flirtation in a sharp social vignette.
This note lists glass jar staples for the summer hostess enabling quick, easy and economical lunches. Items include peanut paste for sandwiches, baked beans, deviled ham and tongue, olives, sardines, beef loaf, boneless chicken, lobster, salad dressings, pickles, jams, biscuits, wafers, chips, grape juice, raspberry vinegar, champagne cider and lemon phosphate.
A historical note outlines feminine undergarment styles for different seasons. It explains that July favors a three bodice open at the throat, recommends high-necked corset covers in winter, and favors a decollete underwaist with narrow cambric or nainsook straps in summer, edged with lace.
A fashion note describes high dressed hair with hair piled in soft swirls and loops. The parting remains on the left side, a modern unwritten rule, while the narrow white part is concealed from brow to crown by the voluminous styling.
The piece notes embroidered turn-overs remain in fashion for wear with simple gowns and ribbon stocks with shirt waists. It calls the style pretty yet practical, likely to endure, preserving the ribbon or stock while adding a finishing touch of white that suits many outfits.
Formerly pique came only in white, pink or blue. It is now available in all colors from delicate shades to black, expanding choices for fabrics.
Stock reducing sale at Stersdorfer's new store located at 37 E Washington near Pennsyvania Street. Ladies and children's dress shoes offered at a price drop from 3.00 to 2.00 dollars. Limited quantities available and shop hours to be announced.
Winifred Black portrays Mrs Bryan as an ideal American woman of the middle west. A lawyer by instinct yet never at the bar, she blends intellect with practical skill, quiet humor, and unflinching resilience. The piece praises her partnership with William Jennings Bryan, noting calm charm amid campaign chaos and her influence on politics and society.
The article notes cedar or cypress telegraph poles along the Savannah and Stateboro railway in Georgia sprouting at the top and meant to provide shade once grown. It recalls the US population at the century’s start of 5,300,000 and compares it with major European nations, then comments on kangaroos in Australia becoming scarce and profitable to raise.
The Philadelphia Record notes fastidious women favor high russet leather boots over low-cut oxfords this summer when off their lawns. Yellow or reddish low shoes look undressed for walking in mosquitos or mountains, but high boots protect ankles. The shift may reflect the near universality of low-cut russet shoes.
A collection of pointed aphorisms on money marriage trust discretion and human nature. The quotes humorously critique social norms and vice while highlighting attitudes toward wealth borrowing education and labor.
Great stock reducing sale at Slersdarfer's new store 37 Washington near Pennsylvania Philadelphia offering ladies' and children's dress shoes. Prices cut from three dollars to two dollars with large selection and new stock.
An old Philadelphia Times piece humorously weighs vanity temper and fashion in domestic life. It jokes that a woman’s attire and stockings matter, home is where grumbling meets care, and some men presume to manage a house better than their wives while noting the mystery of files entering a home despite screens.
Miss Mary Krout lectures on China Japan and the Philippines in Chautauqua. Mr and Mrs George C Hitt travel to New York to meet daughter Muriel Hitt abroad a year. Miss Lulu Bradley and Robert P Drummond wed in Sault Sainte Marie. They plan to live at 2110 College Ave. Mrs Littie Raschig and Mrs Cecil Smith head to Frankfort for a recital. Miss Marie Jackson and J Bradley Vanderworker wed at Aunt Mrs G W McCurdy's home. State weddings: Eva Winchester and John Fawcett in Muncie. Emma Crabb and John M Lewis in Seymour. Grace Gullifer and John E Osborn in Greensburg.
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