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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1890
Page
3
A feature on women’s sports attire notes a new bowling costume designed to prevent tripping in dress skirts. The design aims to combine practicality with style for female bowlers, following broader tours in tennis croquet cricket and yachting costumes.
The design features two etrapa added to the waistband at each hip connected to the skirt by buttons. Cadet blue serge gown with a narrow black Hercules braid border and silver braid ioop accents. A high bodice over goimpe and black China silk sleeves. braid straps cross over shoulders and fasten at front and back.
A vintage fashion note describes a red tennis blazer with black braid, notched lapels and matching red white striped trim. Paired with a striped shirt and folded red sash, the ensemble suits smart young women, with skirts in white red or dark blue to complete the look.
A collage of quirky lines from 19th and early 20th century papers. Japhese plant quips and suppositious barbs collide with jokes about vacations clergy purses star actresses and a Chicago census joke. The snippets show light social humor and playful wordplay in era journalism.
The piece describes Maj. Bill McKinley Dill as a living image of Napoleon the Great with dark hair and glasses. It also lauds Sen. John P. Jones of Nevada as generous hearted and imposing, and Sen. Joseph N. Dolph of Oregon as handsome with a poet’s face. Collis P. Huntington is noted as 80 percent superstitious about riding elevators with a colored man, a superstition not rooted in race but personal belief.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Common Council of Indianapolis for grading, paving, curbing, and sidewalk improvements on Clinton Street and Clifford Avenue under the Barrett law. Details outline bowlder and asphalt pavement methods, rail crossings, bond requirements, and cost allocation between the city and Citizens Street Railroad Company.
The contractor must furnish a bond with two sufficient sureties, approved by the Common Council and Board of Aldermen, equal to 33 1/3 percent of the contract, to maintain the street improvement for five years and repair at the engineer’s written order. The Citizens' Street Railroad Company bears a proportionate cost share, with the city liable only for its streetage portion, and a bond issued to the contractor under Indiana law. The work includes grading, paving with Trinidad Asphalt on Ohio street, curb setting, and a reinforced road bed with hydraulic cement concrete under specified standards.
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