Linen and Pongee Dominate Summer Fashion
Fashion notes favor linen and pongee for summer wear with many weave varieties. White and colored linens mix practicality and style, with embroidered and plain options, belts, and satin trims shaping the season. Pique fabrics offer charm through corded textures and bright colorings, while satin and velvet finish belts add elegance to linen gowns.
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Witer
House of White
Home Help Tips For Cleaning And Cooking
Practical household guidance: heat cloths over steam to dry quickly, use buttermilk to remove interior stains from porcelain by soaking for days, a luncheon dish features peppers stuffed with fresh green corn, and a fine grater is preferred to a knife for scraping burned surfaces.
New Edison Machine Will Separate Oil
New Edison method allegedly separates valuable ore components, vastly increasing productive wealth. Edison claims the plant could operate at far lower costs, enabling extraction from all ore types and simplifying operation for workers.
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Thomas A. Edivou
Ft Te Mall
Noted Priest Explains Social Unrest and Moral Decline
Father Bernard Vaughan argues global social unrest stems from a drift from divine ideals, linking it to divorce and domestic strife as signs of moral decay. The piece mentions Hull and a college centennial event with speaker Kilby Root delivering an address.
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Hull
Bernard J. Vaughan
Hamilton College
Old Dominion Open Lawn Tennis Tourney Set for June 10
In Richmond Virginia players prepare for the eighth annual Old Dominion open lawn tennis tournament for the Hermitage challenge cups at the Country Club of Virginia. The event opens June 10 and draws social fans from the North and South under the United States National Lawn Tennis Association.
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Country Club of
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United Eitates
Col Astor's Wife Fond of New York
New York. John Jacob Astor announced Mia intended making her future home in New York before sailing for Europe. She was accompanied by daughter Alice. Son Vincent Astor went to the pier to bid them good by. He said in three months he would join them and then tour the continent, and return. his mother would be here with him.
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Gas Candlepower and Meter Inspections Across States
A Bureau of Standards report surveys state laws on candlepower, heating value, purity, and gas meter testing. It lists states with and without gas laws, outlines active inspection regimes in California Maryland New York Wisconsin Nevada New Jersey and notes variations in pressure limits testing frequency and sulfur and hydrogen sulfide rules. The piece stresses federal attention to local utility regulation and describes current enforcement patterns and pending decisions.
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Uncle Sam to Watch Election in Panama
The United States will ensure a fair Panama election this summer as rioting threatens stability. Both parties seek U S good offices under the treaty to guarantee voters can cast ballots freely, with American officials possibly overseeing registration and, if needed, observing the vote while remaining neutral.
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German Perspective on Food Scarcity in 1910s Digest
The Literary Digest cites global alarm over rising food prices and scarce supplies. It notes international commentary from the London Times and Hamburger Nachrichten, highlighting calls for an international inquiry and possible price controls to avert famine in a Europe wary of continued cost hikes.
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London Times
Hamburger Nachrichten
Congress
Germany
Eeaclath
Taft
Committee of Inquiry
Prices and food cost trends across nations in early 1900s
A survey notes rapid food price increases from the start of the century, with sharper gains in the last three years. It contrasts the United States where cereals were largely exported and import needs were low, citing wheat and corn rising about 4 percent versus the 1890s average, and broader rises in fish prices. The tone warns that these figures are alarming.
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Germany
United States of America
How to Awak en the Farm and Town Life
Advice urging rural modernization through better heating plumbing and sanitation, shared resources, and community booster efforts. Encourages telephone trolley rural mail delivery access and subscribing to newspapers and agricultural journals. Promotes phonograph music, women’s labor saving devices, local clubs, and eventual automobile ownership to raise county livability.
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Campaigning fades from porch era to campaign va riety decline
A Washington Times column laments the decline of docile porch campaigning and the rise of aggressive political evangels. It critiques the modern system of rivalries, ceremonies, and corporate influence behind the scenes and notes public fatigue with the spectacle of special trains cars and private influence.
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Garcia
STOP INBREEDING OF DEFECTIVES IS AIM BY H H GODDARD
Henry H Goddard argues for state run stations and colonization to separate and sterilize or otherwise segregate feeble minded individuals. He cites studies at Vineland and reformatories, urging compulsory education and monitoring to prevent inheritance and reduce crime, prostitution, and poverty through long term segregation. He acknowledges cost but claims crime costs are higher.
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Fragmentary 19th Century OCR Note on Youthful Fans
A garbled OCR fragment discusses a youthful fan in a travel setting and various misread phrases. It mentions partial scenes of crowds, a person named Tony Wing, and references to photos, power, and a canal, but the meaning is largely unclear and the text remains largely indecipherable.
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Tony Wing
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