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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1908
Page
9
A long reader letter discusses a young man’s homecoming and the suggestion that his parents’ table manners can be improved without hurting feelings. The piece defends affection as motive, urges practical self improvement, and urges gentle reforms within families. It also includes several shorter questions to the Chaperon about etiquette and parental guidance.
An advice column offers guidance on social propriety with neighbors borrowers chaperones and etiquette. Readers questions discuss privacy avoidance tactics, workplace etiquette, dress age-appropriate attire and etiquette in personal relations.
The column offers home remedies for hair loss and skin care, polish etiquette guidance, and fashion notes. It discusses tinctures and nerve tonics, oral supplements, and practical beauty routines, alongside etiquette rules for informal entertaining and wedding day dress expectations.
The text outlines physical gestures and diet for energy and health, then discusses mourning dress guidelines including permissible veils and color schemes. It covers hotel plans and meal formats, formal wedding attire, and etiquette for responding to announcements with visiting cards and messages.
The article discusses using astringent pore reduction lotion with rose water elderflower water benzoin tincture tannic acid and a charcoal wash technique. It prescribes cleansing with canvile soap rinsing and drying before applying the mixture at bedtime.
Frederick May Holland, Massachusetts author and journalist, died at his Downcorp home at age 72. A Boston native and Harvard graduate of 1859, he joined the Unitarian ministry in 1862, left in 1874, and wrote works including The Reign of the Stoics and The Rise of Intellectual Liberty. He was a member of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences. his wife was Anna Maria Bicknell, whom he wed in 1864.
John M. Maxwell aged 81 died yesterday at his son Robert M. Maxwell's home at 3560 Jeferson Street. The body will be taken to Richmond Indiana for burial. Surviving children include Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes of Richmond, Indiana Albert S. Maxwell of Coffeyville Kansas Mrs. Emily P. Williams of Los Angeles Mrs. Marion A. Ives of Shawnee Oklahoma and Robert M. Maxwell of this city.
Annie Humphrey aged 16 daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Humphrey died this morning at her home on East Eleventh Street from inflammatory rheumatism.
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