Women pioneer Texas bar admission and public music limits
Notes and Queries traces a 29 year old woman first admitted to Texas bar likely honorary, while debating dock department limits on ragtime music at New York recreation piers. It critiques popular songs, praises light opera, and warns against trashy music shaping taste. It also covers Mrs Huerta and suffrage debates, Gregg shorthand adoption, and social life around Mrs Roosevelt with Cortelyou and Loeb assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
New York City
Dolly Gray
Roosevelt
Miss Whittier Resigns From Bradford Academy Post
Miss Helen A Whittier of Lowell resigns as nonresident teacher of the history of art at Bradford academy after one year. She leaves to pursue more remunerative work and her resignation takes effect at the close of the current school year. The Haverhill Gazette notes her thorough knowledge, culture, and respected presence.
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Helen A. Whittier
Bradford Academy
Miss Whittier
Academy
Haverhill Gazette
Lowell
London Fashion Notes Remake Court Gowns This Summer
Dressmakers in London bustle as trains vanish from court gowns. Two skirt styles dominate with flounces or shirred top fullness. Jewelled nets replace hats for bridesmaids, and tiara like hair ornaments appear. Gloves, stockings, colors, and accessories showcase black, white, gray, emeralds, and pale blues. Low front seam shoes trend with dull finished kid for summer wear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lace making through ages a tapestry of craft and culture
A review of Mrs Palliser s History of Lace traces lace origins to ancient Egypt and Italian and Belgian traditions. It charts Venice point and Spanish and Brussels varieties, notes 400 Burano workers, the 1662 English ban on imports, and the romance of handmade lace vs. machine work, concluding lace remains valued as art.
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New York Tribune
Low Countries
Holy Land
Italy
Venice
Spain
Flanders
Brussels
Charles II
England
Point d'Angleterre
Brabant
Waterloo
France
Henry II
Chantilly
Grand Conde
Paris
Bayeux
Valenciennes
Alencon
Spot Cotton Exports In Market Outlook For New Crop Good
Memphis Tenn May 26 Spot cotton prices fell to nine cents for middling as futures eased the week’s start. Exporters returned to buying with small lots, spinners’ orders remained light, and traders anticipated possible upside before season end. Receipts rose about 33 percent year over year, stocks declined, weather stays favorable though weeds expand in the Delta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
Delta
Spring tonic advertised for Johann Hoff's Extract
An advertorial telegram claims Czar ordered urgent shipment of Johann Hoff's Extract to Sarskoye, touting it as a spring aid for digestion, nerves, sleep, and blood. It positions the product as a non stimulant tonic, builder, and preventive, urging readers to demand the extract from Eisner & Mendelsson Co. in New York.
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Johann Hoff
St. Petersburg
Sarskoye
Celo
Count von Schuwaioff
Europe
Prosper de Pietra Santa
Paris
Geo. W. Wolgamoth
Warren Ave
Chicago
Eisner & Mendelsson CO
New York
Mrs Roosevelt to Travel to Oyster Bay on Dolphin
Washington May 26 Mrs Roosevelt with the children plans to leave on the Dolphin June 8 for Oyster Bay. After settling the family she will return to Washington to stay with the President until Congress adjourns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mrs. Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Memorial Day plans of Spanish War Veterans in town
Adelbert Ames camp No 97 Spanish War Veterans arrange Memorial Day activities. Members meet at Memorial hall at 1 o'clock, depart at 1 30 as a special escort to Chief Marshal Ripley. Graves to be decorated in the morning, services at Worthen Street Baptist next Sunday. Veterans to meet at 9 30 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelbert Ames
Memorial Hall
Marshal Ripley
Worthen Street Baptist Church
Ice Cream Soda Priced 5c at Carleton Hovey Store
Don’t be swayed by rivals charging 10c for ice cream sodas. Carleton & Hovey at 236 Merrimack street boast top quality, claiming they freeze their own cream and offer the finest sodas for 5c.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carleton & Hovey
Merrimack Street
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Mrs. Cortelyou
Mrs. Loeb
Frills
Pound
Courier - Citizen Company
Alexander
Czar
Russia
B. Shattuck & Son
Prescott Street
John Street
Florence BE. Bhaal
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Equitable Building
Boston
Mary C. Hall
Hildreth Building
Merrimack St
Woonsocket
Pawtucket
Lowell Rubber CO
Central Street
Courier-Citizen
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