Fashions Keep Pace With Broad Cloths And Silks This Season
A conservative style dominates with broad cloths and zibelines for morning wear and walking gowns. Side plaited skirts, sweeping curving hems for calling gowns, and trims of velvet, silk, and metallic braids define current fashion. Separate waists in matching or contrasting materials offer varied looks, with waist amounts matching gowns for a two or three gown impression. Spring skirts grow longer and fuller with lace, chenille, and embroidery details. Renaissance muls and embroidered designs feature, with eye catching pouches and cross over coats. Modern whites, pinks, and pale blues accent the ensembles.
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Harper's Bazar
Pretty Frocks for Young Girls Fashion Styles
Fashion notes describe school wear and street costumes for young girls in black white gray red green blue and brown. Norfolk jackets and long coats are popular with velvet collars, while albatross fabric dominates house frocks for durability and easy washing.
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Wea
Wiite
Ught Wite
Boys and Girls White Suits Replace Black Coats in Attire
The article describes boys and girls wearing white suits trimmed with white pique belts and cutis, launderable repeatedly. Black taffeta coats are gone, replaced by Jong and short white jackets, mostly single preasted. Jong jackets do not fully cover the dress, while short coats are very short, reaching a few inches below the waist.
Clothes for Children Lace Dresses Described in Detail
The article details volonoletinus lace dresses for children with rows of fine margon insertions sewn onto plain bands, lace edgings, and Valenciennes accents. It describes a full blouse and skirt set, long coats lined with white silverty silk, and a pink straw bonnet for a three year old, with chiffon ruffles and rosebud decorations. White gowns remain the dominant style with cream serge and pastel trims mentioned.
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Valenciennes
Plain shirtwaists in the Home Workshop style
The feature describes a plain shirtwaist with center front closure and smooth shoulders, a slightly bloused waist without back gathers, a broad box plait at the front for shaping, and bishop sleeves with invisible openings and straight side closures.
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Fastionaire
Mysterious Somerset Poet Merchant Seen At Dawn
A gray haired, middle aged yet hale man with weathered green clothing and a gaele over his shoulder was spotted along a Somerset hedgerow at early dawn. He bent to examine the lair, probing among roots for dropped nuts or seeds.
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Worthaworth
Somerset
Sam
The Snail Merchant Of Bristol In A Murky Tale
In a dim Bristol scene a lone snail merchant explains his trade with pride and humor. He calls himself a snail merchant and describes gathering snails from riverbanks, selling them as delicacies abroad, and the odd pride in his growing commerce. The narrator observes the peculiar business and its rustic charm.
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Ase House of Business
Bristol
Snail Life and Winter Tricks Told by an Old Merchant
In a rustic chronicle, a snail merchant describes how snails cling together for warmth and migrate through stone walls, choosing limestone. He notes snails’ cautious nature, their hiding spots, and how thrushes follow frost to pick them off. The tale mixes observed behavior with commentary on growth, shells, and endurance.
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Asuai
Ondoa Mall
Edna Weller McClellan Suit Declared Mistrial
The suit of Edna Weller McClellan against Peter Winchester Rouss as executor of Charles Broadway Rouss was declared a mistrial in the New York supreme court. The trial stalled as lawyers failed to meet their two hour opening and witness examination deadline. Mrs. Caroline M McClellan testified that the deceased millionaire had agreed to pay her daughter 85 dollars weekly.
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Edna Weller McClellan
New York
Peter Winchester Rouss
Charles Broadway
Rouss
Scott
Supreme Court
Caroline M. McClellan
Miss McClellan
Admiral Sebley
Berlin Not Obliged To Pay For Churches
Berlin faces a ruling in a long dispute over a 50 000 city contribution to church construction tied to Emperor Wilton era policy. After Berlin’s council refused and a 1573 statute was cited, the city paid 59 000 under protest and then sued to recover it. Yesterday a court favored the city’s position, blocking further payments.
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Berlin
Wilton
Railroads dispute 23 percent freight rate cut in Alabama
Springfeld March 14 Railroads in Alabama refuse a 23 percent reduction in freight rates ordered by the state railroad board. They plan to seek injunctions to restrain the commission from enforcing the cut, arguing the margin comes from passenger business and that only certain freight classes would see changes if rates dip further.
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Springfeld
State Board of Railroa and Warehouse Commissioners
Wise Sayings on Ambition and Happiness
A collection of aphorisms exploring how ambition affects joy and social perception. The quotes warn that striving can harm happiness, sarcasm attracts followers, and a light heart may mask weakness. They urge purpose and self-reliance to avoid becoming a nobody, noting genius lies in shifting effort.
Czar Grants Russia Religious Choice and Reforms
St. Petersburg March 13 The czar issues a decree granting religious freedom and local self government in his dominions. It foresees rural law reform and better conditions for peasants and nobles, with sure steps toward emancipation of the serfs and increased district autonomy. The measure is hailed as a new era, though risks of reaction and delays loom as reforms move forward. A second report notes public celebration but warns presses delays and political contention, while contrasting reform hopes with resistance from Interior Minister Blehve and cautious Finance Minister Witte.
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St. Petersburg
Sifter
Alexander III
United States
Alexander
Blehve
Slandin Trial in Boston and the Death Penalty Debate
The Boston Post argues the Blondin murder trial ends with a second degree verdict despite a probable murder in the first degree, reflecting jury reluctance to impose the death penalty and casting doubt on Massachusetts criminal justice trends.
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Vermont
Montpelier
Blondin
Administration of Justice
Washington Post
Slandin
Boston
Boston Post
Canada’s Move Toward Union Seen as Inevitable
The Chicago Examiner opines that Canada will join the United States, arguing development awaits union, economic alignment with America, and shifting loyalties away from Britain. It notes Canada’s immigration patterns, trade with the U S, and wartime sentiments, concluding independence is a step toward eventual annexation.
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du Armand
Canada
United States
Union
Monachy
England
Great Britain
Britain
Chleaso
Miners and Operators Reach Joint Scale Agreement
Des Moines March 24 The joint sale committee of miners and operators reached an agreement affecting the scale for the first district. An increase of 10 cents per ton for screened coals. Provisions at the mines made for coal sold as mine run. An increase of 19 cents per ton for eight foot entry work and 14 cents for 12 and 14 foot entry work.
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Des Moines
Mareh
Christian Scientists Gain Exemption From North Carolina Medical Law
The General Assembly of North Carolina amended the act regulating medicine and surgery, preserving a spiritual exemption for practitioners who heal the sick by prayer and spiritual means without drugs or material therapies. The change preserves the right of Christian Scientists to minister or cure by spiritual means only.
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General Assembly of
North Carolina
Pach Brothers photographer dies in New York hospital
Oscar Pach of the Pach Brothers photography firm in New York died after Bright's disease. He served many years as business manager for the firm. The Pach brothers emigrated from Germany to the United States.
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Oscar Pach
Pach Brothers
New York
Bright
Pach
Firma
Germany
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