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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
3
Describes high fashion trends with airy gowns, ivory satin cloaks, and elaborate trimming. Highlights extravagant materials, delicate laces, and complex Paris gowns with long basques, velvet revers, and gold embroidery for an up to date toilette de soirée.
The New York Tribune advises lighter meals as winter ends and spring begins. It notes meat is scarce and less suitable, recommends refrigerated poultry, abundant eggs, spring fish, and cautious use of eggs and sweets. It favors cod, baddock, hali but, winter pickerel, and fresh greens, with acid fruit juices to aid digestion.
A fashion notes item describes society women embracing jeweled hair nets, pearls, and cap styles to cover knots and create modish looks. It mentions variations from pearl and turquoise combinations to gold threads, along with standout table novelties such as Saratoga chip spoons, macaroni servers, asparagus trays, and perforated tomato servers in elegant patterns.
The tale recalls Steve Speed, famed for sprinting from the box to catch his own pitches, hailed as the fastest base runner by the old Lightfoot Lilies legend. The story traces Speed’s alleged exploits with the Ringtail Roarers and Hinetall Roarers, his dismissal over salary disputes, and a final dramatic game where the Lilies edge the Roarers after Speed’s legend grows, per The Courier and Cy Priest.
In Chicago Record style commentary the piece hints at Tauber’s fading status as critics note his unusually small hands and feet in portraits. An English expert estimates that if all British Isles residents attended church on one Sunday about 25,000,000 would lack seating.
An1900s design article argues stables should meet sanitary standards as homes do, detailing a two story horse stable with carriage house, hay room, and living quarters for staff. It describes a spruce framed, hemlock sheathed structure with light, ventilation, and a 50 by 26 feet footprint, first floor 14 feet and second floor 11 feet.
Don’t You Need BAR-BEN? The BAR-BEN tablet taken thrice daily purports to strengthen muscles, improve tissues, and restore vigor. Marketed as a pure nerve food and blood purifier, it claims to cure nervous diseases, low vitality, night emissions, and overwork effects. One box shown to help. six boxes guaranteed. price 50 cents. samples offered by SAR-HEN Remedies Co. Cleveland. local sellers listed.
Use slow setting Portland cement with equal parts clean sharp sand to plaster gables. Add ornaments such as bits of glass stone or gravel while cement is fresh. Keep the cement moist by frequent wetting until the work is finished.
Public notice offers free illustrated booklets from the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Contents cover California hunting and fishing Wisconsin opportunities business routes and Northwest history with maps and engravings. One title Indian and the Northwest highlights pioneers and chiefs. published at 25 cents per copy with postage prepaid from W. B. Kniskern, Chicago.
The ad offers very low fares in March and April from Chicago to Helena Butte Anaconda Ogden Salt Lake City Spokane Portland Seattle Tacoma Vancouver Victoria and many others. Tourist sleeping cars run daily from Chicago to the Pacific Coast with excursions to San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland. For maps and details inquire at the nearest ticket agent or write A F Cleveland 284 Superior Street Cleveland Ohio.
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