Fresh fashions show three quarter length jackets and silver accents
The article describes new fall styles with cream three quarter length jackets featuring silver buttons and white cord ornaments. It notes decorative buttons on dark frocks, plaited sack coats, beaded trims, and fabrics like camel hair cloth and face cloth. Silver returns in trims and jewelry, with color trends including brown, white, apricot, sable, and black taffeta for cooler days.
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Hill and Dale
Household brevities and decor trends noted
Opaque window shades should match across the house to avoid a spotted exterior. Dark green is recommended, white and gold china gains favor, and round vegetables and entree dishes are in vogue. Grass stains clean with cream of tartar mix or alcohol. Silver tea caddies appear as a notable item. Lacquer protects brass from tarnish.
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Bousehold
Beds and Pillows Practical Hints For Nightly Comfort
Practical advice on choosing mattress fillings with horsehair over wool, care of feather beds and pillows, airing and cleaning methods, and a muslin slip for bed ticks and pillow cases. Includes pillow sizes and steps to refresh ticking and fabrics without damaging colors.
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Dea
An Autumn Shirt Waist for Fall Garment
A neat flannel shirt designed for autumn wear features an orthodox acquire yoke that gathers fullness at the back while the front is set into the garment. The description highlights practical styling for cooler weather and a flattering silhouette.
Flannel Waist for Morning Wear
A detailed fashion description outlines a flannel waist for morning wear with small tailor tucks and inverted shoulder plaits. It notes natural straps, a deep square yoke lining that hooks up the front, and left and right fronts joined with mitered straps to keep the shirt straight and shipshape.
A Well Filled Duster Drawer
Mrs. Smith keeps a well stocked duster drawer with flour sacks sewn into dusters. She never has fewer than a dozen and often doubles that amount, taking pride in clean, ready dusters for furniture, lamp chimneys, and globes, while others use any makeshift dusting tool.
Mats for piano keys described in historical note
Mats for piano keys used in some houses to keep dust away. Made of long white cloth or Roman satin with a black staff along its length and a tune worked in black velvet notes.
Jewelry notes on modern sleeve links and fob fashion
The piece describes prevailing jewelry trends including oval sleeve links, intricately wrought gold pieces with mismatched gems, and a new Indies fob fashion for a pendant watch hooked at the belt in chatelaine style. It notes turquoise topaz and amethyst for umbrella handles, pearl crescent pins, and a revived interest in monograms.
Devotion to science by fasting professor Purinton
Professor Edward Earle Purinton of West Virginia University Morgan Town completed a thirty day fast to prove his theory that fasting cures many bodily ills. He advocates eliminating mealtimes and eating only when truly hungry. He emerged lighter yet strong and healthy, claiming greater mental control and bodily strength from fasting as part of university lectures.
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Edward Earle Purinton
LD. B. Purinton
West Virginia University
Morgantown
Purinton
Oxylith May Let Home Oxygen Generation Ease Gas Supply
French chemist M. Jaubet announces oxylith a substance of higher alkali metal oxides. When water is added it releases oxygen, enabling a simple generator to produce fresh oxygen on demand for calcium light or medical use, avoiding heavy iron cylinders.
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M. Jaubet
The Piano Typewriter Invention by Paul J. Clenanth
After six years of labor Paul J. Clenanth of Buffalo unveils the pianoy typewriter. When attached to a piano, composers can play music and have the notes printed on paper for publication, offering a new tool for pianists and landmasters alike.
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Paul J. Clenanth
Buffalo
The World Growing Sweeter Sugar Consumption Rise
The article notes sugar consumption rising in the United States from twenty two to sixty eight pounds per year per person over fifty years. It claims recent per capita intake reached sixty six pounds in the last twelve months, with a forty six pound increase since fifty years ago, citing the Treasury Bureau of Stylistics.
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United States Treasury Bureau of Stylistics
Largest automobile and combined harvester at work in California
The Los Angeles Herald reports a giant machine, the largest automobile and largest combined harvester, now operating on a central California ranch. It can thrash 100 acres daily, runs at 3.5 mph, and uses a traction engine plus separate header and thrashing units. The 66 foot long, 100 ton behemoth consumes oil and requires four horses for fuel transport.
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California
Los Angeles Herald
Grand Duke in America Denies Wild Newport Wealth Tales
The Paris Matin interviews Grand Duke Boris after his US visit. He debunks American press stories about etiquette breaches and champagne shoes, praises American industry and energy, notes Newport as a place of extraordinary wealth, and recalls his six week tour including San Francisco Chicago Niagara Falls and New York.
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Grand Duke
Boris
Europe
Paris
Medias Res
New York
Lerald
America
Chicago
France
San Francisco
Falls
Niagara
Newport
New Plan For Peters Pence Emphasizes Local Contributions
Rome shifts Peter's Pence strategy after pilgrimages to Rome prove costly. The Vatican introduces a Mexico program where papal representatives confer spiritual advantages and supporters contribute Peter's peace from their own locales.
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Peter
Rome
Vatican
Chicago Daily News
Mexico
Base Suit Filed Over Elephant Scare at Indiana Carnival
Two damage suits filed in Vincennes Indiana name the Bostock Carnival company. Clarence Duncan and his wife seek 1909 dollars each for fright after a large elephant allegedly broke a window in their home while they slept and lifted them from their beds. The woman sustained injuries described as a strain or lL.
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Vincennes
Ind
Bostock Carnival Company
Clarence Duncan
Carnival Company
Twenty Inch Tillman pistol meets South Carolina law
A Charleston gunsmith created the twenty inch Tillman to satisfy the new South Carolina pistol law. The rifled 44 caliber weapon weighs three pounds, bears a hair trigger or double action trigger, and is worn in a feather belt or carried on the shoulder. The model is sleek and capable, yet designed as a dueling piece with strong recoil.
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South Carolina
Charleston
8. C
St. Louis
Gore
Chicago's Ghost Castle Remodeled Into Hotel Flare
Chicago report details that Holmes Castle, the notorious site of 1895 murders by H. H. Holmes, will be remodeled into a hotel. Tenants report eerie noises and apparitions, notably in a bedroom with a shaft to subterranean passages used to dispose of victims. A current resident, Mrs. Lines, experiences recurring nightmares and a pull toward the window overlooking the shaft.
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Holmes
Holmes Castle
H. Holmes
Chicago
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Moyamensing Prison
Pennsylvania
Charles Lines
Llines
Tolmes
Dolorosa
Minnie
Annie Williams
Julia L. Connor
Pearl
Emeline Sigrand
Life saved by bear in Pennsylvania wilderness tale
Mrs. Mary Button, eighty two, reported lost in the Black Forest for five weeks, regained consciousness after a desperate trek. She survived on berries and mountain water, fought rattlesnakes, and says a bear nursed her to life before she was found by gin seng diggers near Cross Forks.
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Mary Button
Black Forest
Cross Forks
Philadelphia Ledger
Lfe
Ava lon hosts Piacaterial Tournament boats net large albicore
A new Piacmaterial Tournament was staged at Avalon California with thirteen boats. Anglers landed about 10 000 pounds of albicore, most fish over 25 pounds. A total of 318 fish were landed. The winning catch weighed 77 pounds.
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Avalon
Cal
Dedrick and Eskimos in Arctic Rift with Peary
Dr Frederick A Cook recounts how Lt Peary, Dedrick and Matt Henson quarrelled over control of natives during the Arctic expedition. Dedrick stayed behind after resignation, later offered to return but refused food. Cook notes three men endured three Arctic winters and nights, a routine friction of expeditions.
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Frederick A. Cook
Brooklyn
Thomas L. Dedrick
Peary
Dedrick
Matt Henson
Peary’s Original Intention To Place Dr. Dedrick
Henson
Arctic
Erie
Eric
Bric
Bridzman
Smith Sound
Cape Sabine
Pole
Walrus exhibition at New York zoo halves century record
A massive walrus weighing about half a ton is installed at the New York zoological park. Brought back by Lieutenant Peary as an arctic trophy, it becomes the first walrus ever shown there, joining a rare gorilla in captivity due to ferocity and transport challenges.
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Peary
Zoological Park
New York
Londoner John Wills maps three-day Atlantic crossing
John Wills of London patents a marine propulsion engine he claims will shorten the Atlantic crossing to three days. He asserts the design could transform long sea voyages and attract interest from shipping interests.
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Atlantic
Daryn
John Wills
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Fabrica
Duke
Chicago’s
Bear
Eskimos
Explorer
DR. Cook
Frosen
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