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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1902
Page
12
Maude Griffon surveys New York fashion in June focusing on battishe gowns with embroidered trims in blue white and yellow. She notes lace appliques toil with tea colored taffeta and new towel shirt waists and long glace coats while undersleeves grow larger and hosiery becomes highly varied.
The article notes voile and etamine frocks as the summer clothing solution, highlighting simple yet appealing blouse costumes with Irish guipure collars. It mentions other sheer materials, including Mexican drawn work, and discusses cost and fragility issues. It also references fashion influence from the Chief Executive's daughter.
Miss Ella May Hirschi of Davenport sends letters from the Grand Hotel in San Francisco describing Chinatown, a Chinese Theatre visit, and cultural oddities. She notes crowded scenes, gender seating rules, masked actors, and theatrical impressions amid a wandering, vivid travelogue.
A fragment from a New York City piece profiles freak buildings including a five foot wide eight story spite house and a six inch frontage one story brick stand on Third Avenue near 149th Street. It also recounts a Chinatown gaslight tour and vivid remarks on Chinese slums from a traveler, noting crowded rooms, odors, and opium smokers.
New York on June 28 Special to the journal Tammany Hall plans a grand Independence Day oration at Wigwam with W Burke Cochran as featured speaker. The piece notes related events including Stony Point dedication and Tilden Club opening as Democratic forces shape state politics.
The two American duchesses were Consuelo, duchess of Marlborough, and Consuelo, duchess dowager of Manchester. The Marlborough line traces to 1702 while the Manchester title dates to 1719. The Marlborough duchess is daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt. the Manchester dowager was born a Louisiana planter’s daughter before her 1878 marriage to Viscount Mandeville.
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