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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1901
Page
12
A Paris physician advertises a process of lengthening limbs and spine using daily knee and ankle joint stretching with an electric bulb. He warns success requires young patients and notes possible grave consequences. Meanwhile Paris fashion trends push long skirts and straight fronts, with lace trims and jeweled accents dominating autumn gowns.
A Philadelphia Record observation notes that many women dislike using new money for purchases. Sales anecdote describes women delaying or avoiding payment when faced with crisp bills, sometimes leaving items or choosing not to buy. A man remarks he saves money by keeping his salary in loan certificates.
Mrs Potter the American actress is offered salary by a London church to recite during the evening service. She will wear ordinary dress and avoid sensationalism. The decision follows her earlier London reception when she electrified a church audience with a hymn recital.
An English actress named Mrs Potter, renowned for striking presence, maintains youthful stage appearance. Reporter described her at a country seat near London where she spends time outdoors, picking roses with natural charm and girlish grace.
A peculiar grave marker in a nearby cemetery shows a marble slab with a drooping onions motif. The inscription explains Aunt Betsy preferred onions to flowers or verses on her tombstone and lived sixteen years as a maiden, sixteen months a wife, and six weeks a mother, then died.
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