Paris Dressmakers Push Button Fashion For Winter
Badie Merritt reports on Paris dressmakers introducing button trimmed gowns for the season. American taste, pricing from cents to dollars, and a range of button shapes and placements drive new outfits from gray broadcloth to red taffeta. Short skirts gain traction as Paris adapts an American novelty, yet fashion remains focused on individual style and overall look.
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Paris
Promer
America
Aclas
Badie Merritt
Training the Hand for Children Education
Grace Chalmers argues that overhelping children harms their independence. She contends hands should be trained, not just brains, to develop practical skills and dexterity. The piece stresses early manual practice as a key to future success.
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Grace Chalmers
Young Defenders lead reform in city schools
A Boston Globe item notes a Young Defenders league in New York schools aiding the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A reform-minded former troublemaker became a model leader after joining at Madison Square, gathering twenty five peers to join and report cruelty cases. Also profiled is Evelyn Scott of Hyde Park among the youngest bicycle riders in Boston, learning from her father and riding with skill at age four.
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New York
Young Defenders’ League
Society For the Prevention of
Madison Square
League
Miss Evelyn Scott
Hyde Park
Boston
Vicinity
Railroad Time Schedules From Multiple Cities and Lines
Time schedules list trains from Dubuque Savanna Moline LaCrosse Freeport Milwaukee and more with departure times and connections. It notes daily trains and those not on Sundays, plus connections at Barstow and Rock Island depot for East South and West routes.
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Dupuque
Iowa
Savanna
Moline
LaCrosse
Wis
Freeport
Clinton
Davenport
Milwaukee
Sabula
East Moline
Dubuque
Dubuque Division
Babula
Simplicity Steels and the Revival Meeting Mention
The Ebony and New York Weekly items quote a preacher's line about oils and success, urging work while deterring others from working. A character asks about revival meetings and cites carrying a rabbit's foot as luck.
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New York Weekly
The Programme and Witty Exchanges
A collection of humorous quotations from various papers. The lines poke at political promises and officeholding while mixing regional dialects and light social jabs. The snippets include a Washington Star remark on post election plans and humorous dialogue about health and family misfortunes.
Train schedule items for Chicago Rock Island Pacific routes
The text lists train numbers and routes between cities such as Des Moines Council Bluffs Denver and Chicago with arrival times and daily operations noting exceptions for trains 23 and 24. It specifies that No 1 runs to Des Moines daily except Sundays and No 4 runs Davenport to Chicago on Mondays while No 3 runs to Davenport on Sundays.
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Des Moines
Oskealoon
Council Bluffs
Kansas City
Denver
Denver Express
Minneapolis
St. Paul
South Dakota
Chicago
Omaha
Mail and Express
Kan City
Ft. Worth
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Davenport
Rock Island
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Clothing House
Simon Hirsch
Third Avenue
RW. Hamilton
eProp
Moline Electric Laundry
Watters & Anderson
Fifth Ave
Moline, Minos
Unon News - Depot
Daily Journal
Emboased Society
Stationery Society
Carda
Library
Madison
Rae
Young Defenders
Evelyn E. Scott
Boston Globe
D. J. Webb
J. Mulholland
Rock Island and
Peoria
Cincinnati
Indianapolia
Bloomington
Springfield
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincin
Springfieel
Mercer County Line
Cable and Sherrard
Cables
Cece
Cable
Sherrard
Esher- Polo
Sesceece Seu Sencscsaris
Union Depot
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Burlington and Quincy
Sterling
Beardstown
Quincy
Burlington
Lincoln
Barstow
Sturlington
Davonport
Cseveveeewee
Peterson’s Express
Peterson
Nelson's
Buffalo
Bio
Niagara Falls
Warren J. Lynch
Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt
W. P. Deppe
Asst
Cess
Licage Herald
Davenport Typewriter Exchange
Washington Star
Dave
Atlanta
Jimmy
Emery
6Th Ave
Library Street
Crea Pone
Hawes Nursery Company
Wisconsin
J. B. Oakleaf
U. S
MoKiante
W. Parsons
Mckinnie Block
Rock Island & Pacific
The
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Florida
Gulf Coast
South
Futlers
G. L. Stone
Gen Pass. Agt
Louisville, Ky
Tri-Cities
San Francisco
Rocky Mountains
Nevada
John H. Mueller
Second Ave
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