Gateway to the Navy Yard and Its Historic Relics
Special correspondence surveys Washington navy yard with its grand gate, strict rules, and silent workshops. It notes vast guns, tramways, and ordnance progress from colonial times through the Civil War, plus relics like Captain Reid’s saber and the Portsmouth and Constitution connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Yard
Pennsylvania Avenue
East Eighth Streep
Uncle Sam
Navy Yards
Norfolk
Brooklyn
Marchland
San Francisco
League Island
Philadelphia
Portamouth
Boston
New London
Conn
Port Royal
United States
Great Britain
Canat
Summer dress and dressmaker craft spotlight in fashion notes
New York July 6 describes the summer girl as near divinity with fine textures, lace, and ribbons. It highlights modesty, new evening gowns for Newport, a blue figured taffeta gown with pale blue crepe de chine accents, and mousquetaire gloves as the season’s stylish details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
The Newest Golf Fares and Fashion Notes
The article notes affordable silk and plated gloves compared with glazed kid and cnede, new hairdressing styles revive antique earrings with long pendants and hoops, and young ladies favor the astogan braid with ribbon. It also recounts a dramatic crime tale from Elkton Md where Fireman Nelson’s kick saved a child, and a pursuit and fatal shootout in Trinity county ending with a robber killed by Deputy Sheriff Chase near Redding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sean
Oxius Hanpky
Nelson
Elkton
Otto Hampton
Jose & Ellery
B. W. Jose
Lewiston
Trinity County
Jose
Bowie
Weaverville
Redding
Pleisch
Chase
Cottomwood
Shasta County
Fiddinger
Chade
Redding Cor
San Franocisco Chranfola
Noted New Haven figure Lois Tritton dies at 95
Lois Tritton, once the last enslaved person sold at public auction in New Haven in 1825, died at her home aged 95. Born in Halifax in 1799, she gained freedom via a sheriff sale recorded with a manumission deed to Anth Sanford. She lived in New Haven with the Tritton family before returning and remaining active in Trinity Episcopal Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lois Tritton
Ingersoll
Lucy
Anth
Sanford
Tritton
Halifax
Tritton Rhee
Nova Scotia
New Haven
Trinity Episcopsl Church
Artificial fruit sugar from beet sugar innovation described
Special correspondence notes a new invert sugar product called artificial fruit sugar derived from beet sugar. It remains fluid and resists crystallization, preserves natural fruit aromas, and is praised by confectioners and fruit packers for cherries and berries. Commercially slow to reach the United States, it already finds use in Europe for wines and liquors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hemat
Frankfort
Frank H Mason
Europe
United States
James Connolly
Nervous disorders rise amid financial strain says physician
Special correspondence cites a physician noting increased nervous illnesses in the past year. He explains neurasthenia and melancholia as two forms linked to worry, warns melancholia can lead to dangerous behavior, and urges treatment in asylums rather than home care to prevent harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mpa Yenlel
Americana
M LI Dexter
Seagoing Stowaways Plague San Francisco Ships
San Francisco vessels routinely carry stowaways on recent outs. Captains check holds to limit crew, with nine hidden aboard the Enoch Arden on a northbound trip. Most stowaways aim for Washington lumber mills or British Columbia mines, hoping to keep moving if possible.
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Porta
Seattle
Waarington
British Columbia
San Francisco
San Francisco Examiner
Remarkable Surgery at Lancaster Asylum on Inmate
William Fitzpatrick, confined at Lancaster County Lunatic asylum, ingested 1923 nails over time. Surgeons removed nails during a two hour operation, weighing nearly two pounds, predicting the inmate’s death. Report from London News notes his digestion was severely upset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum
William Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
London News
Strictly Pure White Lead Advertises Building Paint
An advertisement urges using Strictly Pure White Lead as the best investment in real estate to keep buildings well painted, protect the house, and reduce repairs. It notes homes may stay unsold for lack of paint and asserts the rule that the best paint is none other than Strictly Pure White Lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy Yard
Averag
Aio
Max Lebaudy
Paris
Maisons Lafitte
Meacham
Kentucky Press Club
Frankfort
Southern
Shipman
Fahnestock
National Lead Co
National Leap CO
Chicago
Stat
Pineenth Streets
Sleeping Car Excursions to California from Chicago
Phillips Rock Island offers six dollar sleeping car rates for escorted tourist excursions from Chicago to Los Angeles or San Francisco via the Scenic Route and Ogden. Dealers advertise twice weekly departures with a special agent on board, plus nightly trips via the Southern Route to the Pacific coast. Contact Rock Island ticket office 104 Clark Street for details.
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Phillips-Rock Island
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Odgen
Phillips
Indian Territory
Ft. Worth
San Frantisco
Rock Island
Clark Street
John Sebastian
G.P. A
C. E
Oricauo
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Uncle 8 Sam
John A Dahlgren
Lawra Warrington
Charles Morris
Commodore Hull
Thomas Tingey
Beverly Kennon
Harrison
Princeton
Franklin Buchanan
Dahlgren
J. A. Howell
Navy Department
Annapolis Naval Academy
Samuel Chester Reid
Armstrong
Fayal
Azores
Voorhees
Committee On the Library
Reid
Academy
New Orleans
Jackson
Cooper
West
Portsmouth
Constellation
Jamestown
Hampton Roads
Olive Harper
New York
Ami
Fife
California
Burnham
Burnham CO
Gansevoort Sr
N'Y. Rample
L.b.mape
Man
R. H. Trevor
DR. Winchell
Chidren
Denthlon
Taque
Emmert Proprietary Co
Chicago II
Lasues Ae
Dinos
Ana
Kovk Ieland
Union Store
Review
Tribune
the Review Dispatch
Moline, II
Duck Suits
Second ST
Davenport
Moline Wagon Company
Moline, Illinois
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