Art in Woman's Dress Practical Points in Making the Most of One's Opportunities
Edmund Buckley Ph D argues that artistic dress improves with thoughtful, affordable design. He urges unity in color and line, use of a designer when needed, and full-length self-view to guide improvements, noting beauty ages while art grows.
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Richter
Theuilder
America
Ilready
Germany
France
Miss Oakey
Christine T. Herrick
A Philadelphia society girl reads smokers to reveal character
A society girl explains a “science” of cigar smoking signs to read personality. She describes grips, angles, bites, and pauses to identify tenacious, slow, sentimental, vain, or practical types and how to handle them in social encounters.
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Philadelphia Society
The
Philadelphia Record
Religion Without Duties Popul ar Religion Import Joke
A Boston Herald quip recalls Bishop Phillips Brooks sailing to Europe. A friend warns about importing a new religion. Brooks replies that any religion popular enough to import will have no bodies attached to it.
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Phillips Brooks
Europe
Bishop Brooks
Boston Herald
Yellow fever remembered in past outbreaks and heroism
The article recalls how yellow fever shaped American history, noting New Orleans mortality during a current flare remains limited. It highlights Philadelphia in 1793 and Memphis in 1878 as infamous outbreaks with massive death tolls and stories of civic aid, including Stephen Girard’s hospital work and nurses’ sacrifices.
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Boston Transcript
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Stephen Girard
Abou Ben Adhem
Memphis
Tenn
Burses
California Fruit Growers Press Tariff Protection
Fruit Growers of California urge strong tariffs to shield their industry from long freight distances and foreign duties. They warn reciprocity could harm California crops and wine, stressing the need to protect the home market from foreign competition while developing a robust agricultural sector.
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California
Germany
Maximum and Minimum Reform Debate Across Nations
The piece surveys tariff reform as linked to prosperity with references to Kansas wheat, large crops, and rail freight. It notes stand-patters’ independence when tariffs are mentioned in the Fifty-ninth Congress and predicts no tariff tinkering or 16 to 1 reestablishment. It cites the Trenton Gazette and Washington Post on crop-driven tariff perspectives.
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Arkansas
Republican Party
Trenton
N. J
Congress
Kansas
Massachusetts
Chicago
Washington Post
Fifty-ninth Congress
Political cartoons and editorial criticism on tariff and elections
A compilation of editorials from Ohio and other papers critiquing Democrat gains in elections, proposed inauguration date changes, upcoming eclipse humor, tariff policy debates, and protection of American industry with calls to preserve American labor rights.
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Ohio
Philadelphia Press
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Toledo Blade
Washington Post
Republican Party
Congress
Salem
Ore
Cincinnati
Troy Times
Borders Without Fences Use Mulberry Trees in Japan
The report notes Japanese farmers avoid fencing fields, using mulberry tree borders instead to save space. It claims about 190000 acres spared from fencing by this practice and suggests leaves support silkworms.
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Japan
Lincolnshire Agricultural Society honors large farming families
A Lincolnshire agricultural society report recognizes farm laborers with the largest families who have not received parish relief. It notes a father with four children, another with seventeen born, and mention of many offspring moving into the world.
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Lincolnshire
Agricultural Society
Gold Ship and Its Work
The article cites Alexander Del Mar in Engineering Magazine stating current gold yields reach $1,000,000 daily, with potential to double in ten years. Expansion owes to cyanide mining and silver abandonment, while future gains come from the gold dredge described as a wandering "gold ship" that extracts all gold from placers. The phantom ship is just beginning to clean up.
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Alexander del Mar
Engineering
The Gold Dredge: A New Era in Gold Mining
An exploration of the gold dredge as a transformative mining method. It claims dredges outperform hand labor across placers in deserts and river basins, operate on recycled water, and convert mining into a factory-like, cash-buy market. It notes costs, production capacity, and global expansion potential.
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Arizona
Feather River
Magdalena River
New Zealand
California
United States
South America
Europe
The Fundamental Mechanism of Good Walking for Children
The article argues the best walking posture for children places weight on the balls of the feet with heels lightly touching. It warns against heel heavy walking which bends bones and stiffens joints. It advocates forward weight shift from the chest, allowing the back leg to swing and promoting a strong, flexible poise for easy, successful walking.
Politeness in Children and Social Habits
Eleanor Davids as cited in The Note-Book of an Adopted Mother discusses teaching politeness to children. She argues that explaining the reasons behind manners helps children accept social usages, noting practical observations from recent papers about a boy's improved manners after starting school.
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Eleanor Davids
Mrs. Davids
Care of the Hands in Daily Life and Habit
Mme Qui Vive urges attentive hand care for all ages in the Chicago Record-Herald. Proper trimming of nails from birth forms neat points, while avoiding nail biting prevents future ugliness. Hot water baths calm nervous habit and careful washing with fine soap, thorough rinsing, and careful drying improve skin texture and appearance.
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Mme. Qui Vive
Chicago Record-Herald
Rules of happiness and health for beauty
A moral tone advises that health is key to beauty and happiness. It encourages balanced eating focusing on fruit, avoids excess pastry and sweets, promotes walking and light exercise, and warns against fad fat-reduction medicines. It stresses right living for beauty.
Beauty’s Hard Bed Sleep Advice From A Past Guide
An old health note warns against soft beds and overstuffed pillows. It urges a hard mattress with small cushions to improve ventilation circulation and prevent flabbiness. It cautions that sleeping on the right side strains heart muscles and may worsen heart trouble and causes nightmares if arms are over head.
Frowning Lines Tied to Habit and Eyesight
A newspaper note explains that frown lines arise from habitual facial tension likely linked to poor eyesight. Massaging with cold cream is suggested to help ease the lines and improve appearance.
Thunder in a Goblet Experiments on Vacuum and Air Pressure
The piece describes miniature thunder from vacuum effects between two goblets. It explains how air pressure, a rubber band, and water alter the force needed to separate the goblets. Additional experiments use a rubber ring and melting ice to show how vacuum forms and holds goblets together.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Man Surrenders Pension for Honest Christian Science Belief
A man who gave up his pension after adopting Christian Science shows soldierly patriotism and honor. He accepted no undeserved money, dealing squarely with the government, a rarity that attracts paragraphers.
Geese Feathers Drive Four Markets at Buda-Pesth
In Hungary geese thrive on the plains and travelers glimpse large flocks attended by geeseherds. Each year four bed-feather markets are held in Buda-Pesth with 600000 to 700000 pounds of bed feathers per market traded on gale.
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Hungary
Buda-Pesth
English gardener exposes the romance of estate life
A New York story recounts a English gardener brought to an estate by the newly rich. He tended the tennis lawn for the employer’s unmarried daughters, grows disgusted by frequent male visitors, resigns, and jokes that his craft is merely husbandry in the modern sense.
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New York
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England
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