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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
1
The excerpt urges joyful home life and self discipline to keep spirits high and bodies healthy. It cites Chicago Journal and London Queen on open windows, air, and exercises to prevent fatigue and stoutness. It advocates household work as ideal for maintaining figure and wellbeing.
The article notes various fashion details for gowns and coats including pique fabrics, plain hems, and lace as a strong feature. It highlights white and color-coordinated sets, heavy white linen with Japanese embroidery, cream linen with brown French knots, and a white kid coat costume with reseda velvet bands. It also mentions converting a low-necked evening blouse into a dinner waist with lace or batiste yokes.
The article surveys deep sea life noting fishes that can swallow prey larger than themselves, their extreme pressures and darkness, and the persistence of eyes in many deep sea species. It discusses specimens like Melanocetus and Saccopharynx, adaptations to high pressure, and colorfully described carnivorous genera with luminous and extraordinary dental features.
The guide advises women with sharp or prominent features to wear hats forward on the head, with fluffy hair and optional veils. It cautions against sharp hat outlines and recommends crushed brims for irregular features. For prominent noses, avoid severe outlines and place the hat forward. small noses should not be overwhelmed by large hats. avoid huge picture hats on small faces.
The Washington Star notes Frances Benjamin Johnson, long a photographer in this city, has been notified by the French Government that she is awarded the Palmes Academiques for services to France. The honor places her among about twenty five women in France with this distinction, and alongside one other American woman. The decoration recognizes her Paris Exposition 1900 involvement, her work as U S delegate to the photography congress, and services aiding France at the St Louis Exposition. It is the only French honor outside the Legion of Honor.
The piece discusses color psychology and its supposed impact on mood and morals, noting how room colors and clothing from infancy influence well being. It contrasts blue as cheerful, orange as lively, and grays and browns as sobering, while questioning modern wallpaper choices and landlord tendencies.
A Chicago Tribune report recounts a multi millionaire promising to make a leading institution the best endowed globally. He offers 10 million now, with 490 million to be raised from other sources to total 1.0 billion for the fund. The trustees react with stunned joy and then hushed awe.
A Providence Journal reader recalls a grocery counter where apples priced at seventy-five cents a dozen or seventy-five dollars a barrel tempt shoppers. The bemused man muses on the absurdity of high prices and unfamiliar fruit, calling the scene “superlative” and drifting into reflections on change.
The London Standard reports Sir Henry Irving’s dream of municipal theater administration as part of local government. Critics warned of revolution, but Irving framed it as a metaphorical idea likening theater management to water supply oversight. He saw no prospect of actors ruling, just a dream of rational civic entertainment.
A stranger in the Berry tavern in Danvers asks for John G. Whittier so the locals name Joe Whittier the contractor Clarence Whittier the janitor and Will Crosby the undertaker who would know the poet’s home someone points him to Crosby who can tell the truth about the dead poet.
A Boston Herald note recalls Judge Sherman returning a shabby umbrella in East Cambridge when a bunco schemer claimed familiarity. The judge declined to recall the man, saying he has sent so many of them to jail he cannot remember them all.
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