NEW YORK Fashions and the family sewing contrasts
The piece surveys how machine embroidery and silk skirts supplant laborious handwork from earlier days. It contrasts costly silk petticoats with affordable wash silks, notes trends like Russian embroidery, and argues that fashionable women now outsource sewing while still dressing stylishly. It also laments reduced home sewing and highlights examples of current gowns and fabrics seen in shops and theaters.
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Hamburg
An Icelandic Costume Described by Post Dispatch
A description of Icelandic women students wearing a plain black woolen skirt a close fitting bodice with a snowy vest neck collar cuffs a broad ribbon tied under the chin and a flat black cap with a silk tassel. The costume emphasizes comfort beauty and economy per the St Louis Post Dispatch.
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Iceland
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
How to Remove Ink Stains at Home
Household Recipes advises prompt wet treatment to lift ink stains. Do not touch. hold over a cup and drip water gradually until marks disappear. For dry stains, dip the fabric into hot milk and rub gently until the spot vanishes.
Vera Cruz Coffee Lands Sold to International Buyers
Over a million acres of coffee land were sold last year in Vera Cruz Mexico to purchasers of many nationalities including Americans Englishmen Germans Frenchmen and Belgians. The emphasis on neatness and beauty of the home and belongings is seen as enhancing the owner's pleasure and promoting refinement and real improvement of the household.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
The Friend of the Poor Is One of New Yorks Busy Officials
William Blake, superintendent of outdoor poor for New York City’s Department of Charities and Corrections, spends six days a week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. listening to appeals for charity. He handles 100 daily visitors, signs papers, allocates coal and passes, and even assigns names to foundlings, with girls given sentimental names like Margaret Street and Genevieve Hall. He also fields requests for wives, workers, doctors, and undertakers, and is famed as the city’s most approachable official.
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New York City
William Blake
Department of Charities and Correction
O'Cloeck
Blake
Mr. Blake
Margaret
Genevieve Hall
Miriam Ashe
Brilliant English Lawyer Lord Justice Russell Dies Noted Jurist
A profile of Sir Charles Russell, recently made lord justice of the English court of appeals. Born in Ireland in 1538, he rose from Dundalk solicitor to Lincoln's Inn barrister, KC, and MP for Dundalk and South Hackney. Renowned cross examiner, famed for Parnell commission speech, and a keen turfman who enjoyed whist and snuff.
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Charles Russell
England
Bering Sea
Maybrick
Sir Charles
Parnell Commission
Hannen
Ireland
Newry
Trinity College
Dublin
Russell
Mayworth College
Dundalk
Lincoln's Inn
Queen's Counsel
House of Commons
South Hackney
Gladstone
Fruits of the Fatr Exposition Elevates Arts and Science Across Nation
The Columbian Exposition quickened artistic taste and scientific interest nationwide. Chicago’s new office buildings reflect refined architecture and improved professional skill. Society embraces better interior decoration, etchings, and sculpture while medicine and chemistry gain momentum. Europe watches as American mineral resources attract capital, and doctors gain from exposed medical apparatus. C.T. Baxter.
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Ings
Chicago
Bronudl
Europe
Germany
England
C.T. Baxter
Submarine Telephone Brings Faster Talk to Divers
An improved telephone adapted by Wrecker Whitelaw of San Francisco is fitted inside divers helmets to enable direct underwater communication with the surface. The system uses electric transmission without grounding, reducing delays and freeing divers from life-line interruptions. This advance promises greater efficiency and safety for underwater missions.
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Point Bonita
Golden Gate
City of New York
McGinty
Wrecker Whitelaw
San Francisco
French taste for fiction in Paris libraries
Statistics from Paris show novels share less than 62 per 100 reads in public libraries. Of 1,583,000 volumes circulated from district library rooms only 17,000 were novels. Alexandre Dumas' works are the most called for.
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Paris
Alexandre Dumas
Hats as Life Preservers and Social Doings
A fragmented column notes common tips such as using a felt hat as a makeshift life preserver when someone falls in water and tips on glove jewelry care. It also cites Mrs Elizabeth Kingsbury on why women do not marry due to finances, and Dr Emily Bruce on deaths in England from faulty dress. It ends with a etiquette cue about women bowing after introductions.
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Mate Leroy
Elizabeth Kingsbury
A Chance to Signal Mars
Professor Dolbear notes a strong search light might project a beam to Mars in four minutes and be visible and answerable if observers possess the same apparatus.
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Mars
Dolbear
Woman and Wages Question and Impact on Pay
The passage argues many women join business ranks without coercion and their competition with compelled workers likely lowers wages. It asks whether this effect on pay can be denied and reflects on gender-based labor influence.
Trades in Parliament Newspaper Men and Tradesmen Gather
In the house of commons ten newspaper men six printers four tailors three stationers two butchers three hotel keepers six farmers one coal merchant and one cab driver participate in trades listed.
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House of Commons
Jarvis Succeeds Vance as North Carolina Senator
Ex Governor Thomas Jordan Jarvis of North Carolina, a long prominent figure in state politics, is appointed to the United States Senate seat vacated by the death of Zebulon Vance. Born 1856, Jarvis rose from poverty, served in the Eighth North Carolina Regiment, became speaker of the house, and governed the state before a cabinet post and ministerial appointment abroad.
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Jarvis
North Carolina
Zebulon Vance
Vance
United States Senate
Senate
Old North
Jarvisburg
Randolph and Macon College
Iment
Iness
Orrell County
Usts
Mr. Vance
Cleveland
Brazil
Mr. Jarvis
Maury Woodson
Virginia
Argyle’s Memorial Trees Grow Longer Avenue
A strange avenue of trees owned by the Duke of Argyle stretches year by year. Each tree bears a brass plate on its iron fence stating who planted it, marking a living memorial of notable individuals through time.
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Duke of Argyle
Teeth and the well groomed mouth in modern ages
A Household advice piece notes that plain teeth can spoil beauty, while a clean mouth with even two rows of teeth is attractive. It suggests precipitated chalk as a mouth freshener, to keep teeth clean and promote a wholesome look on the toilet stand.
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Dentifrice
Smallest Dog Gift To Archduchess At Christmas
The Archduchess Mizabeth, daughter of Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria, receives a tiny terrier as a Christmas gift. The dog, 18 cm high and 17 cm long, weighs about a pound and was previously owned by cafe keeper Mrs Waldmann in Vienna. The World notes the royal presentation and the pet’s droll ways as part of imperial family life.
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Mizabeth
Stephanie of
Austria
Fran Waldmann
New York World
Little Mangtsh duchess girl gains ornate toy house
A duchess’s daughter enjoys a real tiny house built by a housebuilder and decorated by a specialist with rose brocade walls thick carpets and silk curtains. It features authentic doors and stairs but children prefer the cardboard box craft made by clever girls with gay carpet scraps.
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New York Times
Wanted Him to Jump
A Philadelphia Press sketch portrays a dignified Philanthropist in a silk hat observing little girls jump rope in a narrow alley. He spends his days helping the poor and pauses to request passage as the children cheerfully call for him to jump.
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West Philadelphia
Philadelphia Press
Archangel Lore and Beauty Tips in A Curious Review
A collage of antiquated musings cites Joseph Dana Miller on the archangel’s bond with children and flowers, praises Rosemary tea for hair growth, notes Duchess of Portland’s belief in Mary Queen of Scots within Lady Caithness, and claims St James Gazette ranks American women high in the beauty of the foot.
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Earth
Joseph Dana Miller
Katefield
Washington
Caithness
Benown
Duchess of Poutpe
Europe
Mary
Queen of Scots
St. James Gazette
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