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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1899
Page
3
The piece notes a broad array of outside wraps from long to short coats and three-quarter lengths, with a focus on nonmatching ensembles. It highlights short jackets with heavy trimming, varied cape and cloak options, and hats featuring velvet bows, pink chiffon fluting, and brooch attachments to coat or bodice.
Guidance on facial care with massage and steaming to prevent lines, plus fashion notes on velvet trimmings and hats. Mentions professional treatments, soap avoidance, and regular weekly care, followed by at home evenings etiquette and small social gatherings.
The article notes chiffon puffings and bows mixed with fur and velvet as trim for toques and bonnets. New hats use felt or cloth foundations with higher crowns. Picture hats in black velvet are worn as toques with wide brims and two long ostrich feather trims.
The Tansania springs supply the famed Tansan water bottled for shipment. The resort town attracts summer visitors seeking health waters. Bottling has become a key industry with nearly fifty workers employed in the operation.
A kitten owned by Miss Rawlston the American actress attracts attention as an anatomical curiosity with twenty four toes. The playful animal travels with its mistress on theatrical tours and rests in a padded basket during travel.
In Elis Yarnall's volume Wordsworth and the Coleridges, a witty tale recalls Samuel Taylor Coleridge whose ideas could baffle even fellow poets. Wordsworth and Samuel Rogers attended an evening with Coleridge and later confessed they did not grasp much of his remarks.
The sting pain is partly from formic acid and a toxin resembling stake poison. Local nettles are mild, but varieties in India and Java can cause pain lasting weeks or months, akin to snake bites.
A brief Harlem Life note shows a witty exchange about social habits and lighting up an evening with plain talk. The dialogue pits a bore against a desire for simple company as they propose talking over an evening.
A New York Herald feature notes families and friends living aboard several yachts in Bay Ridge Yacht Basin in South Brooklyn. Five young men on one sloop mingle with typewriter-working forays to Nassau Street, while others wintered aboard last year and plan to repeat. They host social events, including a January boat party vaudeville and a frozen-basin skating party with a hot supper below decks.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes the Lady Barbers association now at 655 Chancery Lane with Mme. St. Quentin in charge since June. A writer visits the basement shop and describes a gentleman's shave by a skilled woman as a smooth, nearly magical experience.
The article notes the uncertain burial site of John Paul Jones in Paris after he left American service and died there. Efforts to locate his tomb have continued, with Philadelphia papers urging a search and potential repatriation to Washington, D C.
The late Prof. Othniel Charles Marsh left a mineral collection valued in the millions to Yale University. His heirs challenge the will seeking possession or its monetary equivalent, while Yale hires counsel to defend its ownership. Marsh built a famed career at Yale in mineralogy and paleontology, explored the Rockies, and influenced science with discoveries and teaching excellence.
The Sheik of Wadal accepts the Sultan of Turkey as head of the Mohammedan church not ruler of temporal affairs. Wadal lies in central Soudan and is populated by Arabs and blacks. The Sultan is pleased as allegiance shifts from the Grand Cheriff of Mecca in church matters.
A Maine to Oregon admonition urges annual winter caution. The churchman’s line stresses practical warmth and simple habits to avoid catching colds as the season approaches.
The fragment centers on three women figures Hila Ella and Stella discussing a man named Fred. Ella recalls refusing Fred and him saying she had sent him to his death. Stella reveals she accepted Fred after his proposal. Hila interprets the remark as a deathly consequence.
The Irish Independent recounts a tale of the late Chief Justice Cockburn in which he questioned a witness about a plaintiff named Jones. Mr B objected to the question, judges retired, and returned to allow the question with the reply that Jones “wasn’t at home.”
Isaac Brock of McLennan County Texas aged 111 credits Peruna for good health and long life. He praises Dr Hartman’s books, calls catarrh the same as coughs and diarrhoea, and says Peruna has been a reliable stand-by for years. A free catarrh booklet is offered by The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
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