Walter Camp honored with national memorial plan
A nationwide drive funds a memorial gateway for Walter Camp to Yale athletic fields at New Haven. Alumni and 500 colleges back an $800,000 campaign to honor the Father of American Football with inscriptions naming participating schools and donors.
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Walter Camp
Yale
Walter Crnip
Cresar
Camp
Yale Athletics
Fred Daly
Ted Coy
New Haven
Boston Globe
Nanking
BH. K. Halli
Dartmouth
Alonzo A. Stagg
University of Chicago
Robert C. Zupp
Albert Barclay
Yule
Deland
Yale Field Association
First Record of Microbes by Van Leeuwenhoek
The text notes Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch lens grinder, reporting discoveries to the Royal Society in London in the 17th century. It states he observed bacteria as his investigations continued, marking early observations of microorganisms.
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Bac
Anthony van Leeuwenhoek
Royal Society of London
Leeuwenhoek
The New Type of Trav and Modern Inns
A reflection on changing hospitality from Samuel Johnson to modern hotels. The text notes taverns gave intimacy and exclusiveness, while economics drives travel growth and mass hotels offer vast contact, changing social patterns while preserving the underlying sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Johnson
Doctor Johnson
Paris Haute Couture Signals 1926 Summer Silhouette Trends
Paris fashion coverage notes waistline reemergence as a major trend for 1926 summer dresses. Sleeves dominate, with various styles and abundant embellishments expected across Vionnet Lanvin Martial et Armand and Lelong designs. Couture houses present many ideas, while wearers pick among fifteen key silhouettes.
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Paris Haute Couture
Paris
New York Herald-Tribune
Parisienne
Vionet
Jeanne Lanvin
Martial Et Armand
Lucien Lelong
Paul Poiret
Green Rough Straw Sailor Hat Impresses Youth
A Green rough straw sailor hat with black bands and a green red grosgrain trim garners praise as a stylish choice. The piece highlights its charm and appeal to young wearers in the fashion notes.
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Chapeau
Anl Hia. A. Charming & Sports Aalior
Light-Colored Gloves For Day Wear And Formal Attire
The guide notes gloves for general wear and with sports clothes use antelope, chamois, or washable skin or fabric in white, natural, gray, or beige to match stockings. They are worn loose, pull-on or button types with over stitched seams. For day dress, light suede gloves match stockings. The eight-button length is worn wrinkled at the wrist and considered smart.
Fashion notes on daring contoured hems and georgette
The passage discusses daring contoured skirts and evening gowns with hems rising toward the front and meeting heels. It notes harmonizing hosiery and frocks, suggesting sheer georgette bands and folds to enhance color and line.
Linens Highlighted in Toddlers and Teens Wardrobe Trends
Linen fabrics dominate children and young adults fashion with white and pastel outfits in shops. Simple boy suits with frilly touches accompany pastel frocks for girls, featuring hand blocked linens and English print inspired designs on costlier models.
Black Frock Styles with Circular Skirt and Georgette Accents
A black taffeta frock with a wide circular skirt displays tan beige and taupe georgette bands at the hem. A pink evening frock shows rose red and violet georgette at the join with hosiery. Fluted georgette and plaited trim apron frocks, panel effects rise, and menswear severity softens in fashion notes.
Petticoat Fashion Returns in Spring Styles
Late spring models reveal the petticoat as a deliberate feature. Designers show it peeking one to two inches below the dress with coordinated overblouse and coatee sleeves. The trend reverses traditional modesty, requiring petticoats to be visibly compliant with regulation length.
Period Evening Dress Rules Ny Fashion Haunts
A fragment notes New York city night life fashion with period evening dresses: hems fourteen to eighteen inches above the floor, shimmering shades like taffeta and velvet, old lace or tulle bands, and new necklines. The style features a slanting hem rising to show ankle and a trailing rear sweep.
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New York
Colored Bags and Luggage in Bright Leather Shades
Catalog listing bright colored leathers for dress cases bags and hat boxes with options in tan black and multicolor finishes.
Children's Nurse Resumes Duties After Benefit From Compound
A Greenfield Massachusetts nurse reports renewed energy after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says it helps her on her feet for long shifts and enables housework and nursing work. Similar letters from Lancaster Pennsylvania and other states praise the medicine for weakness and overall health.
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Lydia ED. Pinkham
Mrs. Gentr
Lydia
Pinkham
Mars
J. Pretsch
Lancaster
Pinkham Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Pennsylvania
Washington
Texas
Illinois
Rhode Island
Nebraska
Fragmentary Dialogue Snippet Hints Recurrent Meeting Scene
Two lines of partial dialogue hint a recurring encounter. The first asks where the speaker has seen the other, while the second suggests the recognition occurs in the present moment. The lines imply a familiar, possibly stagey exchange.
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Walter Carp
Ferno Wumceeincemen
Close-Zoe of
Gateway
Lydia E. Pinkham
Haarlem
DES Eiae
G G. Green, Inc
Woodbury
N. J
Parker
Drogal
Hincos Chen
N.Y
Hindercorns
Liscox Chemical Works
Patchogua
Dewey C. Steele
University of Wisconsin
Steele
Seckel Erith Company
Bagley
Nels Nelson Commpany Distributors
Salt Lake City
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