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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1902
Page
9
Ellen Osmonde reports a fashion year filled with cream tones and pinks, puff sleeves, and Empire gowns. The piece notes sleeve lengths, boleros, pelerine flounces, sacque boleros, and lavish fabrics such as velvet, taffeta cristal, and lace. It highlights hats, millinery, and the rise of bolero coats while naming trends for day wear and evening dress.
The classrooms of the Art Institute of Chicago now house about 2,000 pupils, and the institute is visited each year by more than 700,000 persons. The figure underscores the institute's prominence in art education and public engagement.
A San Francisco centenarian Capt Diamond is described as straight and sprightly on his hundredth birthday. A photographer recalls preparing for frail aging yet Diamond moves with youth and vitality, attributing it to simple health habits available to all. A Belfast man airflow tale adds note of resilience in sunken-wreck flour, still usable after six months underwater.
The artist explains his commitment to depicting war and beauty honestly, describing how close personal experience colors his canvases. He recalls wounds in the Russo Turkish conflict, painting scenes from memory, and defends portraying human frailties in great men. He camped with American troops in the Philippines and values cheerful works alongside stark ones.
Shown in the shop windows are bisque mantel geese ducks and a rabbit emerging from an egg. Small golf clubs and bags appeal to children. Bed linen features lily of the valley patterns with drawn work. A new heavy metal ice shaver resembles a covered dipper with a toothed grinder. The jewelry section offers a French gate bracelet, as elbow sleeves boost bracelet fashion.
Holland ranks fifth among leading traders, Spain tenth with three percent of the trade. Travel growth between London, Bombay, and Calcutta spurs a shipping line to build three 5,000 ton passenger steamers. The German steamer Krefeld brings 175 ancient bronze Chinese guns to Germany, dated 200 to 250 years ago under Jesuit supervision. the most ornate pieces go to a naval museum while the remainder are to be melted for bronze.
A feature on Putnam Fadeless Dyes Co in Unionville Missouri reveals the scale of its operations. The plant produces three million packages yearly, with seven million envelopes used and thirty-five million handlings to complete orders, employing around a hundred people, mostly young women. Each package retails for ten cents, equating the dime value of three million packages to about one hundred eighty thousand dollars and nearly a full car load in weight.
Open invites all travelers to summer trips to California with special round trips under one cent per mile. Details available by mailing W G Neimyer Union Pacific Southern Pacific Bus 193 South Clark St Chicago. March and April only. Send name and address for full information and friend recommendations.
Seaside train offers tourist car berths at six dollars. Excur sions depart Tuesdays and Thursdays from Chicago and Wednesdays from New England. Illustrated pamphlet available on request by S A Hutchison manager 212 Clarke street Chicago for a two cent stamp.
An advertisement offers $1.00 fares from Chicago to St Paul or Minneapolis in Tourist sleeping cars of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. Service runs each Tuesday and Friday during March 1902 on train No 1 leaving Chicago at 6 30 pm. For details contact a coupon ticket agent or PA Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
Police officers Swanson of Council Bluffs and O Halloran of Chicago endorse Peruna. Swanson reports relief from kidney and pelvic pain after use. O Halloran notes several officers benefited after long hours in the rain. Readers are urged to write Dr. Hartman for free advice.
An excerpt from a Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station article argues goats excel at clearing land by eating leaves and bark, clearing thick brush and young timber, and thriving in burned or overgrown areas. Large flocks may be introduced in Northern Wisconsin to reclaim cut-over lands and promote reforestation, with winter browsing noted.
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