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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1906
Page
3
Property lies on Virginia Passenger and Power Co line facing the Country Club with station on site. Cars run every 15 minutes, within five cent limit. Describes best located suburban homes area with phones and electric lines. Plat showing lot division available at WM. GRIFFIN, Owner. mh6-10b
Fashion dictates long gloves for ladies with orders placed with manufacturers. About 12 and 1b button suede and glace gloves in white and black priced up to 3 dollars. Silk gloves in black and white offered at 50 and 7i, lace tops 1 dollar. Short gloves remain in demand while Trefoil Eid ribbons and satin skirts are advertised.
A new assortment of dress skirts in black blue grey and tan is offered with styles like No Name and Circular Flounce. Prices range from 2.50 to 10. Remnants are on sale at about half price asCentre counters display various goods. New dress goods organdies and wash fabrics are arriving and will be described later.
The Strassburg survey reports 6,243 examinations and 2,660 treatments in one year, with growing clinics in Darmstadt and Mulhausen. Children aged three to six show low rates of sound teeth while teachers record and teach dental care. Separate piece notes Chicago Public Library fears contagion from books, citing germs in 50 examined items. secondhand books spread disease, especially in Kentucky schools.
Capri hosts an artist friendly inn born from a ruined painter's will. Daily charge capped at six francs with two bottles of Capri wine. poor artists can paint for room and board. Germans sometimes repaid by returning home, others stay. The second fact notes incandescent light wastes energy mostly as heat.
A March 12 proclamation from St. Petersburg outlines a 22 article anti Jewish program. It calls for expulsion of Jews from European Russia and Siberia into the pale, bans higher education for Jews, restricts work on Jewish holidays, imposes a lump sum tax in lieu of military service, demands restoration of Jewish surnames, bars certain professions such as acting, and grants full legal rights only to Jews whose grandchildren have converted to Christianity.
In Roanoke Virginia on March 12 a colored woman named Kate Johnson was shot by Gienn Waddell a colored man who fled after the 7 am incident Two bullets struck her head and hand The shooting is said to be caused by jealousy Johnson had been recently married Waddell escaped police seek him
Chicago unions move to establish a dedicated union cemetery with space for 5000 graves within a couple of months. The plot will be reserved exclusively for union members and burial access is restricted to unionists while the cigar makers’ unions allocate 15000 from treasury to fund the project.
A reader quotes women expressing frustration with men who disdain paint and cosmetics yet expect wives to maintain an immaculate appearance. The commentary notes domestic burdens and the uneasy dynamic that leaves women to shoulder chores and emotional strain without complaint.
Light weight applications should be used for cleaning white ribbon velvet with magnesia deemed best. Dust lightly then shake off. if nap flattens, place a damp cloth on the fabric and run a velvet iron over it to restore the nap.
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