Marks Bros Embroideries Sale A Major City Event
Marks Bros presents 15 000 yards of embroideries in a record sale banner that touts new patterns in Nainsooks Swisses and Cambrics. The ad claims 75 000 yards available with prices that slash typical values and positions the event as the greatest embroidery sale in the United States. The copy extols Swiss needlework artistry and assures shoppers high quality rather than throwaway pieces.
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United States
Philadelphia
Diverse Clothing Bargains Across Vests Shirts and Linens
A sale offers Women's Lisle Vests at 2½ each in multiple colors and lengths, Men's Balbriggan shirts and drawers under 20c values, with samples at 50c garments. Linens include heavy damask and cambric muslin, sheets and pillowcases, plus Marseilles bedspreads and corsets priced to clear.
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Oweling
Utica
House Furnishings Adette In Good Size Single Cover
Classified item noting a good sized house furnishing with a single cover offered at a sale price of 19 cents from a regular 50 cent item. May indicate a discount in a local newspaper ad.
China and Bedding Department Bargains at Marks Bros
Special weekly sale offers from Mark s Bros feature English semi porcelain dinner sets in green and dove, toilet sets, 10 piece lots, crystal vase selections, ice cream sets, and French China Dres den decorations. Bedding items include white enameled bedstead with brass trim, woven wire canes, and goat hair mattresses. Novels priced at 3 cents with 10 000 titles available.
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China Department
Tohn Maddocks & Sons
Dresden
Barnato's Insanity Tied to Empire Theatre Injury
Charles Rowan, in Johannesburg, recalls Barney Barnato's head injury during The Bells at the Empire Theatre. The incident, with Barnato later deteriorating into insanity and dying by his own hand, followed a fall from a stage beam after a matinee in October. Barnato had previously run a small illicit diamond business on Du Toitspan Road.
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New York
Charles Rowan
Barney Barnato
Diamond King
Matthias
Mr. Rowan
Transvaal
Empire Sagtire
Lyric Opera Company
Johannesburg
England
Barnato
Barney
du Toit Span
Biggest feet in the state woman fitted for size 12 men
Mrs. Sarah Gelliby of near West Newton is recorded as the state’s largest feet. She wears a size 12 in men’s shoes and requires an 8 width, a width not commercially available. Her foot measures 11 inches at the ball, 11% at the instep, and 14 inches at the heel, with a local exhibition planned this week.
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Trmus
West Newton
Sarah Gelliby
Counterfeit Mileage Book Ring Hunted by Railroad Detectives
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad detectives seek suspects involved in issuing and passing counterfeit mileage books. Bogus coupons were found at the auditor's office in the Central Building. Investigators have identified several persons possibly linked to the scheme. the forged signature of Charles C. Scull is easy to spot.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Charles C. Scull
Captain Chelton to be honored with U.S. bravery medal
Captain William H. Chelton, a Chesapeake Bay navigator and Eastern Shore veteran, saved forty six lives and is poised to become Maryland’s first recipient of a U.S. bravery medal for drowning rescues. Senator Wellington leads the petition amid a Maryland-wide push after Chelton’s early heroism, including a 15 year old rescue and later saves of Union soldiers and crew in peril at sea.
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Baltimore
William H. Chelton
Chesapeake Bay
United States
Massachusetts Bay
Chesapeake
Chelton
Wellington
John W. Crisfield
Maryland
Nanticoke
Davy Jones
Locker
Helton
Pocomoke City
John S. Tull
Northampton
Sandy Point
Captain Chelton
Packer
Nearling
The Worlds Teachers Address by Franklin J Van Valin
Franklin J Van Valin spoke at the Krishna Theosophical Society rooms 1821 Arch Street last evening on The Worlds Teachers. He urged harmony as the movement's watchword and argued that the world has always had teachers and teachings considered Inspired.
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Franklin J.van Valin
The
Krishna Theosophical Society
Arch Street
Franklin J. van Valin
Theosophical
Doings of a Daughter of Eve the Summer Bonnet Styles
The article surveys fashionable summer bonnets and hats, detailing the elaborate structures hidden under apparent simple looks. It contrasts full elaborate headgear with simpler stylish options, noting straw, tulle, ribbons, and flowers enhancing the crown and brim and mentions tailor designs amid millinery trends.
Omelette with Asparagus and Peas Instructions
Prepare and boil fresh grass. Beat six eggs until light and foamy then season with salt and pepper. Add a cup of sweet milk, melt butter in a pan, and cook the omelette until set. Fold over asparagus tips and serve immediately. Pea omelette uses the same method with about a pint of shelled peas.
They Dig Dandelions by the Bushel for Summer Work
A feature on several women who harvest dandelions as a seasonal occupation on a fashionable city street. The piece notes ten to twelve workers, backbreaking beginnings, earnings around $1.25 a day for a veteran, and the process from digging to knack for extracting weeds. It contrasts garden mowing as a cheaper alternative and explains the crop yields enough greens for a few meals per bushel.
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Rif
College training as a path to life enlightenment
The article argues education seeks a true understanding of life rather than skill alone. It cautions that a college woman must grasp life’s realities to justify her years of study, otherwise even clever graduates may face failure upon entering the world.
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Une
Varn
Summer imports highlight refined floor coverings
Mattings this season reveal new departures in patterns as well as colors, making them appropriate floor coverings for a finely appointed establishment during Summer months. The finest importations of the year are those at next.
The Summer Old Lady: A Season’s Independent Joys
The piece contrasts the celebrated summer girl with the equally lively summer old lady. It praises older women who bike, golf, and enjoy life with vigor, self confidence, and lack of vanity, seeing them as a modern, unselfconscious seasonal development.
Vertically, ma'am child’s witty sidewalk tumble
A Boston girl aged about four or five fell on the sidewalk while sliding. A passing lady helped her up and asked how she fell. The child sobbed and replied with a humorous error, saying she fell vertically.
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Boston
Stetson Straw Hats For Women Attrimmed Styles
John B. Stetson Co offers women straw hats in exclusive styles priced from five cents to eight dollars with sailors at three and four dollars. Available at 1108 Chestnut Street.
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Tetson
John B. Stetson CO
Chestnut St
The Feminine Observer Snapshot of Summer Fashions and Social Life
A collection of light social observations on millinery styles Wings and tulle in fashion White orange phosphate as a summer drink A bustling park scene with bicyclists A humorous note on owning a country house Through the eyes of Philadelphia society a charming dining room atop Walton A woman’s parasol versus a man’s cane in rain Aged women and arthritis reflect aging style Cousins low shoes shape and slim feet Night callers prowl homes A not at home rule prompts unlooked visits Fourth of July exodus and packed steamer trunks Slips of lawn fabrics offer affordable variety for outfits
Simple Ginger Cookies From Pantry Odds and Ends
Two eggs, one and a half cupfuls of granulated sugar, one cupful chopped and floured raisins, two-thirds cupful butter, one teaspoon each ground cloves cinnamon and nutmeg, one teaspoon soda dissolved in two tablespoonfuls milk or cream. Mix stiff, cut out like cookies.
Bargain Linen Center Pieces and Wide Clothing Discounts
See linen centre pieces and doglies. 2c. buys the 5-cent skein and the color line is simply magnificent. Ribbed Underwear-Price-Collapse 16C. worth 15c and 18c. Women's white ribbed Vests, low neck, silk tapes, plain and lace trimmed. 15¢ regularly 35c. Women's white lace isle Vests, silk trimmed low neck. 25¢ regularly 5s. Women's fine ribbed isle Vests white, Lace neck and crochet shoulder, Golf Hose Spalding's 75-cent and $1.25 qualities, 43c today. 240 pairs of the shapeliest of 5dollar shoes at $2.50. Patent leather, cloth top, buttoned. Welted soles, all sizes, B. C. D. widths. If you want a strictly up-to-date boot for state occasions, get down here early and secure one of these 240 pairs at HALF PRICE.
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the Duchess
Tom Timms
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Pottsville
William Colmar
Scart
Colepel Ze Iick
Francis Bauman
Daniel Seleilliam Nagle
Washington Garrett
Colmar
Matthew Woods
Hallah
West Side
P. T. Hallahan
N. 8Th St
Passyunk Ave
the TimEs
Mervin J. Eckels
West Arch Street Presbyterian Church
Paul
Dr. Eckels
Philippi
Macedon
Christ
Taw Times
J. Rothschild & CO
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Brooklyn
Paris
Syracuse
Key
Mattings
Summer Old Lady
Holida
Miss Hood
Walton
Seine
R Penne
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Denier Cardio
Spalding
Columbia
Floss
Oxfords
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Royal Blue Line
Washington
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