Latest slit skirt fashions dazzle in winter costumes
The article surveys new winter fashion trends focusing on daring slit skirts in tailored and evening outfits. It highlights intricate details such as crosswise stripes, bold back slits, fur trims, and delicate accessories, plus a scene from The Dancing Mistress showcasing a snow white slit skirt with layered petticoats and a white chiffon undergarment.
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Tyre
Gertie Millar
Switzerland
Miss Millar
Valenciennes
Lucile
Everett Women Form Assistant Engineers Club
A group of Everett wives of Great Northern train crews has formed the Assistant Engineers Club to study locomotive operation. Members plan to learn about running engines in all branches so they can discuss and understand the work when their husbands return from runs.
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Everett
Louis Noble
Great Northern
Mother Love Revealed in Michigan Bedbound Sons Case
Oxford Michigan reports a mother’s devotion as Mrs Edward Stiff cares for two sons confined to their beds since birth. One died recently, the other remains bedbound, while the Stiffs’ daughters grow up nearby in a rural farm setting five miles from town.
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Oxford
Mich
Edward Stiff
Here
Stiff
Bachelors Mind Ills Disturb Insane Report
Washington notes from the government hospital for the insane show bachelors succumb to insanity more readily than married men. Of nearly 3000 patients only three cases are alcohol related, challenging common beliefs. The report also finds many foreign patients, mainly Germans.
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Washington
Government Hospital
Fisher
Cooperative efforts via local agencies for social aid
The article urges contacting the local social agency such as township trustees overseers of the poor sheriff or police chief to obtain information. It emphasizes cooperation and suggests the state conference of charities as the best place to develop effective collaboration in even small communities.
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State Conference of Charities
New York Visit Delights Major Carshalton On Immigrant Life
Major Hubert J. Carshalton of the Indian army sails for England after a ten day stay in New York. He praises the welcoming influx of European peasants drilled into American citizenship and notes the diverse nationalities, beauty of young women, and efficient public services while offering minor critiques of taxi and post office arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hubert J. Carshalton
England
Waldorf-Astoria
Europe
London
Sahara Desert
The Individual And The Family In Charity Work
Lecturer Alexander Johnson argues that rehabilitation of family life underpins social welfare. He cites insane mothers and delinquent youths as outcomes of broken home conditions and urges after care, home testing, and family-centered support to prevent recidivism and improve institutional results.
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Alexander Johnson
Corson
Juvenile Court of
Chicago
Stead's Oscar Wilde Prediction Recalled On Ocean Disaster
The Stead biography hunt in London uncovers a Pall Mall Gazette piece from 1886 detailing a nightmare vision of liners at sea. It recaps his forecast of doomed ships, crowded lifeboats, and the perilous scramble as passengers confront a listed steamer and eventual rescue.
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Onburg Gazette-Times
London
W. T. Stead
Mr. Stead
Pall Mall Gazette
Mid-Atlantic
Oregon
Stead
New York
Thompson
John Jacob Astor
Kindness Brings Wealth in Pueblo New Orleans Merchant's Message
Albert Rocket a 22 year old Denver railroad clerk aided an elderly New Orleans cotton merchant John Fairfax senior at Pueblo Union depot and Vail hotel. Impressed Fairfax offered Rocket his business position a share of a 2 million dollar estate and a future marriage to Jeannette Ray daughter of a Pueblo realty dealer.
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Denver
Union Depot
Pueblo
Albert Rocket
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
South
Jeannette Ray
Rocket
John Fairfax
John Fairfax & Co
New Orleans
Fairfax
Vail Hotel
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