Sarah Bernhardt Sets Tone On Beauty And Fashion
In a new role as a beauty advisor, Sarah Bernhardt argues beauty starts in the mind and laments overreliance on physical perfection. She recalls old beauty treatments and notes her opposition to corsets while stressing merit beyond fashion.
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Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Divine
la Jeunesse Eternelle
Madame Bernhardt
Paris
Camille
Armand
Sarah
Isabeau de Baviere
Isabeau of
Bavara
Madame Bernhard
France
England
Portraits and progress clash in famous actress case
A noted actress named Sarah Bernhardt is discussed in a column contrasting her stage fame with modern film and the quest for youth and beauty. The piece questions whether movement pictures alter her aura or diminish her stature and hints at the era's changing views on aging and beauty.
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Sarah Bernhardt
la Dama Aux Camelias
la Tosca
Roxane
l’Aiglon
Mexico Debates Rebellion and Loans as Zapata Persists
The Mexican congress denounces Madero for not quelling the revolt and approves new military funding. Reports say Zapata remains active while negotiations hint at continued resistance. The United States wishes Mexico stability but cautions against stifling press and negotiating with brigands.
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Mexico
Mexican Congress
Madero
Congress
Republic
Associated Press
Diaz
Aguilar
United States
Edison’s battery train moves toward battery propulsion railcars
A New York City test by the Pennsylvania railroad demonstrates progress toward Edison’s promise of trains powered by storage batteries. The article notes the need for structural changes to reduce battery size and weight and hints at further developments to enable battery powered propulsion.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
New York City
Edison
Storage battery train proves feasible for suburban passenger service
The article reviews a Pennsylvania train from New York to Long Beach using four 200 volt motors and 216 Edison batteries achieving 50 miles at 26 mph with a $2 energy cost. Recharge waits of seven hours and 60 to 100 mile range are discussed along with advantages of avoiding smoke and overhead wires. Edison aims to universalize accumulator propulsion.
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Pennsylvania
New York
Long Beach
L. L
Edison
Wilson's Record in New Jersey Social Reform
Summary of reforms under Governor Woodrow Wilson in New Jersey. Laws include fire escapes factory sanitation foundry safety more factory inspectors protection of child workers eight hour day on state local work and licensing for employment agencies. Authority and broader social progress cited versus Roosevelt.
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Chicago Journal
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
New Jersey
Woodrow Wilson
It Might Have Been Worse Champ Clark Humor
The Bright Side recalls Champ Clark jokes about the moved Ways and Means Committee. He quips that electric cars in a subway could come, and shares a St Louis Irish man tale about legs cut off by a train with a chorus girl punchline.
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Ways and Means
House of Representatives
Champ Clark
Champ
Clark
St. Louis
Mike
Torpedoes and a Five Pound Promise At Spar Bay
In Spar Bay’s Fisherman’s Arms four gloomy men face a rotten season and a possible windfall. Coast guard Cruisey hints torpedoes are missing after practice and Rear Admiral Screens leads a western squadron search. Sly Shane schemes with Gabbitt to chase a quick ten shillings.
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Fisherman's Arms
Chalk Point
Coast Guard
Joe Hawtin
Fatty” Tapps
Sly” Shane
Cruisey
Fatty
Tom Gabbitt
Sir Francis
Mr. Shane
Mr. Gabbitt
Coast
Shane
Gabbitt
Bryan Lacks and Mr. Bryan Campaign Notes
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat reflects on Bryan Lacks and Mr. Bryan endorsing another candidate, urging patience for Bryan Lacks's inexperience while supporting the choice.
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Bryan
St.Louis Globe-Democrat
Staggering Ancestor Counts Shock Washington Readers
The Washington Post reports figures from the National Hygienic exposition showing each adult in Washington has millions of ancestors. The data traces ancestry across periods from Napoleon to the Mongol era, noting rapid growth in the tree with each generation and the mathematical implausibility of the total.
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The
Washington Post
Washington
Red Cross
Christ
Europe
Gregory VII
Mohammed
Eyes that open on four dreaming evangelists tale
An English clergyman visiting reports a bishop’s inspection of a new church where four wooden images guarding the pulpit are said to represent the four evangelists. The bishop jokes that they appear asleep and the architect prompts Henry to “open the eyes” of the evangelists with a chisel.
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England
Lippincott’s
Henry
Vaudeville at Plaza: a balanced bill with the Bartos star act
The Plaza theater bill features Three Bartos billed as America's foremost athletes praised for grace and precision. Other acts include Adair and Hickey in A Revelation in Ragtime, Jarvis and Harrison in The Fellow the Girl and the Bench, the Moffett and Clare Trio, Olivetti Troubadours performing ragtime Italian pieces, The Chalk Line by Harlan E Knight, and the Eberling Troupe in the Cage of Death with bicycle and motorcycle feats in a cylindrical cage.
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Plaza Theater
Bartos
America
Adair
Hickey
Moffett and Clare
Italy
Harlan E. Knight and Company
Wool tariff fraud and bloated fortunes exposed in Chicago Journal
The piece argues the wool tariff is tangled and burdens the poor by taxing cheap woolen clothing, while allowing mills to mix cotton with wool and reap protection. It claims wool barons pay low wages yet gain high protection, fueling inflated fortunes from a system of swindling American consumers.
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The
Chicago Journal
America
England
Garfield
Angora goats guard flock against panther threat
David Glover near Haneyville buys two Angora goats to deter panthers and bears menacing local sheep flocks. The pugnacious goats deter predators as other raisers watch the experiment on the wild ranges during season.
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David Glover
Haneyville
Won't Be Able to Find the Pieces
A Kansas City Journal fragment notes a colonel likening his experience to a crusade and suggests a few weeks hence he may feel as if he had been in a wreck.
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Ben
Hendee
Kansas City Journal
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