Fashion Frenzy Shows White, Chiffon, and Gibson Trends
Fashion notes spotlight ivory chiffon ette gowns with yellow lace trims and white settings on colored fabrics. Suede gloves disguise to match skin tone, and May and December hats feature er mine with apple blossom spray. Pale gray chiffon lace outfits suit theater gowns, while old city steins appeal, notably Nuremberg and Wedgwood designs. Chalks mimic silk with satin stripes and red tones. Gibson shirtwaists and Gibson pillows gain popularity, praised for clever, pretty designs.
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Nuremburg
Gibson
Bread and Butter State: Minnesota’s Agricultural Shift
Minnesota, once the Gopher state, is called the Bread and Butter state due to large flour and butter output. Last year mills produced 26 000 barrels of flour and 50 000 000 pounds of butter. Wheat and dairy sectors together dominate, contrasting with New York and Illinois where dairy and corn respectively outpace wheat.
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Minnesota
Gopher
Northwest
New York
Ilinois
Scientific notes on planets and natural phenomena
A summary of varied scientific curiosities including a water spout rotation estimate by Prof. Bigelow, an orchid that blooms and withers simultaneously in Java, planetary diameters by Prof. Lee, planetary densities, and a magnetic survey of British India prompted by sun spot theories of drought. The piece notes sun spots’ general link to terrestrial magnetism.
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Prof. Bigelow
Java
Jupiter
T. J. J. Lee
Mars
Mercury
Venus
Earth
Moon
Juipter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
British India
Royal Society
Norman Lockyer
Businesslike Lending Dreamed by Kin Count
A quip from the Atchison Globe notes the wish that life ends with businesslike methods so one dies when all kin are gathered rather than leaving them undecided for weeks.
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Atchison Globe
Veronian Family Noted for Cud Chewing Males
A Verona family is described as remarkable with all male members ruminating and chewing cud like cows, a trait highlighted by the New York Sun.
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Verona
N.Y. Sun
Notable Moves in Higher Education and Medical Fields
Nearly half of Swiss university students are foreigners. Harvard plans a Ralph Waldo Emerson philosophy building. Johns Hopkins marks its twenty fifth anniversary with living alumni autographs presented to President Gilman. A German seven youth school start protest. Chicago women push for a separate high grade medical school as Northwestern dissolves its women’s college. Chicago art institute Wing B expansion adds a long corridor called sculpture basel.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Harvard
Gilman
Johns Hopkins
Germany
Northwestern University Woman’s Medical College
West
Chicago
Chicago Art Institute
Sculpture Basel
Fatal joke ends in gunfire in Chicago
In Chicago on April 25 Edward L. Miller was killed when a man he mocked to raise his hands drew a revolver and killed him. Joseph P. Brown, a friend, shot four times as Brown returned home at 103 South Peoria Street and was arrested by police. The dead man was found without weapons.
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Chicago
Edward L. Miller
Joseph P. Brown
South Peoria Street
Brown
International cooperation tempers fierce competition
A London Chronicle piece discusses mid century style clashes with machinery and new domestic industries. It notes boot manufacturers in Northampton adopting American designed machinery and highlights cross border patent sales and American exhibition plans at the Crystal Palace. It stresses English capital and labor building on American ideas and the beneficial global exchange.
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United States
Northampton
Crystal Palace
Interna
London Chronicle
Ocean steamers rise as steel ships lead the fleet
The Hamburg-American line commands 98 ocean steamers. Global shipbuilding shows steel dominance with 911 steel hulls, 270 wooden, 72 iron, and two composites among 1,285 large vessels built last year. A New York daily notes aggressive street begging, citing James Ryan as an example of a “luxurious mendicant” earning nickels on State street.
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Egypt
United States
New York Daily
James Ryan
State Street
Rum Supply and Industrial Notes from Early 1900s
The brief mentions African rum buyers using Boston suppliers, Molson Washington filing bankruptcy and passing to a trustee, and a Chicago inventor proposing a 40 mile windmill belt around Chicago to charge storage batteries. It also notes U S coal output surpassing Britain in 1890 and a 1900 surge with 16 million tons more coal and over 5 million dollars in value, plus rising bituminous coal prices in 1899 at 87 1t mina.
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Africa
Boston
Molson
Wash
Chicago
Head
United States
Great Britain
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Ark
O.H. Scorr
Son
W. R. Matuga
New Madrid
Mats
Bees
Cisne Ave
Sr. Levis
School and College
Sedalia
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The
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Ohio
Daily Enquirer
Enquirer
Cincinnati
Evening Sentinel
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