Life romance shifts with age and impersonal enjoyment
The article discusses how middle age changes reading tastes from romance to biography and poetry, emphasizing a move toward impersonal enjoyment and perception over emotion. It notes South Carolina’s move from liquor prohibition to local option, and briefly mentions a veterinary surgeon in the French army claiming heating air can immunize cereals, with military stores cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
North American Review
South Carolina
New Jersey Trolley Trial Considers Women Conductors
A New Jersey traction firm will test women as trolley conductors. The experiment hinges on creating a method to keep hats steady amid crowded aisles and jostling passengers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey Traction Company
Army officers to dig Panama canal at $14,000 yearly
The army officers appointed to dig the Panama canal will receive 14000 dollars per year in addition to their regular pay and the glory of the undertaking. If they complete the ditch they will earn every cent they receive in salary.
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Panama Canal
Fine Lingerie Making Showcases Delicate Undergarment Craft
A guide touts easy fitting for fine underwear like corset covers gowns and drawers. It highlights patterns and methods from French nainsook to Valenciennes lace, with sketches of corset covers, drawers, chemises, and empire gowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valenciennes
Nainsack
Batiste
Design for Watch Stand From Woolen and Wood Work
A craft note describes building a watch stand using two thin wood pieces as a base, sanded and stained green or brown, with a silk covered upper section attached by seccotine. It details a brass hook for suspension and small stained wood supports to fix the ornamental part to the base.
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Alamo Plaza
San Antonio
Tex
Ignatius Meyer
J. M. Watson
For the Restless Child and a Gasoline Stove Accident
A Texas reader suggests taping quilt tops to cot sides to keep children wrapped and warm. In Abilene Lee Lane, 21, a tailor, suffered serious but non dangerous burns when a gasoline stove exploded and he carried the burning stove to the sidewalk to save the building.
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Abilene
Tex
Lee Lane
Young Lane
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the Shiner Gazette
J. C. Habermacher
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Shiner
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F. T. Fehrenkamp
Moulton
Texzes
Gesundheit
Krankheit
San Antonio Brewing Association
F. P. Luck
Agent _ Shiner
E. J. Wangemann
Joe Macha
Dreyer
Adolph Schultz
Aug. Schramm
Shiner Oil Mill Manufacturing CO
D. C. Daniel
Bismarck
J. H. Heubner
Walters Bros
Opera House
Albert Berchenhoff
the Palace Saloon
KE. J. Wangemann
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