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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1902
Page
6
The piece argues against new women wearing masculine cuts, tracing fashions across civilizations from China to Turkey and highlighting historic examples like Maid of Orleans. It contends feminine attire has long reflected evolving norms and that modern tailoring is a continuation of admired, conventional dress.
Historic Sadler''s Wells Theater, once near demolition, reopens with modern updates at substantial expense. The venue, dating to the 18th century, hosted royalty and famous performers including Braham Kean and Phelps, staging Shakespeare for decades before later rebuilds and changes preserved its status.
A new club in Kazan titled Do Not Shake Hands plans to meet without handshakes. Members will greet with obeisance, bow deeply, and avoid physical contact. If a woman extends a hand, a member should seek it with his lips.
A Cass county Missouri family of Dolans produced six Civil War veterans including a captain who joined Gentlemen's Battery and served with Stirling Price, Johnston, Lee, and Wheeler. Two brothers were captured, imprisoned, exchanged, then fought on. three later aided the southern cause as spies. The father, a judge, did not enlist. One son became postmaster at Freeman and later served through multiple presidents. A Spanish-American War son is noted.
A Teheran to frontier procession carries the shah and court on a costly, chaotic return from Europe. Camels mules and wagons laden with silks furniture and carpets parade past Russian cavalry and Persian officials as two vast harems move toward the frontier. The journey reportedly cost over 200000 dollars in a spectacle of color and hardship.
A street scene in Brooklyn recounts a man dressed in armor with a sword and umbrella. A crowd debates if his costume is odd, while he explains he carries the umbrella to cope with sudden showers. He predicts a summer like 1909 with many umbrellas and moves on.
A German professor suggests a whimsical method to judge a wife by her musical taste. He connects tastes from Strauss to Wagner with personality traits, noting buffs of Liszt, Beethoven, Gounod, and others signal traits from ambition to prudishness. He ends claiming Salut Sans, as admired, marks a balanced, intelligent woman.
The Philadelphia free library circulates books more economically than any world library at seven cents per volume. A joke notes that a politician becomes a hanger on after losing support, and that it takes rocks to make a man solid.
Mrs Clara J Sherbourne of 257 Cumberland Portland Maine praises Doan's Kidney Pills curing years of back pain and kidney distress after a grip epidemic. She says relief was quick and invites inquiries. A free trial of the medicine is offered by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY, price 60 cents per box.
Fragmentary newspaper item compiling various bits. It references a kiss scene, patent remedies such as Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, a catarrh cure by Cheney and Co, a grand cotton sale from Panther Burn plantation, and other assorted notices and quips from the period.
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