The Fictitious Glories of Stage Jewelry Making
The piece explains how theatrical jewelry is produced in Paris and the United States. It details stage designs from crowns to insignia, the use of Strass glass, foil backed composites, and cheaper foil or spangles for low cost gems. It notes two pearl types common in stage pieces and the risks of quicksilver methods.
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New York
Paris
Calais
Palais Royal
Sunday News
Strass
Eathers
Shane
Amonia
Polarized light and rotating spectrum spirals
An illustration by I G Govi describes passing light through a polarizer a quartz slice and an analyzer to produce colored light. A spectroscope shows dark interference bands whose positions depend on crystal thickness and rotation. A rotating analyzer and prism create circular spectra with Archimedean spirals of dark bands visible on retina.
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I. G. Govi
Nicol
Archimedes
Revenge in California tale warns maid on West Side
The Alta California recounts a grim marriage feud where a rejected suitor marries the girl's mother to spite her. The daughter endures strict control and denied pleasures, while the stepfather defends the match as protective, urging other belles to heed the warning.
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Alta California
West Side
Inventive Sailor Creates Bed Boat With Compartments
An Erie inventor unveils a bed boat with three head compartments storing pressed meats provisions a sail and a waterproof suit. Weighing fifteen pounds the bed can be unhooked carried on deck or under the arm and used to swim ashore with pillow secured. A patent has been applied for.
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Erie
Pueblo and Navajo Life in Santa Fe New Mexico
In Santa Fe New Mexico natives and Navajo and Pueblo peoples shape daily life as railroads loom. Pueblos maintain traditional dress and trade with the city while Navajo visit for commerce and are described as noble yet powerful. The piece notes aging ruins, historical bells, and the impact of American expansion on native culture.
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New York Tribune
Santa Fe
N. M
United States
Pueblo
San Mateo Spring
New Mexico
Call for law to bar youths from billiard saloons
A Mrs A Mother urges the legislature to ban boys from billiard saloons this winter. She cites existing state law and describes boys aged fourteen to twenty one at Logansport venues lingering until midnight, using earnings for drinks, and the moral danger posed by billiards to youth.
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Logansport
The Munich Dead-Room Folly or Funeral Exhibit
A New York reader recalls Munich’s public display of the dead before burial. Glass doors reveal corpses laid in lighted caskets among flowers, with a baby among them. The living can visit at any hour, and the setup aims to ease death’s sorrow by watchful, celebratory surroundings.
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Munich
New York Mail
Fire destroys Hos tetter Smith stomach bitters plant in Pittsburgh
A 1:30 am blaze at the Hos tetter & Smith stomach bitters factory's printing department in Pittsburgh totally consumed the building, causing about 40000 dollars in losses, fully insured. The main structure suffered minor damage and many women workers were left unemployed temporarily. The fire likely started from a stove in the composing room.
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Pittsburgh
Hostetter & Smith
Attorneys at Law Sullivan Indiana Ad
Attorneys at Law Sullivan Indiana. Office upstairs in bank building. Prompt attention paid to collections.
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Attorneys-at-Law
Sullivan
Indiana
Attorneys T Hays and H Blue in Sullivan Indiana
Attorneys John T. Hays and H. Blue offer legal services with emphasis on collections. Offices located at Public Square northeast corner and 7 Commercial Row upstairs.
M& Buff Attorney at Law Advertisement
Local lawyer M and Buff announces office at 107 Maine Street Terre Haute Indiana between 4th and 5th on the south side He will attend all courts in Sullivan County and devote undivided attention to professional business.
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Maine Street
4Th
South Side
Terre Haute
Indiana
Sullivan
Physician and Surgeon Office in Sullivan Indiana
Physician and surgeon located over Kelly's Jewelry Store Sullivan Indiana offers prompt day and night calls. Specializes in chrom ailments and diseases of females with attentive care.
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Kelly’s Jewelry Store
Sullivan
Indiana
R W Cavins M D Physician and Surgeon
Dr R W Cavins physician and surgeon maintains an office above Humphrey's Grocery on the north side of the Sullivan public square in Sullivan Indiana.
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Humphrey’s Grocery
North Side
Public Square
Sullivan Indiana
General Fire Life and Accident Insurance Agent
An insurance agent operates from an office over the Post Office in Sullivan Indiana offering fire life and accident coverage.
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General Fire Life
Sullivan
Ind
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Life IN
Howe
Brees & Massie
Attorneys At Law
Sullivan County Bank
Sullivan, Ind
PLE & Waggoner
Young’s
Oes T. Gunn
Coulson & Coulson
Buff & Patten
McCammon
Ohn T. Hays
Attorney At Law
Croner Public Square
H. Blue
Commercial Row
M& Buff
R W. Cavins, M. D
W. W. Johnson
Curry & Dutton’s
North Side Square
Fred Briggs
Warners Diabetes
Bright
Warner
Warner's
Druggista & Dealers In Medicine Everywhere
HAH
Warner & Co
Fey
Kendall
P. N. Granger
St. Albans
B. J. Kendall & Co
Gents
BP. N. Granger
Stoughton
Mass
Chase, Parker
DR. &. J. Kendall & CO
Enosbnureh Falls
Vermont
Franzz Liszt
Theo
Thomason
Mason & Halin
Mason & Hamlin Organ Co
Wabash Avenue
George F,. Hughes
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