Embroidered satin coat and garden motifs in oriental influence
A detailed description of a lighter colored coat with silk frog fastenings and white lining, showing chrysanthemum and wisteria embroidery in gray green stems. The article notes alternate coats in heavier silks for evening wear, and compares a boudoir set as simple yet beautiful.
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Hera
Buda
Wireless telephone crosses continent in first test
Wireless voice transmission across the continent marked a pioneering achievement from Arlington Virginia to Mare Island California covering 2500 miles. Navy Captain Bullard led tests with American Telephone and Telegraph and Western Electric cooperation. President Taft era officials predicted big changes in military naval and commercial long distance communication.
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Washington
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Arlington
Mare Island
Cal
Bullard
Navy
American, Teléphone and Telegraph, Company
Western ,Elactric Company
Daniela
Ata
Theodore N. Vail
American Telephone and’ Telegraph Company
New York
Avith
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Ar Mngton
Naval
London
Paris
Berlin
Rome
United States
Vailey
Montauk ‘Point
Wilmington
Del
Navy Department
Mare, Island
Naoval
American Telephone, ‘and ‘Telegraph ‘Company
Western Electric Company
Theodore N. Wall
American Telephone ‘and Telegraph Company
Button Embellished Drawstring Bag Pattern
Instructions describe creating a square bottom drawstring bag with four outer pockets. Use linen or natural colored fabric and colored tape to bind pockets, with button flaps as fasteners. Decoration suggests sunbonnet baby embroidery and painted button faces.
Furs and Feathers Dominate New Season Neckwear Trends
The article highlights fur and feather trimming in millinery for the coming winter. It features fur trimmed neckpieces and turbans, blue velvet ribbons, and feather accents shaping fashionable hats and accessories for midlife women, with aprons inspiring semi princess designs.
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Ely
Incompatibility and old Negro court tale on wives
The excerpt presents a courtroom quip about a Negro man jailed for having multiple wives, with a judge pressing on. The old man explains the women stayed apart because of clothing and laziness, yielding a humorous misinterpretation of incompatibility. Another vignette follows about Danny Scot and Jack McTavish on a loch fishing trip with bets on who must pay for dinner.
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Danny Scot
Jack McTavish
McTavish
Jack
Storm Hits Mobile and New Orleans Area Hard
Unofficial reports place the toll from the West Indian hurricane at least two score lives and extensive property damage along the central Gulf coast. New Orleans suffered damage with estimates near four million dollars and about 160 persons fled the area.
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Mobile
Ala
New Orleans
Citien
Gulf
Orleans
Doctor’s Experience: Coffee Harms Some Seek Postum Cure
A doctor cites experience claiming coffee injures some people and a switch to Postum improves nerves sleep and weight. A testimonial from a Postum Co. advertisement describes quitting coffee two years earlier and gaining health. mentions Postum Cereal and Instant Postum products sold by grocers.
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Avery
Postum
Battle. Creek
Mich
Force of Necessity Illustrated by Horse Incident
Congressman Cantrill recounted a Kentucky tale on necessity. Smith hires a horse for a canter. the horse bucks, throws the rider, leaving him by the wayside. A friend later teases noting the rider dropped down by necessity and asks what he held on to.
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James C. Cantrill
Kentucky
Smith
T ‘Smith
Swamp Root Advert Says Women Need Kidney Health Aid
An old advertisement urges women with kidney and bladder trouble to try Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root. It claims many female complaints stem from kidney disease and promotes bottles at drug stores and a mail offer for a free sample.
Strict Neutrality and Odd Vignettes From Everyday Life
A collection of short, lightly connected anecdotes and quips. A girl punishes a friend in prayer after a mud incident. A policeman is asked to pace a gravelly path for a child. Brief exchanges touch on literature and common chores, ending with a note on New South Wales versus Britain populations.
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Tommy
Anto
Lear
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