Summer Fashions Return Dress Improver Styles In Vogue
A New York Evening Post fashion roundup surveys summer to fall dress trends. Mohair fabrics, black and blue palettes, and lace trimmed gowns dominate. The review notes dress improver revival, small back cushions, and feathered sleeves, alongside practical organzde and mull gowns for less formal wear. It highlights persian embroidery, black velvet, and chic accessories including hats, veils, and parasols as key style markers for the season.
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New York Evening Post
Wales
Summer fashion notes on fabrics and travel cloaks
The article discusses fabric choices for summer wear including soft wool, mohairs, cashmeres, serges, and challies as economical protective options. It critiques elaborate dust cloaks as impractical and suggests simpler mohair or cashmere wraps with trim hats as sensible travel attire.
Grant's Old Desk Finds Final Rest in Attic Memoir
A heavy cherry desk once used by Captain Ulysses S. Grant in his prewar real estate days travels from St. Louis to Avery's office, then to a Cleveland attic via payment for rent. The owner, A T Brewer, recalls Grant’s Crimea era maps and strategic criticism, noting Grant’s growing focus on generalship over business. The desk, dust covered and nearly forgotten, remains a relic of a notable career.
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Washington Times
Ulysses S. Grant
United States
St. Louis
A. T. Brewer
Cleveland
Grant
Avery
Crimea
Lamagy
Avery Aid
Liter
Warnet
Brewer
New Orleans Molasses Perils and Sugar Trade Tricks
A Washington Post piece recalls old New Orleans molasses replaced by glucose from corn due to centrifugal sugar making. It notes the Sugar Exchange tests, doped molasses, and a chemist’s precipitating trick that led to a rule banning members who adulterate molasses.
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Washington Post
New Orleans
Emile Janin
Sugar Exchange
Birth of the Moon and the Earth Moon Dynamics
Prof EB Holden explains in Harper's Magazine that Earth's rotation has slowed from about five hours per day to twenty four, while the Moon recedes from Earth due to gravitational interaction. The text notes ancient rapid days and universal tides, with equations linking day length and lunar distance. It outlines how shorter planetary days force moons to move outward.
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EB. H. Holden
Harper's Magazine
Be nee and the Moon's Receding Day Length
A compact note explains the Moon’s recession causes a shortening terrestrial day, with the Moon’s slower rotation and orbital dynamics discussed as a long term consequence. The text references Be nee and the progression of time as the Moon moves away.
Connecticut Sumatra tobacco trials in cheesecloth shade tents
Connecticut Valley experiments grow Sumatra tobacco under cheesecloth shade tents to imitate Florida conditions. Six seed beds near Tariffville yield plants for twenty five acres with steam heated frames, predicting a harvest by August. The project, supervised by M L Floyd under Milton Whitney, aims to boost U S Sumatra production and reduce imports.
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Connecticut
Washington Star
Bureau of Soils
Connecticut Valley
Florida
Connecticut Experiment Station
Bureau
Tariffville
M. L. Floyd
Department of Agriculture
Cluriffville
Poquonock
Windsor
Suffield
Barkhamstead
Avon
Southwark
Massachusetts
Isi
Sumatra
United States
Milton Whitney
Washington
Floyd
Ax Tits
McNess
Henry Lott
McDuffey
Cobey
Poison ivy and its remedies in botanical lore
The Boston Transcript notes poison ivy, Rhus toxicodendron, has deer to be deadly for some yet harmless to others. It covers its biology and outbreaks, mentions antidotes like soapsuds and baking soda, and highlights the jewel weed Impatiens biflora as a natural counter to poisoning. It also details the plant’s flowers, seeds, and the French name Ny toucher pas as a warning.
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Boston Transcript
Down in the Neck Bats Help Fight Mosquitoes
An elderly Long Lane resident notes bats are welcomed in early summer. Mrs Young recalls bats sheltered indoors last winter, returning with three young ones. They nightly devour mosquitoes on both the second and top floors, and the resident says bats are wormless and keep the air clear.
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Philadelphia
Long Lane
Sandals and Bere Lees Boston Herald report
From England comes the report that the latest seaside fad is the wearing of sandals by grown persons. Many girls are taken with the idea and are generally worn without stockings. The craze has spread to London where well dressed women can be seen sandaled in the parks. All of which serves to prove wearing of sandals.
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Boston Herald
England
The Vibrating Machine Craze Shakes Health Fads Abroad
A New York Sun report details an overseas health fad promising cures for many ailments by vibration. Machines strap patients to a device, moving a metal rod and glove to vibrate the body, claimed to restore nerve balance and relieve conditions from catarrh to paralysis.
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New York Sun
Europe
New York City
Fifth Avenue
New York
Netro
Tattooed Blushes In London Mail Exposé
A London tattooist and an American woman unveil a method to permanently tattoo a healthy glow on the cheeks using pigment resembling rouge. The experiment begins with the expert testing on himself and yields several women in Britain and the United States adopting permanent color, while the artist notes the risk of irreversible failure.
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London Mail
London
Alady
Macdonald
Golf Fad Linked to Death Warns St Louis Surgeon
Dr A C Bernays of St Louis questions the golf fad after Wayman McCreery, a prominent local athlete, died of apoplexy following rapid weight loss and strenuous rounds on the links. The physician warns middle aged men against radical lifestyle changes and overly strenuous exercise, urging moderation and comfort in physical activity.
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Philadelphia
A. C. Bernays
St. Louis
Wayman McCreery
Bernays
Hartford Courant: General Robbe's Mindanao Jolo experiment
A brief item notes the experiment General Robbe is attempting in Mindanao and Jolo, signaling a strategic test or policy initiative. Details are fragmentary, but the report points to a foreign operation or analysis tied to military planning in the area.
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Hartford Courant
General Robbe
Mindanao
Jolo
Damask and Linen Textiles at Sale Prices
A varied selection of damask and linen textiles offered at reduced rates. Includes double damask, Belfast satin damask, unbleached damask, Turkish towels, fringed Huck towels, napkins in bleached and unbleached forms, Barnsley crash in multiple widths, and cotton crash by the yard, with regular vs sale prices noted. Strong entities include Gus Peavy, Barnsly, and Union linen references.
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Belfast
RY E.eectsee
Embroidered Silk Malls and Dotted Swisses
Embroidered silk mallas in satin stripes and colors, regular quality. Dotted Swisses with white grounds and black printings in tinted grounds, popular styles. Batistes with black printings in stripes and foulard, very popular this season in two qualities. Journal pictures neatly framed. The Wm. H. Block Co.
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Batiste
Prohibitionist and Moros Shielded from Liquor
A military official declares equal interest to both sides of prohibition, but focuses on barring liquor from Moro wards. Discharged soldiers seeking retail liquor are refused, and all officers are ordered to curb sales. No liquor may be sold in original packages without written consent of the senior officer, who must ensure no resale or abuse will occur.
The Absurdity of Opera in the London Globe
A critical flare against continental trends in opera, mocking Covent Garden casting, Juliet age, and Wagner productions. The writer lampoons conductors as central figures, chorus stereotypes, and English performances of foreign works, arguing such extravagances reveal opera absurdities.
Trapper Hank Jones Quits Coyote Hunt After Oregon News
Hank Jones, veteran trapper, visited Portland while en route from Idaho to the Klamath country to hunt coyotes for bounties. He learned from Oregon papers that many coyotes had been killed and bounties paid, expecting big profits. He returned to Idaho disillusioned after a single night of trapping yielded few catches.
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Klamath County
Mr. Jones
Jones
Idaho
Oregonian
Hank Jones
Portland
Klamath Country
Oregon
Klamath
Ned
The Novel of the Season in a Boston Transcript tale
A Boston Transcript essay humorously traces a reader’s chase of a “book of the season” as shop windows swap rival monarchs and publishers flood markets with endless editions, leaving the family bookless and skeptical of every new release. The piece lampoons publishing excess and shifting tastes.
The Neglect Cure for Warts
A Youth's Companion excerpt notes warts are curious, with many useless cures. A club man claims warts reflect mental excretion and recounts a Europe trip that coincided with his wart disappearing after forgetting it, suggesting neglect as a cure.
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Europe
Ghost story aboard a ship sparks mysterious steering change
A sea captain at the Continental Hotel relays a tale of a ghostly man seen in a Liverpool bound Atlantic voyage. A sudden slip of paper reading Steer due south caused the vessel to alter course for hours, leading to a wreck rescue and identification of the strange observer who claimed to fall into cataleptic trances.
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Philadelphia Record
Continental
Herman Merivale
Atlantic
Liverpool
Fe Lowe
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