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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1897
Page
5
A Harper's Bazar item reviews winter bonnet styles for opera and social dress. It covers head coverings from broad bonnets to Normandy designs, with materials like tulle lace velvet rhinestones and plumes. It notes fit for vision, hairstyles, and the trend toward uncovered heads in demitoilet during full ball dress.
The New York Press notes denim’s decline in popularity for draperies and cushions, replaced by solid colored ticking in pink green blue yellow orange and terra cotta. Describes appliques, portieres, and large ticking pillows, including a tiger head embroidered motif and bold color contrasts.
In Chicago a veteran gum vendor known as Old Sport Campana was piched by two well dressed men who used a fake big bill to buy his stock. He counted 140 packs at five cents each, got a $100 bill, handed over the gum tray and took the large note, then sent the customer away while he walked off smiling and rich.
Admiral Bunce and officers of the north Atlantic squadron consider a hoodoo may be lifted from the battleship Texas after Captain Glass received a rabbit foot inscribed Texas from two Austin women in New York. The charm was mailed with a note wishing removal of the hoodoo as the ship sailed toward Galveston. Names of the donors were not learned.
Elmer H. Penrod of New Lexington Ohio has received a pioneering spinal reconstruction after a fall five years ago left him paralyzed. Surgeon Dr. R Harvey Reed removed four vertebrae sections cleaned the spinal cord and stabilized the spine with silver supports enabling movement though work remains unlikely.
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