A Handsome Coat and Parisian Trims Highlight Fashion
A rundown of long tucked coats in soft gray broadcloth with Parisian lamb braid detailing. Also features a one piece brown apron design, fashionable turbans, and latest dress fabrics, plus tips on collars, waists, and evening frocks with emphasis on texture and labor in modern garments.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Incoherent note prompts question on errors and deceit
A garbled missive questions the reliability of earlier statements and hints at deception. It mentions various names and terms in a fragmented way, referencing dates and tasks without clear meaning. The overall text appears as a ciphered or corrupted transcription with no cohesive narrative.
Original ideas on effort and personal growth in business
A reflective piece discusses how persistent effort, education, and environment shape success. It highlights tradeoffs between talent and practice, the value of studying habits, and how instructions from mentors influence future lenders, entrepreneurs, and professionals amid varied life paths.
A Voter's Peculiarity
An elderly man in a neighborhood engages in heated political talks but shows disappointment when a younger voter shares his own stance. The scene unfolds as relatives tease the elder's embarrassment while the narrator reflects on shifting from delivery of speeches to inquiry and writing.
Pretty and Serviceable Dining Etiquette Note
A housewife criticizes the common practice of using rush mats under hot dishes to protect polished wood, arguing it undermines a dainty appearance of a neatly set dining room and suggests a more practical, tasteful approach.
New Fancy in Gloves and Fashion Trends Revealed
The article sketches crafting ideas for linen table mats using embroidered sprays and underlayer pieces. It also highlights soft gauntlets that shape to the arm with inner elastic, contrasting fabrics and pale wax with black lining, and a range of fashion notes from gowns to angora cloth for coats plus maid’s frock in plata material.
College Boys and the News and Baths for School Children
A New York Times quote discusses college students’ fixation on the sporting page and limits of world awareness. It notes Swiss schools allocate ground-floor baths for students with regular hot and cool baths, excluding sick or skin-disease cases.
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New York Times
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Brights Disease Cured at Whitehall Case of Lon Manley
Lon Manley recounts a cure for Brights Disease after four to five years of kidney stomach and liver troubles. Doctors had given up but he used Dodd's Kidney Pills, regained health, and resumed work, praising the remedy as life saving.
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Extraordinary rifle ball injury to antelope noted
The writer recalls an astonishing shot at an antelope with a life ball that misbehaved wildly. The bullet entered the left elbow, shattered the olecranon, pierced the brisket, broke the right humerus, altered course thrice, tore several ribs, snapped the right femur, and finally dislocated the left hock joint, leaving the leg hanging by a fiber.
Postman’s 211000 Miles Walked Record Retired
An English postman died recently leaving a verified record of walking 211000 miles during forty two years at the post office. The remarkable mileage underscores a long career of steady walking in postal duties.
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Bast
Fear and Hunger Tie to Diet Says Connecticut Woman
A Connecticut woman attributes her relief from chronic indigestion and heart trouble to Grape Nuts after years of dieting and illness. She reports improved health, increased energy, and a desire to avoid bad foods, noting she can walk ten miles daily without fatigue and has not used medicine since starting the product. The testimonial airs under Postum Co. promotion with "There’s a reason" and a copy of The Road to Wellville offered.
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