Great Salt Lake Cut Off Opens in Railroad Feat
The Ogden to Lucin Cut Off nears completion. 102 miles long with heavy trestle work and land spans. Harriman opens the line with a Thanksgiving ceremony as rail networks shift traffic around the lake. Savings in cost and time reshape transcontinental routing.
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Collis P. Huntington
Col. Huntington
Harriman
Uguen
Lucin
Great Salt Lake Desert
Nevada
Great Salt Lake
Ogden
Utah
Lucia
Simmer
Promatory
Ogden-Lucin
Stebbins
Bear River
Alta Club
Salt Lake City
Savage Courtship Among Tierra del Fuego Indians
The article describes courtship customs of the Own Indians near Tierra del Fuego. A suitor offers his hunting bow to the woman in friendship. acceptance if she returns it herself, or rejection if a messenger returns it. Refusals are rare, but persistent suitors pursue the beloved and may compel her to follow to his camp, with risk of a light arrow if displeased.
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Tierra ‘el Fuego
Education in Expression in The New York Tribune
Mrs Stebbins argues that innate expression in persons is stifled by culture and repression. She claims adults suppress, while grand music and superb art awaken the soul as beauty. She urges studying expression technique to channel impressions for future progress.
Fashionable House Jacket and Accessories Details
Dress patterns reviewed include a comfortable range of house jackets in cotton linen and high end fabrics like cashmere and flannel. The jacket features a loose front with a fitted back, a large sailor collar, bell sleeves, and trim with ribbons. pattern 4637 offers sizes bust 32 through 44. Also covered are corset covers with ruffied fronts, linens care tips, and a decorator note on autumn color schemes. Pattern 4636 for corset cover sizes bust 32 to 40. mantel patterns 4557 and 4624 available by mail for ten cents.
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Ebal- Iles
Kitchen Cleaning and Cooking Tips From a Bygone Guide
Practical household tips on cleaning kettles with potato peels and avoiding fruit stains on linen in hot soapsuds. Warnings against disposing vegetable scraps in the sink to prevent clogs. A cooking hint for browning custard pies with a sugar dusting and a soda addition when boiling greens.
Laundry of Silk Hose
Bran water, made by adding four tablespoonfuls bran to a quart of water, is best for washing fine silk stockings. Loaf is believed by some housewives to make silk tender and rotten.
Latest Fashion Design With Van Dyck Yokes and Lace
A May Manton pattern No. 4632 offers a chic waist flustered blouse in crepe de Chine and silk lace, in matee yellow. The design features puffings, a full soft front and snug back with a long box plait, requiring 0% yards of material and 31 or 2% yants 44 inches wide, sizes 32 to 40, mailed for ten cents.
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van Dyck
Fashion notes on gowns and nightwear in May Manton style
The piece describes trim for coats and gowns including beaver ribbons heavy white stitches fur scarfs and chinchilla hats. It highlights demi toilette gowns in mousseline de soie crepe de chine and black chiffon with jeweled girdles angel sleeves and lace necks. It mentions enticing slumber robes in Italian silk and advertises May Manton patterns from E & Harrison Co Chicago.
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Missouri River
Pacific Ocean
Union Pacific-Central Pacific
Messrs
Harriman and Kruttschnitt
Southern Pacific
Burt and Berry
Union Pacific
England and Wales
William Lan
Tainy
Central Pacific
Ders
England
Wales
London
Brouse
Cape
Best
Fiare Stir
Waies
Cemta
E. & Harrison & Co
Pino, Clea
Akiry
Chikt
Mises
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