Beach Fashion Sparks Silent Pictures Laughs
In a Wiser Course note DeWolt Hopper visits Coney Island and praises the lithe youths in blue bathing suits and silk stockings as the glittering wind swept beach scenes unfold. A comedian remarks on a dinner companion who reveals a musical comedy past she follows a gymnastic path for her figure. The Chicago Post recalls an old photographer incident with a critical eye on media.
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DeWolt Hopper
Coney Island
Mr. Hopper
Lousville Times
Wasted Sympathy. Report on a girl saving gowns for travel
A Savannah News item quotes a neighbor remark about a girl seen in a worn gown all summer. The observer suggests she is withholding gowns for a departure, noting seven trunks packed for her trip.
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Savannah News
Puppies change from Republican to Democrat
A southern boy sells a puppy by noting its political label. When he returns two weeks later he sells another from the same litter calling them Democrats. The man wonders, and the boy explains with simple humor that the puppies have their eyes open now.
Survival of the Fittest in Schoolyard Tale
A brief exchange portrays a teacher accusing a pupil of fighting. Tommy replies the other boy was absent, highlighting a clash of perception and late arrival at school. The fragment implies a schoolyard dispute and a humorous twist on responsibility.
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Tommy
In New York a stinging take on a play debate
In New York readers echo a debate on a play thought improper for women and families. The column laments censorship while defending a version of theater seen as suitable for girls and sisters, urging balance between propriety and art.
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New York
Doris
Brothe
Cool Summer Hats For Hot Weather Styles
In hot sun millinery should be cool looking with white or white black combinations for crisp summer effect. White with scarlet blue or green offers smart alternatives. Black hats need sheer fabrics for daytime wear. Net and lace corday and helmet shapes captivate, while giant white calp hats with black Chantilly lace and pale pink petal roses create airy, weightless impact.
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Milan
Charm of the sash in fashion gown styling
A detailed fashion feature discusses how a smart sash can alter a gown, offering ways to wear it shawl style, wrapped round the waist, or in a tartan evoke. It notes draping can conceal flaws and highlight good points, warning against the sit bow at the back for unflattering effect.
Embroidered Bodice Model for Garden Party Wear
A detailed description of a beautifully embroidered bodice with valenciennes lace collar and matching sleeves and waist belt. The center of the bodice mirrors the skirt embroidery, presenting a pretty and useful garden party or river wear model. This is the illustrated design shown above.
Effective Sofa Pillows for a Summer Home
An oblong sofa pillow 14 by 20 inches uses plain heavy weave crash in ecru or gray. Two inch bands of flowered cretanns span the pillow three inches wide with narrow ecru lace along both edges. Variations include a body of flowered chintz or cretonne with bands of figured ecru linen and two inch linen lace on the ends.
Dainty Negligee Described For Home Sewing
The article discusses homemade negligees appealing to many women. It notes fine white cross bar dimity material, a long kimono style, a shawl collar of persian lawn and Valenciennes, large swing sleeves, lace frills, lawn casing at the waist with pink ribbons tying at the deep collar ends.
Five rose tulle trimming enhances pink evening dress
A pink evening dress featured a charming cluster of five roses formed from pink tulle with green tulle stems twisted on wire, sewn to the left side of the low neck. The delicate accents elevate the gown beyond plain lace.
Italy's Public Laundries Show Local Life and Fashion
Italian towns feature public laundries where women gather to wash, rub, and rinse garments at stone basins. The scene blends daily chatter with laundry work, contrasting crowded water, open-air constraints, and routes along riverbanks and walls near Naples, reflecting regional habit and common practice.
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Italy
One Jong
Naples
Columbia's New Sun Dial Gift by 1835 Law Class
The Columbia University Law School class of 1835 presented an eight foot high solid granite sun dial in the South Field to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of their graduation. The pedestal supports a granite ball whose shadow falls on a circular tablet indicating hours, serving as a lasting memorial and timepiece for the university.
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Boston
Columbia University Law School
University
Girl Works as Coal Miner Near Macon Missouri
A young woman works daily in a coal drift near Macon earning from 3 to 4 dollars a day. She wears a pit lamp and handles a pick and shovel as well as the men. She says the work agrees with her.
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Macon
Ber
Clouds Indicate Weather, Dr. de Quervain Reports
Cloud forecasts by Dr. A de Quervain of Zurich rely on cumulus transformations. High six to seven mile clouds form fleecy ice needle anvil shapes signaling weather changes and possible storms. Delicate white beads atop higher layers predict thunderstorms within a day by balloon observations.
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A. de Quervain
Zurich
Revolving Chair Fan Aims To Cool While You Rock
An Ohio inventor introduces a rocking chair with a hanging revolving fan. A curved metal support holds the fan over the sitter while a back shaft and two gearings drive the rotation as the chair rocks forward or backward. The mechanism uses a winding shaft and ratchet to spin the fan.
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Ohio
Mechanical Chair Fan Movement Reverses Air Flow
The report notes that a mechanical chair’s fan movement is reversed, creating a steady curve of air flow as long as the chair continues to move.
Fresh Air and Mind Stimulation Highlighted by Chemist
Silen H Richards spoke at the American Chemical Association meeting on air science. He stressed practical ventilation challenges and the need to balance heat and humidity. He noted that fresh air effects vary and that opposite conditions must be reconciled, recommending top-mill opening windows for better air exchange.
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Silen H. Richards
American Chemical Association
Odd Superstitions and Folklore Traditions
A quirky survey of beliefs notes that someone asleep may escape lightning or that splinters from a tree bitten by lightning cure toothache. A Yorkhire village toyed with a superstition that mentioning lightning after a flash would tear trousers. The piece highlights playful local beliefs and cautions against credulity.
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Yorkhire
Pneumatic Heel Lets Wearer Walk On Air
A New York man invents a pneumatic heel for shoes with a circular opening and a conical metal body creating an air space. An elastic rubber belt and leather tread cushion the step, giving resiliency and a buoyant feeling to walking.
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New York
Improved Beef Juice Press
A French inventor has devised a simple press to extract juice from a large amount of rare beef. The device uses a plunger and band screw, with corrugated perforated disks to separate layers of beef, draining juice through a side spout into a cup or bowl, and allows hanging to drain after pressing.
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France
Hes
Scientific American
Scientific Notes and Curious Facts Endnote
A mixed recap of curiosities and early scientific trivia: earth’s surface area, hearing with an open mouth, hen egg output, watch ticks per year, flower bleaching by sulphur fumes, coal use on liners, microbe killer perfumes, marriage age trends, early American coinage, old Danish ships, Paris metro length, New York water works, high pressure stimulating speech, a Mars canal discovery, and a winter 1779 note about New York lumber.
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Orica
New York City
Chatham Street
Park Row
Prof
Lowell
Mars
New York
Wail Street
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