Society Notes and Arts Items Highlight Fashion and Theater
Winter health trips to San Francisco for Fanny Rice's new stage adaptation Miss Inone Abroad is noted along with a Parisian influence in Diorak and Henri Marteau's concert return. Ole Bull's daughter Olea Bull hones a union with Henry Vaughn, while Helen Dauvray stars in The Prodigal Daughter. Stuart Robson showcases a lavish Comedy of Errors setting amid theater buzz. Jewelry and tableware trends command attention with new spoons, ivory tusk micrometers, enamel boxes, and silver page cutters.
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Lotta
San Francisco
Fanny Rice
Diorak
Henri Marteau
Ole Bull
Helen Dauvray
Stuart Robson
Augustus Piton
William C. Hudson
Hattons contest for state belt sparks novelty ideas
A contest progresses for the state button belt with a Belfast man boasting a 1,000 button string and a Gorham rival with 3,000 unique buttons in possession for 25 years. A 40 foot long string is suggested to be sewn into the belt for added flair. Also noted is an $800 overcoat mystery and a humorous warning about big thumb marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Gorham
Sennebec Journal
Cultural maxims from Ram's Horn ponder virtue and vice
A Ram's Horn collection of aphorisms on culture, stinginess, truth, pretended piety, deception, and moral contradictions. It contrasts actions and motives with vivid, paradoxical images such as the devil at church, lies with a dagger, and wasteful vanity, offering pointed social commentary.
Chief Naval Constructor Hichborn Named Leader of Navy
Philip Hichborn, born in Charlestown Massachusetts, has been appointed chief naval constructor in the present period of naval expansion. A shipwright by trade, he trained at the navy yard in Charlestown and in 1884 was sent to Europe by the secretary of the navy for specialized duty. His European dockyard report impressed officials and bolstered his standing within the service.
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Philip Hichborn
Hichborn
Charlestown
Mass
Navy Yard
Europe
Secretary of the Navy
Tustbool Zawoiie Naval Zcutocts
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Verdi Mill CO
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