Pretty Silk Waists Lead Fashion In Light Summers
New York fashion notes describe silk waists as the week’s dominant trend, with many dark silks, figures, stripes, and plain designs. Trimmings include flat lace, bows, and belts. sleeves vary from bishop to gigot, with the favorite being gathered fronts and shirred details. Also noted are new printed dimities, delicate crepons, silk crapes, and light hopsack and camel’s hair fabrics in fresh shades.
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New York
Olive Harper
Small Bullet Wounds and Modern Projectiles
A discussion of how small high speed bullets cause damage beyond their size. Horsley explains that bullets carry tissue particles, increasing effective diameter, and that damage scales with the viscosity and fluidity of the target. He cites Huguier and Kocher on tissue dispersion and notes brain remains fluid-like until rigor mortis, affecting fracture patterns.
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Victor Horsley
Royal Institution
Huguier
Paris
Fungs
Kocher
Ufe
Bark-Shedding in Trees Aids Growth and Identification
The article explains how natural cork patches form on trunks as bark wears away with growth. It notes that corked patches reveal each tree species, and advises practical aids like soapy or lye washes and even scraping to help remove old bark, with lime wash as a cheap, effective option per Meehan's Monthly.
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Meehan
Potter Threatens Pulpit Fight For Sheriff Post
The Ozona Courier notes Rev. Andrew Jackson Potter confronted a tough crowd in Texas with two six shooters and warned troublemakers to behave as he announces his candidacy for sheriff and tax collector of Tom Green County. Also reports on neuralgia from nasal abnormalities and the potential mental impact of chronic pain.
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Andrew Jackson Potter
Uvalde
Tes
Tom Green County
Ozona
Chicago federation clubs reach twenty two groups
Mrs Lipps notes Chicago hosts a federation of twenty two women’s clubs including the Oxie club which takes very broad interest and applies a humorous rule that the president may address any member whose name she forgets as Mrs Tipps.
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Chicago
le Ee Correa Oyun
COE
S& Tsft Ca
YON Mohl Co
Cincinnati
The origin of fire among South Sea islanders
The St Louis Republic summarizes legends of fire origin told by South Sea Islanders. A great whale ashore during a hurricane sparked a grove of igniting trees, producing fires seen across islands. Another legend credits a dragon or lightning with lighting a tallow tree, whose coals taught fire’s value. An albino bearer of pink eyes and white hair is foretold to guard the sacred spark against the dragon’s return.
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Marioinette
Albino
Islands
Refainesque
South Sea Island
St Louis Republic
The World as a Cube In Early Geographies and Myths
A verbose note argues that ancient geographers and civilizations such as Egypt, Assyria, China, Toltec and Quiche belief systems posited a square or cube Earth. It cites Egyptian Assyrian and Chinese tablets and Toltec discoveries claiming the globe hung by cords of gold from its corners.
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Egypt
Assyria
China
Central America
Higher Education for Beauty at a Culture College
A humorous Frankfurter Zeitung excerpt satirizes a beauty college teaching feminine charm. It notes courses on graceful speech and pronunciation, finding music aids expression, with Chopin disliked by light-haired women and Wagner praised for brunettes. The piece mocks lectures on sleeping poses and questions how such poise is taught.
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Chopin
Wagner
Frankfurter Zeitung
A Comparison In Years
A London Tit-Bits excerpt notes changing views on aging across ages from teens to sixty. It highlights how a 25 year old seems aged to a teen, 35 fears 40, and 50 feels middle aged yet strong, while sixty recalls heroes of three score and ten and recalls Parr's marriage at 100.
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Parr
London
Selfish Opposition to Woman Suffrage
A brief observed critique argues that opponents of woman suffrage act selfishly by influencing public opinion while denying women the secret ballot. The Boston Transcript is cited as calling the opposition narrow and self-serving.
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Boston Transcript
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Philada
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Grant
T. H. Douglas
General Grant
Bovinine CO
New Yore
Piso
Laura E. Parrensox
Ngwrox
Iowa
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Lee
Nait
Calumet Remedy Company
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Park Remedy CO
Boston
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