Summer fashion notes paint delicate parasols and hats
Special correspondence from New York notes the summer fashion shift to finer airy gowns and cobweblike parasols. Describes lace, skinlike fabrics, long white handles, and pearl dewdrops, with satin, ribbons, and intricate hats in pale lilac, bronze greens, and black lace. Olivia Harper signs off with vivid detail of fashionable bustles and a bow above the parting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Damozel
Olive Harper
How They Travel and Junket When Uncle Sam Pays the Bills
Washington May 4 Special Correspondence describes congressional junkets as official trips taken during recess to gather information. Senators tour Pacific harbors and Indian reservations, often in special cars, with travel extending to Alaska where reindeer projects were proposed. The piece notes criticisms yet defends personal observation as the best method, while urging restraint and economy in public funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Washindon
Pacific Coast
San Diego
San Francisco
California
Northwest
Alaska
United States
Dians
George Hanson Apperson
Somnambulism and Art, Education, and Violet Cultures
A collage of brief articles and notes discusses somnambulism definitions from 1845 cited by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, artist Sir George Reid’s career shift from landscapes to portraits, the civic value of education from ancient to Christian authorities, a note on women raising violets as a profitable venture, the hidden life of a man who paid debts after his ex-wife’s death, and a humorous hotel clerk job exchange asserting vast knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
George Reid
Aberdeen
Edinburgh
Board of Trustees’ School of Painting
Royal Institution
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
Theages
Roger Ascham
the Scholemaster
Cicero
St. Chrysostom
Contemporary Review
Brooklyn Eagle
Australia Religion Census Reveals Church Membership Totals
A new religious census for Australia tallies 1,483,066 Church of England members, 493,369 Presbyterians, 864,594 Methodists, and 80,118 Catholics, detailing denominational distribution across the nation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Church of England
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Ayer
F. O. Loriing
Brockton
Pawtucket
Winchester
Holden
J.C. Ayer &Co
Lowell
Mass
Jose
A. P. Ordway & Co
Kirk
JAS. S. Hire & CO
Chicago
America
True & CO
Augusta
Ronne the Tailor
New York Tribune
New York Weekly
Samuel Pitcher
Castoria
G. C. Osaoon
Lowell, Mass
J. F. Einceecer
Conway, Ark
Hra
H. A. Ancien, M. D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
Children’s Department
Unirep Hospital
Boston
Apurn C. Sarre
the Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
J. J. Speck
WM. H. Holmes
Pennsylvania
THE
WM. EH. Holmes Co
Water St
First Ave
Pittsburgh
C. B. Judd
Detroit
Mich
Botte Crry
Mont
Judd
D. M. NewEra Deve Co
DE. C. B, Judd
W. Jarvis
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