On the Edge of the Whirligig of Fashion
Ellen Osmond e outlines late autumn and winter dress dictates with materials, sleeves, collars, and skirts. It covers slim versus stout styling, velvet gowns, sacque coats, boleros, capelets, trims, and bold colors like greens and browns, noting Paris influence and new boot colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortunatus
Paris
Ellen Osmonde
Marshall Fields
Chicago University
Champaign
University
Purple
Northwestern
Chicago
Stagg
le Maroon Eleven
Seago
Dr. Harper
Uie
Midway University
Cosmopolitan Chicago Emerges While Fuel Famine Looms
Chicago shifts from provincial image to cosmopolitan hub along Michigan Avenue and State Street. Fashionable churches and clubs reflect rising urban chic, while fuel shortages, coal prices, and street-paving theft threaten winter. Football fervor and slot-machine politics shape a city split between luxury and need. Wright A. Patterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dr. Talmage
Hawaii
Michigan Avenue
Jackson Boulevard
Hubbard Court
Fifth Avenue
Chicago Club
Fine Arts
Auditorium
New York
State Street
Randolph
Adams
Wright A. Patterson
Growth of the Pearl Button Industry in America
A 1900s overview explains the U S rise of pearl button production from zero factories in 1890 to fifty two by the turn of the century led by Muscatine Iowa. J F Boepple, native of Hamburg, sparked the industry after experiments with Uni shells. Decline of imports, rising U S output, and new machinery transformed the market while mussel beds near Muscatine face exhaustion without protection measures.
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Earl
Germany
Austria
Europe
United States
Iowa
Illinois
Missouri
J. F. Boepple
Muscatine
Mississippi
Red Wing
Minn
Louisiana
Panama
The Blots That Must Stand in Registry Rules
The article details strict registrar rules from Somerset House via the registrar general for birth and death records. It explains prohibitions on erasure or ink erasing methods, requires a single perpendicular stroke to fix misspellings, and mandates a specific Old English Record Ink with inspectors checking for fiber and neat, non flourishing writing.
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Somerset House
London
William
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