Hats For Children Dominate Seasonal Styles In Many Colors
For the ladies and children, hats display varied color combinations such as dark blue with brown, red with yellow, or blue with black. School and everyday wear prevail, while lace straw hats feature silk crowns for dress versions. Bonnets with capes and lace under brims appear among younger styles. Large hats with roses or small flowers are popular, and pointed crown shapes are favored for children.
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New York Recorder
The Rise of House to House Milliners in New York
The article notes three months of training to become a milliner and the varying success rates. It highlights how skilled workers gain employment by visiting homes daily to craft hats, earning $2 to $4 for time that yields four or five hats worth $30 to $50, and some build strong patronage. The peripatetic milliner is described as an enduring institution.
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New York Advertiser
Bachelor Club Jeers Lead to Odd Wedding Vote
Fourteen Silverton ladies of a club teased a bachelor by offering marriage in a secret vote. Nine members cast votes and each disguised their handwriting, but the man remained unmarried. The club disbanded and the women swore never to speak to him again.
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Silverton
A Brave Woman in Wisconsin Train Riot
A group of drunken lumbermen boarded a Wisconsin train, bullied passengers, and damaged hats in the ladies coach. A meek wife rose to defend her husband, striking the attacker with a hickory cane and stunning him. Others were knocked down as she drove the gang back.
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Wisconsin
New Orleans Picayune
Summer gowns show throat in streetwear criticism
The St Louis Republic notes new imported summer dresses reveal throat with gimp collars and open backs. Tailor made gowns feature medium high collars at the back, while long ribbons suppress hats. critics say such open styles belong in parlor, not public streets.
Sleeveless Eton Jacket Enhances Summer Gowns
The sleeveless Eton jacket solves the problem of fitting a tight Eton core over blouses with full sleeves. A stylish jacket, often dark velvet, is worn over a white blouse with embroidered front, providing color contrast. Home sewists can make it. beware back point as it can be unflattering.
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Eton
Millinery A Fine Art Displayed with Delicate Color
The article extols millinery as a fine art with plaited lace trimmings and nature like color. Descriptions include hats adorned with mauve orchids, pale-green chiffon, and magenta velvet ribbons, with straw hats lined in pink velvet and accented by plumes.
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Frank Leslie
Millinery Teaching Flourishes as Demand Outpaces Supply
Teaching millinery thrives as demand grows for home visiting workers paid by the hour. Modiste schools, trained abroad, report large class sizes and many pupils. The article notes young women from eighteen to twenty five entering the trade as it expands.
Fashionable Jewelry and Dress Trends Highlighted in Latest Styles
A survey of current fashion notes showcases pearls and diamonds as premier accessories, bold ribbons and lace in hats, Moscow lace wraps, and Russian lace trims. New colors, gloves, parasols, and bonnets feature gem accents and embroidery, with tailored coats and plastrons signaling updated silhouette trends.
Avalanche Sends Ten Miners Plunging in Palmas County Cal
Ten miners descended a snow covered mountain when an avalanche struck. Five slid 700 feet down a slope while the rest plunged 30 feet over a precipice and then traveled 1700 feet before stopping unhurt.
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Palmas County
Cal
Banana meal project planned on the Isthmus of Panama
A new business venture titled The Banana Meal is set to begin on the Isthmus of Panama. Officials announce preparations and investment details for the project, signaling regional commercial activity and potential employment opportunities.
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Panama
Rope Climbing Device Promises Safer Fire Escape
A French inventor introduces a hinged two board rope climber that grips the rope when feet press down and frees it when lifted. It lets the user climb with hands free and is marketed for firemen painters and escape use. The piece also notes how death experiences vary by fall and previews weather bureau thunderstorm forecasting with eight stations and method to calculate storm travel.
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Heim
Berlin
Alps
Mr. Whymper
New Grain Varieties From Polar Roots
G W Coplen of Latah tends two wheatlike stalks said to originate from seeds found in a goose stomach near the straits of Fuca. The grains are twice as long as ordinary wheat, rye shaped but thicker, germinate quickly, and may prove a valuable variety. The find fuels speculation on a polar sea with shore vegetation.
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G. W. Coplen
Latah
Straits of Fuca
Copen
Nelson
British Columbia
Puget Sound
Washington
Mail
Hall's Catarrh Cure Firm Oath Notice
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo swears the firm will pay $100 for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Note dated December 6 by A. W. Gleason notary public. Cure is taken internally and said to act on blood and mucous surfaces. Testimonials offered. Sold by druggists in Toledo and elsewhere.
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State OF Artio
Frank J. Cheney
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F. J. Cheney & Lo
Toledo
Hall
F. J
Nenny & Co
Druewista
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Crippled Spanish Finances Tied to Mercenary Labor
A notice reports artificial cripples bred in Spain for mercenary use and notes ongoing financial weakness in the country. The claim connects exploitation of disabled workers to broader economic strain as the issue surfaces in public discourse.
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Spain
California Fig Syrup Co. Gentlewomen’s trusted remedy
The pleasant effect and perfect safety of Calabria liquid taxative Syrup of Figs makes it a favorite for ladies in all conditions. For the true genuine article, look for the California Fig Syrup Co. name near the bottom of the package.
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California Fig Syrup Co
The Dreaded Sleeping Car Promotes a Cure
The Palace Sleeper car spreads coughs colds and pneumonia despite precautions except one. A bottle of Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure is advertised as both cure and preventive. Sold by prominent druggists manufacturer A P Hoxie Buffalo NY.
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Dr. Hoxsie
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A. P. Hxsie
Buffalo
N. Y
Boston Society Provides Free Spectacles to Poor
A Boston charitable society offers free spectacles to unemployed and low income residents, helping individuals obtain corrective lenses at no cost. The program partners with local clinics and optometrists to supply appropriate frames and prescriptions.
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Boston
Headache Relief Claim From Bradgerotine Figure
Mr J Lane, general manager of the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad, says Bradgerotine relieved his headache in fifteen minutes. He praises it as the only remedy. The drug is advertised as available from all druggists for fifty cents.
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J. Lane
Freorgia Southern and Florida Railroad
Bradgerotine
Railroad workforce peaks at 740304 on June 30 189
The total number of railroad employees on June 30 189 was 740,304.
Beecham's Pills Marketed As Malaria Remedy
Advertisement claims Beecham's Pills cure malaria symptoms such as headache fever lassitude weakness and loss of appetite with immediate effect and endorses their use as a cure in medical advertisements of the period.
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Beecham
Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy Promises $500 Cure Guarantee
The advertisement claims Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy can cure catarrh and related head symptoms where others fail. It promises to pay $500 or a cure if no improvement, asserting the remedy is mild and effective for cold in the head, catarrhal headache, and related sensory issues.
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Dr. Sage
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