Strange Tales of Strength and Memory Across Worlds
A杂rca collection of curious anecdotes spans Montreal feats of Mme Jon to a boy in Boston with a prodigious memory of presidents. Reports describe a horse with a neck tube for breathing aid, a Venus-like five year old, and a Zurich similar marvels. The piece mixes marvels, travel notes, and oddities from New York, Paris, and Denver.
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Mills
New York
T Ieanural
Groverk Harzen
Kiowa
Kan
Oscar Moore
Boston
United States
Washington
Harrison
Royal Journey Costs Detail for Queen's Riviera Holiday
Galignani's Messenger reports the Queen's six week tour abroad cost about £10,000. Expenses cover hotels at Costebelle and Grasse, rail travel from Cherbourg to Hyeres to Darmstadt to Flushing, living costs for 100 in the entourage, and transport needs. Mr Doase, the courier, handles all arrangements with hotels and railways to ensure a clear line of accounts.
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Doase
Kanne
Costebelle
Peyton
Ermitage
Riviera
Hyeres
England
Grasse
Cherbourg
Darmstadt
Flushing
Windsor
Strange Corners of Our Country by C F Lummis
The article surveys Pueblo dwellings in New Mexico and the Southwest, noting Taos Acoma and Zuni six story houses with hundreds of rooms and five story ruins. It highlights stone construction, lack of metal tools, and ancient defensive features, based on Lummis in St Nicholas.
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Indian Territory
North America
Mexico
America
New Mexico
Taos
Acoma
Zuni
Navajo Country
C. F. Lummis
St. Nicholas
Holland's Little Queen Wilhelmina Charms The Hague
A Paris Figaro writer portrays Holland's young Queen Wilhelmina as a popular and lively child. She enjoys riding skating rowing and animals especially ponies dogs and pigeons. Her daily routine includes study sessions at 8 30 language learning and time with dolls and friends in The Hague and Loo.
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Paris Figaro
Holland
Hague
Loo
Wilhelmina
The
Baker Receives Order for 2000-Pound Pie in Mass
A Massachusetts baker was ordered to bake a 2000 pound pie. The crust used one barrel of flour and the filling included 600 pounds beef 400 pounds mutton 500 pounds fowl and 800 pounds potatoes. Dimensions were eight by five by two feet serving 2000 people.
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Mass
Brienz Mountain Railway Reaches Rothorn Summit
The Brienz railway in Switzerland links Brienz to the Rothhorn summit using a toothed wheel system. It starts near Lake Brienz and climbs past Geldried Hausstadt and Oberst Staffel with a four to one incline. Carriages are partly open and closed, seating four per compartment. The round trip takes three hours.
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Europe
Brienz
Switzerland
Rothhorn
Lake
Geldried
Hausstadt
Oberst-Staffel
Beauty tips for eyebrows lashes and hair restoration
The New York World offers a cosmetic regimen using five grains of sulphate of quinine in one ounce of alcohol to nourish eyebrows and restore lashes. The method includes applying at the roots with a fine sable pencil and is claimed to help if hair has fallen out or burned.
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Reigen
Yellowoo Park
Sep
Jon
New York World
Fashion notice on bell skirt length and silk accents
The Atlanta journal outlines a dress guide: line the bell skirt with silk, extend four to six inches longer in back than front, wear over a silk petti coat or white mussin, avoid a trained foundation skirt, shape the back rounded. Add a doubled silk ruce about three inches wide, and two tie backs placed six and fourteen inches below the belt.
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Atlanta iGa. Journal
A Season of Jewelled Laces Draws New York Attention
The Gay City showcases intricate laces in a range of styles from delicate guipure to jeweled meshes. Designers feature black nets with jet patterns, silvered lace, and tinted chiffon with artificial flower borders, highlighting a new wave in textile fashion.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Delaines and Their Care for Delicate Fabrics
Cleaning delaines without fading their colors is difficult when soiled. The Detroit Free Press notes rice soap substitutes can preserve the flowers on the fabric. Boil one pound of rice in five quarts of water, cool, then immerse the gown and rub with the rice, rinse with the remaining clear water. Continue until clean.
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Detroit Free Press
The Russian Face Bath for Better Complexion
A Boston Transcript health note favors nightly facial baths with hot water followed by cold to stimulate circulation. It warns against hard water and soap, suggesting softened water with borax or ammonia, and advises cooling before bathing and minimal travel-use recommendations for maintaining a fair complexion.
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Doctor Atkinson
Boston Transcript
Fashion notes reveal new skirts and accessories trend
The pocketless skirt rises in favor and satin stays with floral sprays lead the season. Full sleeves end in two elbow ruffles while long gold edged correspondence cards and true to nature artificial flowers appear. Cheviots charm with dainty colors. gold and white gowns, Figaro jackets, and Watteau hats with rose filled crowns complete the look.
Wardrobe care tips from a Chicago maid
A professional ladies maid shares wardrobe preservation methods. Clean woolen dresses before storing in brown Holland bags with camphor, wrap light silks in bran and silver paper, air all garments in sun, and avoid ironing washable items. Use blue paper and ammonia treatments to protect collars, laces, furs, silks, and other fabrics, with specific cleaning mixtures and storage tips.
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Chicago
Cologne
Holland
Calico
St. Louis Republic
Spaniards and California Timber Traditions
G A Satterlee of Los Angeles notes in the Southern that Spaniards avoided felling live timber, preferring stone houses and minimal labor. He asserts two centuries of path clearing avoided by their axes, with Spaniards even gathering fallen limbs rather than cutting new timber.
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California
G. A. Satterlee
Los Angeles
Cal
Mexico
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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