Gambler Tactics and Sleights in Historic Card Play
An old era exposes cheating methods in gambling, detailing apparatus like reflectors and sleeves, marked cards, and the rise of memory based counting down. It explains first and second class cheaters, riffle shuffles, and the bridge technique to control dealt cards, noting the skill of top gamblers who rely on memory and precise handling to win.
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Ashton
Kepplinger
San Francisco
Ambler
Garda
Sharp
Pasiton
Hig Din Carda
The Perfect Figure Promotes Graceful Posture For Girls
The article argues that beauty of figure enhances overall charm more than facial features alone. It urges daily wholesome meals and ample outdoor exercise, emphasizing gymnastics, lawn tennis, and golf to reduce awkwardness. It guides posture, head high, shoulders back, and graceful carriage, with simple back strengthening exercises and mother’s duty to ensure activity.
Sketch of a convenient wood box and its construction
A St Louis Republic correspondent describes a wood box for storing wood. Figures show an end view and a front view. The design uses beaded ceiling boards for ends back and front, with a deck or shelf in front and a bin for kindling. It can be made in any size and painted to ornament a kitchen.
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St. Louis Republic
Fall Costumes and Fabric Trends in Victorian-Inspired Styles
Fashion note outlines plaid skirts with accordion pleats and bolero jackets, green Highland coats, mink-trimmed gowns, and fur pelerines signaling a return to early Victorian chic. Paris reports white wool trimmed looks remain popular, with blue gowns featuring Irish lace yokes and yellow panne accents described. Jodic Chollet.
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Paria
Autumn fashions return to simple lines and shorter skirts
The article notes a vogue for shorter skirts and practical outfits with varied shades, simple hats, and refined footwear. It highlights revivals of umbrella shaped skirts, new fabrics like adeline and cheviot, gun metal gray tones, and coordinated frocks with shirtwaists.
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Robespierre
Mothers urged to teach daughters home duties to improve health
The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes a high school principal arguing women should master household tasks to influence homes positively. He claims daughters lacking in home skills harm family well being and that capable servants free to support 女性 as better mistresses. He urges sensible mothers to shape domestic knowledge to change state affairs.
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The
Philadelphia Inquirer
How to Vary Dinner Dishes
A reflective guide on transforming leftovers into appealing meals. It suggests adding remnant tidbits to soups and salads, creating croquettes, ragouts, curries, and hash. The piece urges garnishing leftovers to make them pleasing and welcome, likening them to spring flowers.
Shrinking Garment Care Guide
A note on restoring shrunken flannels without further damage. Lay the item on an ironing board and cover with wrung cheese cloth. Press with a hot iron until the cloth dries, then the garment should show a noticeable improvement.
The Art of Interrogation and Social Etiquette
The London Spectator argues that asking questions should be direct and purposeful. It warns against traps or ulterior motives, notes that curiosity defends against indifference, and claims well asked questions foster agreeable intercourse without impertinence or aggression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilga
Naker
London Spectator
Odd Notions Of Women And A Cough Cure Of 1900s
A fragmented piece cites historical notions about women and superstition from figures like Rosa Bonheur and Queen Victoria, then shifts to advertisements for One Minute Cough Cure and DeWitt’s Witch Hazel salve, with claims of quick relief and long remedies. It mentions Dr. Armstrong and a postal listing for Tisdale, Bulmerton.
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Rosa Bonheur
St. Anthony of Padua
Caroline Herschel
Sbe
George Eliot
Lady Millais
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
Victoria
Ll. &Eippe
Armstrong
Belia
Rex
Tisdale
Bulmerton
Pe Witu
All
Foley
Pseudo Patent Medicine Ad Promises Piles Relief
An OCR fragment advertises Homphreya Witch Hazel Oil as a cure for piles and hemorrhoids with claimed quick relief and long term cure. It touts a sample for four tests mailable free, 25 cent bottles at drug stores, from Humphreya Medicine Co. New York.
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Humphreya’ Medicine Co
Coriliam & Jobe Sta
New York
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