Styles in Capes in All Sorts of Materials
Fashion notes from 1916 discuss capes as a dominant outerwear trend. The peasant cape leads, with variants in tulle, satin, and fur, often featuring contrasting linings and decorative hoods. Italian blue-dressed motoring capes and Red Riding Hood styles appeal to younger wearers, while evening wraps pair with white gowns and marabou trim. Hairstyles echo empire revival but lack Josephine frock presence.
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France
America
McClure Nespaper Syndicate
Aging Hands Reveal a Woman's Age and Care Guide
The article argues hands show age earliest due to use, especially in labor. After thirty, women should hydrate hands daily with cold cream or olive oil, focusing on the backs. It suggests adding benzoin to olive oil to prevent yellowing and using lemon juice mix for a skin brightening effect.
Fads and Fashions From A Past Wardrobe Notes
A fragment lists fashion tips and household hints: handkerchief linen blouses in white with delicate color dots, contrasting colored blouses for tailored suits, white georgette crepe with heavy embroidery, a transparent hat with under-brim trimming, a card recipe cabinet for a young housekeeper, witch hazel and rose water for wind-tortured complexions, a folded bungalow apron for lunch trips, and a teaspoon of vinegar in homemade candy to curb sweetness.
Health Advice From Old Remedy Column
Emergency remedies cover headaches by washing behind the ears with light hot water and bleeding cuts with ground rice or flour. Morning stretches, salt and baking soda gargles for sore throats, hot water immersion for inflamed fingers, onions before bed to aid sleep, and parsley or sugar to tame lingering tastes.
Unclear fragment crops up in local note
Fragmentary OCR text mentions burning feet and an empty net with phrases about settling into routines and forgetting trouble, offering no clear person, place, or event to identify a definite news item.
Marks Change in Styles For Fall Coats and Hats
The article describes a fashionable coat featuring dark green broadcloth with darker velvet trim, a clearly defined silhouette, and a matching hat with a small feather. It highlights fullness in fall models as a marked style shift seen on fashionable avenues this season.
Silence Clothe Tar Better Than Felt Or Quilt
An asbestos heat and water resistant table cloth protects tops from hot dishes and spills. It is waterproof, untlss, finished with a neat binding, and made in three hinged sections that resist warping. The halves fold and store in a sideboard drawer.
Long Capea Fashion Descriptions With Capes and Ruches
Describes long capes including a rose colored cape with a narrow ostrich trim and white fronts, an emerald green silk cape with a second waist depth cape, lower edge rushes and picot edging, a large ruche collar, and a simple facing fold with piping along the upper edge.
Connecticut college menus plan twelve dinners with four foods
Maud H. Hayes of Connecticut Agricultural College outlines twelve dinner menus using beef potatoes cabbage and apples only once each. Each dish pairs meats and sides into varied servings for year round meals to answer “What shall I give today?” and suggests practical, attractive combinations.
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Connecticut Agricultural College
Maud H. Hayes
Department of Home Economics
Pepper Mangoes
Cut off stem ends of large green sweet peppers and remove seeds. Soak in strong brine for three days. Then mix eight tablespoonfuls cabbage four teaspoonfuls English mustard seed one tablespoon mustard seed two tablespoonfuls onions one teaspoon horseradish one teaspoon each of whole pepper corns and ground mace and nine heaping tablespoonfuls brown sugar moisten to a paste with salad oil and stuff the peppers tying the tops on with cord. Pack in a stone jar and cover with scalding vinegar to which half a cupful brown sugar has been added. Let stand several months before using.
Baked Onions
Peel medium onions and parboil until tender. Arrange in a baking dish, season, dot with butter, top with bread crumbs and butter, add milk, and bake until golden. Serve plain or with white sauce.
Fricatelli Pork Cakes Sliced and Seasoned
Prepare Fricatelli by grinding pork tenderloin through a meat chopper. Season with pepper salt onion sage. Moisten bread crumbs with boiling water, squeeze dry, add with one beat egg. Shape into small cakes, dredge in flour, brown in beef fat, cook slowly until done.
Parsnip Balls Recipe Summary
Parsnip balls are made by mixing cooked mashed parsnips cracker crumbs egg yolk and salt. Shape into balls roll in ground nut meats and fry quickly in hot fat until browned.
Cream Pudding Ready for Baking with Bread Crust Topping
A cream pudding mixture is made by whisking one pint cream with three ounces sugar and the yolks of three eggs then folding in stiffly beaten egg whites. The batter is poured into a buttered pie plate sprinkled with fine stale bread crumbs and topped with four layers of crumbs.
Fig Sandwiches Bitter Sweet Spread
Cut buttered bread into fancy shapes and layer fig filling between slices. Combine half a pound chopped figs half cup sugar half cup boiling water and two tablespoonfuls lemon juice. Cook in a double boiler until thick enough to spread.
Potato Water Cleaning Tip for Utensils and Dishes
A brief note recommends using Potato Water to clean spoons forks and knives. Apply with a soft cloth for best results. Immediate stain removal is claimed and a final polish with a chamois leather is advised.
Life as a Blessing in a Turbulent World
A sermon reflectively questions if life is a blessing, citing Judas and Job to explore why some lament birth while faith in God sustains meaning. It contrasts despair with purposeful living, notes Paul’s readiness to depart, and urges viewing life as a God given gift despite hardship.
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Paul
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Job
Jesus Christ
Pennsylvania
Overcoming Weetness and Committal to Heaven
A quotation attributed to L Estrange on desponding weakness urges that after doing our own parts we should commit the rest cheerfully to the good pleasure of heaven. It offers a moral, religious perspective on perseverance and resignation.
A Word of Cheer Over Censure Encourages More
An old saying emphasizes that encouragement has greater impact than harsh rebuke, urging kindness and supportive words to motivate improvement rather than criticism alone.
Smiley the humorist on vacation rides hearse driver
A passerby asks who rides with a hearse driver, and bystander explains the cheerful figure is Smile y, the professional humorist, enjoying a vacation. The exchange captures a light moment amid a solemn procession.
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Smiley
The Duel Letter Triggers a Quick Protective Chase
A man receives a letter stamped duel and fears a fatal challenge. He rushes to the station seeking protection as police respond. The desk sergeant later reveals the threat meant only a one cent due.
Fragmented Debate Dialogue Highlights Thin Argument
A terse exchange contrasts fatuous critique with a counter view. The speakers label the argument fatuous and thin, suggesting disagreement over its substance and persuasiveness.
Castoria Astoria Substitute for Harmful Teething Medicines
Castoria is promoted as a harmless substitute for Paregoric and other drugs. It claims to ease worm fever, diarrhoea, colic, teething troubles, and constipation, while aiding sleep. The advert asserts over 30 years of use, the signature of Charles H. Fletcher, and warns against counterfeit imitations.
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Astoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
Foreman Test Ends In A Blasphemous Answer
Ed Bowes tells of a contractor in San Francisco who tested a stranger claiming street repair skill. Asked how to unclog a Chinatown sewer, the applicant replied he would bless himself first, a perplexing answer that amused Bowes and readers of Sunday Magazine.
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Ed Bowes
San Francisco
Bowes
Chinatown
Cuticura Ointment and Soap Ad Plainly Promote Clear Skin
The advertisement urges use of Cuticura Ointment for pimples blackheads redness or rough skin followed by Cuticura Soap with hot water. It claims the creamy emollients prevent pore clogging and offers a free sample by mail with a postcard address to Cuticura Dept L Boston and notes availability everywhere.
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Boston
There Are Others and a Crew of Real Estate Promises
A wry social aside notes the impossibility of recovering Captain Kidds treasure as a broader jab at real estate investments. The piece hints at girls left behind, urging remembrance for those who did not leave. A witty definition by a small boy contrasts grown up behavior with sauciness.
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Captain Kidd
Honor Roll and the Famous Alumni in Sports
The piece questions if the college has produced distinguished men, citing Lefty Jones, Kangaroo Klein, and Biff Burroughs as notable players. Spalding's Baseball Guide is referenced as proof of many successful alumni, arguing against the notion that diversity implies mediocrity.
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Lefty Jones
Kangaroo Klein
Biff Burroughs
Spalding
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