Styles in Summer Footwear and Street Fashions
A Chicago fashion feature surveys summer shoe trends and elegant street costumes. It highlights lace-draped silk dresses, gray and white fabric ensembles, turbans and decorative buttons, plus the rising popularity of straw Oxfords and slippers. It notes boots remain practical for travel, but straw shoes in many colors may supplant cloth boots for matching outfits.
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Chicago
Sarah
Mary Anderson
Oxford
The Swell Summer Hat Returns to Prominent Style
A Broadway hatter notes the seasonal shift toward high stovepipe white top hats as the chic choice for “everybody who is anybody.” He contrasts straw and Derby white options, argues price drives fashion, and links high top hats to majesty and strength in men.
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Broadway
N. Y. Alan and
Eapress
Reminiscences of Public Deen and War Correspondence
A compilation of portraits and recollections from Civil War era Washington. It contrasts President Hayes and his wife with public perceptions, discusses censorship and duties of war correspondents, and recounts Lincoln’s wartime visits to regiments and Grant’s 1879 White House stop and social encounters with notable figures.
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President Hayes
Washington
Mrs. Hayes
Mary Clemmer
White House
Vanity Fair
John Wesley
Lincoln
Battle of
Bull Run
Seward
Gen. Grant
Gen. Beale
Supreme Court
Levi P. Morton
New York
Waite
Evarts
Sheridan
Beale
Ammen
Garfield
Street
Barell
Cameron
Allison
Hubbell
Geo. P. Loring
Grant and Beale Visit Arabian Horses at Beale Farm
The article notes Gen. Grant and Gen. Beale visiting Beale Farm to view Arabian horses given to Grant by the Sultan of Turkey. It also mentions Grant and his party departing for Richmond at 5:30 in a private car en route to Cuba. It then shifts to a critique of wedding gifts, contrasting ancient customs of acorns and nuts with modern expectations and social obligation.
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Ing
Grant
Gen
Beale
Turkey
Richmond
Cuba
Hill Men of India Charm and Endure Mountain Runners
A Youth's Companion writer notes northward reach of India's postal system to Kolghur. Native runners carry letters days in a stick, remain honest with entrusted money, and spin yarn during long mountain treks. Examples show courage, cholera tests, and distant care amid Christian education.
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India
Postal Service of
Kolghur
Himalayas
Population pointers and a burst of named emigration
A St Paul directory compiler recalls 200 emi grants routed to boost population. Residents’ names and addresses were spread across town but a Minneapolis pickup foiled the plan as officials seized names for that city.
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St. Paul
Meyer
Northern Pacific
Minneapolis
Lstelline Bell
Crazy newspaper snippets mix wit and tragedy notes
A collage of short items from a bygone era includes jokes about cash fares and clergy, along with a grave epitaph, a poetry spoof on life and liver, a near-morbid artist tale, and a Chicago engraver who loses a hand but finishes a portrait.
Mourning and Social Change in Texas Siftings Tale
A widow in Austin explains her husband’s death a month earlier, denying another loss. A gentleman notes her bright dress for a special excursion, then she resumes mourning as she sobs, illustrating social expectations around grief in Texas society.
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Austin
Texas
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Iowa
the Fashions
Ben
Perley Poorre
Alice
New Haven News
Danbury
Union
Peshawar
Blank
Hie’ Chowkidar
HeRina
Kentucky
Buffalo
Wall Street News
Belase
H. S. Keller
Tuhe
Zstelline Bell
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