The Styles and Fabrics of the Season
A survey of the latest world society fashions highlights vivid color blends in silks and velvets. Cluny velvet and velours du Nord lead the chic, with patterns in epingle lace motifs, bold stripes, and animal imitation fabrics. Sunshing silk debuts for tea gowns and jackets, while rich velvets, plushes, and corded silks shape mantles and carriages wraps amid a lively palette of browns, blues, greens, and reds. The season favors stripes, checks, and frise weave effects, with decorative brocades and two-tone velvets dominating Parisian inspirations.
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Siciliennes
Havana
Faille
Paris
Esprit. Net
Fashionable dress novelties and accessories in season
The article details new dress buttons in two sizes with oxidized designs, linen and lace chemisettes for house costumes, and neck laces tipped with gold or silver tinsel for evening wear. Gloves favor heavily embroidered styles, mantles with two colors and bead trimming, and colored linen collars and cuffs with two studs or buttons and color piping.
Editor secures humor in road pass tale from Cypress Knee
In a humorous Arkansas editor anecdote a railroad superintendent refuses a travel pass, then the editor reveals his limited local circulation and jokes about the arrest for perjury. A Scottish peppermint lozenge craze and a bizarre narrative on four hour baths in a crowded, communal soak follow, with vivid details of bathers from friars to invalid officers.
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Arkansas
Arkansaw
Swampville Cypress
William
The
Road
Andrew J. Beckleton
Mr. Beckleton
Deckleton
Scotland
Headley
Extra strong lozenges flood church services
The St James Gazelle notes a curious habit of parishioners using extra strong lozenges during services. The piece praises the deft ritual of slipping the mints into the mouth, even with the minister watching.
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St. James Gazelle
Paper Money Origin in Ancient China A Tale of Deer Skin
Story traces a Chinese anecdote where court etiquette led to using deer skin as currency. A minister's decree restricted royal veils to deer skins, making them valuable and circulating among the elite as an early form of bank notes. The piece closes with a quip about an umbrella case.
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China
Archimedes
Tureka
Fragmented Humorous Snippets From Various Newspapers
A collage of quirky quotes and snippets from multiple papers. Jokes about love and marriage, misquoted Shakespeare, and light social satire mingle with cartoonish exchanges and a tale of a horse and a rider. Local color and dated humor fill the pages.
Mode of payment of whey in Vienna
In Vienna doctors often receive fees at the end of visits. A tailor's child case led to a physician being acquitted, while the tailor was sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment for concealing smallpox and working while ill.
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Vienna
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Turtramp
Boston Courier
Puortk
Cixaman
Boston
Somerville Journal
Gus
B. G
Chicago News
Doc
Dec
Stelline
Bell
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