Aurelian fashion notes on millinery and dress fabrics
A detailed survey of women’s fashion trends including millinery with featherless birds, Paris styles, and new parasols. Describes silk gloves, gray kid, and long silk mitts, various collars, plastrons, and boots with narrow soles. Highlights cordurette wraps for babies and the rising prominence of black hosiery and fashionable handbags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
The
Journal of Fabrics
Philadelphia Record
Fashion Eripperies and Mid Summer Wear Trends
A survey of women and children's dress materials highlights new chemisettes forming near waistcoat length, wide Mikado inspired collars, and leather boots replacing patent leather. Suede evening wraps, jet trims, and large braids appear, with gold straw accents and lace. popular cotton batiste shades include dove gray apricot turquoise and sea green for mid summer styles.
Story of a Picture on a Train Inspires Fearful Portrait Tale
A passenger recounts a tale of a haunted painting that torments a man who in Hamburg befriended a distressed Italian artist. The artist explains the work portrays his murdered patron, whose ghostly presence drives the artist to seek justice in Rome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Europe
Hamburg
Uaamburg
Jengti
Rome
Indianapolis Journal
Monsieur
Witty Fragments and Anecdotes Aboard Historic Pages
A collage of humorous bits and quips from various papers includes joking lines about taxation, temperance, and language. It features tales from Boston Courier, Yonkers Gazette, and Chicago Rambler, plus a Sheridan anecdote and a boastful critic of endless talkers.
Boat Building Brightens With Modern Craft Revival
A historical note argues that boat building remains viable in the steam and iron era. It highlights rising interest in yachts and small craft, urges young people to pursue the trade, and cites a 16 year old boy and his naval architect father as examples of promising careers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panions
Navall
George J. Manson
St. Nicholas
Meehan
Germantown Horticultural Society
Noisette
Charlestown
York and Lancaster
England
Peru
Lee
Shapes of Death in Parke County Indiana
The reader notes a romantic place name Shapes oF Death in Parke County Indiana, with a humorous exchange about changing money and repaying a past loan between Dobson and Jobson. The Somerville Journal mentions the term in a playful context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parke County
Indiana
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Atrelia Sentinel
Aurelia
Iowa
Realm OF Fashion
Baby
Wis
Texas Siftings
Boston Beacon
Boston Courier
New York Journal
Puck
Daisy
Freddie
Yonkers
E. D. Pierson
Dakota
Estel
Tuy
Sallie
Austin
Texas
Sheridan
Eskiman
Lynn Union
Dobson
Jobson
Somerville Journal
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