Simple Frocks and Jackets Highlight 1900s Styles
A fashion description showcases a red cashmere frock with cream lace, optional lining, guimpe, or all in one design. It discusses five-gored skirts, yoke detailing, and variations in back fullness, plus blue serge outfits with Russian embroidery and soutache trim. Eton jackets in walking suits gain popularity with belts and long coats featuring outward tucks. Brown tones and rough fabrics forecast broad appeal.
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Eton
Starching Toilet Table Covers With Fringe Trim
The guide advises folding the cover into four and gathering the fringe into the hand before dipping the middle into starch. After drying, shake the fringe and comb it softly to resemble its original neatness and prettiness.
Empire Green Cloth Fashion Description
The skirt uses three over tapping shaped flounces edged with a white kid band embroidered with steel and jet nailheads. A matching bolero and bell sleeves feature embroidery and a corslet of cloth with a kid embroidered girdle. Glimpe and puffed undersleeves show curture insertion and kid bands with steel nailheads.
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la Guides Des Couturieres
Pretty House Gown Styles For Horse Gowns
A piece describes choosing fine fabrics like nun's selling or albatross for a pretty horse gown. It notes these fabrics remain costly though bargains as low as 40 cents a yard appear. Gowns are simple to make with fagoting velvet fringe and dyed fries.
Old Papers Find Many Unlikely Household Uses
The article lists practical and inventive reuses for old newspapers including insulation under carpets, cleaning windows, emergency warmth, makeshift games for children, and craft projects like picture books. It notes they can be circulated among friends and even stitched into sheets for extra warmth.
Fashionable silt beaver hats debut this season
Hats feature surfaces mimicking silk hats with pile brushed wrong way and nap variations in fawn beige and pastel. Velvet trims, ostrich feathers, and a pale beige plateau crown with light blue tulle shirring create puffed bands and turquoise buckle accents. Two blue ostrich feathers decorate the crown.
Home Baking Tales and Kitchen Tips from a Historic Page
Practical advice on flavoring chocolate with vanilla and baking techniques. Notes on tempering heat for knives, boiling corned meat, and changing water to reduce saltiness. Peppermint-scented cloths offered for neuralgia relief. Echoes of old kitchen lore and cautions about boiling durations.
Empire gowns return with added glory and bold accessories
Fashion notes promise revived Empire evening gowns with full skirts and mushroom Paris shading, pairing golden brown mauve blends with green. Oriental buckles and Indian gems top the new look, flat stole pelarine shapes dominate, and shorter holeroed bell sleeves gain prominence as winter style anchors.
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Paris
Sweaters Return as Winter Fashion Statement
A prose note indicates sweaters will be worn this winter for most occasions, with exceptions when a more dressy look is desired. The guidance hints at broad acceptance of sweaters in daily wear.
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Milady
Sweater Evolution Brightens Outdoor Winter Wear
A discussion of improving blouse sweaters and vests for cold weather sports and outdoor use. Once dismissed as unfashionable the garment now offers better fit and appearance and serves as useful under jackets during frigid snaps from Medicine Hat.
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Medicine Hat
Creesy White Waist Described With Lace and Puffing
A detailed description from La Mode Elegante outlines a white mousseline de sole blouse. The design features a tucked yoke, shirred and puffed lower sections, and groups of tucks with bands of white satin fagoted borders forming points. Sleeves match the trim.
Elaborate House Gowns From City Shops
The Chicago News notes house gowns can be as elaborate as desired with contrasting materials and trims. A richly embroidered dull red tunic style gown with mirror accents is highlighted, suggesting pairing with a sun plaited red skirt for a charming look.
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Chicago News
Shoulder Adornment: Empire Scarfs in Vogue
The era's shoulder wraps, including chiffon crepe and moire options, are highly approved. A refined disposal art exists for these negligent wraps, with a degage slip seeming off the back and held neatly by the arms in front.
Home remedy for dandruff using flowers of sulphur
A simple preparation instructs dissolving one ounce of flowers of sulphur in a quart of water, agitating for several hours, then using the clear liquid to saturate the scalp each morning. It claims less extreme dryness than borax with continued use.
Ladies Russian Costume Promises Simple Fall Style
The article presents a chic Russian costume with simple lines and versatile use. It describes a waist with long shoulder seams, a potentially puff sleeve, and a two piece circular skirt with front overlap. Materials include brown voile or blue zibeline with affordable costs and street-friendly options.
Warship Searchlight That Discovers and Destroys Attacking Submarines
A Hungarian scientist introduces an underwater searchlight like device that scans beneath the sea to detect submarines. The system uses a special current and light rays with X-ray like effects to locate hostile vessels and deliver explosive pulses to torpedoes or ship magazines. This new tech promises a deterrent edge and a shift in future warfare.
Dream Books Sell Fast at Second Hand Shop
A Chicago Inter Devan note describes a short stout man buying three dream and fortune telling books for his servant who wants them secretly. The seller notes many customers buy such titles weekly, with others joking the servant is the real reader and that customers pretend ignorance to keep the books selling.
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Jie
Salaries of Ministers Sink in Prosperity Gap
A Leslie's Weekly writer argues clerical salaries are too small as living costs rise. Ministers cannot engage in business like others yet must match community living standards, and a 50 percent salary boost would be fair to a class that provides moral leadership beyond monetary value.
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Leslie
Intelligent Newfoundland Dogs Power City Forge
On an uptown street East Side New York crowds watch three large Newfoundland dogs work the forge by turning a wooden wheel that drives bellows. Each dog works one hour then rests two, costing about $2 weekly to feed and saving the smith $12 weekly by replacing two men or a small engine.
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New York Mail and Express
New Home of an American Duchess at Kylemore Castle
The Duke of Manchester has purchased Kylemore Castle in Connemara Ireland from Mitchell Henry. Henry built the estate over decades, spending about 2 960 060 on the castle, and reclaiming 110 000 acres to create an Irish home famed for its granite construction and Elizabethan style.
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Kylemore Castle
Connemara
Ireland
Duke of Manchester
Helen Zimmerman
Cincinnati
Mitchell Henry
Galway
Lough Kalemore
Recess
Dublin
Henry
Eslemore
Trish Tabor
Trackless trolley and lunar musings headline in odd 1900s page
The piece discusses the shift from fixed rail to trackless trolleys with Germany’s trials in the Biel Valley. It notes a train of motor cars and trailers, road use, and lower costs. It also includes a humorous vignette about Little Tommy Tubbins pondering inhabited the moon and a domestic quip about a baby mistaken for an ostrich.
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Germany
Biels
Dresden
Harper’s
Tommy Tubbins
Dad
Tommy
Tubbins
Earth
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