Fashion items and house decor in early autumn catalog
An early autumn fashion note highlights a satin blouse with medium sleeves and longer coats than last year, alongside home decorating ideas and accessorizing tips for the season.
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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
2
Early Autumn Coats and Seaside Fashions
The article describes long coats for autumn and a return to the reefer style with nautical touches for seaside wear. It details mohair frocks with Corsicelli silk stitching, varied sleeve shapes, and decorative boleros, illustrating evolving yet individual-focused fashion trends. It also notes a rise in self-destructive behavior reports across countries, with France showing notable increases over decades.
Faint Fashion Description of Silk Blouse and Trimmings
A clothing description outlines taffeta in china blue and white cut on the bias with game trimming along a collarless Eton. The blouse features a bloused front, tabs, puffed shoulders, and a gathered cuff, with Liberty satin tucks and Corticelli silk embroidery on a plain material yoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eton
House Decorations Ideas for Pine Floors and Built-out Seats
An idea favored by decorators is to leave pine floors to darken naturally rather than painting. Built-out seats remain a popular decorative feature with minimal railing arms and a pocket for a magazine and a top shelf for serving tea.
Stylish Wraps and Gowns Feature Bisquit Colored Trim
Cloth trimming on natural color pongee wraps and gowns appears rich and effective. A recent three quarter coat shows narrow bis cuit colored bands outlining seams. Sleeves have two deep pointed bands just below the shoulder.
An Effective Turban with Velvet Ribbon Wings
A vivid description of a black turban with rough plaid fabric, velvet ribbon filling the front, and two winged adornments on the sides. The forward wings are white with black spots, while the rear wings are solid black, creating a striking period hat silhouette.
Ping Pong Craze Buoys Jeweler's Watch Repairs
A New York jeweler notes a surge in watch repairs as ping pong becomes popular. Players forget to remove watches, or secure them, causing damage from table impacts and arm swings. Women’s watches also suffer as pendants dangle from waistlines, boosting the repair business.
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New York Sun
Dam the Hogs Excerpt From Ozark Mountain Tale
An Ozark Mountain News retells a humor tale about a verbose ex-Kentucky colonel who advocates irrigation by damming. A Kansas landowner seeks irrigation advice, and the colonel suggests damming the creek and then damming the hogs after hogs ruin the bank with their rooting.
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Ozark Mountain
Kentucky
Kansas
Pink’ Barclay
Snake Creek
Pink
Nervy diner swipes free lunch at Philadelphia bar
A man described as a “country looking yap” rushed a Philadelphia bar’s counter, consuming pickled tripe and crackers before ignoring offers of beer whisky or wine. The bartender, noting the mêlée, let him depart with no contact after his bold lunch raid.
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Philadelphia Record
Roast pork dinner quoted from 1790 Connecticut diary
The Living Church cites a Connecticut woman's diary from 1790 describing a dinner of roast pork. Dr. S. carving lifts a rib on his fork and jokes that it is what Mother Eve was made of, followed by Sister Patty noting the similarity to a creature.
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Living Church
Connecticut
Journey Through Life Says The Road Still Shines
A reflective verse attributed to Henry Van Dyke urges embracing life’s voyage with joy. The speaker vows growth, new friendships, and adventure, believing the road’s final turn will prove best, regardless of rough or smooth paths.
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Henry van Dyke
The Seetle Apple Blossom and the Miller
An old river Miller watches a young couple, a girl described as the Seetle Apple Blossom, courting by a river rocks, and wrestles with loneliness and longing. He finally shouts to interrupt their moment then the man rushes to her side, revealing his feelings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sara Lindsay Coleman
Daily Story Pub
Nateral
Han
Marter
Leander Shipman
The Girl Learns What Love Cannot Fulfill
A quiet young woman recalls a year of indifferent romance with a man who cannot share her life. He leaves her to endure life’s battles while she seeks warmth and intimacy. She confronts him, then stands with him as dusk settles over a changing landscape and an old man finds peace.
Negro Cook Turns White From Terror Aboard Schooner
Captain Z R Thompson recalls Herm Blanco the cook turning white during a violent storm aboard the schooner Small. Blanco reportedly became lighter than snow for three days before color returned as the wrecked vessel reached port after a voyage from Valparaiso with wood birds and monkeys.
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Fred A. Small
Herm Blanco
Blanco
Z. R. Thompson
Valparaiso
New York Mail and Express
How to Keep Youth The Endless Problem for Women
The article discusses the ancient question of staying young and attractive, noting women's special interest due to influence on men. It cites Max O Rell and M Bloud, who blame bad temper and lack of humor for aging. O Rell says humor and a good temper may keep a woman youthful until 50, after which he offers no guidance.
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Max O'Rell
M. Bloud
Municipalizing Public Utilities Aimed By Italian Government
The Italian government supports municipalization of public utilities similar to Milan’s model. Services targeted include water, lighting, tramways, buses, baths, markets, bakeries, electric power, and cemetery transport. Referendum required for each action, and reintroduction is barred for three years if rejected. Compulsory acquisition powers arise after five years, with employee shares possible.
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Milan
Sagasta the Grand Old Man of Spain
Senor Sagasta near eighty years old, long Spain’s prime minister, began as a newspaper reporter and sometimes returned to journalism. He and the queen regent share credit for preserving the throne in troublous times during his long political career.
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Sagasta
Senor
Spain
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