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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1892
Page
12
Washington St Temple Pl and West St offer specials on Catholic Prayers manual in cloth large type at 49 cents. Also listed Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sydney at 1.10 dollars and Men’s fine quality Oxford outing shirts with bias collar, cuff links, and full cut, pitched as a gentleman’s shirt.
Easter neckwear advertised with prices 25 50 75 cents and one dollar placed at Washington Street Temple Place and West Street locations for shoppers.
A New York Herald analysis notes dwindling whalebone supplies raise dress costs and threaten fittings. Bowhead whales, supplying most whalebone, migrate northward increasing whaling dangers and costs, with bowheads valued near ten thousand dollars each, pushing finished whalebone to about ten dollars per pound.
A two week period offers express prepaid delivery for any style chosen, with payment by post office or express money order plus ten cents. The promotion invites customers nationwide to select from available styles and pay an additional small fee for expedited service.
The piece notes rising interest in physical culture literature. It mentions Delsarte as a guiding text for daily social functions, a new Delsartean Physical Culture by Yassica Le Favre, and F. Hopkinson Smith’s A Day at Laguerres and Other Days. Harper issues a Homeric Greek dictionary translation by Robert P Keep, revised by Isaac Flagg, to aid students and teachers with the Iliad and Odyssey.
A New York Herald verse imagining a maid dreaming of Easter power and fashion. She envisions triumph in streets and aisles, but fears rain that could ruin Fifth Avenue outfits and the chance to wear Easter clothes. The poem contrasts hopeful longing with material worry over weather and status.
Boston stores stage an Easter buying spree led by Hawley and Stearns with Thibet waterproof riding habits and a vast millinery showcase. Shepard Norwell & Co. open a new annex at 32 Temple place while Jordan Marsh extols its expanded Louise millinery parlor and trimmed hats from London and Paris amid imports of ribbons laces and flowers.
E W Walker & Co Boston offers a twenty number work with 125 photogravure portraits and biographic summaries. Each issue costs 1 dollar and full subscription lists are required. Also notes a curious book A Study in Girls by Edmund Smith Middleton describing literary and shop girls stage girls and other girlhood types with moral framing.
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