Fashion Notes on Hats Dresses and Fabrics
The article previews autumn fashion trends including long quirky quills for hat trim, shimmering two tone silks, and light travel hats in felt. It highlights semi princess dresses with separate waists and skirts, lime blossom shade, Gibson waist popularity, and trims using matched or contrasting materials. It also notes lower crown emphasis on hats, olive and pale greens for wear, marabout neckpieces replacing feather boas, rough finished raw silks, and reception gowns and theatre dresses.
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Gibson
The Ivory Disc and the Sailor's Bride
John Hayden, head of a New York company, sits alone after hours with an ivory disc from a former ship. He recalls a cabin boy rise, a Maine coast girl, and a lost love as a mysterious clerk asks about the charm and a vanished sister ship.
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John Hayden
Steamship Company
New York
Maine
Sadie Bell
Sailor and wife banter over a missed rendezvous
In a playful exchange a wife recalls how she wished her husband would swoop down on her. He humorously notes his sails were set, so he could only cast anchor and wait, reminding her she was the one on the wing.
Tech Men to Be Soldiers at 45th Year Opening
President Maclaurin welcomed freshmen at Technology as the institution began its 45th academic year with a record enrollment of 400 in the freshman class. He urged discipline and loyalty in military drill, condemning past laxity and urging students to fulfill duty when called. Harold S. Wonson delivered the first lecture in Major Lawton’s absence.
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Maclaurin
Technology
Freshies
Lawton
Military Science Department
Harold S. Wonson
Pickled Tomato and Onion Preserve Recipe Card
A recipe instructs to grind one peck green tomatoes and six large onions in a meat chopper, mix with one cup salt and let stand overnight. In the morning drain, add two quarts water and one quart vinegar, boil fifteen minutes, drain, then add two pounds sugar, two quarts vinegar, two tablespoons cloves cassia allspice ginger and mustard, one teaspoon red pepper, boil five minutes. Mrs Richard Porter of London Street Lowell Massachusetts.
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Richard Porter
London Street
Lowell
Mass
Almond Filling Pastry Recipe by Dorothy Verner
A recipe by Miss Dorothy Verner lists quarter pound almonds two ounces butter sugar lemon peel juice two eggs and puff paste. Almonds are ground smooth with water then mixed with eggs and melted butter adding lemon zest juice and sugar. Patties are lined with puff paste filled and baked about twenty minutes in a hot oven at 87 Bellevue Avenue Winthrop.
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Dorothy Verner
Bellevue Avenue
Winthrop
Soft Molasses Cookies Recipe by Jennie B Hunt
A simple cookie recipe from Jennie B Hunt of Salter's Point Beverly Massachusetts uses one cup molasses and sugar two teaspoons of soda with ginger salt and sour milk plus lard and butter and flour to make a stiff dough.
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Jennie B. Hunt
Salter’s Point
Beverly
Mass
Lemon Pie Recipe Two Pies
Seven eggs plus juice and rind of one lemon and one small cup sugar. Beat yolks with sugar and lemon juice, cook over heat until thickened in a double boiler, stirring constantly. Fold in beaten whites from four eggs with the rind after cooking.
Delicate Beverly Recipe Draft by Jennie Hunt
A short handwritten recipe from Salter's Point Beverly by Jennie B Hunt. It instructs to bake a crust until smooth, fill with a mixture, whip the remaining egg whites into a meringue, and bake again. The note is signed with the name and location.
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Jennie B. Hunt
Salter’s Point
Beverly
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