Freaks in collars spark spring dress trend in Boston
A Boston clothing trade rumor mill centers on “freaks in collars” as athletic club openings boost demand. Names like Top Royal and Cheverny appear among novel styles. men favor high, open collars, light scarves, and faintly colored shirts. Industry chatter covers percale, silk warps, and fashion-forward handkerchiefs with Yardley and other firms cited.
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Boston
New York
Uch
Gamins
England
France
Percale
Ask . Michaels
Lost Collar Styles Stir Gentlemen in Fashion Parade
A long survey of collars and neckwear traces the latest in fashion from the new Lost Chord and Specials to Berlin styles. It notes how leaders seek eye catching designs while others imitate, with Scarfs, Windsors, and novelties like Kenel worth and Marmora scarves shaping spring looks. A Parisian scene follows a duel of pride and restraint as a vicomte defends two ladies over a cafe insult, culminating in a tense confrontation.
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Alabama
Berlin
A. G
Russwin
Hyannis
Kimross
Oxisco
Carnot
Elsmere
Tottenham
Union Club
India Madras
John Colli&e
Vicomte Chooses a Deadly Duel After Insulted Pride
The vicomte, seething with anger after a woman's calculated glance, plans a duel with George Lamisho. He debates pistols or swords, drills his nerves, and consumes spirits as dawn arrives, only to fatally end his life with a pistol after reading his note "This is my will."
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Marquis de la ‘Tournoire
Bourdain
George Lamil
Rue Moncey
George Lamisho
Vicomte
Conscous
Twoen
Attar of Roses Made at Home From Fresh Roses
A reader describes a home method for distilling attar of roses using a sealed tin can, a bent tin tube, and a jar of water. Fresh rose petals are heated to drive steam into a water bath, yielding pure attar atop the jar. The setup requires careful control of heat and active rose picking by the family to maintain a steady supply.
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Aragad
The Whole Truth in a Household Tale
A mistress feigns illness to avoid visitors after admitting to overindulging in pudding. Mary, the servant, repeats the lie to two visiting aristocratic ladies, exposing the mistress’s deception and the household dynamic.
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Mary
How Those Hour Glasses Work In Practice
A practical note from Harper's Bazar comparing hour glasses. The speaker boasts one device ran under fifty minutes yesterday, asserting its efficiency and reliability in timing tasks. The brief exchange emphasizes precision and usefulness of the hour glass as a timing aid.
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Harper’s Bazar
There Are Very Few Rich Doctors Says Howard
A Lowell Times piece notes that Howard states very few rich doctors exist, implying wealth is scarce among physicians due to widespread poverty among doctors. The remark frames economic disparity in the medical profession and prompts reflection on income distribution in healthcare.
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Lowell Times
Howard
They are American girls and their qualities praised
The piece extols American girls as bright intelligent managers and warm friends noting tasteful dress and affectionate devotion as wives and mothers within a broader social commentary.
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London
Just Missed the Procession and Birthday Notes
The New York World notes Grover Cleveland will celebrate his upcoming birthday on Monday with March as the birth month implied. A Rehoboth Sunday Herald item lists the full name Henry Louisa Caroline Amelia Adelaide Theresa Whitehead and Phorpe Wilkinson Kinsey, residents near Newark, New Jersey.
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New York World
Grover Cleveland
Shakespeare
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Henry Louisa Caroline Amelia Adelaide Theresa Whitehead
Phorpe Wilkinson
Kinsey Post
Newark
N. J
NEWS BY SCISSORS Lively and Pointed Pieces of Information
A collection of short country correspondence items from multiple towns recounts local happenings. Notes mention weddings, school meetings, a horse accident, a dog story, a log mishap with cats, and local residents returning home for spring and schooling. Named places include Moosehead Lake, Lenoxdale, Fairfax, Andover, Winehendon, East Hampstead, Groveville, Highland, White's Corner, West Bangor, and Carmel.
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White's Corner Carr
Up-River News
Lida Libby
Carmel
Tyler
West Bangor
Mary Case
Hampden
Weather won’t tell the weather how it will be
A London Punch verse mocks weather prophecy and barometers. It lampoons forecast forecasts and warns readers against trusting predictions and meteorological signs as the climate shifts with whims and whimsies.
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London
Magnificent butterfly collection by Neumoegen described
Rare monarchs of color assembled by Berthold Neumoegen of the New York Stock Exchange. About 100000 specimens from every continent, each with carded data on name, sex, family, and discoverer. Gifted by explorers including Livingston, Stanley, Schwatka and Greely, with many named after the collector.
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Acassiz
Berthold Neumoegen
New York Stock Exchange
Brush Museum
Paris
Neumoegen
Livingston
Stanley
Schwatka
Greely Pelies
Victoria Nyanza
Lady Franklin’s Bay
Borneo
Labrador
Cape Colony
Kamschatka
Greenland
India
The Year's Yield of Oats and a Printer Error
Secretary Stone's annual oat report误 appears as a tale of misprint where o becomes c turning oats into cats in the printer's proof. The anecdote notes the hazard of type errors and the dramatic shift in meaning from crop data to cat related topics.
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New York Sun
Stone
Board of Trade
Not a Complete Separation
Johnny asks his mother if he may fight the Brown Jones boy after she bans him from playing with him. She insists he must not disobey, and he agrees to refrain while asking permission to retaliate if needed.
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Puck
Johnny
Brown Jones
An Idyl of the Sugar Camp
In this reminiscence set around a sugar camp on Fast Day, Lish Pitkins recalls sap boiling, a spring setting, and a girl named Miss Brown. A tale of romance, rival suitors, a catamount encounter, and a late-night walk home unfolds amid maple groves and a lively communal sugar season.
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Lish Pitkins
Lash
Cesar
Boston
Joe
Lizzie
Lijl
Brown
Portland
Jim Southworth
Canada
Southworth
Joe Southworth
Miss Brown
Knobb
Elisha
One Night Stand at Wasteings Shows the Real Town Spirit
The Beverly-Columbus minstrels, led by Jim Jay, planned a Wasteings engagement based on bold promises and high prices. Local press hype and curious citizens drew a sparse turnout, yielding a modest gate but a sharp lesson in town dynamics and price resistance.
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Beverly -Columbus Minstrels
Pacific Coast
Grand Opera House
Wasteings
N. D
Jay
Beverly-Columbus
Cow Yard
Jim Jay
Beverly-Columbus Minstrels
New York
Prairie Breeze
Colummns
Reuben
Leverly-Columbus Minstrels
Goldsmith
Tambo
George
Day
Ree
Jim Day
Gata
Boston Cooking School Lesson Ends With Swedish Timbals
The Boston Cooking School demonstrated Swedish timbals with cream oysters and rose sauce for April lessons. The session included lobster Newburg, rice pudding, and rose sauce, with a note on technique for preparing lobster and timbal shells, plus recipes and future lesson topics.
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Boston
Atten
The Editor's Visitors
The piece mocks office visitors who intrude on busy editors. It contrasts courteous, brief greetings with those who linger and chatter, praising quiet, unobtrusive thought and the value of silence over noisy interruptions.
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Washington Post
Those Old Fashioned Families in New England
A reflective piece contrasts old New England family life with modern women. It argues large families, harsh homes, and early losses harmed women’s health and longevity, praising today’s women for planning and striving to improve their daughters’ physical and overall well being.
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New England
Polite man offers seat on suburban train to ignoring women
A Chicago Tribune clip shows a courteous man urging two young women to sit as he calls out invitations in the aisle. The women ignore him, he repeats offers, then stands and eventually moves to another car, calming disputes through polite persistence.
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Chicago Tribune
Accidents Will Happen and Fragmentary Snippets
A collage of snappy clippings notes social quips and brief remarks. Contains stray lines about engagement rings the effect of Little Lord Fauntleroy on mothers and a report of Queen Victoria seeking a Hindustani tutor plus stray phrases and garbled text from various columns.
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Eclipse
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Dexter Gazette
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Pittefield Sun
Fairfax Corr
St. Albans
Jennie Storey
Andover Corr
Lidiow
Vt! Tribune
Winehendon Carr
Gardner Journal
David B. Marsh
Boston & Albany
Carter
East Hampstead Corr
Haverhill Bulletin
H. B. Carter
Buxton Corr
Biddeford Standant
Groveville
Highland Carr
Metefeld
Advertiser
Ed Parsons
Highland
Harper’s Magazine
Mamma
Emory J. Haynes
Charles HM. Day
Boston Cooking School
Lobster
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New York Weekly
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