The Woman's Hour Summer Work Ideas and Dress Styles
The current Demorest's Monthly offers an article on summer work for health rest and recreation. Topics include needlework, simple sewing for children, charitable dressmaking projects, and social reading groups, with fashions focusing on grenadine gowns, lace trims, ribbons, and plaid fabrics in elegant muslin and satin ensembles.
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Demorest’s Monthly
Are
Mary
New York
Lidy
Grimm
Goethe
Gentemen
Varied Views on Aging Women and Telegraph Strike
An exchange notes that a 50 year old woman today appears fresher and more attractive than twenty years ago. Women dress youthfully, wear sensible clothing, and stay healthy with boots and high neck attire while reading and traveling. They seek self reliance and opinions, challenging old notions of ladylike behavior amid a telegraph strike.
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Tovlay
Compromise on masculine attire amid a corset critique
A Modern Age writer contends over masculine dress and ladies fashion, asking if mutual concession is possible. He questions abandoning high hats, starched shirts, and lace trims to seek temperance and equality, urging men to hold to stiff linen and other traditional garb until consensus is reached.
Women Telegraph Strike Earns Equal Pay Demand
A New Orleans Picayune contributor notes the telegraphers strike shows men recognizing mutual interests with women workers. He praises the push for first class pay for first class work regardless of sex and argues high wages uplift all women workers against undervalued labor.
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New Orleans Picayune
Ang
Fashion repeats itself in viewer culture and dress
A fashion writer notes that current designs mirror old country house wall decor with variegated fabrics and tapestries. European and oriental influences appear in fabrics showing bamboo, palm crowns, ferns, and roses, while a passion remains for white fine dresses.
Riding Habits and the Amazone Green Fashion
The article notes a trend toward dark green riding outfits with white cheviot detailing in pleats and vests. A Parisian version uses laconne satin in amazone green with a polonaise, high collar, and extensive stitching, emphasizing the color’s popularity and flattering tones.
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India
Fashion Notes from Abroad on Seaside and Street Attire
Abroad, fashion details cover bathing skirts, Turkish trousers, practical bathing shoes, and stockings matching dresses. Paris bonnets in light blue and lace ruchings, neglige mantles for the seaside, and new ribbon knits emerge. Widespread changes include collarless light waists, shell lace, and Beads on collars. Knitting silk stockings for gentlemen draws renewed expert use of fine needles and “00 machine twist.”
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Legion
Ho Ding
Crewes
Emiras
Fancy-Work Crochet Guide for Neapolitan Lace Patterns
Step by step crochet instructions describe making delicate lace like spider web and Neapolitan patterns. It covers thread selection, hook size, chain counts, and detailed stitch sequences across rows, ending with guidance on spacing and symmetry for six crochet points.
Six Eyelet Lace First Round Cast On Ten Stitches
Instructional pattern steps for a six eyelet lace knitted by rounds. Details include cast on ten stitches, multiple knit, purl, thread over increases, and two together decreases across eight rounds with specific alignments for each round.
Crossed Stich Edging Pattern and Insertion
Pattern directions describe casting on thirteen stitches for the edging with multiple yarn-overs per stitch and a repeat sequence of knit and slip operations across four rows, followed by an insertion on nineteen stitches and a similar cross and knit technique with held stitches. The text is instructional and appears as a vintage knitting guide excerpt.
How to Make a Seven Yard Folding Screen
Instructions for a room divider using seven yards of cotton, olive silesia and upholstery cretonne, brass hinges, and numerous brass-headed tacks. Two pine frame panels measure five feet high and two and a quarter feet wide, joined at corners. Panels are covered with cotton, cretonne, and silesia with careful edge finishing and tacking.
Knitting Instructions Cast On Fifteen Stitches
The excerpt provides a sequence for No 80 cotton with cast on fifteen stitches and a pattern of knit and purl stitches across six rows. Several garbled terms appear in rows two and six, but the intent is a decorative stitch progression ending with fifteen stitches.
Knitting Row Instructions For Five Stitch Cast On
Instructions describe a small knitting row sequence across five stitches. Rows include knit two, yarn over twice, knit one, yarn over twice, ssk. then yarn over twice, ssk, knit two, ssk, knit two. then knit five, yarn over twice, ssk. finally yarn over twice, ssk, knit three.
Beading Seed Pouch Instructions From an Old Guide
A historic craft note describes sewing cantaloupe and musk melon seeds into a decorative bag. It outlines a multi row bead and seed pattern, using thread, knots, and spaced beads, finishing with silk lining, ribbons, and a hanging bow. The user is asked to report success, noting the final result as a handsome item.
Globe Receipts for Sweet Corn Preservation
The piece advises against salting corn and outlines a method to eat corn fresh, then dry it for winter. It describes cutting from the cob, scraping the cob, drying in an oven with stirring, bagging the dried corn, and later soaking and cooking with cream or milk for servings. It emphasizes waiting for the corn to be just right before consuming.
Tomato preserves with salt and spices
To one peck of ripe tomatoes, add one cup of salt and cut overnight. Drain into an earthen vessel, mix salt through, then boil two hours in preserving kettle. Strain, return juice to kettle, boil half away, flavor with cayenne, allspice and cloves. Bottle hot, cork with new corks, oil top to keep cats away.
How to Make Yeast Raised Rings for Toasts
Warm milk and stir in yeast with salt. Add flour to form a batter and let rise. Mix in melted butter and pour into iron rings on a hot plate. Bake lightly on both sides and toast as needed. Butter lightly, then cut and serve hot on a hot plate.
Old Citron Preserve Method From Longstanding Recipe
A dated recipe describes preserving citron by boiling equal weights of citron and sugar until tender, draining, then returning the water with sugar to the kettle. The rind is kept until clear, with optional lemon flavor, and notes a long tradition of preservation including watermelon rinds for over thirteen years.
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Pla
Crape Catsup Recipe From Miscible Ingredients
A recipe notes to boil and press five pounds of grapes through a céolander then mix with two and a half pounds of sugar one pint of vinegar one tablespoonful of cinnamon cloves allspice ice and ninety two Cu:enna per and half a tablespoonful of salt. The catsup is described as rather thick.
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Ceolander
Saratoga Potatoes Suggest Frying Technique
A recipe fragment instructs peeling and thinly slicing white peachllow potatoes, soaking in cold salted water for half an hour, drying, then frying in hot lard until they rattle against a spoon. Salt to finish.
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Saratoga
Recipe for Chicken Broth Nourishing and Delicate
The method describes cutting wings legs and neck from a fowl and simmering in a quart of water for three hours to make a broth. After straining, it is blended with furiva and cream, then seasoned with celery and salt and served without pepper.
Sweet Spiced Crab Pickling Formula From Old Recipe
A fragment of a pickling recipe lists ingredients for spiced crab preservation. It mentions one pint of vinegar and half a pint of water, five pounds of crab, with one tablespoon each of whole cloves cinnamon allspice and a half teaspoon of some spice.
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Buick
Preservation Steps For Apples And Crab Apples
Instructions describe cooking a syrup from mustard seed and layering apples. It notes adding apples in small batches, skimming, and sealing into a jar. It compares using crab apples or strawberries and preserving whole by weight for one peck.
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Lalsa
Primitive Tomato Pickle Recipe Notes
A rough old recipe describes slicing tomatoes and peeling them, then adding mustard seed, cayenne, allspice, cloves, salt, chopped onions, brown sugar, and vinegar. The mixture is boiled in a porcelain kettle until thick, then bottled with a dab of sweet oil in each corked bottle.
Warm supper idea with crackers and onions or egg
A brisk recipe suggests using light bread or crackers crumbled in a bowl of deep dish with butter and sweet cream, seasoned with pepper and salt. Top with thin onion slices and hot water, or beat an egg and stir after pouring the water for a hearty, simple meal.
Tomato Sauce For Canning With Spice Mix
Take ripe tomatoes and cook in a hot oven until soft. Strain to remove seeds and skin. To each quart of juice add garlic or shallots, ginger, salt, cayenne, simmer twenty minutes, then bottle. Vinegar or lemon juice may be added if liked.
Tomato Sauce From Garden Produce Preservation Note
A historic kitchen note outlines making a savory tomato sauce by draining ripe tomatoes, then mixing with salt sugar white mustard nasturtium seed horseradish celery or celery seed cayenne pepper and vinegar. The mixture is not boiled and is ready for immediate use or bottling.
Pickled Cucumbers Recipe From Historic Kitchen Note
Two dozen large cucumbers sliced and boiled in vinegar until covered for an hour then set aside. To each gallon of cold vinegar add one pound sugar one tablespoon each cinnamon ginger black pepper celery seed mace turmeric horseradish scraped garlic sliced one teaspoon allspice mace and cloves one half teaspoon pepper. Add cucumbers and stew two hours.
Tomato Prep With Spices And Slow Boil Method
Cut tomatoes into pieces and sprinkle with salt, let sit overnight. Squeeze juice, boil with shallots, pepper, and bruised ginger for thirty minutes. Strain, pulp tomatoes, add to liquid, and boil slowly another thirty minutes.
Onions Pickled in Salt Water and Ginger
Peel small white onions and brine them in salt and water for a week, changing daily. Place in jars, cover with boiling brine, cool, and drain. Pack into wide bottles, fill with strong vinegar, add sliced ginger, and seal tightly.
Tomato relish recipe from historic menu notice
One peck of tomatoes and several chopped onions form the base for a spiced relish. It adds cayenne pepper, allspice, cloves or mace, celery seed, salt, brown sugar, and strong vinegar to create a palatable preserve noted as generally palatable and reliable.
Corn Starch Meringue Pudding Recipe Found
A recipe uses one and a half pints of milk two eggs three tablespoons sugar two tablespoons corn starch and a pinch of salt. Boil milk stir in corn starch dissolved in water add yolks and sugar then boil briefly. Pour into dish cover with beaten egg whites and sugar brown in oven and serve with jelly butter on top.
Orange Cake Batter Instructions
Orang: Cake, two cups of sugar, half cup sweet milk, half cup butter, two and a half cups flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, yolks of five eggs and chites of two, bake in shallow tins, rate one large orange, remove seeds, add whites of three eggs, well beaten, and three fourths cup sugar. Spread between the cakes.
Garlic and Gooseberry Pickle Recipe Fragments
A list details five ounces garlic raw one ounce cayenne six ounces salt three pints vinegar two pounds raisins three fourths pound brown sugar five pints gooseberries four pounds sour apples one fourth pound curry powder and three ounces mustard. Boil vinegar and gooseberries together for a pickle base.
Pickle Recipe From Old Time Pantry
A historic recipe describes combining half a peck each of cucumbers and green beans with one quart green peppers and two quarts small onions. The produce is cubed, brined in a strong brine for twenty four hours, then mixed with two pounds ground mustard, one pint sweet oil and three quarts vinegar to finish.
Tomato Savoy Preserved Method And Notes
Boll four pounds of the fruit peeled and sliced with one pint of vinegar and two pounds of sugar. Season with cinnamon, cloves and mace. Boll half an hour and bottle corking tightly to exclude air. If not exposed to mould, will keep for years in a dry closet.
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Tomato Savoy
Boll
Green Tomato Sauce Recipe From Early Garden Guide
Take full grown tomatoes when green, trim stems, stew until tender, press through a sieve. Season heavily with cayenne pepper, salt, ground cloves, allspice, and nutmeg. Boil pulp until thick and optional Worcestershire sauce may be added.
Berry preserves recipe with vinegar and spices
A terse historic instruction lists five quarts of berries and one quart of vinegar to be simmered with three pounds of sugar. Spices include one tablespoon each of cloves one and a half tablespoon cinnamon one tablespoon allspice. Tie spices in a bag and boil the mixture until thick.
Historic Recipe for Spiced Grapes Preserve
Five pounds of grapes boiled and sifted with three pounds of sugar one pint of vinegar two teaspoonfuls of all kinds of spice one teaspoonful of black pepper and one teaspoonful of cayenne Boil one hour These are both very nice to eat with meats.
Desperate Case and Compound Oxygen Promise
Drs. Starkey and Palen describe their Compound Oxygen Treatment as for chronic invalids failed by other physicians. They report about 80 percent show amelioration or cure, often rapidly, even in long standing cases. They offer their treatise and case reports free from their Philadelphia clinic.
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Drs. Starkey & Palen
Girard Street
Philadelphia
Penn
Autograph Woman Lives Up to Name in Berlin Hospital
A Berlin hospital patient displayed a curious skin reaction to any writing on her skin. If a name was traced with a nail or blunt tool the skin swelled several millimeters along the mark, then subsided. The phenomenon led to her being called the autograph woman.
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Berlin
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Promises Cure
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a universal cure for beauty flaws caused by functional irregularities. It claims thousands of testimonials and urges readers to trust druggists for purchase.
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Dr. Pierce
Petrified Mead in a Quarry Reported Near Eltz Penn
A Mill Village dig unearthed a petrification resembling a child's head. An insurance agent named Pyle is noted in the floating item. St Jacobs Oil is credited with quick relief in two separate anecdotes involving pain and a lame elderly woman at Keyser treated by Dr John Boyle.
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Eltz
Penn
Mill Village
Martin
Pyle
Tell
St. Jacobs Oil
Keyser
John Boyle
Monte Kate and the frontier’s last glittering life
A Philadelphia Times letter recounts Monte Kate, famed border beauty, from San Antonio to Lozier. The narrative follows her rise through wealth and social splash, then decline into debt, drink, and a final life on frontier gaming tables. The piece recalls a spark of generosity toward a starving German family, then returns to Kate at a monte table with Poker Bill recently killed, while a vaquero observer stays apart.
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el Paso
Tex
San Antonio
Lozier
Pecos River
Kate
Charlie
Monte Kite
Monte Kate
San Antoni
Alamo City
Fey
Monte
Adobe
Thack Room
Aguinvler
Sean
Kate the vaquero nurse and the fall of a star
A sparsely legible tale follows Kate a vaquero and nurse who aids a wounded boy and an ailing man on a ranch. She compels a surgeon to treat the broken leg then flees with guns and wine to guide the couple home. Her decline follows a fever era and a life of drink and shame.
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Dina
Spum
Kate
Gamber
Sue
Kite
Brownsville
Monte Kate
Maling
A Dream of Death and a Double Tragedy at the Beach
Atlantic City letter recounts the drownings of Josie Patton and Johnnie White, cousins born the same month and raised as triplets. Mrs Patton’s nocturnal dreamlike warning and strange room sounds foreshadowed the tragedy at the beach as neighbors recall the mother’s fear and the boys’ disappearance.
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Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Josie Patton
Johnnie White
Josie
The Doctor's Story of a Washerwoman Visit
A genial doctor recalls settling in a country town and exaggerating his professional prospects. A washerwoman arrives with a washing bill after a visit from Boston guests, revealing the miscue that cooled his haste to boast of a brisk business built on prestige.
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Boston
Dakota Letter Highlights Sex, Marriage and Claim Life on Frontier
The piece describes single women traveling to the Dakota Territory to hold down land claims, lodging in shanties monthly and sometimes staying two nights. It notes Eastern and Midwestern women leaving home for six months, then aging back to younger ages, framed as romantic despite wolves and gophers nearby.
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Ciis
Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Three Year Old Climbs Roof Edge in San Francisco
A three-year-old son of a San Francisco mechanic astonished locals by ascending an unfinished building’s cornice. He climbed a tall ladder, crossed an eight-inch plank in a breeze, and dangled his legs over the edge as his father watched from below. The child’s perch above the skyline highlighted his daring ascent and the father’s urgent search.
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San Francisco
Fame Has Found the Dufferin in England Honor
Lord Dufferin to wear the Order of the Garter adding K G to his titles. The Irish born noble rose to prominence early and since 1860 has gained seventeen appointments or honors. The item notes royal recognition and the ailing reputation of recent quotes and advertisements.
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Dufferin
Chicago Herald
England
Lord Dufferin
Order of the Garter
K. G
K. P
United Kingdom
Confederate Bond Syndicate Threat to UK Loans Debate
Governor Butler dismisses a London syndicate plan to seize Confederate bonds as legal claims and insists the Confederate States lack binding debt obligations. He argues the 14th amendment and state sovereignty void such claims, notes bonds bound by cotton pledges, says Britain deserted the South, and warns that boycotting Southern credit would aid their recovery.
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Guomr
Namich
Butler
Lin
Cutler
Loeselein
Hutler
Witel
Confederate States
United States
South
Amsterdam
England
Eglish
Mississippi
Planters’ Bank
Europe
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