The Woman's Hour on Boston Social Stiffness
Miss Nora Perry’s letters challenge Boston reserve and social wind in a summer resort. She traces a perpetuated Boston stiffness to climate and tradition, noting visitors’ chill and locals’ guarded manners. The piece reframes reputation, arguing New England narrowness shapes perceptions of outsiders and warmth after trust is earned.
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Miss Perry
Boston
New York
Pennsylvania
Carolinas
Connecticut
Mr. Howells
Lam Pot
Bostonian
Tonians
Co Education Outlined by Chicago Paper View
The Chicago Journal advocates co education as proper for both sexes arguing public sentiment will force female admission to all learning institutions. It praises the common school system for gender equality and notes Miss Anthony and Mrs Stanton receiving praise and attention in England during their European tour.
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Anthony
Mrs. Stanton
England
Stanton
Chicago Journal
Miss Anthony
Rochester
Suan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Bails
Mer
Thal Qualiy
Lnguet
Nestier
Amerca
Glimpses of fashion autumn fabrics and styles
Autumn forecasts in fabrics and colors from Harper's Bazaar. Woollen dresses use rough finished camel hair cloths with oil finish, available in plain and tapestry patterns. Plaids and stripes rise abroad, redingotes return, veiled waistlines and new basques feature lace, braiding, and pockets.
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Harper’s Kazar
Autumn and Winter Textiles Feature Rich Woollens and Silks
Fashion notes describe autumn and winter imports in woollens, silks, and velvets in a range of colors from Grays, castor browns, greens, and chandron reds to garnet and cardinal shades. New shades include acier blue-gray, grisatile blacks, and turtle dye colors. Browns span natural sandalwood to autumn-leaf browns, Havana browns, and chestnut tones. greens include water-cress, canard, forestier, moss, and myrtle. Blues cover sapphire to electric with gray undertones. yellows and oranges include Tunis yellow, Tonkin, Earp tan, mandarin orange, and imperial Chinese yellow.
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Havana
Orient
Indienne
Cressen
Tunis
Fashionable morning wear and summer lace trims
The article describes current fashion trends including gauntlet gloves in gray tan and wood tones, Mechiin and Languedoc lace toilets, net overskirts with satin duchesse waists, and lace flounces. It notes low-heeled shoes, patent leather ties with tan or blue tops, a plastron of red silk, embroidered collars, and velvet fabrics with jitters on satin. Epaulette bows and tea cosies return to favor, with translucent fabrics over color for temperate weather.
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Newport
England
Sparrow Friend Gives Morning Bread to Garden Sparrows
A well dressed young woman in the Public Garden feeds sparrows each morning with a paper bag of crumbs. The birds greet her arrival eagerly, recognizing the routine and eagerly awaiting breakfast, a charming sight among the garden regulars.
Widow Seeks Husband With $20,000 Card Display
A neatly dressed widow walked by City Hall with a handmade card hanging from her shoulder proclaiming I am a widow, worth $20,000, and I want a husband. She sought suitors near Broadway and Wall Street but found no luck as public offices and politicians were away at Saratoga.
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New York Sun
City Hall
Saratoga
Park
Broadway
Wall Street
Splice Work Begins on Brooklyn Bridge Wire Rope
The splice to join the Brooklyn Bridge wire rope was started at 1 p.m. Monday. Charles Bhuler, 45, a German from California, heads the operation. The 160 foot splice uses about half the wires from each lap, with roughly 200 wires in the rope. Ends will be tucked to avoid protrusion, making the rope uniform and as strong at the splice as elsewhere.
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New York Sun
Brooklyn Bridge
Charles Bhuler
California
Dr Wit's Cure All Wins Praise in Odd Verse
A quirky verse depicts a congressman praising Jacobs Oil as the ultimate cure for aches and sprains. It features a boastful champion driver named Han Mace who never loses a race and credits Jacobs Oil for relief, a colorful, humorous item from a historical page.
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Han Mace
Hyacinths for easy window culture and care
Hyacinths suit window gardens and conservatories alike, requiring little attention while delivering bloom and fragrance. Plant in October in rich loam, care for roots, and store bulbs in a cool dark cellar until ready to bloom. After flowering, store for replanting or set aside, and enjoy spring beds of hyacinths with other bulbs like tulips and crocus.
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Willer
la Tour d'Auvergne
Repot Old Helitrope With Care for Best Growth
Old heliotrope plants can be repotted any time in summer into pots only as large as needed. Use a soil mix of old manure sand and fresh loam, ensure good drainage, and avoid overwatering by judging moisture from soil. Provide bright light near the glass and avoid tobacco fumigation. use tobacco water to deter green flies.
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Livingston
Boston
Vick’s
Propagating Plants by Water Cuttings Described
A guide explaining water propagation for tender plants. Cuttings placed in rain water in bottles root in days to weeks under warm, sunny conditions. May through July yields strongest results. Various species listed with rooting times and notes on technique and soil transplantation.
Worm War Dawn in Potash Rich Soils and Ash Dressings
Card in a gardening note urges early offense against worms, noting soils rich in potash, light, and well drained reduce worm damage. The writer recounts reclaiming land, describes ash, lime, and plaster dressings, and favors coal ashes for soil moisture and neutralizing sourness while boosting subsoil texture. They compare garden conditions and ask what prize cultivators use on their lands.
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Carden
Ban Yard
August Notes on Garden Care and Drought Preparation
August observations urge consistent cultivation to guard beds from drought, noting deeper, richer soil and shade reduce sun damage. Emphasizes frequent hoeing, moisture retention, and continual soil loosening to boost plant growth and curb weeds, with next month's work signaling year preparations.
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Gulf
Lila King
Novel Method Eases Ring Removal From Swollen Digit
A practical technique uses a continuous strip of India rubber braid wrapped tightly from fingertip toward the ring to apply gradual elastic pressure. With the hand held vertically the swelling diminishes in minutes, allowing the braid to be reapplied if needed and the ring to slide off safely.
Prince of Montenegro Bans Luxurious Wearing Apparels
The Prince of Montenegro, who previously closed cafes and drinking shops and stripped titles, has issued an interdict against luxurious wearing apparel. The decree targets items such as cravats, gloves, walking sticks, parasols, and umbrellas, reducing officials to plain Mr. titles.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Montenegro
Debility and Afflictions Linked to Youthful Folites Practices
Describes common results such as nervous and general debility lack of self confidence and wilful power impaired memory despondency weak back and related affections from solitary youthful perils. Promises unfalling and recovery advice in a large illustrated treatise offered by Address Woron's eee OGIATION Buffalo N.
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Woron
Buffalo
Daffodil wall hanging embroidery design notes
A detailed guide for silk or satin daffodil wall hangings with color and stitch instructions. It covers frame embroidery, flower petals, centers, stems, leaves, pistils, cloud lines, borders, and background shading, plus variant options for color and layout and a possible motto.
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Gold Co
Demorest
Exhibition of peculiar pictures for charity sale ends
The catalogues invite summer audiences to a charity gallery with labeled items hung around a room. Admission is ten cents, and the quirky display features oddities such as The Flower of the Family and The Worn-out Travellers, with items described to amuse and attract donors.
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Jent
Red Sea
Inius
Jordan
China
Lowe
Chubb
Greece
Byaire
Colenat
Lebanon
S. Hope
Sylver Smith
Table Spread Description from Pattern Sketch
A description of a nine by two yard dark red felt table spread with a cretonne border. It notes an olive felt edge pinked over the border, long stitches securing the edge, a black velvet ribbon through the center, and feather-tied silk floss in bright colors. Finish calls for a heavy mixed color cord and tassels at ends.
Satin stitched Work Box with blue and black satin bindings
A square cardboard box lined and covered in blue plus black satin. The lid and base are black satin with an embroidered lid and a cushioned fit. Flowers are satin stitched in blue silk, stamens in yellow knotted stitch, calices in green satin, and leaves in olive brown. The lid edge hides sewling with satin ribbon ruching and a blue ribbon loop aids lifting.
Foot Rest Construction Described with Velvet and Needlework
A box foot rest stands twelve inches long and nine wide with a six inch height, covered in muslin and curled hair, entirely wrapped in dark red velvet. The top edge features a white vandyked flannel panel with the same pattern, edged by a ballheaded multicolor trim. Casters are to be added so the stool can be easily moved.
Handkerchief Bag for Work or Linen
A handkerchief bag is described with a central turned up circle, a draw string opening, and four ends cascading over the top. It is ornamented with full plaiting of torehon lace, and a cardboard bottom can be added to keep shape, requiring lining at the bag button.
Gentleman's Dressing Boot from Tricot Pattern
Instructions for knitting a gentleman's boot in tricot using six ounces maroon Berlin wool and a No 9 bone tricot hook. Describes two-part construction, pattern placement, increases, back and front joins, two-inch top revers, and crochet edge trimming. Options include cork sole or leather sole by bootmaker, with two side tabs to ease wearing.
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Ory
Embroidered textile described with blue cloth and terra cotta trims
A description details an embroidered piece with blue cloth and terra cotta sines and bow ends, a blue wool ground on the bottom, and a large flower worked in blue crewels with an olive center. Smaller flowers should use red and heliotrope with white edging. leaves and stalks are to be completed.
Craft style cushion with terra cotta cloth and fringe
Shaded reddish brown cushion features terra cotta cloth panels along the sides. Bows on both ends are tied with a strong cord and finished with a ball fringe, the folds arranged in even eas patterns.
That Wicked Telephone. Too Much G Convenience by Electricity
A Detroit Free Press piece chronicles a man whose life is disrupted by incessant telephone calls. Neighbors, a wife driven to distraction, and a culvert of prank lines reveal how eerie rings and taunts invade a family, prompting the man to vow action against the nuisance. Local residents report fears of further harassment and police intervention, while the man considers legal or formal remedies to curb the calls.
Frisky Chicago Banker Drowns Amid Gulf Surf Pranks
A young Chicago banker touring Mount Desert recounts a Cape May Gulf misadventure with a West Coast athlete. While bathing with his cousin, he provoked a dangerous prank on a rival swimmer, resulting in a rough struggle and injuries as spectators laughed. The incident ends with the offender battered and humiliated.
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Saratoga
Chicago
Mount Desert
Cape May
Chvago
Chicaro Joker
Battles in the Air Tornadoes Formed by Competing Currents
A historical discussion explains tornado formation as the clash of a cold front sweeping westward with a warm Gulf current, creating a surge of powerful storms across southern states. It notes continuous lightning, rapid storm movement, and the difficulty of prediction, with telegraph warnings limited to ordinary storms.
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Mississipi
Alabama
Georgia
South Corona
Gulf States
Gulf
Tropics
Lorvadu
Signal Service
Captain Webb Warns Against Rash Swimming Values
In Harper's Young People Captain Webb argues that pluck should not cross into foolhardiness. Extracted from Sea Bathing and Floating, he recalls two boys at sea a tide drifted, one urged the other to swim to a rock, the cowardly call was met with bold rescue, both boys exhausted but alive.
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Captain Webb
Harper's
Potter in Every Way
“I am happy to say,” writes a gentleman who had used Compound Oxygen, “that I am very much improved, I am neing it principally for bronchitis, but fact teat it in relieving other t roub les, as MUCH OF more than the bronchitis. My di gestion is chewer, sleep more rfreshing, in fact am better in every way.” Our weathe on Com pound Oxycen,6eature, action and results, wab repots of cases and fuil information, sent free. Ds. STARKEY & PALEN, llour and L111 Girard street, Philadelphia, Pean,
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Potter
Ds. Starkey & Palen
Llour
Girard Street
Philadelphia
Pean
Heavy gold idol found by Indians in Mexico
A gold idol weighing thirty two and a half pounds was excavated in Calistiahu aca in the State of Mexico by a group of Indians. The idol consisted of a group of figures but was broken up by the Lodians and divided equally.
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Republica
Calistiahuaca
State of Mexico
Historic Victorian Cookery: Beef Broth and Puddings Menu
Recipe fragment listing beef broth boil time and straining, baked blue fish with stuffed pockets and threading, roast lamb with mint sauce, tomato dish with crumbs, succotash with beans and corn, potato snow with butter and milk, cream fritters with Italian sauce, Queen's pudding with jelly, meringue omelette, and a notes on timing and serving. Contains multiple dishes and procedural steps with quantities and prices.
A Strange Editor Who Doesn't Want Posty
A detroit Christian Advocate note laments poetry as a poor fit for the press. The piece humorously recalls a church monthly editor finding a poet barred at the door after a disagreement over publishing verses. The author reflects on editors and the poetry demand.
Corns and postal delay in cross border trade tale
A local quip details a citizen in Svutt Ste. Marie, Michigan trying to sell a jeller to a Canadian friend. He pre pays postage on the American side, sends through Detroit Windsor routes, and back via Canadian posts taking about ten days for a one mile journey. In haste, he travels himself across the river to avoid the delay. Rough on Corns ad notes a permanent cure for corns and warts.
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Svutt Ste. Marie
Detroit
United States
Windsor
Souit
Hop Bitters Proclaimed as Plain Honest Remedy
A crowding critique of glossy medical ads favors direct praise for Hop Bitters. The piece notes wide adoption and repeated favorable notices in religious and secular papers, arguing the Hop plant’s virtues are clear and the proprietors demonstrate shrewdness in marketing a widely used remedy.
Not She Die Yet Warned by Patent Medicine Talk
A fragment from a readers’ note mocks sensational medicine claims. The line laments lingering illness and failed doctors before praising a patent remedy called Hop Bitters, noting no specific price or formal cure details.
A Daughter's Misery Ends With Hop Bitters Remedy
Parents recount their daughter’s long illness driven by kidney and liver trouble and nervous debility. After years of seeing physicians with little relief, they finally used Hop Bitters and witnessed a recovery to good health.
Father is Getting Well After Using Hop Bitters
A Utica woman reports her father improved greatly after long suffering from an incurable disease. She notes her daughters observe his marked recovery since he began Hop Bitters and she expresses gratitude for the remedy. Hay fever is mentioned in the fragment.
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Utica
N. Y
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