The Woman's Hour on Delicacy and Self Support
An essay responding to Howells based prompts argues women should be taught self support as a goal. It urges solid education plus housekeeping, notes society pressures, praises industrial arts, and contends women can succeed in dressmaking, design, and other fields without losing delicacy. It contrasts roles for nurses, physicians, teachers, and designers with emphasis on character and perseverance.
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The
Art Interchange
Howells
Lfe
Helen Harkness
Kenrys
Glimpses of Fashion Black Toilettes Lace Yokes and Sleeves
Black toilettes rise again for street day and evening wear. Low cor gages ensure dresses with low necks and short sleeves suit young and mature women. Satin velvet and Antwerp silks with beaded trimmings and lace abound. Corsage is modest and sleeves resemble lace epaulets. Skirts vary from denim-trained to long full trains with jet beadwork. Side panels feature loops of satin ribbon and jet pendants.
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Harper’s Bazar
Antwerp
Lace Yokes and Sleeves in Black Dresses
Revival fashion shows black dresses with transparent net yokes and half long sleeves. Net yokes feature jet beads or metallic accents, with lace trimmings, high neck or low throat options. White yokes appear on black gowns, while white satin with black lace accents creates a striking contrast for high princesse styles.
Remodeled dresses feature pointed fabric vest and new collar styles
The description outlines using a pointed fabric vest overlay on last season dresses, with the outside of the lining turned back three inches to a waist point. Satin or velvet trims, decorative braids, and small silver or pearl clasps adorn the waist and collar. Front skirt panels vary with box or side pleats and contrasting fabrics.
Fashion notes on velvets silks and patchwork decor
The article details fabric trends for dresses, including clover leaf velvets and satin foundations, glass chandelier globes replacing plain glass, and beaded red satin basques. It also covers crazy patchwork table covers, material pairing rules, and instructions for a decorative Chinese or Japanese picture bag with silk lining and tassel.
Globe Receipts Sponge Cake Method
Recipe notes for sponge cake using six eggs one cup sugar and one cup flour. Beat eggs and sugar to foam then fold in flour gently. Bake in a deep dish without further beating after adding flour.
Swiss Turnovers Mincing Boiled Mutton Pancake Method
A recipe describes mincing cold boiled mutton and cooking a batter with milk eggs soda and vinegar then frying pancake halves with meat filling. The method involves browning, folding, and baking to finish the dish.
Victoria Fritters
Cut a loaf of baker's bread into inch slices then hollow the centers trimming crusts. Soak with rich milk eight eggs and salt for several hours. Fry in hot butter to a delicate brown and serve with sweet sauce.
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Victoria
Pork Tenderlomas Recipe Note
Pork tenderlomas cut in thin slices simmer in water until nearly done a little butter in pan fried until brown then served on buttered toast for a quick meal.
Sugar Pudding Method From Old Recipe
A vintage kitchen passage describes making a sugar pudding by boiling milk with flour sugar and butter until thick. Six eggs are added after beating whites and yolks separately, then the mixture bakes in a water bath for an hour and is served with a sugar butter sauce.
Barley Soup Recipe From Historic Kitchen Method
This old soup method starts with bacon and veal cut small simmered in water for forty five minutes then adds onion carrot celery pepper salt and more water. After boiling two hours the fat is skimmed and barley soaked and added to finish the soup.
Lemon Fritters Recipe Card
Two cups milk and two well beaten eggs with two lemons grated. Add flour to make a batter and fry in hot butter. This compact instruction yields lemon fritters with a simple, classic batter.
Muffin Recipe Steps Simpler Classic Bake
The recipe lists using one-half cup sour cream and butter with one cup sugar and an egg, plus flour for dough, baked quickly to a light brown. Muffins require two cups sweet milk, two cups flour, four eggs, and a half teaspoon salt, baked in gem tins.
Beef Stew Instructions From A Cookbook Note
A concise cooking note describes cutting cold meat into small pieces and simmering in a sauce with sliced cold boiled potatoes and onions. The mixture is thickened with flour to finish.
Potato Soup Recipe Step By Step
Pare eight large potatoes and slice thin then simmer in three pints boiling water until dissolved. Add a pint of sweet milk and season with salt butter and pepper. Serve hot.
Oatmeal Cakes Recipe Steps
Soak two cups of oatmeal in one quart of water for four hours. Butter a pan, season with salt, and bake for forty five minutes.
Graham Coins Bread Mix Recipe Gem Tin
A short recipe notes to combine sour milk beaten egg soda salt and graham flour into a batter and bake in gem tins. It outlines ingredients and a simple preparation method for a small loaf or biscuit batch.
Gream Pie Recipe Teaches Simple Batter Steps
A kitchen note describes mixing one large tablespoon of burger with three of sugar, two of flour, two eggs, and a half pint of milk. Cream sugar and butter, whisk eggs with milk, then stir in flour for the batter.
Squash Pie Recipe From Early Kitchen Notes
Boil squash with salt to make a quart of pulp. Mix with one quart of milk two cups sugar one tablespoon ginger half a nutmeg grated lemon rind four eggs or two with corn starch. Bake in deep pie plates.
Tea Cake Recipe From Crumbs And Butter Mixture
Recipe fragment describes mixing two and a half pounds dry bread crumbs with four ounces melted butter plus beaten yolks from six eggs and two ounces of something. Add lemon peel, then fold in chopped raisins to finish.
Lemon Butter Cake From Frugal Beginnings
Instructions describe mixing chopped almonds with beaten egg whites, folding into batter, baking in a shallow tin lined with paper, optional frosting or sugar dusting. Also given is a lemon butter mix with pulverized sugar whites of three eggs one yolk two grated lemons cooked twenty minutes.
Rice Pudding Recipe From 19th Century Notes
A recipe details soaking rice overnight then mixing with one pint of milk one cup sugar and two eggs half a lemon and salt. Bake for one hour beat egg whites with sugar to stiff froth fold in lemon juice spread over pudding and brown briefly in hot oven.
Recipe for Christmas pudding batters and bake time
A fragment lists ingredients for a fruit cake or pudding batter: suet flour raisins currants molasses spices and baking powder. The recipe instructs baking for three quarters of an hour and uses small cups and spoons as measures.
Peck's Bad Boy And His Pa Skates And Falls On Trap
The old gent skates in a basement trap incident ends with a plumber and a blacksmith called for. A moral about life as a rat trap and creditors, with the grocery man and boy sharing a toast to lessons learned.
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Sopa
Moe
Pats
Fourth Ward
Norwich Citi's Rare Faculty Gift Noted in New Haven Union
A Norwich young lady in New Haven possesses absolute pitch and can name any note in the musical scale. The talent is described as natural rather than learned, allowing her to identify component tones even when she cannot name every chord.
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Norwich Citi
New Haven Union
Norwich
Beatty Parlor Organs Advertises Limited Time Offer
A Washington New Jersey mayor named Beatty is reported to manufacture and ship a complete organ every five minutes with more than six thousand in Reese ot manufac ture. The ad offers a price of 4575 and urges orders within five days from the newspaper date.
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Beatty
Washington, N. J
Reese Ot
Exposition Romance Ends with a Louisville Wedding
Miss Emma Cochrane and John Shaffer, a freight department stenographer for Louisville and Nashville, married last night after meeting at the exposition. The couple, once strangers, wed at 9 o clock in the presence of relatives and close friends, marking a lasting outcome from the event. A separate note promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for various illnesses.
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Louisville
Emma Cochrane
John Shaffer
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Bach
Christmas Needlework Ideas for Households and Gifts
Festive guide highlights various embroidery and patchwork trends for Christmas gifts. It notes dogley napkins, fruit designs, satin and pongee aprons, lavender ribbons, and playful honey-bee motifs. New designs include plush ball accents, lighted shading, revived cross-stitch, and decorative patchwork on pillows and table scarves. Also mentions chamois fabric for portfolios and machine embroidered motifs as easy alternatives.
Satin and Felt Table Decor and Toilet Set Embellishments
Ornamentation ideas for home linens and decor include satin and felt joined with satin bows, a bronze satin table scarf lined with crinoline or canton flannel, autumn leaf appliques with chenille veins and gold thread outlines, and cardinal velvet bands with green and gold embroidery. Also described are toilet sets decorated with cypress vine patterns, drawn work on linen with blue silk lining, and a bureau mat with embroidered blocks. Additional pieces include lace curtain edging, silk or crewel tassels, knitted covers for sofa cushions, stripe foundations in knit, and crocheted white table mats with crocheted edges.
Simple outline painting with china colors and kilns
Simple guide to beginner decorating with Lacroix pigments using turpentine or lavender oil, outlining on clean surfaces, tracing designs with pencil or carbon paper, then filling with flat colors. After outlining, bake in a kiln. small tiles and decorative pieces market for teapots, frames, or fireplace tiles.
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China
Blue room decor and delicate silesia craft project plan
A detailed guide describes making curtains, bureau scarf, mats, and splasher from delicate blue silesia with floral sprays. It covers edge trimming with lace, using watercolor highlights, tracing for patterns, and matching mats with daisies and grasses. Also outlines a blue room setup and various decorative touchables like a daisylabeled bureau cover, blue glass globe, and semi transparent window panes for privacy.
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Hooker
Nottingham
Witchcraft or What in Weston Fullenfield
A verified spooky incident in Weston Fullenfield near Shrewsbury involves Emma Davies, a thirteen year old girl, whose presence triggers objects moving and breaking through the night. Police and doctor investigations reveal an excitable state but no clear design, with villagers stirred by superstition.
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London Echo
Loppington
Shrewsbury
Weston Fullenfield
Weston Fallenfield
Emma Davies
Shropshire Constabulary
Corke
Baschurch
Not Thankful A Determined Detroit Man Refuses Thanksgiving
A Detroit man declares he will not be thankful after recounting a string of hard luck and betrayals from spring to July including losses of money, a broken engagement, and threats from creditors. He vows to sit on City Hall steps and reflect on every wrong, until nightfall.
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Detroit
Detroit Free Press
Grand River Street
Texas
City Hall
A Dangerous Enemy Vitalizing Treatment Advised for Pulmonary Trouble
Urges early use of Drs. Starkey & Palen new Vitalizing Treatment at 1109 Girard Street Philadelphia for coughs, night sweats, and weight loss. Warns that many patients arrive after long illness and stresses the higher chances of cure if treated promptly.
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Drs. Starkey & Palen
Girard Street
Philadelphia
Cant You Measure a Mic With a Six Inch Potato
In Clearfield Iowa the Enterprise reports a playful note about a sweet potato measuring over three feet in length. The item underscores light local curiosity and humor linked to The New Market News collection.
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Clearfield
Iowa
New Market News
Hints 10 Good Health for Infants and Feeding Errors
The article argues infant mortality rises from overfeeding and exposure. It cites Massachusetts death causes in under five, noting digestive diseases as prominent from overfeeding, with brain, nervous system, and lung issues near as major factors. Emphasizes proper feeding, clothing, and pure air to cut deaths.
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Massachusetts
Boston Journal of Chemistry
C. E. Page
Soup for Invalids and Hair Care Tips in 19th Century Column
The article describes a home remedy called raw soup for invalids using raw meat, acid, and water to yield a digestible broth. It also gives hair care guidance advising against restoratives, warns against strong barber shampoos, and suggests brushing, egg yolk for dandruff, and cantharides tincture as a hair tonic.
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Dia
Jim Fisk Palace Car A Grand Private locomotive Tale
A New York Sun account recounts the private luxury of Jim Fisk’s Erie era car built for his use. It cost about 76000, featured oiled walnut and cherry interiors and lavish panels, sleeping and dressing rooms, a traveling drawing room, and a dedicated butler. Fisk's fast runs and relief train for the Chicago fire are noted, along with the car’s later service and final fate as a wrecking car after repairs proved unprofitable.
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New York Sun
New York, Lake Erie & Western
Jim Fisk
Old Erie
Josie Mansfield
Fisk
Erie
Chicago
Sam Walker
Port Jervis
Sam
St Jacobs Oil Endorsed By Mountain Tribune Editor
Thomas P. Ford editor of the Mountain Tribune claims St Jacobs Oil has worked wonders in his family and states it is the most popular medicine ever introduced. He asserts he would not be without it.
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California
Bieber
Cal
Thomas P. Ford
The
Mountain Tribune
St. Jacobs Oil
Kisses Settle in Posey County Court Apron of Potatoes
Caspar Felemende paid $22 to kiss the buxom Mrs Star in Posey county. The oddly framed payment is noted alongside an advertisement for Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets claiming to cleanse the system without disrupting routine. The piece interweaves sensational gossip with medical ad copy.
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Posey County
Mindianapolis Sentinel
Casper Felemende
Mrs. Star
Dr. Pierce
Droggisis
Weekly Globe Club List Note on Subscriptions
A catalog of magazine and journal subscriptions with prices, including American Dairyman American Poultry Journal Atlantic Monthly American Art Journal Army Navy Journal and many others. It outlines ordering rules, address requirements, and minimum subscription terms.
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Arthurs Home Magazing
American Dairyman
Art Interchange Magazine
American Poultry Journal
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
Amecticnn Garden
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Ward
British Quarterly Review
Blackwood's Magazine
Seeese
Brainerd’s Musical World
Beadle's Saturday Journal
Burlington Hawkeye
Boys of
New York
Bailey's Magazine
Country Gentleman
Connecticut Farmer
Chicago Advance
Christian Herald
Courier-Journal
Demorest’s
Donahoe's
Detroit Free Press
Ineering and Mining Journal
Eelectic
Ccceee
Edinburgh Review
Forney
Frank Leslie
Germantown Telegraph
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardener's Monthly
Godey's Lady's
Growing World
Household Journal
Home Circle
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Harper's Young People
Herald of Health
Home Journal
Indiana Farmer
Independent
International Review
Iowa Homestead
Journal of Microscopy
Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
Lippincott’s Magazine
London Lancet
London
London Quarterly Review
Methodist
American Mining Record
Mother's Magazine
Medical Journal
N. Y
Fashion Bazar
Nupsoty
N. Y. Sporteman
Obie Farmer
Pack
Portland Transcript
New Nam Phrenological Journal
Miuins
Princeton Review
Prairie Farmer
Peterson's
Lady’s Mag
Popular Science Month
Produce Exchange
Philadelphia Medical Times
Practical Farm Rideout
Rural New Yorker
Wekly Globe
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Olla Podrida
Globe Receipts
Peck
Bad Boy
Crimus
Pierce
Werrie
Odds and Ends
Liebig
Iris
Ff and
Hop Bitters
Gilead
Weekly Globe Club
Ali
Stebeeneees Review
Nd Farm
Boston
Mass
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