Howard's Letter on Broadway Crowds and City Life
A first person essay describes Manhattan crowds from the Battery to Broadway at 5 PM. The writer notes the Battery's decay, busy streets, and Fourteenth Street bazaar atmosphere, observing workers, performers, and shoppers. He cites Mayor Grace and figures like Beecher and Bronson Howard, ending with reflections on labor, daily bread, and Christmas wishes.
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Henry Wardbeecher
de Witt Talmage
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Dave Braham
Henry Wixey
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Lester Wallace
Edward Rice
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Charlotte Crabtree
Agnes Booth Schoeffel
Your Park Theatre
Brooklyn
Mrs. Dick
Bronson Howard
Winthrop
Charles Wyndhur
Geraldine Ulmer
John Stetson
Wiatt
Bob Ingersoll
Christmas Decorations Do It Yourself Mottoes and Designs
A reader asks for Christmas decoration ideas and tree substitutes. Guidance covers harmony with architecture, space-specific designs, and methods for mottoes and devices such as wreaths and banners using frames, materials like calico, gold or silver paper, evergreen letters, frost work, and rustic spruce lettering.
Redress for evergreen borders and decorative scroll forms
The article explains making evergreen borders with folded brown paper and cotton batting wadding, adorned with holly berries. It describes scroll designs using lettered paper cuts A B D and E F G A, with variations created by cutting shapes and lines to produce different appearances. Open walls suit the first scroll, while others suit arches, recesses, and windows with geometric motifs beneath.
Banner and scroll designs for decorative banners
The text describes making banners from various materials such as paper cloth or leather fixed to a roller and hit up by a cord. It discusses mottoes designs and scrolling combos, suggests a banner over a tel or conspicuous position, and notes color schemes heavy gray cartridge paper with red and gold. It also mentions a scroll made of nine pieces with four pairs possible and folding to align left and right sides.
Crafting festive decorations for small spaces
For small spaces there are many devices suitable such as shields stars and evergreen wreaths. Use colored papers cardboard or holly leaves with fine hair wire to form sturdy wall hung designs and wreaths. When holly scarce use bull rushes grasses mosses lichens or bittersweet berries for background lettering or quaint decor. Artificial frost made from powdered glass sugar or salt can imitate snow on Christmas trees but avoid overuse in small rooms. Gray lichens and Florida moss with green leaves create a wintry look without appearing gaudy.
Crayon Artists' League opens gallery and art news from Boston
The Crayon Artists' League opens a gallery at 180 Tremont Street with Hobart Linton as manager to help artists sell work with lower commissions. Reports cover the Boston Art Club exhibit, Winslow Harper watercolors from the Bahamas and Cuba, Whitney collection sales totals, German art photography piracy, and upcoming exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Academy. Elihu Vedder sustains a serious hand injury from a kite accident near Rome, possibly ending his artistic career. Phelps paintings gain notice at Williams & Everett.
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The Woman's Hour Home Gift Ideas and Patterns
A column of home made gift suggestions and patterns for women includes Mikado style dressing gowns, Japanese inspired wraps, handkerchief pillow shams, sheet shams, portieres, pincushion covers, shaving paper holders, and crocheted bags. It outlines materials, color schemes, and simple construction steps while noting upcoming Christmas related illustrations and tips.
Fashionable cashmere wrappers and house dresses described
Readable excerpts describe brown cashmere wrappers with Watteau folds and embroidered trims, black sarah silk house dresses with lace and bows, a range of color patterns from red and blue to gray with pink, and eider down blankets. Also included are sewing projects, Turkish towelling, and a feature on a New Orleans World's Fair report.
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Daanaeg
Hour Correspondence Reminds Readers to Address Letters Properly
Boston Daily Globe notes reader confusion in the Hour column. Readers must superscribe letters as instructed, or they will be discarded. It cites a Lynn crochet pattern query and points to a misaddressed submissions pattern, urging correct formatting and directing to other column content for Christmas decor tips.
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Brandreth’s Pills Endured Cure Claims From Watsonville Letter
A 1886 letter from R. Day of Watsonville California recounts his wife’s near fatal cough at age 73 and says Brandreth’s Pills cured her within three weeks. He claims to have used the remedy for forty years and to remain in good health at age 84, asserting the pills were his sole medicine.
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Watsonville
Santa Cruz County
Brandreth
Fragmentary Notice On Lace Insertion Garment Trade
A fragment mentions satin with lace insertion and references information received thanks due Messrs. Jordan, Marsh & Co. at the garment trade level. The text appears as a partial historical note or advertisement fragment without complete context or dates.
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Messrs. Jordan, Marsh & Co
Pastime Column Open to All Readers
This column invites Pastime Association members to write and submit puzzles with solutions included. Address all matters to L. H. Patterson in Danvers Massachusetts. Only one side of paper used per submission and stamps enclosed for replies.
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Pastime Association
L. H. Patterson
Danvers
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Numerical Enigma in Christmas Puzzles No 120
A long row of numbers hints at biblical and historical identities linked to Rome and Judah. The page presents multiple Charades and word puzzles by A. F. Hou and others from Taunton and Lawrence Massachusetts, with notes on authors and publishers and a large, intricate numerical riddle.
No 130 Pentagon Puzzle Clues From Auburn Wordplay
A fragmented clue puzzle from Auburn New York lists items including a letter and an epic Spaniard poem, with numbers guiding wordplay. Entries like one who contends in a race and a captions disputant appear, plus archaic terms such as to wander men tally. The text ends with a scrambled signature Slowly Gnusic DecPHine.
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Auburn, N. Y
Answers and Winners in Three Weeks Prompt Prize
First complete list costs $1.00. Best incomplete list wins Wackly Girone for one year. First answer to No. 120 is a copy of Byron's poems. First answer to No. 121 costs 25 cents. First answer to No. 128 costs 26 cents.
Charade and Crossword Contest Open for Eight Weeks
A contest offering prizes for a six verse charade at sixty cents, a Greek cross puzzle at one dollar, and a rhomboid puzzle at twenty five cents remains open to all for eight weeks, inviting participation from readers.
Word Hunt Contest Lists Grow with Typographical Entry
The word hunt contest attracts many lists and prizes with ten cent stamps required for each entry. Only words found in Worcester or Webster's dictionaries are allowed, excluding foreign or obsolete terms.
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Worcester
Webster
Idler and The Trio Shine in Mystery Names Report
Cohance Guess and Edith are listed among a line of performers including Spphine Tel EB Scope and Kismet. Edith, Carlotta, Thinker, Sally, and The Trio appear in a sequence of stage names or acts. No clear event or outcome is specified in the fragment.
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Idler
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Kismet
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First annual New England Puzzlers convention set in Boston
All arrangements completed for the first annual convention of the New England Puzzlers at New Era Parlors in Boston on Christmas day at 10 30. E T Edgett of Bowton Bay will be chairman and H Patterson of Danvers Mass secretary. Invitations sent. others understand they are invited to attend.
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New England Puzzlers
New Era
Puzzlers' League convention plans and editorial notes
The Globe previews the New England and Eastern Puzzlers' League convention in Boston and New York, naming candidates for president and officers, praising past conventions, and promising future puzzle features and monthly word hunts. It urges support and subscriptions to the department as the new year approaches.
A Novel Way of Using Two Packs of Cards Lead Penultimate Return
A detailed method explains combining two card packs to create a novel play sequence. The technique outlines arranging suits and ranks to produce strategic returns, focusing on maximizing the odds of a favorable outcome in the penultimate round.
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