Weight of women's clothing linked to fatigue and health
The New York Times reviewed how clothing weights affect women’s health noting garments from seven to thirty pounds when outdoors in winter. Experts including Mary Putnam Jacobi warn heavy waists and ill fitting corsets strain pelvic organs and muscles, while men’s garments run lighter by comparison.
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New York Times
Times
London Lancet
Woman’s Hospital
Mary Putnam Jacobi
The Beauty of Hands and Tips for Hand Care
A nineteenth century writer praises hand beauty while arguing against extreme nail length and arched grooming. The piece urges fitness and proportion, cites Greek taste, and offers care tips: keep hands warm, avoid tight sleeves, use wool gloves, wash before bed, rub with glycerine, almond oil, chalk, and a pitch turpentine ointment for nails, and never cut nails.
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Claes Ra
Gloves Show Warmth and Style From Jersey to Sealskin
Among glove styles, jersey and cashmere pave offer close fit, warmth, and low price. Fur lined kid and sealskin gloves are handsome and durable, with seal hands offering multiple winters use. Woollen mittens and angora knits provide warmth, while crocheted mittens lack warmth and beauty. Dog gloves with wide back stitching appear in fashion.
Fashion Novelties: Seasonable Suggestions for Ladies
The article details current fashion trends for ladies including real laces replacing nets, Spanish fichus, black lace for blondes, long scarfs with gold pins, and lace decorations on evening gowns. It notes lingerie uses on vests and collars, jewelry like tintation pearls, Mechilin lace trims, and stylish basque embellishments with lace and lace-ruffled collars.
Knit Scotch cap pattern for ribbed crown and narrowings
Detailed instructions for knitting a Scotch cap using worsted yarn and four steel needles. Cast on 240 stitches, create a ribbed crown with alternating rib and plain rounds, and perform a series of narrowings and gloping stitches across multiple rounds. Finish with a hem and elastic band, drawing ribs to a point and adding a tassel. The Glasgow specimen cap inspired the pattern.
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York
Rib
Glasgow
How the Sexton Settled an Old Score
An old Boston church sexton, owed by a pastor, uses a solemn stand in the pulpit to compel payment. The minister, unable to eject him, leaves briefly and returns to find the sexton still seated, finally departing with quiet thanks.
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Sexton
Newburyport Herald
Faneuil Hall Market
Boston
Lucre
Sexon
Timothea the newborn found in snow in Williamsburg
Mrs. Margaret Asendorf discovered a week old infant in a snow heap at 94 North Fiftyfifth Street, Williamsburg. The baby was taken to the city nurse after being named Timothea by onlookers Timothea means fear of God and good luck.
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Margaret Asendorf
North Fifth Street
Williamsburg
Fourth Street
New York
North Fitt
Timothy Phelan
Timotheus
Timothea
New Year Diversions of Texas Youth
Longview business men visited open house ladies in a humorous spree. Cards were presented on a dust pan by a servant mounted on a horse while others rode mules. The evening saw gatherings at Captain Sam Cundiff and Tom Durham homes with late night revelry.
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Galveston
Longview
Sam Cundiff
Tom Durham
He Won't be Homesick in a New Arkansas Town
A Cape Cod carpenter traveled from Boston to a growing Arkansas railroad town, carrying a full toolkit and likely cash for emergencies. Two days earlier a large fire had demoralized residents. He arrived in the afternoon, secured a contract to build new structures, bought lumber, helped haul it to the site, and began frame work with eight workers.
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Cape Cod
Boston
Arkansas
Oreuoon
Hight
Lovely Roses from Dingee & Colard Co West Grove Penn
Beautiful bidemng roses offered by Dingee and Colard Co of West Grove Pennsylvania. The firm promotes its roses as the finest in the world and offers mail postpaid delivery to all US post offices. They advertise a new guide on roses and premium incentives.
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Dingee & Collard Co
West Grove
Penn
Mini
United States
Rover
Sligatt Yly
Gree
Ravers
The Conservatory Flowers and Home Landscape Doctrines
The piece extols simple flower gardens as superior to costly mansions with ornate features. It praises roses as unimitable and highlights flowers as cheap, ever-changing beauty that enhances a home and family welfare. It covers seed selection, winter care, and handling frozen plants with careful pruning to preserve plant health.
How to Store and Regrow Hyacinths After Blooming
After flowering, lift bulbs and place in a spare bed until leaves wither. Remove dead leaves and rootlets, pack bulbs in a sand filled box in a cool place until autumn planting. Separate seed bulbs and plant in a separate bed to mature, first year shallow and close, then six inches apart and four to five inches deep. Cut flower stalks to strengthen bulbs. Apply same care to pot bulbs.
Winter lily of the valley failures blamed on weak pips
Advice on cultivating Lily of the Valley from pips rather than mature roots. Plant pips in November in light soil, freeze them once or twice, then store in hay. For flowering bring indoors or plant in pots with moss, keep soil damp at 55 to 60 F, then transplant in spring. Emphasizes using strong pips and avoids border-rooted lowers.
Winter protection for hardy and tender plants in cold frames
Cold frames must exclude frost and admit light for mid winter pansies violets and Christmas roses. Thick dry litter and straw coverings shield frames while sun and mild weather allow opening. Water when soil is dry and ventilate to prevent damp. Remove coverings at night in frost and adjust for damp frames to avoid damping off. Keep frames moist but not waterlogged and thin crowded plants.
New North American Rose Described by Engelmann
Dr George Engelmann names Rosa minutifolia a striking new rose found by botanists Perry Jones Pringle along All Saints bay Lower California. Noted for finely divided foliage and pink or white flowers, the plant draws attention in arid landscapes and may soon be cultivated after seed collection.
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George Engelmann
Perry
M. E. Jones
C. G. Pringle
All Saints’ Bay
California
Engelmann
How to Grow Choice Pansies in Rich Soils
To obtain choice large blossoms, pansies need rich soil and shelter. Start seeds in April in a box of rich soil near a sunny south window, then transplant mid May to the bed. Another method seeds sowed in September, with strong manure cover before freezing, also works.
Winter storage of plants in cellars
Dormant plants kept in dry cellars should have soil that remains just damp, not dust dry, to avoid root damage. Monitor toward late winter and lightly dampen soil if it becomes too dry, avoiding any growth restart.
Protecting Window Plants From Frost
Advice for keeping houseplants from freezing. On very cold nights cover them with a sheet or newspapers. A simple canopy of strings and sticks elevates the covering to trap radiant heat from the pots and plants, helping prevent damage.
Care and forcing of house plants in March
The plants of the window and greenhouse are best appreciated this month as bulbs such as hyacinths and narcissus are forced into bloom. Prepare boxes and sand for cuttings of verbenas and geraniums, water plants as needed, and ensure fresh air without chilling exposure. Use tobacco water to kill green fly, thorough washing for red spider, hand pick mealy bugs, and remove worms by turning out the earth ball.
Drunken man undergoes risky operation by student in East Cambridge
Near East Cambridge bridge a sober bystander helps a liquor ridden man to a house with a doctor sign. A young medical student performs the facial sewing using a silver needle while the patient endures the pain with quiet, and the man reportedly drifts asleep during the procedure. The piece notes the irony of anesthesia from intoxication and the student’s lack of understanding.
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East Cambridge Bridge
Ain
Calico Ruse In A Store Leads To Short Measure Plot
A suburban retailer tried to curb staff by a rule that fired if a worker failed to sell to three customers. Jim improvised by cutting a yard and a half from a found remnant to match a buyer, who paid, then blamed another shop for short measure, though the salesman escaped scrutiny.
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Heegan
Jim
du Poe
High Dudgeon
Hum
A Boy and a Bladder
A boy on Pinckney street injured himself while trying to burst a bladder with an axe and wood. He fell from a bench to a wood pile, leaving him bruised and temporary. his mother feared for him as he reentered the house. The bladder remained intact and the boy recovered with his injuries.
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Pinckney Street
Prince of Wales given ten inch shell as Christmas gift
A unique Christmas present for the Prince of Wales is a ten inch shell mounted on a wooden stand. The inscription notes it as a souvenir of the bombardment of Alexandria on July 12, 1882. The shell reportedly came through Alexandria's port side, passed through the torpedo lieutenant's cabin, and was rescued by gunner Mr Harding who placed it in a tub of water and earned the Victoria Cross.
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Prince of Wales
Lord Alcester
Alexandria
Harding
Dash and the Canary A Painter Die at Fifteen
Dash, an English painter once published in a journal, died at Dr. Sanford B. Hunt's home in Newark on Thursday night at age 15. He famously leaped four feet to catch an escaped canary, returning it unhurt to his master, a feat that won him pictorial honors. Mars J. M. Smith of Oswego reports Ely's Dream Balm cured their child of catarrh. Prices listed, 50 cents. Girls for general housework advertisement follows.
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Dash
New York Sun
Sanford B. Hunt
Newark Advertiser
Mars
J. M. Smith
Oswego
N. Y
Ely
Household Art For A Handsome Bedroom On A Budget
Advice on decorating a bedroom with inexpensive fabrics and simple embroidery. Describes cheese cloth projects for bed spreads curtains and lace trimmed pieces. Outlines outline stitch with colored threads and border laces to create a warm, charming look.
Artful house decoration through embroidery and crochet trends
The piece surveys monthly design advances in painting and embroidery with plush, velvet, and imported textures. It highlights chair cushions in crimson silk plush, raised silk work, golden rod motifs, and ornamental bags and baskets crocheted from fish-twine. It notes Japanese detures scraps, tasselled borders, and practical touches like a twine ball with a built in scissors holder for parcel tying.
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Cretonne
Silesia
Patchwork Rug From Old Carpeting And Wool Strips
Instructions describe making a large decorative rug by doubling carpet pieces, knitting a border in dark yarn, and forming center stripes from mixed wool scraps. Strips are knit, dampened, dried, then cut lengthwise to produce pairs sewn to a prepared base. Use heavy wool scraps and black borders for a dense, crinkled look.
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Germantown
Atlantic
Bag for Knitting Work Pocket Piece Attach Belt
A pocket bag for knitting projects worn on the belt is described. It uses ceru linen lined with red satin, with five cut pieces forming a bulged bag. Embroidered linen, red silk braid edging, red silk eyelet, and a bottom tied with red satin ribbon loops and a bow featuring a large shield pin to fasten to the belt.
Needle Book and Pin Case in Guitar Shape Craft
Instructions describe crafting a light pasteboard needle-book and pin-case in a guitar outline. Four guitar-shaped pasteboard pieces with silk covers, brown and bright inner colors, embroidery on front, yellow silk strings, tight stitched seams, ribbon binding, stitched front and back pieces, flannel or cashmere leaves, buttonhole stitched leaves, pins added around front, and a bow tied around the handle.
Handsome waste basket craft notes from peach basket
Fragment describes covering a peach basket with turkey and calico to make a handsome waste paper basket and mentions ox with shieeia and other unclear terms. The readable portion suggests a simple decorative sewing craft using fabric and a peach basket.
Crafting a decorative macrame cover for a work basket
A detailed guide describes weaving a pensive bright colored cover from macrame twine half the basket’s depth to form a fringe. It suggests using a bean covering for the basket and adding a pincushion needle-book and small pockets at the upper rim for practical use.
Hints to Good Health Indigestion and Its Effects
A health column explains indigestion causes anemia, hair loss, tooth decay, and skin disorders, linking digestion to overall vigor and even susceptibility to colds and sudden deaths. It stresses dietary reform, open air exercise, and gradual eating to restore digestion and health.
Croup Remedies From a Historic Nursery Guide
A historic nursery guide lists prevention and multiple home remedies for croup. It advises limiting outdoor play after 8 pm for susceptible children and details treatments such as woollen neck coverings, mustard plasters, hot cloths, alum with sugar, and mixtures of soda or sal volatile with syrups. It also suggests onion juice with castor oil and a sugar lard mix, urging mothers to try available options until relief occurs.
Epilepsy and its effects on health and youth
An overview of epilepsy defining its sudden seizures and distinct signs, its likely cerebral artery spasm origin, typical age of onset between 2 and 20, and the pattern of recurrent attacks. It notes heredity does not guarantee transmission, possible triggering by excesses, and the potassium bromide remedy with medical oversight. It emphasizes rest after attacks and continued sports and mental activity for children to prevent degeneration.
Cold drinks and public speaking danger warned
The article cautions that drinking cold watery beverages while addressing crowds can depress nerve centers and weaken vitality during strenuous mental and physical effort, especially in middle age and beyond. It notes the physiological effects are poorly understood and warns zealous public figures to take precautions to avoid illness.
Sudden death myths and medical causes in old texts
The article explains that sudden death is not always due to heart disease. Autopsies often show congestion in lungs or brain, especially in middle aged and elderly during cold weather. It notes rheumatic tendency, Bright's disease, dropsy of the chest, blood conditions forming clots, and that the heart is often normal.
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Bright
Sor Hidney
Clendinning
CETEWAYO Garage Contention Tied With Dr Bull’s Qough Sycun
A garaged list item shows CETEWAYO facing Dr Bull in a tied matchup. Details are unclear due to OCR issues but the event centers on a local garage game or display involving the two names.
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Cetewayo
Alsocuses Dr. Bull
Qough
Promises of Health in a Hearty Appetite Cure
An advertisement claims a remedy will insure a hearty appetite and better digestion, cure general debility, and grant renewed vitality. It asserts it overcomes weakness, wakefulness, and energy loss, offering a new lease on life.
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