The Woman's Hour and Fashion Notes at Farnell Hall
A vivid description of the Wendell Phillips funeral procession at Faneuil Hall and its moral reflections on tolerance and reform. The piece contrasts reverent public mourning with the risk of shifting opinion, urging respect for new ideas and women’s suffrage, then shifts to midseason dress trends for women and children, detailing pelisses with capes, blouse dresses for girls, and evolving millinery fabrics and embroidery.
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Farnell Hall
Faneuil Hall
Wendell Phillips
Ston
Spring dress fashions for children in dresses cloaks and hairdressing
Harper's outlines demi season outfits for afternoons at home and street wear. Designs rely on silk and fine wool with satin or velvet trims, bouffant drapery, poste basque shapes, and variety of vests from tablier to polonaise. Embellishments include velvet ribbons, buckles, and pleated backs in rich color contrasts.
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Harper’s
The Dressing of Children's Hair
A Paris correspondent outlines hair styles for children from toddlers to teens. Boys twelve and under wear half long hair above the eyebrows then short, as in adult fashion. girls two to six wear short curled hair with a hat-circle comb and ribbon, evolving to long flowing hair with braids or nets. young girls favor loose, fluffy, unconfined looks and carelessly arranged tresses. For ball attire, light flower wreaths or a single flower worn upright or flat complete the style vignette.
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Paris
Children Fashions Inspire Endless Pretty Ideas for Girls
Those who dress young girls with time for homemade garments enjoy a growing stream of charming suggestions and revivals drawn from many sources. The article notes the pleasure found in creative outfits and imaginative styles for little girls.
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Demorest
Fancy Work Virginia's Lace Cast on Thirteen Stitches
Knitting pattern instructions describe a lace motif titled Fancy-Work Virginia's Lace. The piece presents row by row directions for creating scalloped edges with plain and loop stitches, seaming, and alternating plain rows. The sequence includes twenty-one rows culminating in two scallops.
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Virginia
Barrow
Sean
Samie
Pretty Bugs Rug From Old Pants Rosette Technique
Instructions describe making a decorative rug foundation from old pants and cloth scraps. It details cutting circles of black gray and colored fabrics, sewing rosettes, pinking edges, stitching, and layering around a rug foundation to create a durable, eye catching piece using leftover garments.
Making rags from pew rags for warm floors
Instructions describe sewing rags onto a coffee-sack foundation to create decorative floor coverings. The method uses small calico strips, chalk patterns, and back-stitched joining to form a durable rag rug. A black cat motif and brown or black edge borders are suggested for visual appeal.
Crochet slipper making method from old pattern
Detailed crochet instructions describe making oversized Germantown yarn slippers with a bone hook, starting a sixteen inch chain, turning, single crocheting into the back of stitches, working increases to form a center point ribbed fabric, creating a jointed strip to fit around the foot, sewing edges, attaching a cork sole, and notes that overshoes for small children follow the same method but with a higher back edge.
Japanese Squares for Home Decoration and Crafts
The text describes using Japanese squares in bright screen decoration and as substitutes for wire blinds. They are shown interwoven with crochet or guipure for antiacassars long curtains and quilts, and as tea aprons with yak lace. Also offered as bazaar items like sachets and salable trinkets.
Does F. L. G. October shawl refer to square worsted wraps
A reader asks if F. L. G. October number by breakfast shawl means square worsted shawls worn as evening wraps. The writer offers to describe a pearl white shawl in progress, detailing six ounces of Shetland floss, one yard and a quarter square, with 175 stitches cast on and a repeat pattern of slipping and knotting fringe.
Transferring Designs Idea Shared for Craft Transfer
A crafter explains a method to transfer paper designs onto light fabrics such as crash tidies and bureau covers. The technique involves placing a thin white paper design onto the material and applying heat or pressure to transfer the image for decorative work.
Crochetted Slippers-Tricot Stitch Transfer Directions
Instructions describe transferring designs onto fabric via muslin, red impression paper, and tracing with a pencil. It includes crocheted slinpars tricot stitch from toe with eleven chain, twenty seven rows, then thirty six rows each side, closing with a sewn leather sole lined with flannel.
Russian cross stitch net flower and leaf panel mats
The article describes cutting a shape in coarse net to produce a paper pattern for a flower and leaves, stitching onto canvas, then removing canvas threads to leave a worked design on the net. It notes embellishing with silk or gold, edging the net with lace or fringe, and mentions Russian origin with small table mats in white or colored muslin or satin.
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Ecru
Ecru Batiste
Fringed Cloth Technique Described for Attire
The passage explains tearing white cloth into inch wide strips, fringeing all but a few threads, twisting and stacking them, joining ends with wire, winding with cloth, and sewing fringed strips into loops. The first row may let fringe hang, then sew loops on the side and tie bright ribbon to hold pieces together.
Religion on the Railroad Mission Car Movement Expands
Conductor Edwin A Harris and his wife, active in railroad revival work with the Boston & Albany Railroad Men's Christian Association, now hold services at Chicopee Falls with strong attendance. David Little, the Baltimore c y an n e l i s t, assists. Miss Jennie Smith, once with them in the South, plans return to Wheeling, West Virginia. Contributions for the railway mission car move steadily with bank deposits.
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Edwin A. Harris
Fitchburg
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Chicopee Falls
David Little
Baltimore
Jennie Smith
South
Florence
N. J
Wheeling
W. Va
Harris
Women Who Smoke and Their Fair Patrons A Growing Vice
A Washington street officer cites a stylish woman, daughter of a railroad president, as a heavy cigarette user seen at her window. Newspaper interviews with retailers detail widespread but discreet female smoking among shop workers and wives, noting health harms and social caution.
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Indy
Washington Street
Sean
To Keep Witches from Riding Her Tale of Nightmares in Campbell's Block
Atlanta article describes a policeman questioning a Negro woman in Campbell's Block after finding a case-knife under a bed pillow. She insists the blade keeps witches from riding her at night, claiming all beds in the house hold knives for protection. Inquiry shows superstition common among Negroes about nightmare spirits and sleep riding.
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Atlanta Constitution
Campbell’s Block
Winder
Tooth-Pulling a Delight. A New Dental Enucleation Method
A Geneva dentist describes an India rubber pulling device to extract a tooth without pain. The rubber expands to grip and draw the root, finishing in enucleation after four to five days with minor bleeding and swelling. Paris Academie report notes earlier similar use and a case where a girl lost two front teeth after a rubber ring slipped over them.
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Geneva
Maul Bert
Academie Des Sciences
Paris
M. Galippe
Acres
Antediluvian Atrocities and Satirical Riddles
A fragmented 19th century humor piece blends pun filled jokes about biblical names and social quirks with a brief advertisement for Wilson's Magnetic Insoles. It weaves riddles about why certain things grow or vanish when cut and offers mock philosophy about daily life. The ad claims all sizes and mentions druggists and shoe dealers.
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Wilson
Beauregard Narrative on His Jefferson Davis Clash and War Role
Biographical sketch of Pierre G. T. Beauregard tracing ancestry and rise from New Orleans schooling to West Point. It covers his Civil War leadership, battles from Manassas to Shiloh, clashes with Jefferson Davis, and disputes over strategy, with notes on publishing details by Harper & Brothers.
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Beauregard
France
Spain
Reggio
Modena
House of Este
New Orleans
New York
West Point Academy
Tampico
Scott
Mexico
Military Academy
West Point
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Jackson
Davis
Montgomery
Louisiana
Alabama
Charleston
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Army of the
United States
West
Virginia
Confederacy
Bowling Green
Johnson
War Department
Henry and Donelson
Grant
Fort Donelson
Columbus
Island No. 10
Bolivar
Corinth
Pittsburg
Buell
Beauregara
Shiloh
Voline Son
Ragg
Bragg
Beauregard Peccanency
Wi H Beauregard
Georgia
Harper & Brothers
Boston
D. L. Guernsey
Cornhill
Disdain for a Yankee Mirrors Old New York Ties
A narrative recalls Ezra Green Jr and Eli Perkins as aristocratic locals in New York, with a proud Englishman's imperial stare toward a Yankee. The tale contrasts humble roots on Second Avenue and Avenue 11 with a rise in social pretensions amid Fifth Avenue-era flirtations.
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Eli Perkings
Ezra Green, Jr
New York
The Tale of Ezra the Merchant Tailor and Rise to Wealth
A satirical fable follows Ezra the merchant tailor who grows rich from signs and social climbing. His letters declare importers Paris and London, but his fame comes from tailoring. Ezra’s son becomes a modern swell with Fifth Avenue status and opera box prestige, yet a single button hints at fading virtue.
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Ezra
Uouo
London
Ezra, Jr
Fifth Avenue
Newport
New Mexico Mine Discovery Traps Boston Firm in Ore Boom
A New Mexico mining company with Boston headquarters faced chaos when a telegram announced actual ore discovery. The president, seeking funds for a $2 per share assessment to finance a three mile tunnel, realizes rivals struck ore, risking a shareholder backlash and demand for action.
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Wall Street
New Mexico
Boston
Woemmonere
Let Me See A Young Lady Graduate Quiz
A humorous exchange between a young graduate and a witty friend plays on classical authors and myths. They joke about translation and a fictional poem about an old man who lived in a tub of water, poking fun at ancient mythology.
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Arkansaw
Pope
Homer
Reverend Stidham Sermon Interrupted by Child Swearing
A Columbus First Baptist pastor, Rev. I F Stidham, preaches against profane swearing when a three year old girl in the crowd yells Mr Stidham three times asking what is it. She explains her papa swears causing amused, flushed faces as the sermon continues.
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Chicago Tibune
I. F. Stidham
First Baptist Church
Columbus
Mr. Stidham
Bearded Vocalist Feats Gigantic Stage Presence
The Pittsburgh Telegraph-Chronicle describes a large bearded singer who belts out I Fear No Foe with bravura and causes plaster to fall. Two hours later he tiptoes upstairs in stocking feet to avoid waking his 110-pound wife, then rises the next morning to light three fires.
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Pittaburg Telegraph-Chronicle
Bashan
Woman With Chorea and Hysteria Poisoned Herself With Powerful Medicine
A patient described as entirely helpless from chorea and hysteria was instructed to take a very strong medicine cautiously. She consumed the entire dose intending self harm. After two days she began assisting nurses, and in a month was discharged cured. The medicine was bread pi
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Revue Mensuelle de Medecine
Hair talk in the morning mirror routine noted
A humorous cultural aside describes a Japanese wife grooming, with her hair held by pins and ends in her teeth, as she discusses the kitchen boiler at the mirror. The vignette suggests a brisk habit of hair care every four days and limited listening by husbands, never more than twice weekly.
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Puck
The Flower Garden Native Shrubs in Public Parks
A discussion urges planting native shrubs in private grounds and new public parks around Boston. It lists species such as sweet fern, bay berry, leatherleaf, beech plum, red osier, white alder, and viburnums, detailing their beauty, adaptability, and landscape value for year round effect. The piece highlights examples like shad bush, rhodora, azaleas, Andromeda, elder, dogwood, goosenecks, and sumacs, promoting native plant appreciation over foreign imports.
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Boston
Comptouia
Genesta
Cassandra
Mount
Washington
Andromeda
Sambucus Pybens
Europe
Minnesota
New England
Jackson Dawson
Arnold Arboretum
Tewksbury
Mass
Flor Jablue
Harbingers of Pestilence Stir Roaring Rhetoric
A fragmentary screed denounces unnamed pests and figures in furious invective. References to Norwagian banners, carrion and tallow-faced baggage imply a satirical or political cry, calling for action against perceived enemies and chaos.
The Horse and His Hoof Lecture in Favor of Unshod Horsemanship
Professor Wood argued at Chickering Hall that horses should go unshod to maximize utility. He used blackboard sketches to claim unshod horses can climb and navigate corners, citing street cars and highways. Converts and skeptics debated the hoofs and practical benefits among a mixed audience.
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Professor Wood
Chickering Hall
Young doctor and Vassar graduate Courtship Tale
A Washington Hatchet item recounts a young doctor, a Vassar graduate, confessing longing to a woman. She retorts with a witty line about asthma as he professes a troubled life without her. He embraces her, causing a collarbone injury, in a brief, humorous vignette from a 19th or early 20th century era.
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Washington
Sne
Vassar
The Weekly Globe Club List Compilation
A dense catalog lists numerous magazines and periodicals with pricing and subscription notes. It states only one magazine address can be sent to per order and requests customers specify start dates for subscriptions, ending with a note on not furnishing back issues or transfers.
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Tyntunoy South
Nicholas
Sanitarian
San Francisco Chron
Spirit of the Times
the Republic
Srisha
Waverley Magazine
Weatera Stock
Tas
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