International College in Florence Promises American Women Study
A new Ladies International College opened November 6 in Florence under The International Educational Association. backed by American supporters led by Hon. William Clark. Villa Spagnola hosts classes with emphasis on conversation in Italian and French. The project seeks books for a library and aims to attract U.S. patrons and students.
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Italy
America
Ladies’ International College
Florence
William Clark
United States
Milan
Clark
Massachusetts
International Educational Association
Boston
New York
West
Susan A. Brockway
New England Conservatory of Music
Hoks
Brockway
Sp Nola
Brockwy
Flonce
Jewelry Trends and Fancy Pins in Harper’s Bazar
The article outlines jewelry fashion, noting bracelets as the popular piece and describing narrow, uneven bracelets worn individually rather than in pairs. It covers flexible nugget and wire bracelets, colored stone bands, and elaborate brooches with multishade diamonds. Shaped pins, enamel fruit designs, star pins, and animal motifs appear as stylish choices. It also details earrings, necklaces, and finger ring styles, including Alexandrite and sapphires, with gentlemen’s seal rings and varied studs.
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Harper’s Bazar
Bethlelem
Lucy
Glimpses of Fashion Paint and Hat Designs
The piece notes how women use oil colors and shoe polish to tint straw hats and bonnets to match costumes. It describes examples from a young lady painting hats for harmony, a bonnet dyed cheaply, and a planed hat painted with roses for a Europe-bound traveler.
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Europe
Calling Costumes For Visiting and Calling Dress Trends
Detmarests notes callings and visits require handsome yet sensible outfits. Velvet trims with cloth or wool dominate, featuring trimmed skirts, capes, mantles, or polonaises in browns greens terra cotta and wine. Cape or mantle favored for easy removal, jackets avoided, fur and astrachan trims common on versatile afternoon dress codes.
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Detmarest
Fashion Notes On European Dress And Evening Styles
A lengthy account of London ball attire and continental fashion trends describes velvet mantles in green and emerald tones, pale primrose damask gowns, and an Egyptian Princess ensemble with gold and orange hues. It covers cloaks, bodices, jewelry trends, artificial flowers, capelets, and evening wear details including fabrics, trims, embroidery, and evolving footwear.
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London
Ellen Verry
Jace
Morris
Ulster
Moscow
Ornamental needlework trends in plush and velvet decor
The article catalogs brass mountings with cock blue olive or garnet plush panels and embroidered floral designs. It details drapery styles including looped lambrequins and long cushions with satin ribbon bands, chenille embroidery, and wide ribbon bows. It highlights meal bag pincushions in white satin, garnet velvet handkerchiefs, and garnet blue pillowed cushions with transferred photos, plus Goyleys with embroideries and the rising use of appliques in velvet and silk for home decor.
Globe Receipts for Rolls and Cornbread
A traditional bread and muffin recipe set lists six cups of flour two eggs a half cup of yeast a quarter cup of sugar butter and nutmeg. It instructs mixing with warm water letting rise overnight kneading shaping into rolls glazing with milk and brown sugar then baking. Also included is a corn bread recipe using Indian meal salt baking powder molasses sweet milk eggs and flour.
Tea Biscuit Recipe Card from Early Kitchens
One quart sifted flour two tablespoonfuls lard one pint milk and water mixed half teaspoon salt three teaspoonfuls baking powder sift flour salt and powder rub in lard add milk and water knead until smooth cut into round cakes bake in a quick oven.
Oatmeal Crackers Dough Directions
Instructions describe mixing one tea cupful of oatmeal with water to form a dough that can be rolled to a quarter inch thick. Roll quickly to avoid drying, bake without browning, and make only enough dough for a single cracker at a time.
Old World Yeast Dumplings Rise in Buttered Pan
Instructions describe mixing melted butter with milk and yeast, adding salt and eggs, then kneading in flour. Let dough rise in warmth, roll out, cut, rise again, and bake in a buttered pan for light yeast pastries.
Yeast Rolls From Overnight Milk Batter
A historic recipe describes combining warm milk with yeast and flour to form a thin batter, letting it stand overnight. In the morning sugar, melted butter, eggs, salt, nutmeg, more flour, and currants are added, kneaded, and left to rise. Form into small balls, set them closely in a pan, let light, bake, and glaze with a beaten egg white and sugar.
Curried Chicken Recipe Steps
Split the chickens open on the back and flatten them with a cleaver. Place in a dripping pan with the inside facing the pan. Bake one hour, baste occasionally. Make a giblet gravy with butter and browned flour. Also: cut chicken into pieces, season and fry in butter. Fry onion in butter, add stock, curry powder, flour, and stock, boil five minutes.
Chicken Stew And Fried Pigs Feet Recipe Card
Roil a chicken until tender then chop fine and layer with liver in a deep dish. Season with salt pepper and butter, make gravy from the liquor, pour over the chicken and cover with a suet crust. For fried pigs feet, batter and fry until brown, make drawn butter and serve with a spoonful of vinegar.
Lemon Foam and Lemon Sauce Recipe Steps
Beat yolks with sugar lemons and gelatine until thick. Fold in stiffly beaten whites and mold. Prepare lemon sauce with butter sugar egg lemon boiling water, heat in a water bath until thick.
Corn Starch Cake and Related Home Recipes
This column lists basic home baking and cooking guides including Corn Starch Cake with sugar butter eggs milk corn starch flour and baking powder as primary ingredients. It also covers Nut Cake Fig Cake and an assorted set of steps for Kries and other regional dishes, plus Boil dominy Potato Balls and Welsh Rarebit methods with simple ingredient notes.
Vitalizing Treatment Inhaled Cure Claims Broad Benefits
A new Vitalizing Treatment inhaled to reach weakened nerve centres and vital plans is said to restore normal activity in chronic diseases. Drs Starkey and Palen invite inquiries at 1109 Girard Street Philadelphia and promise documents of cases to judge its usefulness.
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Drs. Starkey & Palen
Girard Street
Philadelphia
A New Trick on the L Road
A Tribune report recalls an early rush scam at an elevated rail box where a man slid a ticket up his sleeve using rubber to avoid paying five cents. The gatekeeper witnessed the sleight and stopped the attempt as a clever trick to beat the fare.
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New York Tribune
Tribune
Habits of Good Society Dinner Etiquette Guide
A detailed guide on formal dining etiquette from invitation to post dinner departures. It covers writing and engraving invitations, guest counts, seating, service style, dress, table setting, course order, wine service, servant conduct, and the differences between ceremonial and informal dinners, ending with host duties and better alternatives.
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James Bennet
Jonn Wood
Jon Wood
Sevres
Dresden
Druver
Florida
Snow's Ocean: a Maine puddle that rises with the tide
In Orrington Maine a small pool dubbed Snow's Ocean sits 100 feet above the Penobscot River. It reportedly rises and falls about eight to ten inches twice daily, matching the river’s tides. Frogs and newts lay eggs in its depths and locals note frogs eggs on the shore when water returns, suggesting an underground outlet feeding the pond from springs.
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Penobscot River
Orrington
Sam Snow
Lake Superior
Penobscot
Mra/ Jones
Cousin of A. T. Stewart Claims Vermont Heirship
John Stewart of Johnson Vermont launches a suit to claim a share of the Stewart estate as a first cousin of Alexander Turney Stewart. He alleges birth near Lisburn Ireland and kin to the late A T Stewart, naming Cornelia M Stewart and Henry Hilton as defendants while seeking deposition of Isabel Cosgrove in Granville. Ex Governor Hendee and George L Waterman serve as his counsel in Windsor County Court proceedings scheduled for January 10.
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St. Albans
A. T. Stewart
Vermont
Joan Stewart
Johnson
Ligburn
County Antrim
Ireland
Thomas Stewart
Alexander Stewart
Alexander Turney Stewart
New York
John Stewart
Allover
Cornelia M. Stewart
Henry Hilton
Stewart
Hilton
Crittenderr
Matthew Stewart
Proctorly
Taft
Windsor County
Henry Huston
Isabel Cosgrove
Granville
Hendee
Morrisville
George L. Waterman
Hyde Park
An Ornary Cavalry Horse With Its Private Circus
A New Haven tale recalls a stubborn cavalry horse nicknamed Nick that turned a routine march into a comic chaos. The narrator, a recruit, describes Nick’s antics as he bucked and sidestepped through smoke and mud, scattering soldiers, while the captain fled and the rider clung to the horse’s mane amid a shower of bullets and laughter.
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New Haven News
Nick
Beast
Woman and Her Diseases by Dr. R Pierce sold for stamps
An illustrated medical treatise by Dr. R Pierce of Buffalo New York offers guidance on self treatment. The large volume promises practical methods and is available by mail for three stamps to any address.
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R. ¥. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
A Brief Look at Massachusetts Courts of the Colony Era
Hon Charles T. Gallagher notes the preservation of court records from 1640 to 1686, detailing the General Court and court of assistants, probate and county courts, merchants’ courts, and chancery, plus early legal practitioners and the shift to a professional bar after Andros. The piece highlights archival relocation, jurisdictional evolution, notable cases, and the rise of English style jurisprudence in Massachusetts Bay.
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Curtis Club
Young's Hotel
Charles T. Gallagher
Massachusetts Bay
Court House
Committee On
County Accounts
Registry of Deeds
New England Historic-Genealogical Society
Court of Assistants
General Court
Superior Court of Judicature
Court of Judicature
Arbela
Charlestown Harbor
Boston
Chancery
County Co
Thomas Dyer
Samuel Adams
Dyer
Bateman
Gorges
Worcester
Sutton
Marlboro
Lancaster
Andros
Thomas Lechford
England
Thomas Morton
Gecnent
Rmer Phipps
Superior Court
Common Pleas and
Quarter Sessions
The Weekly Globe Club List And Subscriptions
A reader list of periodicals and prices appears, listing titles such as Arthur's Home Magazine Atlantic Monthly and many others with subscription costs, premiums and page references. The fragment shows numerous magazines, journals and prices, indicating a catalog of club offers and annual rates.
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Arthur's Home
Art Interchange Magazine
American Poultry Journals
Atlantic Monthly
American Art Journal
American Garden
American Naturaliat
Army & Navy Journal
American Poultry Yard
British Quarterly Review
Lisckwood's Magazine
Brainerd’s
Musical World
Beadle’s
Saturday Journal
Burlington Hawkeye
Boya of
New York
Batleu’s Magazine
Boo-keeper’s Magazine
Babyland
Boston Medical
Ournal
Boston Medical and
Surg Christian Leader
Country Gentleman
Connecticut Farmer
Forney's Progrem
Frank Leake
Chimney Corner
Odd Tales From Everywhere A Surprising Mortising Method
A column of quirky anecdotes notes houses in Japan are built without nails using mortising joints. Another item mentions D J Burke of Shoal River Florida as father of 39 children. A man from Aurora Indiana pursues Miss Martel to Montreal after she leaves her job. Tornadoes bring oddity as a Louisiana traveler is hit by fish while crabs fall in Illinois. An advertisement touts Wilsonia Maghette for cold feet and coughs sold by druggists and shoe dealers.
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Richard Grant White
Washington Adams
Atlantic
Toppingham
England
Aless
Japan
D. J. Burke
Shoal River
Jackson County
Fla
Joseph Saillard
Miss Martel
Aurora
Ind
Montreal
Suiliard
Louisiana
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Toque
Fashion Notes
Globe Receipts
Dominy
Snow
Maine
Alexander T. Stewart
Johnson, Vt
Massachusetts Courts
Colony of
the County
Stephen Sweasey
R. Wayte
Swensey
Marshal
Anna Keayne
Lane
Ct. Assis
Annie Keayne
Edward Lane
Richard Thayre
Peregrine White
Bridgewater
Bay
Divide
Mass. By
Plymouth
Chichatuwbat
Mowhotiwormet
Sagadahoe River
John
THE
Weekly Globe Club
Evenes
Germantown Telegraph
Green's Fruit Recorder
Gardener’s Monthly
Eeeseeee Godey
Journ
Home Circle
Harper's Maga
Harper's Weel
Harper's Bazar
Harper's Young Herald of Heart
Home Journal
Indiana
Farme Independent
Journal of Microsc
Journal of Chemistry
le Francais
Lippincott
Magasia
London Lancet
Edinburgh Review
London Quarterly Review
Methodist
N.Y
Psec
Eeseres Phrenological Journal
Princeton Review
Prairie Farmer
Lady's
New Yorker
Raseeveee
Seesesensson
Tee Eeee
Shemenee
Aan
Sium
St. Nicholas
San Francisco Chronicle
Spirit of the Times
the Critic
Westminster Review
Vicks Floral Magazine
Waverley Magazine
Western Stock Journal
Lees Time
Thas
Tas
Berin
Addres
Reh Egovienan
Angie Cen
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