Women’s Department at New England Fair Sparked by Initiative
The New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute plans a dedicated women’s department at the fair to showcase handiwork and brain work by women nationwide. Explanations urge exhibitions of practical, skilled work beyond home tasks, with space applications underway at No. 6 Park Street.
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Skoman
The
New England Manufacturers and Mechanics’ Fair
New England Manufacturers’ and Mechanics’ Institute
Tay
Institute
Corral
Park Street
Glimpses of Fashion Traveling Dresses and Outerwear
A Harper's Bazaar style survey outlines summer and travel fashion for women. It covers China silk travelling dresses in dark shades, short basques, overskirts, and velvet trims, plus bonnets, gloves, and wraps in mohair and Jersey fabrics for journeys by land and sea.
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Harper's Bazaar
West of England
Norfolk
Fashion notes on summer dresses and home decor trends
The column describes white camel hair trims on Newport and Mount Desert outfits, rattan chairs for lounges, matting screens, and a mix of fabrics like nankeen and florie. It notes ecru naukeen reappearing, embroidery on muslin, and simplified street wear with linen collars.
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Newport
Mount Desert
E Street
Fancy work directions for a braided stripe edge
Instructions describe a knitting pattern for a braided stripe edge. Begin with eighteen stitches, knit across, turn and seam back, then perform a sequence across thirteen rows with stitches arranged as twelve and two. Slip four stitches, remove six, replace four, and knit to end. Repeat with specific seam and knit actions. Ends with guidance on needle size and material.
A Cheap Table Cover From Coffee Sacks and Worsted
Instructions describe making a table cover from two coffee sacks with worsted yarn. Cut square from sacks, bind edges, add a colored border, inner stitches in multiple colors, a central red rose design, optional applique center, then fringe from sack strips with 4 cal-stitches to conceal seams.
Dainty Toilet Set Made From Silesia and Lace
A small cost craft describes a toilet set worth about 125 dollars in materials. Foundation uses blue silesia, cheese cloth layers, lace trim, and satin ribbon bows. Steps include assembling mats, cushions, and a top square, with specified fabric quantities and a Boston price of twelve and one half cents per yard for the lace.
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Boston
Knife Case from Cotton Fabric with Red Accents
A craft description details cutting a twenty five inch square white flannel, binding edges with red braid, forming a large pocket and twelve narrow pockets stitched with red silk. The remainder forms three larger pockets for a knife set, with a center red yarn inscription and final tying or boxing option.
Feather Stitch Tidy Cast On Pattern
This knitting instruction describes a tidy using stitches in multiples of twenty five with edges added. It details a four row repeating sequence: row one knit two together four times bring thread forward knit one eight times knit two together four times purl one. row two purl across. row three knit plain. row four purl across. Repeat until desired length.
Cheap Work Basket Pattern With Simple Canvas
A frugal craft note explains making a work basket from a splint grape-basket base or canvas. Use bright silks or flannel, add fringe at the bottom, and form a lining that folds over the edge to join the canvas, hiding the seam with cord or ribbon.
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Java
Aida
Pillow Sham Holder For The Bedroom Decor
Tam loves fancy work and describes a pillow sham holder crafted from a three foot broom handle wrapped in red cloth and lace. A wide lace panel hangs down, with two yards of red ribbon rosetted at each end tucked over the roll. This ornament doubles as a practical bedroom accessory.
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Tam
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Hope for Consumption
Reader claims Dr. R V Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery cures hundreds of consumption cases once deemed incurable. Promoter urges sending two stamps for pamphlet, directed to Women’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo NY.
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R. V. Pierce
Jung
Pasteboard Cane Parade Item in Chico Cal
A man in Chico Cal walks with a cane crafted from 8000 pieces of pasted playing cards rolled and glued. The scene appears in a local column as a quirky street moment. An advertisement touts Wells’ Rough on CODs with claims of a complete, permanent cure for corns warts bunions.
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Chico
Cal
Bee keeping for women a practical guide from Harper's Bazaar
A Harper's Bazar piece extols beekeeping as a suitable enterprise for women, detailing management of bees, hive construction, equipment, queen care, swarming methods, and wintering. It covers Italian versus black bees, comb foundation, buying and shipping queens, clipping, moving colonies, protective gear, and artificial swarming, with practical tips for beginners and cautions on costs and handling. It emphasizes science in beekeeping, experimental methods, and the economic potential from $2 to $20 queen prices and annual incomes of $400 to $600 for industrious workers.
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New York State
Jim
Thad
Harper’s Bazar
Beetle Tale Stirs Post-Dispatch Visit
Gus Williams the German comedian arrived in the city and shared a new story. In a street meeting with an Irish friend, they exchanged jokes about hospital visits, chimneys, and a beetle on the shoulder, with vivid, comic banter and dialect.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gus Williams
Post-Dispatch
Teuton
Dutchy
Duteby
Patrick
Tolin
Escaping the Guard by a Printing Office Escapees Route
A Confederate impostor recounts a daring breakout from Johnson's Island via a foraging trek near Cynthiana Kentucky. He feigns a printer role, hides in a composing room, steals clothes, and evades soldiers through houses, docks, and a river voyage toward Canada before finally rejoining the Confederacy and losing an arm to a Yankee bullet.
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Buffalo
Pny
Canada
Confederacy
Butler's Rule and Butler as a Presidential Prospect
In a New York letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer Gath analyzes Ben Butler as a potential president, detailing his Massachusetts support base, ties to Tammany and Irish factions, and a strategy to gain delegates with rivals split. The piece notes Butler’s health, sleep discipline, and appeal to poorer classes, while warning of internal party ruptures and the risk of a later candidacy if renomination falters.
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Cineinnati Enquirer
Gath
Governor Butler
Harvard
Harvard University
Washington Street
Ben Butler
Boston
Massachusetts
England
United States
Butler
New England
Tammany Hall
Greelgy
South
Coperhead
Grant
Bangor
Portland
Anderson
Long
Democratic Party
Republican Party
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How Brothers and Dawes
New York State
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Lowell
Waterville
George
Tgo Butler
Curtists
Horace Greeley
New Oreans
Creckenridge
Jett Davis
Hierry
Abbot
Prank
Joey Adams
Nion
Washington
Thomas Must Try to Do Better at Opera House
A Denver Tribune critique mocks Mr. Thomas as a stern music critic using tools like compass and sextant to judge a concert. It notes a missing sixteenth note in Beethoven and sniffs at Thursby, Cole, and the orchestra for excessive tempo and bravura. The piece ends urging him to repeat the performance and improve.
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Mr. Thomas
Denver Tribune
Republican
Opera
Thomas
Wedding Afloat: Miller Belle Tie The Knot At Ingleside
A white-winged sloop left Corpus Christi May 28 with a joyous wedding on the bay. Mr C A Miller of Montgomery Alabama married Helena Belle of Montreal Canada aboard, Rev Dr Horace Clark officiating. The scene featured festive boating and a celebratory mood on the water near the city.
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Corpus Christi
Ingleside
C. A. Miller
Montgomery
Alabama
Helena Belle
Montreal
Canada
Horace Clark
Episcopal Church
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