English Woman Emily Faithfull to Visit America
Article previews Miss Emily Faithfull, famed English reformer, visiting the United States. It highlights her varied work for women including printing offices run by women, the Victoria Magazine, suffrage advocacy, and journalism. Also includes a long knitting instruction insert and craft notes.
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Emily Faithfull
Lucy Stone
United States
England
Ife
Miss Faithfull
Lilian Whiting
Boston Traveller
Frances Power Cobbe
Adelaide Proctor
Jameson
Lord Houghton
Canon Kingsley
Frederick Denison Maurice
Preston
London
Victoria
Miss, Faithfull
Avery Day
Fashionable Necklines and Lingerie From Harper’s Bazaar
The piece explains how neck dressing affects overall appearance with notes on new features in French lingerie for necks and sleeves. It highlights velvet, crepe, Mechlin lace, buckles, and two tone bows, plus ideas for plastrons collars and lace trimmings, while noting some faces suit narrower necklines.
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Harper's Bazar
Fancy Work Knitted Undervest for Ladies Pattern
Detailed instructions for knitting a ladies undervest using white wool, pins No 14, with stitch counts and patterns. Guides increases, basket pattern rounds, front and back division, buttonholes, gores, and finishing steps with precise row counts and techniques.
The Housewife Embroidery and Linen Fringed Doyleys
Learn to make drawn work borders on cream canvas with old gold silk daisies and color bands for luncheon. Doyleys fifteen inches square fringe all around, white damask with blackberries in French knot. Tray cloths 22 by 30 inches, fringed. napkins feature a plate and utensils in color.
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Kensington
To Make Floating Soap
Instructions describe dissolving caustic soda in water to create lye, mixing with melted tallow to form soap, curing into a large block, cutting into shavings, dissolving in water with pearl ash, and remolding into bars or tubiets. The final soap is white and floats, with optional perfume for toilet soap at small extra cost.
Washing Laces and Muslins Cleaning Method
Scrape white soda bar soap into boiling water with borax, dissolve, and soak soiled laces and muslins in a quart jar. Fold nar row lace strips into quarter yard lengths, stitch close to upper edges to define points, then rinse in clear waters. Sun-dry or warm iron after a coffee dip for a yellow tint.
Cleaning a Silk Dress with Soap and Alcohol
Instructions describe cleaning a silk dress using soft soap or grated yellow soap dissolved in bolting water, honey, alcohol, and hot water. Dress breadths are rubbed with a sponge, marked, rinsed in cold water, then dried, rolled, and ironed on the wrong side or over paper. two people aid the process for quicker drying.
Stain Removal Cautions From Homely Laundry Hacks
Advice on removing stains from white goods using oxalic acid and other methods. Dilute acid in hot water for spots, rinse with cigar water, and reapply if needed. A reddish brown mark may lift with chloride or lime water. Ink can vanish by milk and salt before washing. Alternative: dip fabric in cooled melted tallow, scrape when cold and repeat. Oxalic acid is poisonous and must be handled with care and kept away from people and children.
Embroidered Table Spread Design with Crewel Work
Describes a wine colored felt table spread pattern with corner flower clusters and sunflowers centered, outlining in silk and filling in crewel. Instructions cover transferring a design with tracing, chalk, and camel hair brush, drying, pressing with a hot iron, and finishing edges with pinking or small cuts.
Cleaning Grease Stains with Clay and Javelle Water
Instructions describe applying pipe clay mixed with water to grease spots on wallpaper and letting it set for a day before removal with a knife or brush. If stains persist, repeat. Javelle Water is claimed to remove stains from white goods and whiten linens and cottons, using one pound to make the solution.
Frugal Linen Cleaner From Household Mixture
A domestic remedy blends bicarbonate of soda and boil water in a large enamelled kettle. After boiling ten to fifteen minutes, add finely powdered chloride of lime and stir until fully dissolved. Cool and bottle. Use to remove fruit stains and dark spots on linen, wash glasses, and treat hand stains.
Toilet Stand Craft From Old Four Legged Stand
Instructions describe making a decorative toilet stand using an old four legged stand or a dry goods box. Attach cambric fabric top and sides, fasten edges, sew around with a hem, finish with a two inch wide box plaiting of cambric and nei og cloth, and nail in place with bright headed tacks.
Rug making from old stockings and carpet fringe
Instructions describe cutting woollen stockings into inch wide strips and unraveling four stitches at edge. A rug fringe is formed by sewing ringes around the edge, adding rows until center. Methods include striped or random color placement.
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Ravel
Quilt Instructions for Greenway Donor Piecework
Take sixteen cream oatmeal cloth squares eight inches each and embroider Greenway figures in iagrained blue crewels in the centers. Repeat with sixteen blue oatmeal squares, use cream crewels, join blocks, add a color border and corners with sheet wadding, line with cream cheese cloth. Fasten wadding to cheese cloth with wine worsted. A crazy design slumber quilt centers each block with a silk square bearing the donor initials or given name.
How to Sew a Bon-Bon Bag
Instructions describe making a decorative bon-bon bag from circular satin tops, a straight satin-wrapped middle piece, embroidered vine detailing, and stitched edges. The bag closes with a satin drawstring and silk cord, filled with bon-bons when finished.
Cleaning Bedspreads from a Home Wash Method
A Victorian era washing method describes cutting soap into thin slices and dissolving it with pearlash and sal soda in boiling water. The user then soaks a bedspread in a soap solution, beats and turns it, rinses in two warm waters, wrings if possible, and air dries on a clothes line.
Cleaning Carpets and Rugs Method for Stubborn Spots
Step by step method for removing grease stains from carpets and rugs. Rub a hard soap onto the spot, scrub with a hot water basin containing ammonia or carbonate of ammonia, rinse with clear water, and if colors look dull add alum to the final rinse to restore brightness.
Washing Chintz Paste from an Old Laundry Guide
Instructional note describes washing chintz using boiled rice as a cleaning agent. Two pounds of rice boiled in three gallons of water rub onto fabric, then another batch of rice boiled and strained is mixed with warm water to rub the chintz again. Final rinse passes fabric through blue-tinted rice water.
Knobs Polishing Aid Cut Pasteboard Shield
A simple method uses a round pasteboard piece with a central hole and a slit to fit over a knob. When slipped on during polishing it protects paint from rubbing off and keeps the knob clean and less soiled.
How to season a new iron kettle safely
A historical tip advises filling the kettle with clean potato peelings and boiling for an hour or more. After draining, wash with hot water, dry, and rub with a little lard. Repeat the rubbing several times after each use to prevent rust and other issues in new kettles.
Marble Cleaning Formula From Historic Recipe
To clean marble mix a quarter pound of soft soap with the same amount of pounded whiting one ounce of soda and a walnut sized piece of stone blue. Boil fifteen minutes then apply hot with flannel, leave twenty four hours, wash with clean water and polish with coarse flannel or old felt hat.
Removing Iron Rust From Linen and Cotton Clothes
A simple solution using salts of lemon can remove iron rust from linen and cotton garments. Available at drug stores for a few dimes or pennies, the frugrist will provide full usage directions. The solution is poisonous and must be handled with care.
Exterminating Moths with Benzine and Alum Solutions
Benzine is said to be more effective than any thing else for exterminating moths roaches etc A little alum or borax solution in hot water can be injected into cracks and applied to woodwork in the vicinity of their hiding places and is usually effective.
Baby Show Aboard Bangor to East Train
A Bangor mother rode a passenger train to the East with three youngsters, a one year old, a two year old and a baby. The three kids devoured gingerbread cookies taffy and caramels while the infant behaved, the others smeared faces with dough and spilled milk. A well dressed man slid into a seat then jumped up as the sticky scene unfolded.
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Lewiston Journal
Bangor
Maranaecook
Two Mining Experts Report on Sonora Property
J. E. James of the Contention mine received from a Boston expert a 37 page report praising a Sonora claim’s geology. Bob Howland, sent to verify, reports no quartz or ore in the claim and questions the expert’s conclusions.
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Tombstone
Ke James
Contention
Boston
Sonora
James
Bob Howland
Bob
J. E. James
HowLanp
The Ancients Notice Comets and Shooting Stars Across Eras
Ancient chronicles report comets and shooting stars signaling portents for rulers and battles. Chinese records show systematic observations while modern theories link meteors to celestial swarms, atmospheric entry, and possible lunar or solar dust streams.
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Someyor
Lubieniets
Mutareh
Lysander
Poisson
M. Faye
Zoroaster
B.C
Sodom and
Gomorrah
Hoeschotype color printing touted as rapid chromo-lithography
A report on Herr F Hoesch of Nuremberg who developed the Hoeschotype. The process uses five tints plus primaries and neutrals to build color, with gelatine plates made insoluble by bichromate. Five printings replace many color runs, offering rapid, economical results and potential artistic adoption in chromo-lithography.
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Herr F. ©. Hoesch
Nuremberg
Herr Hoesch
Messrs. Gladwell
South Kensington
Messrs
Gladwell
Photo
Ews
Tar Roofs From Tar Roofing In Cologne Gazette
The Cologne Gazette outlines tar as an economical roof option for agricultural buildings, detailing a low framework, rafter spacing, lath and paper overlays, and multiple tar and lime coatings. The method aims to preserve tar’s water resistance, with note of cow dung lime mixtures as another protective coating.
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London
Cologne Gazette
Submerging Atlantic Coast Evidence Supports Coastal Subsidence
Professor George H. Cook reports widespread subsidence along the Atlantic coast, citing sunken forests and submerged timber from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia. He notes coastlines in New Jersey, Long Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Nova Scotia showing marsh and shoreline submersion, with similar patterns believed across the northern hemisphere.
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Atlantic
George H. Cook
New Jersey
American Association
Greenland
Carolinas
Georgina
Bertram
Lyell
Professor Tourney
South Carolina
Albemarle — Sound
Carolina
Emmons
Genera Cutts
Coast Survey
Chesapeake Bay
Virginia
Delaware Bay
Cape May
Hudson
South River
Washington
Raritan
Long Island
Bilas Lewis, Jr
Popular Science Monthly
Massachusetts
Nantucket
Holmes’ Hole
Yarmouth
Provincetown
New Hampshire
Rye Beach
Maine
Portland
Nova Scotia
Southampton
Barnegat
Long Branch
Sandy Trook
Cook
Sweden
Human Foot Prints Found in Solid Rock at Carson Prison
Paleontological report notes tracks in sandstone near Nevada State Prison at Carson. Eight large square impressions and six lines of sandals suggest possible human footprints, with toe shape resembling modern white men. Researchers Harkness and Gibbs presented papers to the California Academy of Science, leaning toward human origin.
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Nevada State
Carson
Pine Nut Mountains
Carson Plains
Thall
Calaveras
la Wontan
Sierras
California Academy of Science
Harkness
Gibbs
A Fire Escape Via Iron Roof Passways Proposed
A Scientific American correspondent suggests a network of iron passways along and above roofs to bridge buildings and link houses block by block. The plan would be compulsory for owners, blend with architecture, aid fire crews, and allow safe egress, though concerns about burglary remain.
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Scientific American
The Great Leveller Death and the Equal Real Estate Dream
Rufus Hatch writes in the New York Hour about the idea that the rich and the poor may eventually own equal amounts of real estate, and questions the morality of damning the public for profit. He notes that in the end all, from Vanderbilt to laborers, share the same fate six feet under, and predicts that tomorrow never comes for any class.
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Rufus Hatch
New York Hour
Vanderbilt
Gould
Sage
Rufus
Death of a Noted Colored Man in New Orleans
Portland reports the death of Hon. George T. Ruby in New Orleans from malarial fever. A former Portland resident, he graduated from the local high school, went south in 1863, led freedmen education as bureau chief in 1866, served as State senator, and later edited the New Orleans Observer. He was noted as an eloquent speaker.
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Portland
New Orleans
George T. Ruby
Louisiana
Bureau of Education
Filth and disease linked to pork in old sanitary critique
A Phrenologist argues that contagious diseases arise from filth in air water and food. He condemns hog farming practices claiming swill fed pork spreads dysentery diphtheria scarlatina and other illnesses. He claims pork is especially filthy due to hogs living in filth and urges caution about meat purity.
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Etty Gibbons
Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal
Boards of Health
Nature
What to Drink and the Difference Between Hard and Soft Water
The article explains hard water contains lime or magnesia, and soft water forms suds with soap. It outlines permanent and temporary hardness, methods to soften water by boiling or adding substances to remove carbonates, and cautions about soft water carrying organic matter and disease seeds despite common belief that soft water is always purer. It advises having a cistern with a filter system for drinking and cooking water.
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N. B. Sizer
Brooklyn
N. Y
The Secret of Brown's Iron Bitters Proven Strong
The notice promotes Brown's Iron Bitters as the best iron preparation, claiming rapid blood assimilation, restoration of health, and lasting benefit. A Chicago testimonial from C. Mack credits relief from weak stomach, heartburn, and dyspepsia after using the product, noting improved strength and regular railroad trips. The ad states it contains no whiskey, won’t darken teeth, and won’t cause headache or constipation, urging use of Brown's Tren Bitters from Brown Chemical Co. Baltimore.
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Dearborn Ave
Chicago
Stock Brown
C. Mack
Sedative Lotion for Headache and Aches
A lotion advertised as a patent remedy for headaches and neuralgic pains. It mixes spirits of ammonia tincture of camphor cannon salt and cold water, applied with a sinew dipped cloth to the aching head or body. Sold in England under a grandiose name and widely used in France.
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England
France
Stop the Flow of Blood with Tea Dust and Tandanum
Housekeepers and merchants often cut themselves handling knives and sharp tools. To stop bleeding, apply fine tea dust tied to the wound, then use Tandanum after the flow ceases. Following these instructions could save time and reduce panic while seeking a surgeon.
Nosebleed First Aid From Jaw Motion and Paper Wads
The article advises stopping nosebleeds by vigorous jaw action such as chewing. For children, offer a wad of paper or a cracker to chew. If bleeding persists, roll a small paper wad and place it between the upper lip and teeth to compress blood vessels and halt flow. It then shifts to unrelated medical claims about Buchu for kidney and urinary issues.
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