Fads And Fashions In Varied Fabrics And Trimmings
Fashion notes describe tunic overlays with satin bands, lace capses, and various fabrics like moire borders and Mull. Details cover ribbons on skirts, Irish crochet accents, parasols, and lace chemisettes. Wraps in silk or chiffon, ribbon shirring, and frill edgings dominate, with trims of tucks, belts, and hat accessories noted for the season.
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Rome
Panama
Tolle
Srvan
Seuis
Household Notes on Cleaning and Cooking Tips
A fragmentary household column offers disinfectant notes for cellars and cupboards, plus recipes and care tips. It mentions using a quirkme like substance for cleaning around stoves and shelves, making sandwiches with cream cheese and liver sausage, and tips on sewing and stain removal.
Simple household care tips for pantry and cleaning
The note describes using lemon juice to acidify HM and whipping cream folded in at the last moment for flavor. It mentions a floor covering of good quality, and that Sinolegm should last at least five years without soap or harsh cleaners. Wiping with a cloth and warm water suffices.
Newest Notes of Science Highlight Potatoes and Cables
Violet tinted potatoes head a list of nutritive claims while a transatlantic cable averages about 1200 per mile. The era showcases advances from electric hoists to insect jaws puncturing seashells with precision rails and radium facts, plus a floating drydock and a plan for a 50 0000 ton steamer.
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Yellowstone Park
Sweden
Amet Tt
United States
Phoenix
Aris
Tehuantepec National Railway
England
Bermuda
Fairfield County News A town aid case and auto asset dispute
Fairfield County news reports that a Danbury resident who sought town aid for his wife’s health revealed ownership of a car bought for profit. The selectmen ruled car ownership exempts pauper status. Separate items note John O Keefe’s death from apparent alcohol-related collapse after leaving a Danbury saloon, and Luther M Wright alleging Dr John Hayward’s $10,000 defalcation at Stamford, with Hayward fleein g to Canada.
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Danbury
John O’keefe
John O'Keefe
Sanford School
Redding
Frank Rotello
Rotello
Mquor
Luther M. Wright
South Norwalk
John Hayward
Stamford
Hayward
Wright
Weight
Canada
Mianu
Wholesale Price List Highlights Dairy and Produce Specials
New York price sheet lists butter and creamery specials with midrange per pound and case values. Paas Sias hens, whites, and related eggs show varied prices. apples, cherries, and berries appear in baskets and crates with regional rate differences. Potatoes, asparagus, lettuce, mushrooms, peas, and maple sugar are cataloged with unit and bulk prices, alongside syrup and other staples.
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Paas
Sias
Hennery
Baldwin
Ben Davis
Timothy
Obituaries and Death Notices Across Connecticut Towns
Obituaries from Stamford Springdale Bethel Danbury Westport Norwalk Norwalk Norwalk Winsted Norwalk list names Daniel E B Andrews Mary A Lockwood Paul Seesla Winfield A Ferris Daniel P Comstock Edith Gilmore John W Pairchild Mary L Mephcock with ages from 30 to 72 years and dates in June recovery area context mentions towns and spouses.
Light of the Stars and Holland Fishing Life
The article reviews estimates of total starlight in the northern and southern hemispheres with figures from Argelander Clerk Abney and Newcomb, noting uncertainty about total darkness if stars vanished. It then tours Scheveningen’s fishing fleet at night, highlighting numbered boats, village women in clogs meeting fishermen, and Holland’s industrious image, followed by a historical view of harsh English public schools in 1834 and their brutal routines.
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Argelander
Agnes M. Clerk
William Abbey
Professor Newcomb
Capella
Harper's Weekly
Holland
Scheveningen
The
Hague
J. Farrington
England
Eton
A Losing Game
A restaurant proprietor recalls using a cashier’s card of unpaid checks to recover losses. A patron presented a 25 cent check while a 5 cent check remained missing. The cashier verified the missing list, a police summons followed, and the culprit admitted to causing about $80 in unpaid checks. The matter ended with the proprietor accepting payment to drop proceedings.
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New York Sun
Fragmented humorous snippets from a late 19th century column
A jumble of comic quips and jokes from a newspaper page includes lines about mischief with wood, church and the choir, reckless gambling, a bride fearing a gambling instinct, a mistress testing obedience, a precocious child asking about humbug, and quips on suspended animation and suburban life. Names and attributions are sparse, reflecting a collage of light entertainments and satirical witticisms.
First organized relief by Florence Nightingale in Crimea
Fragmented account recalls Florence Nightingale leading early women relief workers in 1855 Crimea. It notes college committees collecting warm clothing for Scutari invalids and a Cambridge anecdote about hospital stores. Includes tangential notes on twilight, grain of salt origins, Molokai leper settlement, and Catalani’s husband.
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Florence ‘Nightingale
Gordon
Butler
Cambridge
War Office
Scutari
Florence Nightingale
General Gordon
Through the Cracks and Other Humorous Bits
A collage of brief humorous anecdotes and quips from old newspapers. It includes a Scotland preaching tour remark about a light peeping through a crack, a line about a poor player in a lab joke, a stamp shortage pun, and a hymn request mix up with a comic mishearing.
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Ronard Irving
Scotland
Dumfries
Willie
Will
Runs In the Family
A witty exchange on running and laziness within a family. Mr Agile jokes about effort while Mr Stoutman responds languidly, noting laziness as a family trait as the quip lands in a Lippincott style.
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Mr. Agile
Mr. Stoutman
Essily
The Mountains Bother Them in Siam
A compressed note contrasts British troubles in Siam with native teachers teaching the world is flat. It humorously questions perceptual paradoxes through a banter about mountains standing versus rolling downhill. It also includes a financier’s quip about spending and borrowing among royals, and a light joke about paradoxes. The clipping closes with a misfitted line about opportunity.
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Siam
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Detroit Free Press
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Mithridates
Molokai
Lepers
Island
Harpers Weekly
Moloka
Catalani
Ostalani
Griggs
Briggs
Boston Transcript
London Tatler
Carol
Brothers
Howl
Yell
New York Times
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Main St
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Golden Hill
B. Brill and Curtis Pharmacy
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Conn
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Washington Star
Chicago News
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