Promenade gown sketches in navy blue and oak-apple brown
Two historical fashion sketches describe outfits with navy blue face cloth skirts featuring side seam wraps and tucks, tight front coats trimmed with braid and buttons, waistcoats braided edges, velvet collars, and matching straw hats. Materials list includes eight yards cloth, buttons, velvet, braid, and coat lining. A second gown features oak-apple brown chiffon like fabric, plain skirt with folded foot, lace embroidered waistcoat and center back panel, tight back, semi-fitting fronts, lace wrist trims, and a matching hat with roses and feather, plus corresponding materials.
Suitable in many shades gown design
The description presents an alligator gray gown with a plastron center front and back edged by satin buttons. It features two shoulder folds toward the plastron, trimmed revers with braid and ball fringe, matched sleeves, tucked silk yoke, and deep cuff with frills. A stretched satin hat with roses and ribbon completes the ensemble. Materials include cashmere, buttons, fringe, braid, silk, and satin.
Paris Adopts Tailored Hats in Fashion Surge
Paris shows a striking vogue for tailored hats as leading designers and specialists who once focused on elaborate bat designer headwear now devote effort to this trend. The New Gallery notes growing demand and stylistic shifts reshaping the Paris millinery scene.
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Paris
The Ideal In Baby Basket From Elegant Wicker Work
A detailed description of a luxurious baby basket crafted from wicker, shallow and oblong, lined with pink mercerized satin and Paris muslin. It features diamond bottom insertions, elastic top pockets, lace edging, rosettes, and a long pin cushion and stiffened cover with leaves of flannel, all decorated with insertion, ribbon, and tucks.
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Paris
Oriental Silke and Silks Capture Market Favor
Oriental silks command popular favor for their genuine oddity among fabrics. They attract buyers seeking exclusive patterns, as two patterns may resemble each other yet differ in color. Trimmings include plain silks, soutache, and crochet buttons. A striking dress in brick red showcases clouded effects with black-red grosgrain silk and black soutache edging in a sawtooth band.
Lingerie Bag Promotes Pretty Summer Fashion
A fashion note highlights the lingerie Dorothy bag with open-work embroidery in broderie Anglaise, lining colors in pink primrose blue green or mauve, and matching ribbon handles. The lining hue repeats in waist drape, Mugerie hat ribbon, and sun shade bows.
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Broderie Anglaise
Polar Sea Opened by Cask’s 2400 Mile Drift
A cask from the Philadelphia Geographical Society, adrift nine years, was recovered by the Norwegian steamer Cimbria after floating over 2400 miles from the Arctic Ocean and Iceland. The find supports Admiral Melville and society members who argued the Polar Sea is open.
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Philadelphia
Iceland
Arctic Ocean
Geographical Society
Cimbria
Admiral Melville
Society
Polar Sea
Drift Casks Test Open Polar Sea Across Arctic
The United States government and the Geographical Society conducted experiments by adrift casks in the Behring Sea to test whether the Polar Sea remains open at the pole. One cask set July 24, 1900, by Norwhale off Cape Bathurst, later recovered off Norway on November 3, 1908, tracing its Arctic drift.
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North Pole
Polar Sea
United States
Geographical Society of
Behring Sea
Henry G. Bryant
The
Geographical Society
Norwhale
Cape Bathurst
British America
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Polar
Norway
Rockingham Door Knob Sold for a Fortune in London
In London, old houses yield prized artifacts as streets cut through. A Rockingham china door knob, purchased for 37 cents during dismantling, later sold for 25 dollars to fund a drawing room in the style of the era. Also from Edinburgh, firemen adopt hand signals for isolated rescues, signaling tasks from upper floors to street crews and telephones.
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London
Rockingham
America
Edinburgh
Bia
Brennan
Wheat estimates cited by broker in sharp analogy
Broker Patten said government figures come from greenhorns as he recalled a nautical joke about a Dutch sailor unsure what vegetables are, submitting a sack of dried peas and being asked to hand them up one by one, to avoid overloading.
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Patten
Women Suffer Needlessly From Kidney Troubles
A historical ad feature highlights Doan's Kidney Pills as a cure for backache hip pain dizziness headaches and nervousness attributed to kidney trouble. Mrs. R. Foresman from Canon City Colorado testifies to relief after two to three boxes. Also quotes Germany's tuberculosis efforts and a humorous line from Puck magazine.
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Dean
R. Foresman
Eighth St
Canon City
Colo
Relef
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Grape Nuts Wellness Claim from Denver Woman
A Denver woman recounts health recovery after switching to Grape Nuts. She describes relief from stomach and brain discomfort and a 12 pound weight gain after a summer of work, crediting the cereal and the advertised book The Road to Wellville for guidance.
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Denver
Tral
Wellville
Absent Minded Professor Returns Home
A humorous vignette shows a professor arriving late and the maid informing him the professor is not in. He replies he will call again, then quietly descends the steps. Also a quip about a boy’s college days and a blunted sports joke contrasts with an old advertisement for Allen’s Foot-Ease and a light jab at women's view of economy in eating.
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Galler
Behring
Greenhorn Galler
Germany
Dolan
Casey
Calohan
Wolfe
Dolon
Puck
iFaps A
Tie Centaur Company
New York
Werericr
Castoria
Allan
Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
Perry Davin
Fife
Libby’e Veal Leef
Libby
Abby
Leadaghe
Paxton
Boston
Mass
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