Little Miss Hats Show Delicate Spring Millinery Trends
In Little Misses by Julia Bottomley the season offers prettier millinery for young girls from six to sixteen. Lightweight transparent straws, small flowers, and ribbons create child friendly styles with no grown up look. The Corday style features a puffed lace crown and lace edged brim with a ribon collar and ribbon rosette. A second wire framed hat uses lacy silk braid and a daisy forget me not wreath with ribbon bows and a shoulder falling decorative element.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Bottomley
Materinia
Corday
Bon
Dainty Scarfs For Summer Fashion Ideas
The article highlights decorative scarfs in ostrich and marabout, with fluffy feathers, chiffon folds, and black and white edging. It notes elaborate designs for white frocks, velvet bows, and coordinated sets with evening coats, suggesting easy at home assembly.
New Embroidered Hosiery Becomes Street Fashion
A 20th century trend blends dark blue "clocked" hose with embroidery as a house and evening preference, while plain out-of-doors stockings vary by quality. Rich women favor silk options and bold color contrasts like red or white on black, with elaborate hosiery kept for indoor wear and daytime street use adopting simpler styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thia
New Silk Fabric Ad Creates Fashionable Fall Look
An advertisement touts a new silk fabric described as a very lustrous heavy weave with soft grace and plain or striped color options. It promises elegant twilight tones, refined finish, and versatile use for fashionable daytime and afternoon wear.
Hint for Traveler in Packing a Garment Bundle
A note describes placing a large blue sheet at the bottom of a truck before packing. Clothes are wrapped and folded over the top, then secured with safety pins to keep garments smooth at journey’s end. The precaution aims to help a girl locate clean clothes after travel.
Making Over Memetitched Linen
A fragmented note describes a lunch and plans to modify items. The text mentions Memetitched linen and a Harpers Naar, with hints of reworking or extending items and arranging a meal, suggesting a domestic or craft-oriented task without clear specifics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harpers
Fragmented OCR Note Describes Costume Buttons and Fabric
An unclear OCR fragment mentions a costume with large buttons and a wateral yellow color. It references gloves and a potential method or effectiveness of the costume but lacks coherent details or context to confirm subject, date, or event. The text is too garbled to determine full meaning or origin.
Remarkable Kidney Swamp Root Testimony and Jokes
A reader shares a praise letter about Kilmer's Swamp Root curing kidney trouble and lumbago. Mentioned are a two week improvement and helping a disabled woman, with a sample offer and booklet. The page also includes an unrelated joke about a woman preferring reading to housework.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Castoria League Highlights in Historic Child Remedy
A review of Castoria’s long use as a safe remedy for infants and children. The advertisement underscores its trusted signature and ongoing use for kids. No other brands or conflicting products are cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castoria
Obliging Shopman Helps Lady Carry Butter Load
In a Punch brief a shopman offers to carry a pound of butter for a lady purchaser. She declines, saying she can manage the weight. The shopman reassures he will lighten the burden as much as possible.
A Question of Change at Church Collection
A humorous tale of a couple at a church collection. The young man pretends to search his pocket for a dime and mutters he has no cent claiming he changed his pants. The young woman blushes and confesses she is in the same fix.
Socially Launched Youth At Boarding School Tale
A boy named Jimmy, once popular in his native town, becomes homesick at boarding school. In a bleak first letter he laments missing studies music and banjos. A week later a second letter shows improved spirits and confidence as he adapts among peers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy
Pie
Huthe
Lost Faith in White Man Story Of Eskimo Telephone Field Test
An Eskimo peasant finds a long wire and asks Professor McMillan about its purpose in a Peary expedition tale. He learns of a telephone line and tests it by speaking into one end and listening at the other. He later imitates the setup and reacts with disbelief when no sound is heard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tory
Professor McMillan
Cnme
Ieee
Arce
Ormaure
Deaunla
Getting Friendly Milas Millyan Band Suit Progress
Dialogue shows Tom pressing progress on a lawsuit against Milas Millyan's band. Mick notes Milay's father previously barred him from calling, Tow recalls past refusals. Dick mentions improved access, implying a change in stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Milas Millyan
Mick
Antique Mugs Sought by College Collector in Hamlet
A college antiques collector visits Bacon Ridge asking for antique mugs and learns the best place is Hi ram Spruceby’s shop on Main Street where Grandad Wheatley and Pap Simmons are getting shaved, promising the oldest mugs in the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bacon Ridge
Jason
Bek
Main Street
Hiram Spruceby
Grandad Wheatley
Pap Simmons
Well Mated Inquisitive Boarder Exchange
A whitehaired boarder quips about a former old fashioned couple at a wedding reception. He suggests the woman married the man known for cracking his knuckles twice daily, humorously tying their past quirks to present union.
Very Much Attached Swenson Why Do Ships Be Referred to She
A reader asks why ships are spoken of as she noting a vessel can grow attached to a buoy and asking about the nautical gender convention. The response explains traditional maritime usage and personification of ships as female in many languages and contexts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swenson
Henson
Coca Cola Promotes Cooling Drink At Soda Fountains
An advertisement urges readers to seek Coca Cola at soda fountains or bottled forms to quench heat and thirst this summer. It touts Coca Cola as delicious cooling and wholesome and invites readers to request the booklet The Truth About Coca-Cola from the Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coca Cola CO
Atlanta
A Strange Situation in a Harper's Weekly Dialogue
A humorous exchange contrasts language and joke perception. Hinks claims English jokes elude him while French jokes land, the Philosopher notes most people share that blind spot, and Binks questions the idea. The tale pivots on wit, language, and insight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hinks
Philospher
Philosopher
Binks
Harper's Weekly
Childish Mind Question About Gods Eye
Dorothy Ullman asks if God can see everything and a child debates the size of the eye in a downtown window. The mother explains God sees all things, and Dorothy later walks with her mother past an optician’s display, noting the eye in the window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Ullman
E. Eighty-fourth Eireet
Mull Arras
Dorothy
Cleveland
Trial Over Picket Fence Incident In St Paul
City prosecutor Hurna pressed judge Finehout to sanction fines for youths tearing pickets from Mrs Joe Goealks fence. Burns claimed Mike Chicket tore the picket and offended the woman. The judge replied that no lady is charged with taking a fence and cautioned against poetry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Join Hurna
St. Paul
Finehout
Joe Goealk
Burnsaid
Mike Chicket
Judge Finehout
German immigrant runs Brooklyn delicatessen shop ad
A German proprietor of a Brooklyn delicatessen is reported to have fallen short of perfect English. A New York Sun writer notes the window display with a miswritten sign reading The Host You Can Do Is Buy Our Wuret, cited in Youth's Companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hie
Brooklyn
New York Sun
Comedian Henry Dinxey on marrying for money
At a New York dinner the comedian quipped about a wealthy, recently divorced wife worth 40 million dollars. He warned that marrying for money risks a loveless union and reliance on a meager allowance, recalling a joke about a woman who never parted with a penny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry B. Dinxey
New York
Oysters Age and Growth Stages Described
The article explains oyster growth cycles by season, noting numbers of years to reach full size and the difficulty of aging after a point. It states oysters live up to twenty years and describes shell indicators like bumps and sinks that mark growth stages.
Doubt Over Horace Greely and the Typewriter Claim
A skeptical remark questions the claim that Horace Greely invented the typewriter, suggesting handwriting and other factors were more pivotal. The exchange hints at the controversy or ambiguity surrounding the invention’s origins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Greely
Sixteen Women Salt Suit Claims Breach Against Kiter
Local Calor reports on a breach of promise suit where sixteen women allege damages against Kiter. His defense claims he was merely gathering material for his annual summer love stories. The remark is attributed to Puck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calor
Kiter
Puck
Brain Nutrition and Mental Fortitude From Daily Habits
A discussion on how daily brain work is rebuilt by nutrients from food, highlighting minerals like potassium phosphate and phosphorus. It argues steady mental effort strengthens the brain, with emphasis on the role of diet in supplying building blocks for nerve and gray matter and the danger of poor nourishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geo. W. Carey
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hombage
Dr. Kilmer
Yourstreng
Herry Searle
Little Rock
Ark
M10
Arch Street
Bein
Rakima
Hood
R Pierce
Buffalo
Pierce
de. Fiscou
World's Dispensary Medical Association
N. Y
Poetic Prosecutor
Aan
Potrm Cormal
Batthe Cock
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!