Fashions at Saratoga Describe Daytime Wear and Hats
Verona Clarke surveys Saratoga fashions highlighting simple morning dress and elaborate evening surfaces. She notes dimity dresses with ribbon belts and white pique skirts, linen varieties, pongee embroideries, lace trimmed foulards, Venetian lace, and silk appliques. White hats remain popular with black picture hats and parasols complementing outfits while patent leather footwear dominates day and night styles.
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Veradah
Saratoga
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Verona Clarke
Two Great Cities Compared in Old World and New
The piece contrasts New York and London, praising New York’s entry experience and rapid rebuilding, while detailing London’s grim periphery scenes and slow redevelopment driven by land tenure. It notes London’s brows of misery, East London streets, and eventual appreciation behind grim brick façades. It cites Astor’s property work between the Strand and the Thames and Bloomsbury’s shift to high class apartments.
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New York
London
New York Central
Liverpool
Euston
Southampton
Waterloo
Thames
Paris
Berlin
Strand
The
Mr. Astor
Bloomsbury
Local case hardening method used with copper and nickel plating
A Detroit contributor to the American Machinist reports a method for local case hardening using copper plating then buffing off at targeted points. Tests show nickel plated areas resist carbon, enabling hard and soft zones on tools, hoes, and cams. He notes widespread potential applications and limited current use.
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Detroit
American Machinest
Reading the Gip of Elsie Taylor at the Springs
Mrs. Chester Taylor raises her dead brother’s sixteen year old ward Elsie at a resort. Elsie’s Parisian gowns and flirtatious prowess spark envy among the women and interest from men. Tom Lyons, the season’s catch, pursues her but she dismisses him. A burning summer spell reveals Elsie’s heartless candor as tensions rise.
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Chester Taylor
Elsie
Porch Brigade
Tom Lyots
Philadelphia
Tom Lyons
Elsie Taylor
Tom
Engagement Sparks Rumor Behind Balcony Mystery
In a small town, Elsie Taylor appears in white at a season hop while a hidden audience on a vine balcony witnesses her tending a sick mother’s baby. Tom Lyons choosing her over rivals confirms the engagement, triggering town talk about social restraint and conflicting judgments.
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Elsie Taylor
Tom Lyons
Elsie
Farragut's Humble Dignity And Family Honor Across Years
The article recalls Admiral David Glasgow Farragut's lifelong vigor from youth through Civil War days. Anecdotes highlight his simple, persistent character, such as birthday jumps, a rigging ordeal at Mobile Bay, and his modest refusal to dine on Sundays. It notes honors abroad and ties to Minorca with ancestral heraldry.
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David Glasgow Farragut
James Grant Wilson
Criterion
Farragut
New York Yacht Club
Hartford
Mobile Bay
Minorca
Mediterranean
Caldadela
Island
Aragon
Life in Ten Country as Ruskin Describes
John Ruskin extols rural life year round noting spring’s daily change and the duties of farming. He links humble labor, animal care, and domestic service to wisdom and virtue under divine time, harvest, and winter.
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John Ruskin
Ely Brothers Liquid Cream Balm for Nasal Catarrh
A nasal spray remedy, Ely's Liquid Cream Balm, offers relief for nasal catarrh with a spraying tube included for 75 cents. Sold by druggists or mailed from Ely Brothers in New York.
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Humphreys
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
William John Srs
New York
Ely
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
Teaching Children Religion
The piece argues children cannot avoid bias in religious ideas and must be guided early. It contends bias toward good should be favored over bias toward evil, noting God seeks the opening bud rather than the withering leaf.
How Man Sleeps In The Animal Kingdom
A note on sleeping postures across species. The piece observes adult humans often sleep on their backs, while many apes prefer curled or curled-armed positions and very young children also show a similar back-sleeping tendency. The author cites zoo observations and compares primate and human habits.
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Zoological Garden
German chemist yields plant vitality suspension fluid
A German chemist prepared a fluid that, when injected into plant tissue near the roots, anesthetizes the plant. The plant does not die but stops growing while remaining green, and temperature changes do not affect its foliage. It blooms in open air and in hothouses.
No Substitute for Sleep Warns London Paper
A London paper warns fashionable society about a new drug viewed as a sleep substitute. It withholds the substance’s name and recalls tea’s early praised virtues. It asserts there is no real substitute for sleep and predicts potential nervous breakdowns from such drugs.
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London
Europe
Dr King’s New Life Pills Offer Gentle Quick Aid
Over taxed digestion causes pains nausea dizziness headaches and liver and bowel troubles. Prompt use of Dr King's New Life Pills is advised. Gentle thorough and guaranteed to cure. 25c at J H Mercer and O A Kleim drug stores.
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Dr. King
J. H. Mercer’s
O. A. Kleim
Construction of Pencils
The article explains pencil making with a graphite column placed in a wood slit, covered by another wood piece glued on, then machinery trims the covers to size and finishes with paint or varnish before drying.
Heine Wills All To Wife On Condition She Remarries
The poet Heine, the day after his wedding, drew up a will leaving all he owned to his wife on the condition that she marries again. He stated his wish that at least one man should regret his death.
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Heine
Mother's Friend Labeled Solution for Easier Childbirth
An old advertisement extols Mother's Friend external liniment to ease pregnancy and delivery pains. It claims no internal use, promising reduced swelling, morning sickness, and quicker labor. A Tampa hotel proprietor recalls his wife's easier second birth after using it, with branding tied to The Bradfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta.
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Tampa
Fla
Game in the Kongo a note on wildlife and pigs
The article describes Kongo wildlife across districts with pigs as prized domestic animals and warns against harming a pig. It notes plentiful game in Zombo including deer antelopes and hares, as well as guinea fowl partridges pigeons pheasants and wild ducks, with eagles vultures and other birds common in forests alongside elephants buffaloes and leopards in sparse areas.
Grasse's Perfume Heritage Through Centuries
The article notes Grasse's long commercial prowess in soaps oils and perfumery dating back to 1180 and 1420 descriptions of its odorous products and prosperity. It cites Bouche and Masa as authorities while stating municipal archives lack precise origin records for the perfumery works.
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Grasse
Bouche
Masa
Enduring Lung Trouble Ends After Using New Discovery
Mrs Louis Cragg of Dorchester faced death from a severe lung problem and persistent cough. After exhausting doctors and remedies, she used Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption and was completely cured. Sufferers of coughs colds throat and lung trouble are urged to try it with guarantee from J H Mercer and O A Kleim. Price 50c and 1.00 trial bottles free. July 2 4-w.
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Louis Cragg
Dorchester
Dr. King
J. H. Mercer
O. A. Kleim
A Gorgeous Crown of Queen Wilhelmina
A royal crown described as a dull gold base with a crimson velvet cap. The circlet features sapphires and emeralds, imperial arches forming sixteen points, eight with large pearls and eight toward the center with the globe and cross, each adorned with nine pearls graduated in size.
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Wilhelmina
Rumor Ties Queen Nathalie to French Noble Marriage
Rumors suggest Queen Nathalie may wed a French nobleman, a tale tied to her recent conversion to the Ros man Catholic faith. The reports mix court circles with royal tradition as scrutiny grows.
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Nathalie
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