Fashionable Dames and Dresses From Chicago to New Orleans
A collage of society notes on Chicago fashion and social figures. Major General Scho field travels with his wife Mrs Georgia Kilbourne Schofield, described as elegant and cultured. Anecdotes on gown color sourcing from flowers and birds, and a reflection on women’s evolving dress and public roles across newspapers.
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Schomake
Chicago
Siy
General Schofield
Georgia Kilbourne
Keokuk
Schofield
Mamma
Inter Ocean
Debate on rational dress and health in London illustrated
London Illustrated News cites a physician praising the rational dress and its hygienic benefits while a critic urges maintaining a graceful skirt. The exchange argues clothing as a matter of health and modesty, suggesting undergarments in knickerbocker form could reduce cold and improve well being for women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Illustrated News
Plea for Clergywomen in the Church of England
A London womens paper argues for clergywomen in the Church of England. Rev J Hardy praising female clergy as admirable, citing deaconesses and medieval nuns as predecessors. He notes large clergywomen gatherings at church congress and their quiet active philanthropy.
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London
Church of England
J. Hardy
Ac Breland
Training for Domestic Service and the New Woman
The domestic problem ranks high among today’s issues. Training for servants matters, but mistress training is equally vital. The middle class housekeeper needs systematic, scientific guidance, with the capable woman who owns fortunes showing how to harness instruction and manage staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Women admitted to eight universities as colleges open
The Minneapolis Tribune notes that within three years women have entered eight universities including Harvard Yale Penn Brown Johns Hopkins Tufts Chicago and Stanford. The editorial traces early efforts from 1780 Yale New England schools Emma Willard Monant Holyoke Mary Lyon Vassar Wellesley Bryn Mawr Smith Barnard to modern coeducation and comments on reactions from leading schools.
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Harvard
Yale
Pennsylvania
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Chicago
Leland Stanford, Jr
Minneapolis Tribune
Harvard University
New England
Emma Willard
Troy
Monant Holyoke Female Seminary
Mary Lyon
Vassar
Wellesley
Bryn Mawr
Smith’s
Barnard
Training school for mothers urged in Chicago Times Herald
Amber in the Chicago Times Herald advocates creating a training school for mothers. She argues houses are less vital than good mothers who keep their sons at home, tell stories, read, play piano, and guide their daughters away from shallow social calls. She emphasizes watchfulness, kindness, and firm guardianship as essential to shaping better citizens.
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Amber
Chicago Times
Herald
Women and Fashion Extremes Trap Individualism
A column argues that fashion extremes constrain female individuality. It critiques dresses with angel sleeves and trainlike trains, hats adorned with stuffed birds, and extreme ill fit while urging intelligence to guide sensible appearance.
Thames diver from Gravesend breaks gender limits
A London Letter profiles a woman diver based at Gravesend who filled her ill husband’s role in dives, later partnered with him on pier work near a south coast watering place. Not tall yet strong, she has dived near the Thames mouth, earned up to seven pounds in a day, and reports no unusual fatigue.
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Gravesend
Thames
London
Women Elevate Whist to Nation’s Top Card Sport
The New York Herald notes that at least 200 women join the crack whist ranks annually. It lists top female players across cities including San Francisco, Washington state, Boston, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, the Oranges, and Philadelphia. The remark highlights Englewood, New Jersey players and proclaims women now lead the game after 300 years.
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United States
San Francisco
Washington State
Boston
Vicinity
Milwaukee
Chicago
New York
Oranges
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Englewood
New York Herald
Cheesecloth Finds Fashion Use in Southern Homes
Cheesecloth, once confined to window shade and toilet stands, now appears as dainty aprons for ladies and even in washcloths and towels. Southern women have long valued its virtues, with poorer girls fashioning elegant gowns from its creamy folds when affordable dresses were out of reach.
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Milady
South
Woman to Own Judy Comic Paper in Humorous Defiance
A woman buys the English humor weekly Judy to prove the sex can own and run a publication. The buyer says her abundance of humor makes control a safety valve, challenging the notion that women cannot participate in jokes or editorial enterprise.
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Judy
Home cake mix for housekeepers
Simple bake mix instructs beating sugar and melted butter to light froth then folding in sour milk raisins and flour with soda for an eggless cake batter. It provides a basic method suitable for quick kitchen preparation.
Potato Salad Recipe from a Historic Kitchen Note
Four large potatoes in skins are cooked then cubed with one celery stalk cut small. Mix with one tablespoon bitter, half cup vinegar, one teaspoon salt and pepper, two eggs beaten. Beat yolks with vinegar and a half teacup water, heat and stir. Layer potato and celery with dressing, then add beaten whites.
Brandied Peaches Preservation Method
Instructions describe preserving peaches by boiling with sugar and water then layering with syrup and brandy. Alternative method uses lye and ash water to remove skins, then drying and storing in jars for airtight preservation.
Steamed Pudding With Raisins And Spices
A historic steam pudding recipe uses mo lasses brown sugar butter raisins eggs cassia cloves nutmeg saleratus and sour milk with dried crumbs and flour. Sauce combines cornstarch milk sugar butter salt and lemon or vanilla for a sweet vanilla finish.
Hatpin Removal Saves 17YearOld In Accidental Wounding
Horace White, 17, of 64 Myrtle Street, underwent a delicate operation to remove about three inches of hatpin lodged under the left armpit near the heart. Dr Louis Kolipinski enlarged the wound and probed for nearly an hour, extracting the pin at 5 o'clock without internal injury. Miss Annie Dawes, 15, drew the pin in a playful quarrel, and the youths father John C White is a contractor. The incident left both families shaken but hopeful of a full recovery for Horace.
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Horace White
Myrtle Street
Annie Dawes
Louis Kolipinski
Young White
John C. White
Chloroform Restores Color in Stained Carpets
A cleaning note explains that ammonia can dull colors on stained fabrics, but applying chloroform may restore the original color. The guidance cautions about chemical use and advises testing on a small area first.
Fashion Notes on American Beauty and Millinery Style
An English observer confesses limited admiration for American beauty yet credits American women with superior fashion. The piece notes fashionably dressed girls wear hats forward over the forehead, disregarding hair curls.
Uncle Sam's Excursion Cruisers
A Detroit Tribune note says Great Britain will likely face many excursion boats along its Venezuela route, reflecting tensions and maritime activity in the era.
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Uncle Sam
Great Britain
Venezuela
Detroit Tribune
Stops on signal or to leave passengers on notice to conductor
The text describes train stopping rules: stops only on signal or to leave passengers on notice to conductor. Mentions stations west of Hudson and various locations like Oakdale and Northampton. Indicates stops to leave Boston or Northampton region passengers and beyond.
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Hudson
Oakdale
Boston
Northampton
Marlboro
South Acton
S Crossing
Wittman Ta
Ee Marlboro
Rockbottom
Whitman's Crossing
Whitman Crossing
Marro
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Georgia Kilbourne Schofield
America
Anne Morton Lane
Chicago Herald
Timia
Rosalind
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Peary
Peoples Drg Goods
Boston & Maine Railroad Southern Division
Central
Massachusetts
UNION
Causeway Street
Pont
Imont
En Sunda
Ate Tham
Weston
Ee A
Wayland
Ray
C. mm
East Sudbury
South Sudbury
A. Ee
Sunda Ae Wayside Inn
Dson
Sun
Akan
Berlin
South Clinton
M. Westree
Ae Os
Jefferson
Ware
Marra
Boylston
A. m. South
Clinton
South Bolton
A. m. Hudson
Roe Rockbottom
A. m
Wayside Inn
A.m. Wh . Sun Ay ,9.21 A.m. Ayland
A. Om. Weston
A. m. Waltham
Acme
A. m. Belmont
Hata
Daniel W. Sanborn
Dana J. Flanders
Geo. F. Evans
Pitchbury
Esizabe
L Railroad
Fitchburg
H Railroad
Hhoosac Tunnel
Avery Saratoga
Lake George
Adirondack
Catskill Mountains
Syracuse
Rochester
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Hamilton
Toronto
Cleveland
Detroit
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Boston and ST. Louis
Vermont
Canada
Rutland
Brandon
Middlebury
Vergennes
Burlington
St Albans
St. Johns
Ogdensburg
Ottawa
Montreal
Quebec
Fitchburg Railroad
Washington Street
J.R. Wittson
General Pass
Gloria
Oink Gloria
Beverage Supply Co
Carlton
Westboro
Lowrle
G. A. Hartshorn
New Haven & Hartford
R. R
Old Colony System
Northboro
P. m. Sun
A.m
P.m. Sun
m.Clinton
P.m. Leominster
Framingham
Tos
Acton
Lowell
A.m. Sudbury
Satur Rig
A.C. Kendall
Robert W. Carter
Charles H. Persons
Maynard
Enterprise
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