Fashionable economy in dress making for the fair season
A Chicago Ledger style column outlines how to repurpose worn gowns into stylish two tone outfits using materials like faille Francaise and Indian silk. It highlights cor sage jackets, lace trimmings, and practical wear for ladies in two or three piece ensembles, with advice on hair, caps, and accessories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madame la Mode
India
China
Valenciennes
Chantilly
Annie BE. Myers
Chicago Ledger
Elaborate Wedding Dress Trends Describe Ivory Tones And Lace
The article details bridal fashion with ivory tints and white fabrics like satin faille and moire, short pointed bodices, broad brocade revers, and antique lace displays. Skirts feature draped front panels and satin knots, while accessories include ivory fans, white slippers, silk stockings, and long tulle veils with embroidered edges. A wire net bonnet of forget-me-nots is highlighted as a fresh garnish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faille Francaise
Queen Victoria and Parisian tastes in a bygone era
A collage of society notes sketches royal figures and fashionable figures. Queen Victoria’s early traits are contrasted with Isabel of Spain’s Paris preferences. Readers learn about writers, editors, and conjured scenes from the era, including Mozartian anecdotes and cultural habits across England and America.
Lincoln's Prayer at Sickles Meeting in Washington
Washington Hatchet recalls Col. Dayton's reminiscence of President Lincoln visiting General Sickles after Gettysburg. Lincoln, Tad at his side, offered a tearful prayer asking God not to lose all his friends in the war, while Dr. Simms monitored Sickles’s fragile pulse and Lincoln sent daily flowers from the White House conservatory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Col. Dayton
Gettysburg
Gen
Sickles
Washington
Dale
F Street
Abbitt
Tad
Golden Medical Discovery Praised as Liver Corrective
A teacher notes that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has long served as a household physician for the poor and a consulting physician for the rich. It is praised for chronic diseases including malarial poisoning, respiratory and digestive ailments, liver disease, and other cases requiring an alterative remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Berlin tales and a late night key keeper in a foreign city
A traveler observes Berlin quirks from regulated horse cars to a watchman who locks streets after hours. He details the odd street-door ritual, paying a small fee for a key turn to enter his lodging, and contrasts general rules with their narrow application. Also notes medical ads and late 18th century U.S. treasury debts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Various Consumer Remedies and Advertisements Across Ephemeral Notices
A collage of period advertisements and satirical snippets including medical cures, tonics, ghost jokes, railroad ticket promos, a cigar plug, horse care gear, and a veterinary collar invention. The items mention MeNIMAN's Tepronizep beer tonic, St. Louis and New York vendors, Burlington Route excursion sales, and a Humane Society Journal note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dexter Curtis
Madison, Wis
Humane Society Journal
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Victoria
Isabella
Spain
Paris
Madrid
Bois de Boulogne
John Strange Winter
Arthur Stannard
Dickens
Journal of Industrial Education
Kitchen Garden Association of Chicago
Jenny June
Elizabeth Custer
Mexico
England
Parker
Jobson
Matilda
Rose
Mar. Wagner
von Bulow
Jessie Benton Fremont
West
Kit Carson
Stephanie
Rudolph
Austria
Mae Musson
LA Plus Belle Femme de Paris
Langtry
Hour
Columbia College
Harvard
Alice Elvira Freeman
Amelia Blandford Edwards
Maria Mitchell
Madame Opfenbach
M. Robert Mitchell
The
Bonapartist Pays
Madame Offenbach
Queen Victoria
William IV
Ucen
Washington Street
Europe
Jeremiah Sullivan
Boston
Ireland
John Alden
Boston Transcript
Napoleon
France
Savoy
Rhine
Belgium
Vauban
Princetan Review
Bein
Cincinnati Telegram
R. W. Pierce
United States
Alexander Hamilton
Tobias Leer
Congress
World’s Serpentary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo, N. Y
Boston Post
Meniman
Hazard, Hazard & Co
New York
Pogkins
Snippit
Burlington
Portland
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Northwest
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Cal
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Paul Morton
Chicago, NL
W. Tansill & Co
Chicago
Tansill
Winter & Cushing, Druggists
Princeton
Ill
Hood
G. W. Hull
Millersburg
O. Hood
L Hood & CO
Lowell
Mase
Kasay
Curtis
Madison
Wis
Avery County
Secret Service
Cary
Gmannan
Arcade
Cincinnati
Williama
Droggiat
Walls
Kinote & Marvin
Who
Blue Aute
Toledo
Ohio
A. P. Lacey
Washington, D. C
Stowell & Co
Browoeler Balery Kein Holder Co
Holly, Mich
Jensiv Witzgerald
Invalids’ Hotel
Surgical Institute
Buffalo
Florida
R. V. Pierce
OUR
Aes
Invalids’ Hate and Surgical Institute
Tula
St. Vitus
Avery
Invalids
Invalides’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
New Oxford Street
London
Inval Fotel and Surgical Institute
WORLD
Dispensary Medical Association
N. Y
Frazer
Eveery
Mita i$ Pensions
Metropolitan
Ulis
Megphree
J. Kiepheus
Webesos
Hollindsworth
Columbia Ave
Phila
Jones
Amton Binghamton
N. YW
Queen City
Semple Outht
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