Latest Styles in Feminine Attire and Bustle Debate
An illustrated survey of late 19th century fashion notes covers woolen vests with chemisettes, seaside bathing outfits, embroidery trends, and evolving millinery. It also explores the bustle's persistence, humorous anecdotes about its uses, and remarks on masculine influence shaping dress-extenders.
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William
Eve
Alma
Tadema
Greece
Egypt
Cleopap
Sappho
Kapiolani
Polonaises Incomplete This Season
A brief note indicates polonaises are not fully neglected this season with partial attention noted in the record.
Notable young women and students linked by study and work
Louise Alcott’s interest in young girls appears in her writings. Josie Franklin and Victoria Byrnes receive telegraph operator licenses in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. Mrs. Nelson McCormick of Jackson Michigan finishes a dress crafted entirely from spool cotton after six months of effort. Dr. Lucy M Hawn of Vassar compiles absence lists for women due to illness and compares them with Amherst College male absences, noting more pickup of Love among male students.
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Louise Alcott
Josie Franklin
Victoria Byrnes
San Luis Votosi
Mexico
Nelson McCormick
Jackson
Mich
Lucy M. Hawn
Vassar
Amherst College
Spreading the Gospel and Circus Plans
Edward Stillwel counts pins for a missionary box earning a penny per hundred. He aims to reach eight cents by July Fourth and a quarter later to attend the circus, while his sister Lill shrugs and brother Bill remains unimpressed. A reflective line from Lurdette closes with a moral note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Stillwel
Bill Jones
William
Edward
Lill Jones
Ed Ward
Humorous extracts from a Providence Journal collection
A compiled humor page from the Providence Journal features jokes and sketches from various sources. It includes racy quips about politicians, freethinkers, and social pretenders, with sketches about dogs, mothers, and theatre society.
Mamie Answers Father’s Job In Roast Carving Tale
A three year old girl found by a policeman answers inquiries with Mamie as her name and Mamie tuts meat as her father’s business. The puzzled cop thinks butcher, but learns Mamie’s answer reflects her father’s skill at carving roast at table. Grandpa’s journey vignette follows with a playful exchange about a corn field pest and coin paring.
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Monsieur Bluecoat
Mamie
Grandpa
Boy
Carl Pretzel
Nervous People endorses Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters
Don Zangh discusses the tonic for dyspepsia liver and bowels to cure nervous trouble. It claims to remove fevered age prostration and stress on nerves. The tonic is said to aid rheumatism neuralgia and kidney issues and is recommended with no substitutes.
Kissing Traditions Through Time Despite Santé Critics
The Des Moines Journal recalls Rowena’s heritage and Cromwell era tales of kissing as a long standing courtship custom. It notes a late century scientist warning that kissing spreads animalcula from mouth to mouth, while the narrator dismisses such fears as fanciful.
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England
Rowena
Hengist
Cromwell
Cavendish
Des Moines
Iowa
Eminent Boston Doctor Praises Moxie Nerve Food Growth
A leading Boston physician believes the Moxie Nerve Food plant will become a major national staple as stimulants replace others for nervous women. Dealers and grocers widely stock it, and in fourteen months it is available across many regions. The company now sells about 7,200,000 bottles annually.
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Boston
Arkansas Judge’s Charge on Murder Trial Sparks Controversy
In a murder case, an Arkansas judge suggested the deceased was reaching for a pocket handkerchief when the defendant fired. He claimed territorial law allows one man to draw and shoot upon seeing a movement, arguing the victim’s handkerchief showed he was unfit for society, urging careful verdict weighing.
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Bowery
New York
Vere
San Francisco Chronicle
Arkansas
Texas
Fashion and medicine gossip spark debate among ladies
The piece notes the latest fashion frenzy among women and touts Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a cure for female complaints, promising renewed vitality. It also mentions Terr Esquimaux and Prickly Ash Bitters as remedies for ailments tied to malarial climates, and ends with a quip about a Boston girl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Red Star Cough Gore Touts Cure for Coughs
An advertisement touts Red Star Cough Gore as a remedy for severe coughs praised by Prof Williams former State Chemist of Delaware. It markets at twenty five cents a bottle and includes a humorous warning about turning a collar. It also cites Prof C A Donaldson's long failed rheumatism trial and claimed relief from St Jacobs Oil after eighteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof. Williams
Delaware
C. A. Donaldson
Louisville
St. Jacobs
Dawson's Dinner Tale Sparks Harsh Truth About Habit
New York lawyer Andrew H. H. Dawson tells an after dinner anecdote at the Exchange hotel in Richmond about inviting a thirsty stranger to drink. The man fears refusing a drink could become a habit, a moment cited by Dawson as a sharp social observation. Also notes drug and science snippets appear in the column.
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Texas
SraNvonn
Biggs
Diggs
Winsted
Conn
T. M
I. M
Sue
Bessie
Carl Pretzel
Bobby
Rhode Island
Mr. H
Providence Journal
Fargo
New York
Territory
Dakota Bell
Andrew H. H. Dawson
Exchangé Hotel
Richmond
Mr. Dawson
American Magazine
Scott's Emulsion and Loisette Memory System Ad
Sufferers from Consumption scrofula bronchitis and general debility will find relief and benefit from Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil with hypophosphites. Prof Loisette's Memory System is endorsed by Mark Twain Proctor Astor Benjamin and others and details are available by prospectus at 237 Fifth Ave New York. Colleges and universities have adopted his lectures and programs.
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Scott
W. A. Huncert
Salisbury
Loisette
Mark Twain
Proctor
W. W. Astor
Judah P. Benjamin
Buckley
Prof. L
Fifth Ave
New York
Columbia Law
Yale
Meriden
Norwich
Wellesley College
University of Penn
Anyb K
Richard Proctor
Dr. Minor
Tax on bachelors in France met with cheerful accord
In France, bachelors face a levy described as a tax on single men, yet reports note they pay it willingly with little resistance, reflecting a lighthearted or pragmatic attitude toward the unusual duty.
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Pierce
France
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