Fall Paris Styles Arrive in City Finery Lines for 1920
The New York fashion note reports Paris fall styles reaching major cities with no middle ground between loose and tight garments. Suits feature choker collars, kimono sleeves, and long coats with fur trim while magenta or navy hues appear in jacquard fabrics and belted kimono jackets. The era favors daring vests and tight sleeves, signaling a bold shift from last winter.
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New York
Yesteryear
Robespierre
Milady
The T Kitchen Pacabinet Labor to Life
A stylistic verse fragment invokes a somber mood and urging vigilance to keep energies alive. The text references watchfulness against darkness and rust, with lyrical cadence and archaic diction.
Seasonal foods and desserts from a vintage recipe list
A vintage recipe collection presents marmalade from carrots and citrus, meringue pudding with almond custard, veal oysters fried in crumbs, coconut macaroons, and cherry olives in vinegar. It closes with a Carlyle quote about doing duty first for clarity and success.
Fashion notes describe spring suits with fur accents and velvets
The article catalogs spring fashion featuring tailored salt skirts and peg topped styles, fur trims and fur-on details across expensive and cheap salt garments. Leading fabrics include plush velvets velours de another satin like duvetyn with colors black blue gray and brown dominating.
Egyptian Shades in Favor
This summer styles draw on ancient Egypt with red blue and yellow shades. Modern dresses, wraps, hats and adornments echo the winged globe motif seen in Egyptian art, reflecting a strong influence from the pyramidal era and its famed color sense.
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Egypt
Clothes for the Wee Tots in Summer Frocks
Warm weather styles bring charming wash frocks for toddlers. New ginghams in green and white, bright organdee in red Palm Beach, and dimity in orchid and rosebud prints are featured. Frocks include straight skirts, trimmed sleeves, and matching bonnets with delicate organdie details.
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Palm Beach
Dimity
Orchid
Ornamented Neckline Embellishments Mentioned
The text describes small bows and cameo accessories as decorative touches for a dark dress neckline, noting a charming effect with a delicate bow or a cameo accent. It highlights the appeal of simple adornments to elevate plain necklines.
Long Coat Trends Predicted for Women Suits
A fashion note cites forecasts from French models predicting very long coats for women's suits. The trend targets older women and petite wearers, signaling a shift toward elongated outerwear as a key style element.
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Etout
Summer Dishes and Fruit Dressings in Home Preserves
A vintage guide outlines preserving cherries and making fruit dressings and creams. Recipes include cherry conserve, cream dressing for fruit, another fruit dressing, vanill a cream, ginger ice cream, and brown bread ice cream with steps and measurements.
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Boston
Kansas paper notes upcoming Foot Sale by Ladies Aid
The Ladies' Aid plans another foot sale on Tuesday as reported by the Kansas paper cited by the Boston Transcript.
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Kansas
the Ladies’ Aid
Boston Transcript
Ady Promotes Cuticura for Eye and Skin Care
An advertisement described as advice to use Roman Eye Dalsarm and Cuticura products to relieve watery eyes and eye strain. It also suggests Cuticura Ointment for itching on the scalp, Cuticura Soap for daily washing, and hot water, claiming clear skin and soft hands from regular use.
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Ady
Truly An Awful Thought
A young girl prays for a baby brother after seeing neighbor Susie with a new infant. The mother encourages steadfast faith. At last a nurse presents the girl with a newborn sibling, then another baby, prompting her to wonder if all those prayers will be answered.
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Susie
Fragmented Exchange On Old Fashioned Etiquette
A fragmentary dialogue quotes Blinks and Binks debating aging and manners. The text mentions calling women weaker and echoes a remark about wisdom with a stray Emerson reference. The passage reads as a dated snatch of social commentary with unclear context.
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Blinks
Binks
Marine’s Obedience Tested in Station Scene
A Marine is tied to a tense moment aboard a vessel as men inventory cargo and search for a missing head. The captain orders compliance while Wilkins probes a strange object, finally revealing a baffling situation beneath the head.
Hig Bummer Resort Opening Sparks Brief Debate
Noah plans a summer choice between a seaside escape or the mountains as he weighs options for a season at Hig Bummer Resort. A stray remark hints at broader tensions and uncertain outcomes.
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Hig Bummer Resort
Noah
Oh Aeashore
Mountains
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