Have You a Cough What This aan Aer Is of Vital
Mrs Eliza Teeter of Goshen Indiana describes a year long coughing illness leading to weight loss and near death. After using Dr Pierces Golden Medical Discovery her strength returned and she has not had a deep cough for about twenty years. She credits the remedy and publicizes a free confidential medical advice offer from Dr Pierce at the Invalids Hotel Buffalo New York.
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Dr. Pierce
Eliza Teeter
Middlebury St
First Rate Alibi and Pudding Recipe Gaffe
Fragmented humor notes a misheard pudding recipe with a friend’s handwriting described as atrocious. Ad promotes Red Cross Ball Blue as a household staple for towels sheets and table linen. A quip references a musician discovering a banana song and a trivial public interest.
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Department of Housekeeping
Red Cross
What He Wanted
He had held stock in the company for years and received annual glowing letters with proxies. He replied that he was tired of signing proxies and preferred the pleasure of endorsing a dividend check.
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Algu
Tailored gowns lead fashion's fall transition
A fashion writer notes the fall season favors tailored gowns over the previous frock, with black shifting to colored trims in lemon, scarlet, powder blue, violet, or jade. Straight-line dresses stay, updated by bands, stitchery, geometric plaits, and lace or georgette accents.
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Georgette
Colorful Frocks Charm Kiddies Wardrobe Styles
The article praises bright child garments as colorful, exquisite, simple, and appropriate. It highlights individuality in frocks and coats for young girls, noting mothers quickly select colors that suit their daughters and favor Blimneys style with minimal ornamentation.
Revived tortoise shell jewelry sets fashion tone
The article notes a revival of tortoise shell in high fashion with long carved earrings and bracelets. It describes luxe accessories like cigarette cases, vanity items, and clasps in tortoise shell, and a trend toward dainty timepieces on chains, green gold, or platinum.
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New York Times
Saracen Embroidery Trends on Daytime Frocks
Saracen embroidery, popular today, features scrolls and whirligigs woven into a haphazard pattern. The stitches are typically arranged to form a cuirass like design on the bodice front and back.
Seamless fitted hose intrigue in early textile lines
A fragment describes improving cotton and lisle hose with seamless or seam fitted shapes. It notes the ankle fitting and wrinkle resistance, and hints at questions about accurate shaping after weaving or machine forming. The text reflects early garment manufacturing concerns and product shaping debates.
Plague in Java and a Bride’s Bobbed Hair Fashion Fears
A globe trotter reports Java faces bubonic plague killing many children, with residents viewing survival as normal. The piece contrasts nature’s harsh cause and effect with civilization. A humorous vignette follows about a bride fearing bobbed hair going out of fashion and her husband’s reassurance.
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Java
William Ferguson
Globe Trotter
Fire Linen
A dialogue scene features a young mistress doubting a new maid claiming noble service. The maid offers to show her Angerle with coronets to prove her background in a short exchange highlighting class and identity.
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Boston Transcript
Bellans
Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
Thia
Aesory
Northwestern Yeast
Ashland Ave
Chicago
America's
Semova
Desiree
Treddie
Thia Magazine
Freddie
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