Shawl Fashion and Fringed Manton De Manila Style
Emerald green shawls with rich embroidery and long fringe are in demand for evening wear. The piece describes how to wear these large shawls, their varied colors and borders, and the effect of fringes and manton de manila in outfits.
Fringes Add Colorful Flair to Evening Wear This Season
A wrap worn over an arm creates a vivid splash of color with black or white gowns. Fringes take center stage in this season's dress trends as accessories and silhouettes shift toward decorative movement.
Metal Hats In Chinese Shapes
Striking metal hats show Chinese styling and are worn with full dress in select displays. The ornate headpieces feature intricate shapes and bold metalwork that capture attention at formal events.
Practical Southern Style Dishes And Desserts From Garden Notes
A list of comforting recipes including baked sweet potatoes with sugar and marshmallow, chestnut dessert with lemon and cream, corn pudding, sponge bananas with nuts, and coffee custard Parisian style. The fragment ends with a quotation by Charles Wagner about making others smile.
Knickers Skirt Coat Cape Make Practical Fashion Pairing
A recent smart suit features knickers a circular skirt a hip length belted coat and a three quarter length circular cape. Cape and skirt can be worn together with a soft silk sport shirt. Outfit suits street wear and hiking combo. Reddish browns rust henna sumac dominate with black trims and soutache braid on wool jersey dresses.
Bright Beads Add Jewel Tones to Black Evening Wear
Beads, once a cheap trim, return to prominence on refined gowns. Garnet rubies and emerald hues are woven into dull black fabrics, with massed designs creating a striking, artistic evening effect.
Flannel skirts trend with black knitwear gains favor
White flannel skirts in plaited and plain forms appear modish for sport outfits. Black alpaca wool sweaters and black jersey coats complement the look, with cross barred or striped white flannel adding a stylish contrast.
Autumn Gloves and Pointed Skirt Details Highlight Fashion
White kid gloves with deep gauntlet cuffs and black white stripes headline autumn wear. Skirts shaped on a series of points mark a smart detail in the season’s silhouettes.
Black Dress Trends Dominant in Early Modern Fashion
A fashion column notes a shift toward longer skirts though the tul the long skirt is rare for formal wear. Black dominates, with crepe fabrics and minimal embroidery, gray hose allowed, sleeves wide, and silhouettes slim yet varied by sleeve style amid strong Japanese influence.
Children’s Fashions Highlight Trimmed Frocks for Kids
A fashion note showcases children’s dresses with leather bands and piping trims. A Copenhagen velours frock features black leather bands and tan feather accents, illustrating the season’s smart details for little wardrobes.
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Copenhagen
Vegetable varieties and cooking tips for squash and beets
Seasonal guidance covers squash turnips carrots cabbage cauliflower eggplant celery and potatoes as dinner vegetables. Methods include baking mashed squash with butter and sugar baked sweet potatoes with marshmallow and beet preparation with butter vinegar and lemon juice. Pumpkin and mince desserts are noted with a traditional mingement pie recipe.
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Safety and Longevity
An old advertisement touts Bayer Aspirin as trusted by physicians for over twenty one years. It claims safety for colds headaches toothaches neuralgia and general pain with proper directions and a genuine Bayer package.
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Bayer
Women Porters at Covent Garden Market
In London’s Covent Garden flower market, women porters perform much of the tying work. Each year they receive a shawl and two aprons as a gift from the Duchess of Bedford.
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London
Covent Garden
Hobdon
Duchess of Bedford
Cuticura Promises Soothing Hand Care
An advertisement touts Cuticura products for sore hands. It promotes washing with Cuticura Soap and rubbing in Cuticura Ointment, drying hands, removing excess ointment with tissue, and suggests using Soap Ointment and Talcum for all toilet needs.
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Sonk
Rapid road resurfacing cuts closures to hours
A new method in London lets a road be repaired and opened to traffic within three hours. Tar is vaporized in a traveling cart and pumped through a high pressure sprayer to saturate the bed, then gravel is spread while the tar is hot.
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London
Popular Science Monthly
Surprising Personal Quirks of Famous Writers
The Detroit News notes quirky habits of literary figures including Oliver Wendell Holmes who kept a horse chestnut and a potato for rheumatism, Edgar Allan Poe who slept with his cat, Robert Browning's worn carpet, Sardou’s cold imagination, Tolstoi’s cheap clothes, and Ernest Renan’s long fingernails.
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Argonaut
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Edgar Allan Poe
Robert Browning
Sardou
Count Tolstoi
Ernest Renan
Detroit News
His Resolve
A dialogue fragment shows a man questioning why flowers are sent and vowing not to share his candy with others, implying jealousy and possessiveness. The lines hint at a romantic or social conflict centered on control and affection.
Fragmentary notice on household tasks and health
The readable text hints at a reflection on the relentless duties of housewives including washing cooking cleaning and mending. It mentions fatigue pains and a note about Lydia BE Pete and health restoration through vegetables, but many phrases are garbled and unclear.
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Pete
Tom Pound
The Good Listener Women Behind Great Minds
A young actress rose to fame by listening, shaping her path through opportunity. The piece notes that many geniuses, including Balzac Wagner Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo, were aided by talented listeners who drew out their thoughts through letters and confessional exchanges.
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Balzac
Wagner
Tachaikowsky
Michelangelo
Ambition as Motive Power for Youth
A historical column argues that right ambition shapes mental drive and action, noting that country boys have risen to prominent roles. It stresses continued intelligent effort and a noble motive to lift individuals toward high station, urging youth to picture themselves achieving leadership.
New Branch of Engineering Air Conditioning Defined
The text explains that regulating building humidity, crucial in factories where moisture affects processes, forms a distinct engineering field called air conditioning. It notes air conditioning as a branch designed to control humidity levels for industrial efficiency and process stability.
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Good Housekeeping
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