Fashion’s Fathers Godey and Butterick Shape Easter Wardrobe
By Elmo Scott Watson the piece traces how Easter fashion spurred demand and costs, crediting Louis Antoine Godey and Ebenezer Butterick. It covers Godey’s Lady’s Book and its color plates boosting fashion news, and Butterick’s pattern business evolving from children’s to women’s wear, its growth, key partners, and longevity. It notes Butterick’s rise to 50 million patterns annually and the domestic home sewing scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milady
Mere Man
Louis Antoine Godey
Ebenezer Butterick
Godey
New York City
Philadelphia
Massachusetts
Sterling
Worcester County
Leicester Academy
Ebenezer
Worcester
Leominster
Fitchburg
Butterick
Academy
Wilder and Pollard
Brooklyn
Doctor confronts gangsters during midnight call in Brooklyn
Dr John A Mangieri of Brooklyn narrates a nerve wracking midnight visit to a sick man. He follows two tough associates to an evil looking house, treats a bullet wound despite legal peril, and is saved when police arrive. The patient and accomplices are jailed for murder.
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Ello
Adventurers’ Club
John A. Mangieri
Brooklyn
N. Y
Doc
Mangieri
Morpheus
Bath
Tion
Dillinger
G-men
What Causes the Rainbow The
Light from the sun enters a drop of water and is reflected and dispersed to form a rainbow. The process involves refraction, reflection, and dispersion as sunlight exits the drop.
Bay of Paria Pearl Gulf Named by Columbus in 1498
Columbus named the Bay of Paria the Gulf of Pearls in 1498 after observing vast oyster beds along the trunks. The passage notes the historical link between exploration and natural riches in Trinidad.
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Bay of
Paria
Trinidad
Gulf of Pearls
One After Another Hardest Spelling Test Says Pathfinder
Pathfinder Magazine quotes a humorous line about enduring a chain of illnesses from angina to tuberculosis and appendicitis, ending with a quip that it was the hardest spelling test ever. The joke plays on medical terms as a pun.
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Pathfinder Magazine
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Elmo Scott Watson
Western Newspaper Union
Chicago
Doctor
Floyd Gibbons
Montana
Gallatin Chick News
Gallatin Chick Hatchery
Bozeman
Photography
ROLLS
Northwest Photo Service Forge Dept
North Dakota
Photo Sam's Laboratories
Portland
Oregon
Baumgartner Studio
Billings
Mont
Leggat Hotel
of Buai District
Lydia FE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
Colton
Garfield
Cutseld Tea Co
Charron
Dhe
Doans
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