A Fashion Growing and Widow Remembrance Tablets
A fashion for hair at the nape with front hair waved and parted center or side. In Chir, widows over 50 receive a government tablet honoring virtues, while those who join the next world may have a memorial tablet. Rochester Mechanics’ Institute teaches sewing to children and plans teacher classes, boasting over 2000 members.
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Chir
Mechanics’ Institute of Rochester
N. Y
Darrow
Rger
Drexel, Peatt
Armour’s Institute
Bewitching cha peau dominates millinery look
Hata notes a bewitching cha peau on the Plateau of Tuscan tones with dead white roses and green leaves, a wide black velvet ribbon bow across the crown. Observers debate a small toque raised at the left side, but the broader toque trend remains steady with a wide, enveloping shape and evolving details.
Look to Your Lines in Fashion Puffings and Silhouette
The piece discusses how puffings can enlarge or flatten a figure depending on fabric weight and tailoring. It notes that extremely thin material with baggy puffings can look blown by the breeze and cling to the slimmest form, while excessive puffing risks an exaggerated look. Clever line work and trimming can create a plump silhouette.
Poise and the modern woman as guide to graceful behavior
A compact excerpt from Ina Brevoort Roberts in Woman's Home Companion outlines poise as balanced, measured demeanor. It links self control, reserved energy, and attentive listening to composed charm. The piece emphasizes concise speech, courteous exits, graceful aging into friendship, and steady self mastery.
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Goodby
Ina Brevoort Roberts
Trick of Preserving Flowers in Sand for Seashore Use
A guide discusses packing flowers in clean washed sand for winter preservation. Use a deep pan and sifted sand to fully cover upright blooms, avoiding leaf damage and gaps, then add more sand to secure position as flowers are prepared for storage.
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Girla
Summer crafts and decorative textiles in Harper's Bazaar
A detailed note describes drying pans and leaves, making sand molds for pressure ovens, and using sun tanned fish net drapery in room furnishings. It also covers draping door openings with colored mesh and a young woman handcrafting hemstitched linen handkerchiefs copied from a signature, intended as Christmas gifts.
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Ien
Harper’s Bazar
Decline of the Housewife and the End of the Hausfrau
Mme Henri Schmahl, born English, campaigns in France for women’s rights and Napoleonic code reform. She predicts the housekeeper will vanish as households rely on universal providers for all meals, with kitchens and cooks fading away, while dining shifts to contracted restaurant service.
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Mme
Henri Schmahl
France
England
Senate
Mme. Schmahl
Huuatrau
Mime Schmahl
Hausfrau
London Dairy Telegraph
Woman’s Benefit Gowns and Accessories Fashion Notes
A fashion feature describes gown details with lace yokes and jackets, draped fichus fastened at the waist, and silk trims on linen. It notes foulard versus taffeta, a double bolero outfit, and shoe finishes with toe-point decoration. Luxury leather card cases show cloud motifs and moon faces, plus metal swans on other designs.
Hotel Beveridge Washingtons Exclusive Indian Hostelry
A Washington Post item describes the Belvidere house on Third Street as the only hotel in the U S patronized exclusively by Indians. Landlord Benjamin Beveridge has studied Indian tastes, noting meat heavy meals and ice cream, communal sleeping rooms with multiple beds, and powwow like late night gatherings among tribes. The piece highlights the dining room setup, social dynamics, and treaty councils at the hotel reflecting intercultural quirks of hospitality in the capital.
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Redskin
America
Third Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Belvidere House
Ahaa
Washington
Benjamin F. Beveridge
Mr. Beveridge
Beveridge
Beveridgess
Washington Post
Nayles Promote Shipholding Debates Naval Growth Link
A historical essay argues that merchant marine expansion tracks naval power, noting US shipyards rise to obtain naval contracts with generous subsidies. It cites that under ten percent of American exports travel on American bottoms and about 100 American steamships sail abroad. The St Louis St Paul Philadelphia and New York belong to the International Navigation Company, with the St Louis and St Paul built by Gramps of Philadelphia as fast, economical vessels.
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Nayles
United States
Uncle Sam
St. Louis
St Paul
Philadelphia
New York
International Navigation Company
St. Patt
Gramps
Two Little Boys Play With Garden Tools In Verse Exchange
A fragment from Youth's Companion presents two youngsters trading lines about two overalls two straw hats and paired garden tools. The boys exchange a shy greeting and a playful question about names ending with a brief note of friendship and a forthcoming surprise.
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Eoch
White horse cut in Wiltshire Downs hillside
A colossal 175 foot long white horse carved in rock on a hill in Wiltshire Downs, dating from around the era of Alfred the Great who died about a thousand years ago. From vantage points across the valley the figure appears crude yet distinct, with the remains of an old camp nearby atop the hill.
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Alfred the Great
Wiltshire Downs
England
Downs
Alfred
A Little Goose in a Story of Geese and Letters
A passage recalls Dot the gosling and a tale from Little Folks about a goose that saved Rome. It links geese to reading and writing, noting that wild geese shaped letters like As and Vs and gave their wing feathers as quills for early pens.
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Italy
Rome
Capitol Hill
Juno
Marcus Manlius
Gaul
Master Will
Dot
Lost Ball Foils Early School Morning
Benjy arrives at the quiet Sharon schoolhouse and plays with a bright red rubber ball from a city cousin. The ball slips through a window, shattering a vase and scattering flowers. He fears a severe scolding, but the door is secured and he cannot enter to face it.
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Benjy
Sharon
Renjy
Honest Benjy Admits Ball Accident At School
In a Presbyterian Banner item, Benjy Adams confesses to tossing a bright ball that toppled a vase and spilled water on Miss Berry’s desk. He rushes to tell the teacher, who praises honesty and lets him off with a mild lesson as the books dry in the sunshine.
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Miss Berry
Benjy
Benjy Adams
Presbyterian Banner
Cable Across the Atlantic Ends Many Years of Effort
The Chicago Record Herald recalls Cyrus Field’s 1866 triumph as the Great Eastern and allied ships reach Heart's Content Newfoundland. After repeated failures since 1854, the 2000 mile cable finally links America and Britain, hailed by crowds and leaders as a milestone for modern nations.
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Heart's Content
Newfoundland
Church and Telegraph
England
America
Cyrus Field
John Bright
Columbus
Cnble
Congress
Ampersen
Mr. Field
Cape Ray
St. Johns
Ireland
Eingland
Field
Atlantic Telegraph Company
London
Midorean
Medway
Albany
Heart’s Content
Chicago Record-Herald
Engaged or alleged incident sparks Brooklyn Life note
A terse item notes divergent accounts of engagement origins with ambiguous claims. One side alleges he initiated, the other claims she acted toward him. the source presents no corroboration or dates.
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Brooklyn
Mint Sherbet as a Refreshing Summer Dessert
Warm weather dessert idea uses mint infusions and fruit juices. Pour boiling water over mint, steep, then mix with cooled syrup, add orange strawberry and currant juice, chill and freeze. Garnish each cup with a mint sprig for color and aroma.
Peanut Cookies From Shelled Peanuts
Peanut cookies will delight the family. Chop skins from two cups of shelled peanuts, cream three teaspoons butter with one cup sugar, beat three eggs with two tablespoons milk and a pinch of salt, mix in the nuts and enough flour to form a soft dough. Roll, cut, and bake in a moderate oven.
A New Cranberry Pie Recipe
A simple cranberry pie combines chopped ripe cranberries with sugar and a cornstarch slurry. Fill a thin pastry shell, seal with top crust, and bake about forty minutes for a sweet, tart dessert.
A Delicious Dessert Cherry Rice Pudding
A simple, inexpensive dessert combines boiled rice with cherry sauce. In a saucepan, blend flour and butter, simmer with stoned cherries, cloves, and water until soft, strain, mash pulp, add lemon juice and sugar, and fold in stiffly beaten egg whites just before serving.
Breakfast Fret Orange Dessert With Banana Layering
A vintage recipe describes serving whole oranges and coven nut at breakfast or dinner as a dessert. It instructs peeling and cubing oranges, layering with sugar, grated coconut, and thin banana slices, repeating until the dish ends with sugared oranges and coconut, garnished with candied cherries.
Household Hints: Food and Home Care Tips
Practical advice on household tasks and decorations. Polishing tinware with newspaper, using a wooden tub, combining a fernery with a candle holder, and serving salted almonds at meals. Tips cover lamps, canning currants and raspberries, stain removal, ginger in cranberries, mending ashes and salt paste for cracks, and cranberries as timber for shortcakes.
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Willie
Tom
Will
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