White Hat Fashions Dominate The Season In Society
The piece surveys decorative white hats with feathery trims and velvet, noting new hat shapes such as the Marie Stuart brim and floral toques, plus matching millinery jewelry and accessories. It also covers proper glove donning, the revival of Maire silk in three quarter length coats, and silk embroidery trends for trimming lace and chiffon.
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New York Tribune
How to Grow Old Gracefully by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton at eighty five shares views on aging with fitness humor and purpose. She credits sturdy health to balanced living, argues selfless aims surpass personal gain, and urges living in the present while embracing fifty as the prime intellectual phase.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
New York Sun
Eccentric Lady Constance McKenzie Keeps Pet Snake
Aristocratic Englishwoman Lady Constance McKenzie is noted for eccentricity as she carries a tiny pet snake everywhere. The reptile hides in her bodice and she treats it as jewelry, feeding it ash and insects and claiming it smarter than many acquaintances. A Novel Hat Delights With Velvet Edging and floral tulle designs.
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Lady Constance McKenzie
England
Lady Constance
Constance
Frills Fashion Trends In Fur And Lace Attire
Fashion notes highlight wide gauntlet cuffs on women’s gloves in heavy pique and leather embroideries with buckles on millinery designs. Angora dots appear on veiling and fabrics like chiffons. White furs such as ermine caracal and astrakhan are shown in new styles for swimming, with novelty jewel box mini dress cages in leather shades. Parisian trims feature suede bands with gold and brown cord on sealskin coats. Fur hats gain flowers and chrysanthemum lacing, while lace gowns with embroidery rise for evening wear including a tambour lace robe with stars in blue white and gold thread.
Potatoes Feed Cattle When Cheap And Poultry In Warm Barns
Potatoes fed with corn or bran boost digestion and grain value in cattle sheep and swine. Milk preservation demands purity and pasteurization. warm rooms improve winter egg production as West Virginia trials show warm houses yield far more eggs. Disease control stresses isolation, sanitation, and careful handling to prevent swine disease spread per London Morning Post notes.
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West Virginia
Keeping Out the Cold in Barn Manure Handling
New York Tribune urges farmers to curb cold drafts from barn windows by adding a hood over sliding shutters and building a manure cellar or shed. Raising piles off the ground and a shed roof protect dressing from weather, preserving fertilizer value and boosting cattle warmth.
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New York Tribune
Swine Fever Leaflet Urges Pig Owner Cooperation
The Board of Agriculture circulates a leaflet appealing to pig owners to cooperate in eradicating swine fever. After years of costly but futile attempts, authorities acknowledge that elimination requires energetic support from pig owners, or efforts will fail.
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London Morning Post
Board of Agriculture
A Convenient Kettle Support in Rural Life
Farmers seek a practical kettle hanging solution as three-stone supports prove unsatisfactory. Communities discuss safer, sturdier options to sustain cooking needs and avoid accidents.
Homemade kettle derrick shown on neighbor farm
A description and photo from New England Homestead details a wooden kettle derrick with three legs tied at the top by a bolt. A central clevis and downward chains support a hanging kettle. The legs are eleven feet long in the shown model, made from fence rails, and fold for storage.
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Cc. P. Reynolds
New England
Tainting of Mik Milk Producers Urged On Cleanliness And Weeds
Dairymen blame tainted milk on autumn pasture weeds and careless milking. Weeds in fields lead to seeds that taint milk cream and butter, hurting sales and trust. Emphasis on pasture weed control and strict cleanliness to prevent tainted milk from harming dairying markets.
Proper Care of Waxed Floors and Household Hints
A vintage compilation from Good Housekeeping offers practical tips on waxing floors including dusting and stain removal with turpentine. It also covers furniture care with cushion color guidance and hanging wet coats to retain shape. Tips on rubber hot water bags explain filling, drying, airing, and maintenance to prevent damage.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Rhubarb Jelly and Mixed Pudding Recipes
Household recipes describe Rhubarb Jelly with lemon gelatine chilled in a mold and served with whipped cream, plus Carrot Pudding with flour, currants, raisins, potatoes, carrots suet spices and steam boil, and Mock Maccaroon Pudding featuring peaches, bread crumbs, almond flavor, and meringue topping for a cold custard dessert.
Drowning in Gold Sand by a New Zealand River Tale
Sydney travelers de Jersey-Grut and L. Simpson recount a near drown in gold bearing quicksand on the Zaldas River in New Zealand. Simpson describes being pulled from the deadly sand by a passing rider after his horse swerved into the stream. He notes the sand is now worth millions and laments the peril and thrill of gold bearing sands.
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de Jersey-Grut
L. Simpson
Sydney
Australia
United States
Simpson
Denver Republican
New Zealand
Zaldas
Fifth Avenue Stage Coin Incident Stirs Passengers
A woman at the Fifth Avenue stage on Twenty-ninth Street is bumped by a man who slips ahead and sits near the box. He takes a dime from her, then pockets a nickel after checking it in the fare box, while onlookers snicker at the puzzling act.
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Fifth Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
New York Times
Master of Music Sir Walter Parrott Named Royal Musici
Sir Walter Parrott, Yorkshire born, becomes master of music and private organist to the King after serving Queen Victoria and holding posts at Magdalen Church Oxford and St George’s Chapel Windsor. He is Oxford Cambridge and London Universities examiner in music, sixty, and a keen chess leader.
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Walter Parrott
England
Walter
Queen Victoria
Waller
Yorkshire
Mildersfield
Oxford
Magdalen Church
St. George's Chapel
Windsor
Bin
King Edward
Ite
Cambridge
London
David
Edward
Oxford University Chess Club
Oxford Eigh
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