Fashion Trends and Parisian Flair in Dress and Hair
The piece outlines shirt waist suits in foulard styles with plaited skirts and dainty collars, and pairs them with nun’s veiling and taffeta. It highlights a 16-year-old Paris prodigy Mazihe Pierat hailed as a future star, and describes Paris manicure practices and hatless fashion debates while detailing hair trends like Pompadour fronts and floral wreaths.
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Madras
Paris
Mazihe Pierat
Odeon
Second Bernhardt
New York Decorator Turns Furnished Rentals Into Profit
A stylish New York woman, successful house decorator, partners with real estate agents to furnish rental units with antique furniture. The plan boosts rents from 50 to 100 dollars, quickly recoups the decorator’s outlay, and yields ongoing profits. Two staged apartments reportedly paid for the furniture in under three months, boosting agent business significantly.
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New York
Who Rules Fashion in America and Abroad
In Cosmopolitan Nancy M W Woodrow argues that English Queen and Princess shape style, while in America a small elite of social leaders guide etiquette and fashion. The piece details fabrics, trims, and silhouettes: linen crash gowns, French knots, gray silk hosiery, sheer lingerie, empire night robes, and velvet veils, noting the rise of checked silks for morning wear and new belt styles.
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Nancy M. W. Woodrow
England
Alexandra
France
Atlantic
America
Supreme Council
Improved Vegetables Show Dramatic Market Advances
The article salutes farmers and market gardeners for boosting flavor size and quality of tomatoes cucumbers beans onions and berries. It cites seedless tomatoes faster maturing bush Lima beans uniform cucumbers and France’s triple-crop strawberries as examples while noting long island and new jersey growers supply everyday needs.
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New York Mail and Express
France
Spain
Long Island
New Jersey
Bermuda
Curious claims span ages from a tiny village church to vast chains
A jumble of antiquarian notes and curious feats. Upleatham's claimed England's smallest church dates to 900 years, with 1650 gravestones. vast US corn if stacked would outsize Europe. Lisbon banishes idlers by deporting youths to Africa. Steubenville's mayor cages petty quarrels in a “fighting room” until reconciled. giant ship anchor chains were forged in four 900 foot shots. Sidestrand cliff collapse uncovers coffins and endangers St Michael's church tower.
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Upleatham
North Yorkshire
England
United States
Sidestrand
Cromer Ug
St. Michael's Church
Grand Duke of Saae-Weimar and the twin boy tale
The Grand Duke of Saae-Weimar, heir to Queen Wilhelmina, is a wealthy 26 year old unmarried prince reputed to be stout hearted. He humorously mistook two similar schoolboys as twins and once offered to remit the last three years of a life sentence for a murderer. A butterfly caption notes it rests head-down on a glass stem with wings folded.
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Wilhelmina
Saae-Weimar
Germany
Heinrich
Gibson girl cushion puzzle teases kiss under ten minutes
The drawing shows a Gibson girl seated in a drawing room while a young man braces himself nearby as others socialize beyond a screen. The caption instructs readers to find the girl who will be kissed within ten minutes, noting the characters are of normal size and contrasting with odd puzzle pictures.
Harmony in the Kitchen Beauty of a Bride’s Blue Kitchen
A young bride decorates her flat by matching kitchen walls to her enamel ware. Light blue walls pair with selfsame blue enameled pans and utensils, with white linings on frying pans, basins, stewpans, and spoons arranged to enhance the space. The effect is charming and cohesive.
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Philadelphia
Dining room electric lamp sets chic table decor
The electric lamp gains dining room adoption with soft rose glass globes and silver gilt pedestal. Hostesses mix glassware to match china, using painted crystal with green red or blue bands, but avoid clashing colors and repeated sets through meals to maintain tasteful decor.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Philadelphia Inquirer
Old Time Cookery: Crisp German Crisps and Maryland Chicken
Recipes describe German Crisps Cream a cup butter and sugar with eggs lemon rind, roll thin dough and bake. Chicken a la Maryland roasts with buttered crumbs and cream sauce. Currant Flummery blends mashed currants with sugar and ground rice, then molds and chills.
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Maryland
One Home for Many Years in Warrenstown Ohio
Mrs Belinda Bell Adams of Warrensville Ohio born in 1811 still lives in the house she moved to as a bride in 1829. The Baltimore American notes her long residence reflects local history and family continuity through generations.
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Belinda Bell Adams
Warrensville
Ohio
Baltimore
Emphatic Opinion Sparks Clash Over Seat Drama
In a Washington Star tale, a hatchet faced woman with a baggy umbrella quarrels with a man smoking in a streetcar. The conductor warns smokers seats are reserved. She relocates, insulted by the scene, while two mute men exchange signals and depart at the next crossing.
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Esther
Motormans
Washington Star
Rats Safe in India Amid Famine Relief Efforts
The London Mail notes famine afflicts Rajputana Gujarat and central India with 400000 already on government relief works. Rats are largely absent but damaged cotton crops. Gujaratis believe rats are reincarnations of famine victims, hindering British efforts to obtain help in pest destruction.
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India
Rajputana
Gujarat
Gujerat
London Mail
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