Perfumed Ribbon Trade and Fanciful Ladies Names
A vintage notice discusses perfumed ribbons sold by the yard for lingerie insertions in two widths and colors. It notes delicate sachets with faint floral scents, and comments on women pairing ribbons with wardrobe cabinetry. It then lists presidential wives by name and reflects on fashionable fans, detailing Fatinitza designs, materials, and prices.
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White House
Mary
Mary Todd Lincoln
Marthas
Martha Dandridge Washington
Martha Wayles Jefferson
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Caroline Scott Harrison
Ida Saxton McKinley
Teaching the Alphabet with Blocks and Family Play
A mother teaches the alphabet by turning letters into a family of twenty-six "Alphabet" characters. She uses blocks, assigns names to each letter, builds houses for each, draws likenesses, and guides the child to spell as he learns two new names daily. This method fosters rapid, natural learning.
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al- Phabet
Florence Hull Winterburn
Matching waist and skirt bands in 19th century fashion
Harper's Bazar notes that skirts stitched to the under-skirt or silk lined with a half fastening down the front require waist bands that mirror the skirt bands in size. The waist appears smaller and more becoming when the bands align, using three gilt buttons to secure the end.
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Harper's Bazar
Notable Women and Moments From a Past Era
An erudite glance through diverse notes highlights Frau Grebner a centenarian chorus alumna, Dorothea Krumpke guiding Paris Observatory balloon work, Mrs Winslow pioneering electric auto use in Stockholm, Ellen Jerry's fear of the number three, women physicians gaining Russian official status, John Bunyan’s last descendant Mrs Keyworth in Lincoln, Boston’s city messenger Annie Riley, and Miss Burdlett’s Pompeian themed Paris Exposition tea house with costumed waitresses.
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Vienna
Frau Grebner
Dorothea Krumpke
Paris Observatory
Edward D. Winslow
United States
Stockholm
Sweden
Ellen 'Erry
John Bunyan
Lincoln
England
T. M. Keyworth
Lincoln Cemetery
Keyworth
Donovan
Boston
Annie G Riley
Civil Service Commissioners
Miss Burdlett
Prince Jerome Napoleon
Millinery and Summer Fashions Parade in Lighted Styles
Foliage rich millinery items headline a Dry Goods Economist list of season favorites. Silk robes and India silk borders, ostrich trims, taffeta ribbons, openwork stockings, and embroidered coats, with new children's caps and bonnets, straw hats, and lace ingertings. Also noted are wide ranges of gowns, skirts, wreaths, and trimming goods for golf wear, evening ensembles, and casual summer looks.
Selecting a jury and the colonel’s keen instinct
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt discusses jury selection as intuition. It recalls a railroad case where a grocer juror with a pocket thermometer was deemed hypochondriac, influencing the verdict. The colonel trusted instincts, noting he felt it in his bones before logic.
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Lawye
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Wise Words and Witty Maxims Across Authors
A collection of quotations from Napoleon Farquhar Shakespeare Charron Holland Penn Aughey Killard and others. The lines cover perseverance necessity invention duty politeness and self restraint, highlighting timeless counsel and human nature in brief aphorisms.
Occupation of Johannesburg Ends in Ceremony and Wit
War correspondent recalls British occupation scenes in Johannesburg with cheers and God Save the Queen. Free State artilleryman refuses to remove hat during the anthem, a guardsman defends him saying he fought for his flag. A march past follows as General Roberts ends his day at an Orange Grove inn with a playful moment teaching the innkeeper’s daughter to write.
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Johannesburg
T All Free State
Luter
General Roberts
House in Mullazzo Sold After Dante Occupancy
The Mullazzo residence once occupied by Dante after his Florence exile sold to a man named Guelfi for about $495. Efforts to involve the Italian Government to halt the sale failed as no action was taken.
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Dante
Mullazzo
Florence
Guelfi
Victims of Lightning Deaths and Casualties Across the Nation
The Weather Bureau reports 562 killed and 820 injured by lightning in the past year. Many deaths show no external injury, while others burn or paralyze body parts. Cases include two brothers killed in a dog cart and multiple discharges within small ground areas. Greater fatalities occurred in farms, houses, and under trees, with June to August most deadly. Precautions urge avoiding chimneys, open windows, wire fences, and trees. stay indoors away from lines, and dismount if on horseback.
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Weather Bureau
Henry
Spen
Mae
Awiny
Tansylvania
Thinnis
Webrua
Pennsylvania
New York
Aluminum and explosives in war gear at risk of wood alcohol dangers
In overseas research, aluminum enters infantry gear and nails in some regiments. Wood alcohol poses blindness and death risks from small doses and inhalation. Detonations affect soldiers ears, while electrification shifts weather feel. Calcium carbide production grows, with costs and light use debated amid new electric furnace and party telephone concepts.
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Germany
Russia
Beings Living Without Nourishment Concept
Nikola Tesla argues that life may not require traditional nourishment and that organized beings could exist as crystal life or in other tenuous substances. He suggests life principles could manifest in forms unseen and wonders if nonconventional life might inhabit our world undetected.
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Nikola Tesla
Century Magazine
Grammar as a Public School Study Imperative
A Chicago Post message argues grammar cannot be learned by immersion alone. It stresses explicit instruction in technical English grammar to ensure correct speech, asserting rules and exceptions must be drilled into children in schools.
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Chicago Post
When Ye'r Growin' Old Poem Snippet From Tribune
A fragment from a poem printed in the Sismareck Tribune. It laments aging with recurring imagery of twilight, fading light, and lingering hope beyond a crimson sunset. The piece uses dialect and evokes memory, shade, and a distant dawn beyond the hills.
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Sismareck Tribune
Humor of the Day Jokey Lines and Punchy Quips
A collage of humorous exchanges and one liners from Punch and various papers. Jokes span courtship, marriage, census, fish brains, wages, cremation, and home life featuring names like Nell Anna Beechwood Homewood and Mrs Wigwag in a rapid punchy parade of light satire.
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Nell
Anna
Anna United
Hhlliott
Mr. Beechwood
Mr. Homewood
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Ganite
Philadelphia
Chicago Evening Post
Indianapolis Press
Fair Widow
Mr. Wigwag
Mrs. Wigwag
Philadelphia Record
Origin of the Cipher and decimal reform
The article traces decimal numeration origins from ancient hindoo and Chinese round signs, via Arab transmission in the eleventh or twelfth century, to the later adoption of decimal division. It cites Mouton in 1670 Lyon as first to underscore decimal division as key to reforming weights and measures, with subsequent scientists building on this. It closes with dialogue from a novel fragment.
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Lyon
Mouton
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Pordoirie
Napoleon
Farqgubar
Butler
Voltaire
L. B. Landon
Ville
Dewey
Shakespeare
Charron
J. G. Holland
Penn
D. H. Aughey
Killard
Hilo
Leung Chitso
Ila Walian
Bordeaux
France
Austria
South Africa
Schliep
Baden-Baden
Indianapolis
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