Mrs Williams Sickness Ad Promotes Lydia E Pinkham Potent Cure
An Elkhart Indiana reader, Mrs. Williams, recounts four years of illness including inflammation and weakness. The letter praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief and asks for publication. The message is signed from James Street, Elkhart, with permission to publish.
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Eikhart
Ind
Siam
Mra. Sante Hn
James Street
Elkhart
Indiana
Pinkham
Lynn
Hezekiah and the Memory Dragon Folklore Farce
A Birmingham News cartoon tale tells of Merekiak famed memory, the devil disguising as a citizen, asking Hezekiah what food he would want most. Hezekiah answers chicken, then twenty years later fried chicken, illustrating a humorous memory challenge.
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Merekiak
Hezekiah
Hrankiah
Henekiah
Hezekia
Birmingham News
Made From Parasol A Daring Amatuer Lamp Shade Project
A guide for home decorators shows how to transform a discarded child’s parasol into a stylish lamp shade. It describes removing the handle, shaping a card edge, replacing the covering with India silk, stitching sections, and securing the cover to a frame with a hem and elastic, finishing with a decorative top.
Millinery Shades With Lace Frills and Satin Flowers
A description outlines shaping fabric to create decorative shaded bonnets with bell effects. Varied trims include lace, chiffon flowers, and gilt or silver frills. Creative trims feature satin apples and twig stems, sewn with black silk accents for a natural finish.
Cabinet Sketch Unfinished Yet Proves Useful
An unfinished cabinet sketch demonstrates practical use in nurseries and bedrooms as a receptacle for children's toys slippers shoes and assorted odds and ends. The illustration shows the piece incomplete to explain its construction and accessibility.
Do It Yourself Toy Cabinet From Simple Packing Boxes
Amateur carpenters can build an ornamental cabinet from three packing cases stacked and fastened with four wooden posts. Decorate with brass balls, cretenne sides, silk curtains, and brown paper lining. simple, cheap, and sturdy. White and black stripes appear in fabrics for voiles and chiffons. changeable taffeta noted for summer wear and Paris showcases.
Easy to make coat hanger and scented sachet trim
A home crafted coat hanger from bamboo with a red hot pierced hole and wire hook supports a small fragrance sachet. The article also notes fashion notes on Russian boots in green suede and patent leather, and mentions ribbon loops used as trim on a silk skirt.
Return to Circular Cape Fashion Revival
The circular cape returns in full glory with designs in binck taffeta and velvet, marabou collar, eight rows of marabou at the hem, and two braid frogs to fasten at the front. Capes come in fur or broadcloth and may match a one piece frock in material.
Dictates of Fashion Show Spring Styles Across Europe
Dark green dominates staple colors while hats feature nets and metallic cloths. Long coats with shoulder capes recall 1870s French overcoats and a new smock frock appears as an adaptation of Norman peasant wear. Vesta pieces pair with coats and fasten at the neck. Paris importers report spring models more beautiful than ever as Cherub and leading houses debut new dresses and tabbeable silks.
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Normandy
Touraine
Paria
Luxembourg Entreats Relief as War’s Suffering Mounts
Luxembourg, once neutral and allowing German passage with hope of repayment, now endures bitter losses like Belgium. It has appealed to the Belgian relief committee, underscoring the inevitability of war’s hardships.
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Luxembourg
Belgium
St. Louis
Pimples and health tips from a frontier pamphlet
A mixed reader page blends a Cuticura advertising plug offering free samples by postcard with a stray anecdote about a village deacon and charity. The fragment cites dermatology claims for pimples dandruff and scalp relief and ends with moral quips about shallow diversions and married life.
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Cuticura
Dept. V
Reston
Ady
Infants, housing abuse, and a theater anecdote mix in one piece
A collage of notes cites Nat Goodwin recalling a staged production and a jealous humor incident. A U S bureau bulletin links infant mortality to bad housing and ventilation, urging housing regulation, tenement oversight, and nurse outreach. A series of brief vignettes and jokes follow, ending with a quip about a husband staying out late.
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United States Children's Bureau
Scenic Highway Expositions Low Round Trip Fares
Low round trip fares to California expositions and the Pacific Coast via the Scenic Highway of the Northern Pacific are in effect. Tickets allow liberal stopovers including Yellowstone National Park via Gardiner Gateway. Northern Pacific agent A M Cleland offers rates and literature for planning a 1915 western vacation.
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Northern Pacific
California
North Pacific Coast
Yellowstone National Park
Gardiner Gateway
A. M. Cleland
Bt. Paul
Minnesota
Heiress and the Easy Fall for a Figure of Wealth
A compact note reflects on the allure surrounding an heiress, exploring fascination with wealth and social allure in brief terms.
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