Engagement Announcement Guidance and Etiquette
A reader asks for a simple pretty at home engagement announcement for relatives and friends. The article suggests a tea or dinner, a family toast if desired, and notes to send intimate friends a before news note. It provides sample wording and etiquette for announcing to Miss Schuyler and Jackson Frothingham.
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Miss Schuyler
New York City
M. D
Jackson Frothingham
Aline
Mother
Jackson
Martha
Rosanna Schuyler
New York Telegram
Hats and fashions for June brides and bridesmaids
The piece notes designers favor light dressy hats for June weddings with mushroom shapes layered under tulle and lace. It describes colorfully trimmed straw hats using valenciennes lace over straw, nets, chiffons on black grounds, and back-edge trimming.
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Valenciennes
Washington Herald
Nevel Rope Fastener Patent Aims To Save Time
The Nevel rope fastener, patented and shaped like a W with an inverted V, grips rope without knots. Three slots hold the rope securely as it passes over upper slots and under the lower, with a spring hook to attach to projections. Useful on sailboats and clothes lines.
Nurses convention faces hat ban at New York ball
The National Nurses' Associated Alumnae opened its 13th annual convention in Mendelssohn Hall New York City with 600 delegates and 15 000 graduate nurses. An order barred hats larger than two feet in diameter prompting Miss Jane M Pinden to urge attendees to leave oversized millinery in the room. Miss Jane A Delane of Washington DC, association president, spoke of eventual unity among the women.
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National Nurses’ Associated Alumnae
New York City
United States
Jane M. Pinden
Jane A. Delane
Washington, D. C
Association
Selma Lagerlof a beloved Swedish author famed for Gosta Berling saga
The article highlights Selma Lagerlof as a premier Scandinavian writer, noting Gosta Berling's Saga published in 1891 and outsized Swedish readership with about sixty thousand copies printed by October 1. It reports one Swede in twelve owning a copy and mentions her book Nils Holgerssons Wonder-Journey used as official reader in public schools with around one hundred twenty five thousand editions printed.
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Selma Lagerlof
Scandinavia
Snorri
Gosta Berling
Costa Berling
Miss Lagerlof
Nils Holgerson
Sweden
Why Working Girls Marry Motive in Harper’s Essay
Florence Sanville of the Philadelphia Consumers' League notes in Harper’s that many fifteen to seventeen year old mill workers see marriage as an escape from toil. She reports girls plan to marry young to leave the silk mills, while critics say parents often press this path despite unhappy marriages.
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Little
New York Tribune
Harper's
Florence Lucas Sanville
Philadelphia Consumers’ League
Pennsylvania
Silk-Mills
Miss Sanville
Mills
Social Graces of Dolly Madison in the Olden Days
Gaillard Hunt surveys Dolly Madison’s First Drawing Room in Harper’s and recalls a time when public service rank matched private standing. He notes two guiding principles: elite officials deserved private prominence and established families retained their status, before equality ideals shifted barriers between private groups.
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Gaillard Hunt
Dolly Madison
Harper's
Society of the Nation
Lfe
Fashion Notes Highlight Yoke Effects In New Skirts
Fashion notes describe vivid yoke effects in the season's skirts with stitching joining plaits to the yoke. The trend includes side-front closures, belts in suede patent leather and natural kid with silk wool and linen costumes. Long skirts for day and evening persist while short skirts appear too. The narrow snowl shaped collar edged in satin Moire and velvet. Coat lengths stay mostly below the hip with new vest fronts.
Are You Still Sound Free And Brave In War's Wake
Poem questions the reader about injuries and resilience after conflict. It asks if legs ears eyes and arms endure, if doctors confirm recovery, and whether patriotism and hope remain or fade amid desolation and trauma. The verse reflects wartime sacrifice and lingering personal cost.
Valley Forge Restored into a Public Park
Historic Valley Forge has been restored and beautified turning the site into a public park for all to enjoy. The work spared travelers from trudging over fields with no roads or signs and marks a hopeful preservation effort supported by state and national level action.
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Valley
Morse Park Commission
Schuy Thill
Washington
Gernigatown
Fort Washington
Port
Mountjoy
Philadelout
Episcopal Church
Isaac Potts
Valley Forge
RO Valley Forge
Fedel
Pennsylvania
Fourth of July in Manila Celebrations Under Colonial Peak
In Manila the Fourth of July is celebrated with speeches on open platforms, flag draped bunting, and a Luneta parade. Local residents attend in smart dress, enjoying bamboo bands, fireworks, and toy pistols amid crowds, amid caution about fire hazards due to inflammable buildings.
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Philippines
Stars and Stripes
Manila
Luneta
Recipe for Sour Cream Raisin Pie
Instructions describe a pie filling with two eggs thick sour cream sugar raisins vanilla and salt. The batter is poured into an open crust baked in a moderate oven with a light egg white meringue top and a final bake.
Chestnut Kernel Meringue Bake with Cream Sauce
Mix rounding tablespoonful of flour with a quarter cup sugar. Add chestnut kernels boiled and mashed and gradually half a cup milk. Cook five minutes, stirring constantly. Beat three egg whites until stiff, fold into mixture, fill three quarters full in a pan of hot water, bake slowly until firm. Turn out and serve with whipped cream or lemon sauce.
Walnut Cheese Cracker Bake
A simple cheese and nut bake to serve with crackers and coffee. Chop walnuts or almonds and toast if using almonds. Layer nuts with grated cheese and bread crumbs in a small pan, season with salt and pepper, moisten with boiling water, and bake twenty minutes.
Practical Household Hints From Old Newspapers
A collage of kitchen tips and household tricks covers preserving cheese as powder for sauces and snacks, making coconut sugar meringues, orange segments with mayonnaise, icing colors, stain and furniture care, palm tying, dating variations, and cleaning with kerosene for dust-free sweeping.
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