Negligees and Lounging Wraps for Brides in Light Fabrics
The article promotes practical, affordable bridal lounge wear. It describes a loose dimity negligee with Valenciennes lace costing under $1.25, a ring dotted lawn wrap, and a dotted Swiss gown with lace insertions. It emphasizes ease, modesty, and suitability for home wear and informal moments.
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Dimity
Thies
Marie Antoinette
Petit Trianon
Novel Scarfs and Veils Trend in Home Manufacturing
The article surveys the rising popularity of soft scarfs and motor veils fashioned from chiffon and net. It notes easy at home creation, varied colors, and decorative tassels, with tips to refresh old scarves using naphtha, warm water, ivory soap, and silk fringe for updated drapery.
Simple Linen Cooking Apron With Buttonholes
Telegraphed craft note describes an easily-made white linen apron. It features a folded waistband with buttonholes, a bib edged with straps, and shoulder straps continuing to the back waistband. Materials listed include 2% yards of linen fabric six inches wide.
French seam finishes for light fabrics and embroidery
The article explains hand sewing on white goods using the French seam for neatness and strength. It describes running a plain seam on the right side, opening, creasing, and tying a seam on the wrong side to create a double, durable finish and a flat edge suitable for white underwear and embroidery details.
Embroidery Edge Finishes Like Rolled Seam Instruction
The text describes joining fabric to insetting with an overhand stitch along the embroidery edge. It explains folding the edge toward the rolled edge to create a dainty neat durable finish and emphasizes a strong, clean result.
Note on Green Fashion Dominates April Accessories
Vogue highlights green as a leading color for outfits and accessories rather than whole costumes. It describes a single green silk coat or skirt with white or pale biscuit and pongee accents, plus pinked green taffeta hat trimmings, parasols, and tailored hats.
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Chile
Home Made Rugs From Old Socks And Stockings
A grandmother era craft describes making rugs by cutting rope from old socks and stockings into half inch wide strips and crocheting them together. The method yields a bedroom rug and recycles carpet rags instead of burning or discarding them.
I Know Everything That Is Not Worth Knowing
A college graduate reflects with humorous self awareness on vast topics from language and science to subsistence and human propagation, admitting gaps in practical skills like cooking and medical knowledge while noting confidence in theoretical areas. The passage satirically captures overconfidence and blind spots.
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Mather
Puck
Will Your Yours A Waiting Cottage By The Sea
A chaotic verse fragment shows a panicked family awaiting an estate settlement with a multimillionaire father and his daughters. It hints at deception, bribes, and looming conflicts over inheritance while the cook resists departure in a satirical mood.
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Wilen
Wife’s Spouse Accused of Infidelity and Bill Dodges
In a New York Weekly snippet a husband is accused of kissing the housemaid and denying the affair while his wife confronts persistent bill collector visits. The dialogue mocks the husband’s evasiveness and reveals social tensions in a domestic dispute.
Dinner invitation mix up in fluegende Blaetter
A translated snippet shows a humorous exchange about dining at a house with one asking to dine tomorrow and the other proposing the day after. The conversation mentions the wife’s invitation and a social mix up reported in the Fluegende Blaetter.
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Fluegende Blaetter
Tramp Complains About Bad Bill at Bar
A tramp orders a drink and argues with the bartender about a five dollar bill. The exchange includes the bartender refusing to break the bill and the tramp insisting the note is worthless, with the scene framed as a brief vignette from a New York Weekly feature.
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New York Weekly
Destitute Man Pleads for Help in Royal Magazine Quote
A fragment from Royal Magazine presents a destitute speaker appealing for aid, offering a loaded bludgeon as his remaining possession and expressing utter poverty in a stark, period voice.
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Royal Magazine
Point of View in Washington Star’s Witty Column
A Washington Star item muses on how personal worries seem dramatic to the reader while others see humor in daily concerns. The piece plays with perspective and the newsroom voice, lightly lampooning self seriousness.
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Washington Star
We’ll be late for the wedding to avoid the divorce
A witty exchange signals a looming marriage disruption as the couple bets on timing. The bride and groom debate rushing to or delaying the ceremony to address an imminent separation.
Seedling mystery in a playful family exchange
A lighthearted dialogue shows a puzzled parent and child joking about why grass fails to grow. The child questions planted seeds and the parent suggests a humorous possibility that seeds might be planted upside down, exposing a domestic moment of family banter.
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Mubby
Pinch Post’s Odd Yard Passage Sparks Daily Irony
A curious scene unfolds on a Monday as a man, described as gout-stricken, declares he must work despite hunger. A stray horse asks what he will do and he replies he will take in washing, breaking through a fence in a moment of compelled action.
Hand Like That Prompted Swear Exchange at Bridge
In a Chicago Tribune vignette a fall bridge player asks what to do with a strong hand and the writer behind the table quips that he generally swears. The exchange captures game folklore and streetwise humor around a bridge session.
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Chicago Tribune
A Sense of Prietorship and Hubby’s Taste Test
A Washington Star excerpt cites a retreating boast about European lineage while Comrox denies ancient roots yet hints at a daughter’s dot. The Chicago Tribune humor piece shows a wife testing a mink for husbandly approval, fearing sourness if shared.
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Europe
That Spoils It Frat Sight Quotes and Dating Wits
A quirky fragment features a playful exchange about love and appearances at a fraternity scene. The lines hint at attraction and shifting interest with a humorous tone attributed to Judae.
Damaged Transit Sparks Wry Exchange About Looks
In a clipped, fragmented exchange, a damaged transit note hints at a joke about Percy’s appearance and a jab about being too thin, capturing a moment of humor amid transit woes.
Mines and mining notes from Idaho to Utah and Nevada
The Finch Pearl in Pearl Idaho adds two stamps to its battery bringing total to six while Dewey and Lucky Ridge exploiters at Pearl Wooho push crews through tunnels. Alaska’s coming season gold output seen at 26 million. Salt Lake Mining Exchange records heaviest day with 278375 shares traded. Black Pearl mill operates 50 ton daily cyanide process employing 35 men. Harmony Anthracite Coal Co formed by LA syndicate for Southern Utah. New machinery including 125 ton Chilean mills arrives for Garfield Utah mill. Mount Marshall mine Idaho to hire 20 men. J B Stewart secures suppliers. Hecla mine Beaver county Idaho to ship to US Smelting by July 1. Hecla Checkmate expands Whitman mine. Gold field activity in Goldfield Nevada cited by J P Loftus. Cobre Nevada shows high grade silver copper ore discovery. Pittsburg Silver Peak to invest 90000 in pumping plant and rail upgrades. Silver Peak April profit 45000. Sevier Consolidated sale approved for 108000. Seagmiller creditor rep. Virgin Ground Horg Silver Utah shows copper indicators. Amalgamated Copper output for year totals about 212 million pounds refined copper. Western Loan and Savings Utah and Butte/Boston cases upheld by US Supreme Court for pollution liability. Deputy mineral surveyors convention may move from Salt Lake to Wallace. Daley mine Neal Idaho introduces electric power from Bolle company. plant now operational.
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Finch
Pearl
Idaho
Dewey
Lucky Ridge
Wooho
Sontile Post-Intelligencer
Alpolnta
Alaska
Salt Lake Mining Exchange
B& Price
Black Pearl
Newa
Buffalo Hump
del Rio
Harmony Anthracite Coal Company
Los Angeles
Utah
Garfield
Chilian Mills
Mount Marshall
Marshall Lake District
J. B. Stewart
Hecla
Beaver County
United States Smelting and Refining Company
Hecla Checkmate Mining Company
Whitman
Chamber of Commerce
Goldfield
J. P. Loftus
District of Goldfield
Cobre
Nevada
Loray
Pittsburg
Silver Peak
Sevier Consolidated Gold, Silver
W. H. Seagmiller
Richfield
Seagmiller
Penuci Wal
Northwest notes from Carson Nevada and surrounding states
Reports from the Democratic state convention in Carson Nevada show William Jennings Bryan instruction. Notable items include Mrs E N Leafe and Vera McKelvie travel from Portland Maine to Portland Oregon reaching Chicago June 1. Maurice McKellingon of Goldfield found guilty of second degree murder with ten year minimum. Ten of thirteen Western Federation of Miners delegates to Denver July convention, nine avowed to clatists. Robert W Speer inaugurated for second Denver mayoral term. Wim Dempsey shot by boy bandits near Trent Fall Montana dies. four boys face murder charges. Heirship and property notes on F Augustus Heinze in Butte. Will of Nevada governor Sparks filed valuing estate at 100000. Northern Colorado Nenite coal strike nears as miners reject wage-cut proposal. Reno murder evoked as widow seeks late gambler Joe Simpson’s wife and estate. Local police force discharges in Helena under challenge. Terry Sturgis recaptured near Reno after Napa asylum escape. Legal notices include government irrigation charges due April 1 1909. Marauding half-breed Mosney in Montana forced exchange of horses. Virginian City Nevada mourns Mrs J Dunn found dead. George Sievers slashes throat in Reno saloon. Reno sets October 24 for a gambling referendum under state law. Montana Wool Co secretary Lewis Penwell notes steady cash prices for growers.
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E. N. Leape
Vera McKelvie
Fortland
Portland
Ore
Chicago
Maurice McKellingon
Goldfield
Hutte Miners’ Union No. 1
Western Federation of Miners
Denver
Robert W. Speer
New City Auditorium
Wim Dempsey
Argueta
Trent Fall
Mont
Rheams
Hatch
Creswell
Randall
Charles R. Leonard
Butte
F. Augustus Heinze
Heinze
Mr. Heinze
Montana
Governor Sparks
Nevada
Mre
Nancy Miranora Sparka
Mra
Maud McKenzie
Renton Sparks
C. M. Sparks
Leeland Sparks
Colorado
Joe Simpson
Reno
Nev
Skidoo
William Soper
James Brothers
Gilman
Colo
Brothers
Soper
Leonard Batley
Helena
Terry Sturgis
Napa
Cal
Sturgie
Grisely Valley
Tradora
John 8. Macbeth
Galifled
Leo Misa
Myra Lockhart
Darvester
Thomas G. Lockhart
A.D. Parker
Florence
Garfield
Mosney
Aumuati
J. Dunn
Virginian City
George Sievers
Biible
Lewis Penwell
Montana Wool Company
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Camille J. Koight
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Hido
Percy
Amalgamated Copper Company
Western Loan and Savings Company of Utahoe
Butte and Boston Consolidated Mining Company
Supreme Court of the United States
Utter
Bal#e
Wallace
Daley
Neal
Bolee
Northwest
Carson
William Jennings Pryan