Strolling through Japan Reveals Youth, Wealth, and Wedding Rites
The author capers through Japan observing streets full of life where children ride on mothers backs, vendors squabble in coinage terms, and a yesteryear money system collides with Meiji reform. He details shopfronts, family life visible from doorways, and the comic miscue of a New Yorker misunderstanding Japanese money, while describing marriages where nine cups of wine bind couples and a bride’s white robe marks a life of service to her in‑laws.
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Japan
Novelty in Girls Neckwear Delights Smart Styles
The article notes color as a novelty in girls neckwear with white remains common but not dominant. Two tone schemes appear in collars mirroring dress fabrics. Varied edges include scalloped and hemstitched lines with polka dot embellishments and matching fronts or tabs featuring white spray embroidery in corners.
USE FOR WORN WAISTS
A guide suggests repurposing worn women’s waist garments into corset covers. It notes many waists have usable embroidery and body fabric despite worn collars yokes sleeves or cuffs. Instructions cover cutting removing sleeves and yoke, bias binding, beading lace, beltline marking, finishing band and buttons.
Modish Chapeau A Tea Gown with Veiled Rose Red Silk
Picturesque tea gown described in deep rose red with brown mushroom chiffon and mink tail hem. Design emphasizes graceful lines and restrained ornament, avoiding damask roses or foliage for a refined look.
Miniature Baby Drawer Lette Uses Silk Covered Boxes
A pasteboard five to six inch square box holds six Jewel boxes arranged like drawers. Silk covers on the large box and front of small ones with silk shoe buttons as handles. Each drawer labeled to store infant toilet items such as safety pins drawing strings mouth rags cotton and tiny nail scissors and studs.
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Veryone
Gingham Dresses Description and Details
Gingham dresses are mostly made with guimpe and sleeves of linen lace or nainsook. The necks of the gingham over bodices are cut square and sometimes trimmed with an outside ruffle made from the hem stitched edge of a handkerchief.
What White Lead 18 and the test for purity
A description of White Lead production mixing with linseed oil for paint, warns against adulterated brands, and explains a blow pipe test to prove purity. It notes the National Lead Company offers a blow pipe and booklet for home testing and provides its address in New York.
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National
National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York
Druggist’s Generous Offer to Suitor
An old-time druggist declines a suitor for his daughter Amy saying he cannot give her away to him. He explains he has promised Amy to his partner’s son but offers the suitor a consolation: five other daughters with the same value. The tale mixes humor with a twist of parental promise in a small town setting.
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Hester Street
Kanye
Delmar
China
Amy
Those Delicious Lemon Pies From Our File Preparation
An advertisement style snippet promotes easy to make lemon pies at low cost using Our File Preparation. Mentions 10 cents at gracers, Rochester brand, plus other assorted ads and quotes about independence, health tonics, headaches, and cigars. Continuous pasted lines resemble vintage market notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D-Zerra Co
Rochester, N.Y
Public Land Opening Under Carey Act in Wyoming Basin
The State of Wyoming will open 245 000 acres of irrigated government land in the Big Horn basin for settlement under Carey act provisions. Prospective buyers can obtain a free illustrated report from the Irrigation Department in Chicago, detailing maps plots and full information.
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Wyoming
Big Horn Basin
Irrigation Department
Iome Insurance Building
Chicago
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Marshall P. Wilder
Joseph B. Bowles
Ohio
Philadelphia
Loth
Garfield
Tryon Edwards
E.w.grove
Tennyson
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Guaratty
Carters
Western
Canada
Saskatchewan
Alberta
BestWest
W. W. Bennett
New York Life Building
Omaha, Nebraska
Wael
D. Os
Plike
Dubuque, la
Omaha
Jacobs
Soec
FAMIL
Douglas
Ognuae
Shane
Etfer
L. Dougie
W. L. Douglas
Cage Muerte
Brockton
Minos
Dolor
Congress
Ellet Kendall Shoe CO
MFGS
Kansas City
Swohn
GPOHN
Goshen
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