Echo Battle and New Age Nonsense Parade
A Briton band uses a clever echo trick to frighten a pursuing Pict army, while tales of nasalogy in Paris claim a fortune teller’s fame. The page also touts a free cook book from Jaques Manufacturing, and shows light humor about manners, air ships, and a Boston Transcript quip on education.
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Germanus
Palmistry
Elling
Paris
Latin Quarter
Caretra
Jaques Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Janet McKenzie Hil
Janet McKenzie Hill
Mrs. Hill
Seead
Squeezer streetcars spark New York nerves and laughs
A humorous reminiscence on crowded squeezer cars in New York contrasts German and American transit. The author mocks elbowing vendors, the claustrophobic aisles, door chaos, and the brutal crush of evening rides, ending with a portrait of commuters heading toward Morningside.
Whipping Post and Stocks Near Raleigh Courthouse
A Charleston Observer report recalls the whipping post and stocks near Raleigh’s courthouse and post office during the Civil War era. Federal officers sought to end the practice, with sheriffs enforcing old court orders, and boys amused themselves by ridiculing inmates in the stocks.
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Raleigh
Court of Prose
Charlotte
Raleigh Correspondence
Charlotta Observer
Crochet Waistcoats for Autumn Fancy Work
Instructions describe crocheted waistcoats in brown and red wool with striped patterns for autumn wear. Detailing two-color strip construction, material quantities, stitches, and steps to reproduce matching front halves. Includes tips on gauge, yarn choice, and ensuring even size before finishing.
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Berlin
Directoire Fashion Traces In New Gowns And Coats
A review notes traces of Directoire styles in daily wear with a modern take on gowns. The sketch showcases a new frock with a high Directoire collar and braided trimmings, while a coat model features extreme looseness, long dull lines, and undersleeves reaching the wrist. The ensemble is embroidered in a scroll pattern with self tone stitching.
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Directoire
Divertoire
Steve
Astir
The Classical Bandeau and Menu Memory Aid
The piece notes fashionable jewelry featuring crescent diamond bandeaus with stars and Roman period motifs as seen in Tatler. It advises hosts to keep a small record book of guests, menus, and decorations to avoid repetition, suggesting pocketbook atomizers for travelers and shoppers.
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Tatler
Luneligong
Satin Satin Roses for Gowns in Black Fabrics
French designers trim gowns with extra large satin ribbon roses for bodices and skirts. Black velvet frocks benefit from these roses on panels and fronts. Satin roses suit net chiffon grenadine and silk, while long sleeves and yoke remain untrimmed.
Lavender Luncheon Dessert and Fashion Notes
A lavender luncheon recipe uses unfermented grape juice and rennet with milk and sugar, served with whipped cream and candied violets. The piece also discusses colored shoes in champagne blue gray tones and lighting that favors subtle, warm tones in the dining room for elegant entertaining.
Tickle Grass and Wasteful Ways in Urban Life
A fragmented reflection on vanity, wealth, and vice from a Texas poet and Washington editor. The piece critiques self serving advice and cautions that poverty often shelters homes and loves, while the harbor section hints at social discontent and moral observations amid urban life.
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Texas
Washington
Harbor of My Love and Home in Seafaring Verse
A collage of maritime musings and homeward longing blends poems and quips about ships, harbors, and a quiet cottage sheltered from storms. It mixes verse on sea life with humorous takes on gardening, foolish optimism, and the airship era.
NOT DOLLARS BUT EGGS A. I. Gardiner DIARY ITEM
Fragmentary vintage clipping mentions eggs replacing dollars in value discussions, a cured bladder condition via Dean's Kidney Fills, and casual wartime style banter about earnings, theater work, laundering advice, Defiance Starch endorsement, and a humorous Heckler Post-style joke about a boy giving up his seat after a pear tree incident.
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Irs
I. B. Gardiner
Vorély
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
Houster Post
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Containing Mercury
Mercury containing catarrh ointments harm the body when absorbed. Use prescription remedies from reputable physicians. Tialls Catarrh Cure from Fd Cheney & Co Toledo is advertised as safe. Hall's Catarrh Cure is promoted as genuine and internal. Take Mull's Pawly Pills for constipation.
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Tiall
Taf. Gheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Olla
Fd. Cheney & Co
Vestimania
Dracelsts
Mull
As You Like It Named but Not Revealed at Theater
A maid recounts her outing with a young man to a theater. The show’s title appeared on the outside as It was As You Like It, but the maid did not know the official name. The amiable mistress questions the absence of a proper title.
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New York
Amsterdam
Rotterd
Tinkersdam
Gotterdammeryng
Forty-second
Buriow
New York Street
Germany
America
Cortland Street
Harlem
Morningside
Phyllis
New York Times
Lydia E. Pinkham
Will Young
Columbia Ave
Rockland
Augustus Lyon
Mast Earl, Pa
Mre
Pinkham
Lydia Inkkhem
Moon asks about rides as plain person recalls a fall
The moon with a new machine asks if the plain person has ridden in an automobile. The person replies no, but recounts falling from a third story window.
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Glorio
Glotta
K. C
Indy
Bill
Juan
Boston Transcript
Johnnie
Houston Post
Boead
K. C. Baklung Powder Company
Ota
Ruskin
Heautitys
Jaques Manufacturing
St Igent
Henry
Geo. V. Hobart
Hugh M‘'Hugh
Cara
Manhattan Island
Iron Road
Morningsides
G. W. Dillingham Co
Olshonent Heraldes
Honce
Oncle
Ife
Nero
Walt
Ace
Uncle Allen
Uncle Allen Sparks
Kansas City
Monty
Jack
Cs Backache
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