Hostess Games and Party Tricks from Old Time Columns
An excerpt describes hostess games for a card party and social gatherings. It details partner selection with color coded patty cake favors, a masked pair reveal using paper masks, a musical contest with brain-teaser questions, and a children’s animal hunt game. It also mentions a novel shower with a pine tree centerpiece and a cheese box gift reveal, and a Knickerbocker style dress-out party for a child’s first trousers.
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Ty Ch
Maine
Embroidery Styles Rise in Fashion After Brief Rest
The text notes reemergence of Tivoderfe anglaise or English eyelet embroidery in fashion. Coarse weaves, uncurled feathers, and wool embroidery in long stitches and simple crochet appear on hats and velvet girdles. Summer fabrics feature these techniques as a revived trend.
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Lashiom
Simple Dresses from a Antique Costume Illustration
A detailed description of a leftward costume with a Magyar cut bodice in broderie Anglaise, vephys and lace sleeves, a belted waist, and a skirt with horizontal striped panels. It notes materials including three yards of proderia and nephyr fabric, plus six yards of white material and various trims, with a black and white crinoline hat trimmed with ostrich feathers.
Civic Improvement Society Needed in All Towns
The text argues that every community regardless of size requires a civic improvement society to unite residents for public works. It notes townships and villages often split governance and rivalry hinders progress, while churches rarely cooperate for the public good. A strong improvement group can bind progressives from various sectors, including those outside the church, to achieve tangible benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gill
Vilage
Nove
Finished City as an Asset
A finished city attracts people and business as residents and visitors choose it for beauty and opportunity. Well educated children, street railways, gas works, locks, and other enterprises support growth and should be owned by the city, seen as prudent policy and good statesmanship by the Los Angeles Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apple
Los Angeles Times
Pay for Trees: NY Court Upweights Damages for Trees
A Long Island City resident won $500 for tree destruction but the appellate court increased the verdict to $1,500, recognizing the non monetary value of trees. The ruling notes the wood value cannot replace mature trees and emphasizes shade, landscape value, and long growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Long Island City
Vernier
Queen Adelaide Rejects Hired Crown Tradition
The ages show Adelaide refusing a hired crown, arguing she can fund her own. She questions the need for royal expense while the king notes predecessors wore hired crowns. Ultimately Adelaide offers to pay for her own crown setting, altering the royal practice.
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Queen Alexandra
Queen Victoria
Queen Adelaide
Agiluet
Kim
George IV
Adelaide
Country Highways and Pleasant Roadside Greenery
A reflective note extols well kept roads and tree lined thoroughfares as signs of welfare in a community. It asserts neat maintenance and year round greenery provide practical shelter during heat and visual relief, then abruptly shifts to a fractured exchange about a beggar and a poorly framed tale of a man trying to regain his wits amid hardship.
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iThink
High Street
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Carda
Nittle
W. Reate
Lowe Town Selps
Horwitz
Third ST
Ludlow
Maple Ave
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