A Fine Little Business Woman
Miss Jessamine Gorman is a stenographer for three young lawyers who employ her and pay her salary. Danny Devereaux admires her, shifts her into a bank feud plot, and she foils him by exposing bank flaws. The romance leads to marriage and a bank collapse, with Jess revealing she pursued flaws to spite a flirtatious bank president.
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Danny Devereaux
Jessamine Gorman
Devereaux
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Tle
Reliance Bank
Sam Herman
Aiii
Gamney Estate
Jens
Remance Bank
Franks
How Bingham Got Revenge Over Coal Hole Prank
A tale from the White House about General Bingham then New York police commissioner. He disliked Stanford White the coal chute linked to the cabinet room and arranged a staged coal delivery that disrupted meetings on Fridays and Tuesdays, making the cabinet think a fault lay with the building plans.
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New York
Stanford White
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Cembinet
Duplicate Order Becomes Roast Beef Breakfast Tale
Edward Hicks Allen, a young railroad hopeful aiming for a pension, orders the same meal two days in a row near the city ticket office. When told the exact duplicate is unavailable, he repeats his request, asking for a roast beef sandwich and coffee instead.
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Edward Hicks Allen
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Cleveland Leader
Spring Turbans and Millinery Styles in Western Shops
Julia Bottomley notes spring millinery offers a range of hats from large to small, soft and pressed, with braid on frames or none. She observes western workers’ higher craftsmanship and taste, suggesting readers west of the Alleghenies seek real, well-made, ladylike hats at moderate prices.
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New Spring
West
Atlantic
Alleghenies
Julia Bottomley
Useful Costume for Everyday Wear in Tweed Fabrics
Compact guide for a versatile everyday costume in firm woolen material. Describes a seven-gored short walking-length skirt with wrapped seams and a coat front that wraps over with a square tab fastened by hooks and eyes or press studs.
Silver and Gold Nets for Fashionable Hair
Fashionable women now choose silver or gold nets to secure elaborate coiffures. The chignon, a popular new hair effect, is covered with a delicate metallic mesh, creating a striking contrast against dark hair as a distinctive, lustrous shield.
Frill With a Collar Gives Neckline a New Touch
A vintage fashion note describes integrating a standing collar with a long flat frill around the neck. The change updates the traditional frill by adding structure, creating a hybrid neckline that blends old and new styling cues.
New Styles in Blouses and Summer Wardrobe Colors
The article notes color blouses boost everyday wear while advising a planned color strategy for summer. It suggests sticking to cohesive color schemes, with black, pin dotted, and dark blue pairing with multiple outfits, and highlights bands on white fabrics along with hues like golden brown green cerise and pinks for muslin blouses. Finely dotted swiss fabrics gain favor for their ease of wear and washability under linen suits.
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Killarney
New Pouch Bags With Velvet and Satin Finishing
Describes pouch bags cut with oval bottoms and velvet on one side, bright satin on the other, top finished with black satin ribbon and a satin draw string. The bag is lined in coral, green, burnt orange, or royal purple, and designed to hang over the arm.
Ways of Serving Bananas in Cooked Dishes
Banana palates dislike raw fruit but thrive when cooked. A housekeeper's guide presents simple pudding with custard made from three egg yolks and milk, sweetened, with sliced bananas and meringue. Also suggests sliced bananas with corn starch and strawberry sauce, and baked bananas as a vegetable with sugar, water, lemon juice, butter, and salt baked gently.
Georgia man invents new drawered refrigerator design
An inventor from Georgia unveils a novel ice chest featuring a front of drawers that swing in and out for easier access. The top remains the ice compartment while a corner shelf system lifts to keep items near the ice, promising improved organization.
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Georgia
Tower style refrigerator drawer design with airflow chamber
The passage describes a refrigerator part with drawers that swing on a hinge, rounded ends, and limited extension. The outer segment is solid while the inner segment is perforated to allow cold air to pass. This design lets access items at the rear without removing front items.
Bluing in the laundry necessary for pure white clothes
The article explains that blueing is usually essential to keep whites bright when ideal conditions like ample air, sunshine, grass bleaching space, soft water, and time are unavailable in crowded cities with soot and limited air. Without blueing, whites turn gray or yellow even with careful washing.
Simple Onion Poltice Cures Child’s Cold Says Mother
A mother recalls a home remedy using mashed onions heated with turpentine and lard applied to the chest and feet, covered with stockings for two to three days. She credits the method with saving her daughter's life and hopes other mothers may find it helpful.
Veal Loaf Recipe From A Vintage Note
Four pounds chopped veal with a quarter pound salt pork, four eggs, four tablespoons bread crumbs, a half pint milk, fourteen and a half teaspoons salt, eight teaspoons sage, fourteen and a half teaspoons black pepper. Mix well, bake in loaf pan three hours with butter on top.
Date Puffs Muffins with Steamed Dates and Sauce
A simple batter combines two eggs one cupful sugar a quarter cupful milk one teaspoon baking powder and flour to thin. Fold in one cupful pitted dates fill muffin cups halfway and steam for thirty minutes. Serve with warm sauce on the side.
Ultimatum of Mrs Duggan and the washin’ talk
A young settlement helper confronts Mrs Duggan during a washday. Mrs Duggan declares she will not listen to improvement talk unless paid or allowed to work while listening. The exchange ends with the judge’s biting remark about the “uplifters.”
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Didn't Remember It Overcoat Riddle Between Spouses
A humorous exchange unfolds on a staircase as John and his wife discuss a stubborn overcoat. She asks why he struggles and he jokes about not recalling ever having trouble removing it, wondering when it buttoned up the back and why it now sticks.
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John
Shay
Absent minded professor jokes about broken spectacles
The scene features Professor McGoozle claiming something wrong with his glasses. The optician inspects and notes nothing is wrong with the frame, noting only that the glasses have dropped out. The exchange underscores the professor’s famed absent mindedness and a simple misfit in his eyewear.
Gas bill demand leads to chair request joke
A Yonkers Statesman anecdote recalls a gas bill encounter where the manager asks a collector about a response. The collector says the customer asked for a chair while the manager insists on payment, highlighting a humorous exchange about payment terms.
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Yonkers Statesman
Fragmented stage whispers tease a twisty dialogue
A jumble of quick conversational bits from a playlet features a jilted lover, a resisting spouse, and a self aware crowd. A leading citizen and curious bystanders spar with wit and sarcasm, ending with mutual literary approval of a poem.
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