Deserved Washington Wedding for Annie Paulding and Lieut Edie
Senator Depew ends opposition to the engagement of Annie Depew Paulding to Lieut John R. Edie after months of doubt. The couple, popular in Washington and New York, plans a wedding amid family notices and Navy heroics link.
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Annie Depew Paulding
Lieut
John R. Edie
Miss Paulding
Odell
New York
Washington
John Paulding
Maj
Andre
Tarrytown
Edie
Commodore McCawley
Navy
Annapolis
Texas
Santiago
A Winsome Widow Seizes a Moment on the Carette
Clare Carruth, a young widow, appears briefly on a crowded carette. A man of quiet virtue, renowned from his Philippines record, is captivated by her mournful beauty but resists flirtation. He exits at Canal and Adamests and plans to visit the Benners in the southern suburbs, sensing life’s next turn.
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Clare Carruth
Philippines
Carruth
Canal and
Adamests
Benners
Besnard
Besnard Benner
Bernard Benner
Hac
Yda Addis A Noted Los Angeles Figure Freed After Turbulent Career
California readers recall Yda Addis once a teacher and prolific writer known for dramatic monographs and anonymous letters. She married C A Storke, Los Angeles mayor, faced divorce, and was later arrested and convicted for sending scurrilous letters to Santa Barbara residents.
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Yda Addis
Widow in White Gowns Turns Heads at Benners
Carruth’s pursuit of a celebrated young widow leads to social intrigue at the Benners. A brass-knuckled nuisance becomes emboldened, but the scene shifts to a rosy room where the widow, in a white gown, reveals herself and laughs at the mistaken belief she is in mourning.
Noel in the Yule Halls A Clinton Scollard Verse
The poem depicts a Christmas revel with heated revelers, urging fires and feasting to continue as the crowd cries Noel. It invokes masked celebrations, festive drinks, and lively music to urge the joyous intensity of the season.
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Noel
Yule
Clinton Scollard
All the Summer Flirtations End with a Winter Union
A poem fragment notes a girl flirted with Thomas Jack Alec Leonard and Jane all summer then married her steady all-year beau in winter. While they played spending, he saved money in a wrinkled old purse to furnish a flat.
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Thomas
Jack
Alec
Leonard
Jane
Trade Tricks In Fancy Needlework For Winter Home Making
A retail craft tip explains a simple method to prevent designs from warping in winter projects. After braiding on a pattern, baste it to stiff paper and press before removing the paper to keep shapes accurate and avoid ruined work.
Fine fabrics drive stylish shirt waists for spring
Women favor lighter materials with embroidered cashmere and landsdowne. Polka dot in black and white leads the embroidered cashmeres with fleur de lis in landsdowne. Tailor made shirt waists in pale tints remain highly fashionable under jacket coats.
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Landsdowne
Virtue of Apples Reviews Evening Fruit Tonic Benefits
A health note extols apples as a nighttime aid and a rich source of iron and blood-building constituents. The piece suggests a plentiful fruit season allows testing the prescription, claiming apples provide a valuable tonic for the body.
No Cash Fills Wedding Plans In Talk Of Marriage
In a clipped exchange from newspapers, a young man with a title offers to marry, insisting his fiancée should decide, while remarking he has educated her to read the papers and that her consent is essential for a suitable match. Separately, Mrs. Kissimee notes a suitor longs for a real meal and complains of a bland chafing dish diet.
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Washington Star
Mrs. Turtledove
Harry
Mrs. Kissimee
Boston Transcript
How to Set a Sleeve Into a Bodice
A home dressmaker guide explains easing sleeve insertion by placing the inside sleeve seam 1.5 to 2 inches ahead of the waist underarm seam. Distances vary by wearer size, applicable from calico to satin and from infant robes to brides gowns for satisfactory results.
Observations on virtue and social conduct
Curiosity and verbosity are noted vices in age. Talkers should earn their supper. A married young man is still a young man married. Real virtue defeats evil. sham virtue screens it. Loving a girl's dog does not grant love for her. Wealthy neglect harms a child more than a beggar. Society and Heaven demand cultivated talents, yet the parallel ends there.
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Tommy Tuckeran
Nesias
Witty snippets and fashion woes reported in papers
Short amusement notes from Brooklyn Life Chicago Record and Detroit Journal reveal light gossip. Dobbs profits from selling road maps for department stores while a husband’s attempts at cheer collide with domestic hats and wreaths of wintergreen.
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Dobbs
Chicago Record
Vanity, ambition, and secrets in a satirical sketch
A reflective note on aging and vanity warns that wealth gained by vanity will fade, while ambition hardens both women and men. It contrasts women's rivalry with mutual admiration tied to inability to compete and ends with a quip on secrecy and servility as useless. Solomon’s proverb-like line frames the critique.
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Solomon
The Smart Girl’s Allure Says It All
A San Francisco Bulletin note claims a smart girl can rival heiresses for attention through proper breathing exercises and Paris corsets. She is never slack, keeps a regal poise, and uses epigrammatic talk as a sign of modern chic, despite lacking wealth.
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Paris
San Francisco Bulletin
Red accents dominate winter millinery and gowns
The piece notes red as a striking winter touch in millinery and gowns. Entire red crepe gowns are worn for evening, complemented by girdles and boleros. It cautions that red and black should be used sparingly, only in costly materials to avoid a common look.
The Stars and the Noble Pleasuance Gate
A lyrical meditation on longing for distant stars as a pale eremite fades from the mountain light. The speaker recalls celestial struggle to grasp star gold blossoms and compares human yearning to children awaiting a gate to glory. Marguerite Merington is cited from January Scribner's.
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Marguerite Merington
A Poem Fragment From Atlanta Constitution
A fragment from a verse in the Atlanta Constitution laments romantic folly and human tenderness. The speaker recalls affectionate phrases and gifts as a lure, noting diamonds and purse offerings in a wry, nostalgic tone.
Wears Fur In Fashion This Winter Season
The winter girl will be a radiant picture in a velvet gown and swinging plume hat with rich furs and a large granny muff. Fur remains a prominent wardrobe feature as vogue expands its use in new, dreamed of ways.
Wee Misses Dress Styles Highlight Long Bodied Gowns
The article notes that the closest dresses for very young girls feature long bodies with sashes placed low near the knees and only the briefest skirts.
The Side Parting in Fall Coiffure Observed
The article notes the fall hairstyle feature a side parting with a pronounced center point. It warns small colds can grow into serious illnesses warning readers to beware minor ailments. It promotes Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as a remedy.
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Dr. Wood
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