Aunt Mary Visits Ends in Loud Deception Gone Wrong
A man recalls tricking his deaf wife and aunt with a ruse about Aunt Mary being hard of hearing. The plan backfires as loud signaling, a prankster friend, and a startled aunt create chaos in the house. John N- hides. laughter, a collapsed stoop, and a sharp scolding mark the comic mishap. The author confesses the deceit and hopes Mrs Opie would laugh with them.
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Avife
Womans Reading and Fashion Notes From the Era
A playful survey of lawn ball as a half way point between tennis and croquet highlights women’s eye as weapon with 729 expressions. It notes fashionable tennis outfits, antique fan use, and a cheeky remark on flirtatious summer courtships. Also mentions nerve training dangers and social quips from newspapers and ads of the day.
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Massachusetts
New York Mail and Express
New York World
Willam
Oil City
Hammock gown aids idle mood on sunny June days
New York observes June’s outdoor charm as Redfern unveils a hammock gown. The novelty divides draperies at the side to veil the waist and knee, featuring a pale albatross overskirt and poppy red silk petticoat. Buttons cluster along the side.
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New York
Redfern
Summer girl abandons tennis for cricket dress
The illustration shows a summer girl who forsakes tennis for cricket. Borrowing from Hoglish influence, she joins a ladies eleven and wears a Lovelish tailored costume with grey tanner, box-pleated skirt, tabber, wide sash ends, bronzed waist with Indian red cuffs, and a red white cricket cap.
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Redfern
Reliable Lunch Cake and Ice Cream Cake Recipes
Reliable recipes outline cakes with sugar milk eggs and flour and baking powder for lunch cake. Ice-cream cake includes butter milk eggs vanilla and cream of tartar. Lemon jelly cake uses sugar butter eggs milk flour and cream of tartar with soda and layered jelly style.
The Panhardle Route to Chicago Ad
Advertises travel to Chicago via Pennsylvania Line with trains from Indianapolis at 11:65 a.m. and 11:80 p.m. arriving 10 p.m. and 6:40 a.m. respectively. Promotes parlor and reclining chair cars and tickets from the Pennsylvania office or Union station. Also notes many rooms prefer new cooler accommodations among today's ads.
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Washington and
Llinois-sts
Union Station
Young People’s Society OF Christian Endeavor
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Aror
Chas. M. Johnson
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E. Washington St
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Our City
Oes Corner
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Kentucky Arena
Cincinnati
Dayton
Toledo
Detroit
Baron Zadwitz to wed Miss Lena Caldwell in Washington
The Washington social scene includes Baron Zadwitz, German minister to Mexico, marrying Lena Caldwell, a prominent local belle. A Washington man refused to be introduced to John L. Sullivan, amid a note on fading hero worship in America. Senator Hearst’s Washington home reportedly costs 170800 in furnishings, with history of his Missouri attic days. A vivid Washington letter describes Gen Spinola’s post-session routine, including writing letters at his desk and a striking shirt collar.
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Mexico
Lena Caldwell
Washington
John L. Sullivan
Carlyle
United States
Chicago Herald
Hearst
Washington House
Missouri
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Personal testimony praises gun wa's remedies for health and business
In Hastings Pennsylvania a man named Demmock credits a vegetable remedy from Gun Wa for curing years of nervous debility. He describes failed treatments by physicians, tobacco use, and long nights of restlessness, then states he is now well and his business thrives under personal management after correspondence treatment. He invites inquiries about the treatment.
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