Mr Nestoyn's Notebook and Riverside Banter
The tale follows Dick Nestoyn a bachelor who guards a strict rule against friendships with married men. His circle shifts when Jack Cranborne marries. Nestoyn defends his prim suburban life while inviting Mrs Cranborne and her sister Helen Montgomery to a Riverside picnic sparking social tension.
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Mr. Nestoyn
Mr. Nesteyn
Dick Nesteyn
Jave
London
The
Willows
Phil Marsden
Jack Cran Lerne
Dick Nestoyn
Jack Cranbaerne
Jack Cranborne
Tie
Mrs. Cranborne
Mr. Nestorn
Riverside
Jack
Violet Cranborne
Nestoyn
Helen Montgomery
Nesteyn
Cranburnes
Marsden
Phil
Picnic at Riverside Prompts Quiet Courtship Notes
Miss Helen Montgomery attends Mr Nestoyn s picnic with Violet Cranborne and others. A notebook records a perfect day at Ockshott woods noting delightful company. The final Willows supper ends the event with reflections on the outing.
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Mr .Nestayn
Riverside
Helen
Mrs. Cranborne
Miss Welen Montgomery
Mr. Nestoyn
the Willows
Ockshott Woods
Clarisse Dances Yet The Pain Of Loss Remains
Poem by Frank L. Stanton laments Clarisse who dances with magic art but is stripped of love and faced with death. The speaker recalls her old tenderness and beauty, noting the crowd and the dust of death overshadowing her dream.
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Clarisse
Pointed Paragraphs of Wit and Warning
A collection of paradoxes and quips contrasts behavior and consequence. Quotes reflect on cremate versus alive, actions over words, lone fate, class conflict, grave errors, civilization’s sharp edges, ambition, flattery, and money making with misused resources.
Patter of Baby Feet Poem by William West
Poem celebrates the soothing rhythm of a baby’s footsteps. The narrator finds nature and sleep enhanced by that patter, describing its calming, musical quality across day and night. Refrains of rain, trees, brooks, and breeze underscore the theme.
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Baby
William West
Self-Reflections On Slumbering Daydreams
The narrator laments laziness as sunlit morning arrives and waters slow. A crane stands on one leg, weeds droop, and the speaker confesses long-held self blame. Settling into grief, they fear rising again, watching the world grow lazy with the day. Washington Star.
The Disgusted Big Brother verse about girls beauty culture
A poem from the Cincinnati Enquirer mocks the burdens of female beauty routines. It contrasts heavy hair care and clothing constraints with a maiden’s fresh, rare beauty and the expectation that girls must strive to succeed in appearance.
Quick Quips and Jests from Papers and Punch
Slices of humor from Chicago News and periodicals include a playful exchange on dropping Miss in address with Nellie noting fatigue of formality. A mother-profile scene has Ethel snubbing aunty’s longevity, and Hadder Knuff quips that Friday is best for a wedding to provide future blame.
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Mr. Singleton
Miss Willing
Nellie
Miss
Mamma
Chicago News
Hadder Knuff
Man Proposes Marriage to Miss Helen Montgomery
A man made a marriage proposal to Miss Helen Montgomery and she accepted promptly, according to the short note in the column.
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Helen Montgomery
Chicago News
Fashion notes on milliners gloves and dress rules
The article explains milliner etymology from Milan and notes Milan once influenced European taste. It describes how Japanese Indies dress is age and status regulated and claims one can tell a lady is married or single and her age by rules. It also mentions glove cutting as a difficult art with cutters known by name.
Daily Routines of Notable Figures Revealed
Queen Henriette of Belgium takes a ten mile daily drive while Sardou designs scenery and costumes for his plays. Paul Wruger favors herring eaten daily and Consuelo, duchess of Marlborough, cycles two miles each morning. The Chinese emperor reportedly never leaves his palace except for temple prayers. Senator Hoar notes a breakfast of cod fish balls for 66 years.
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Henriette
Belgium
Sardou
Sait Herring
Paul Wruger
China
Temple of Heaven
Hoar
Consuelo
Duchess of Marlborough
Pretty afternoon dress with white veiling and red silk accents
A white veiled afternoon dress features a flaring skirt with nine inch depth hem decorated by rows of machine stitching in poppy red silk. The bodice is a draped waist with glove like fit, red taffeta empirement, chemisette, tucks, and red silk epaulettes on white veiling shoulders.
Cool Colored Linens for Embroidered Trim Frocks
Inserting embroidery proves most effective trim for white pique and colored linen frocks. Pique skirts with tunic or polonaise use white insertion bands, offering a novel, practical alternative to earlier double skirts. French and Irish linens appear in rose blues greens lilac buff and yellow. Insertion trimmed skirts shirtwaist bodices and lightweight coats make stylish washable outfits. Monarch over pain claims Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil cures croup sore throat pulmonary troubles.
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Monarch
Thomas
Big Four Route Batesville and Return Announcement
Special round trip train from Indianapolis Union Station at 7:30 a.m. to Batesville with return at 7:30 p.m. stops at Shelbyville and intermediate points. Round trip fare $1.25. Tickets available by inquiry at Big Four Washington Street and Union stations.
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Batesville
Indianapolis
Union Station
Bates Ville
Shelbyville
Big Four
Hington-St
Union
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Miss G. Pomeroy
Boston
Colorado
Frank L. Stanton
Nother Belle
Phyllis Rankin
New York
Henry D. Gibbs
Marie Wainwright
Edna May
Queenie Vassar
Washington Star
Big Brother
Cincinnati Enquirer
Ethel
Puck
Georgian Bay
Bisuti
Armona
Detroit
W. J. Brown
Gen. Mgr
Mich
Atlas
Blalf
C. H. Baldwin & GO
Penn
Seagrant
Journal
William Wachstetter
California St
W. C. M'Laughlin
H. C. Klick
Ninth St
Cincinnati
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