Fortune Seeks a Bride in City of Strife and Hope
Si Collins, jobless and near destitution, saves Ancle Treadwell from self harm. He proposes marriage to steady her life, and they wed that night. A benefactor, Mr Ashbrooke, reveals Ancle’s inheritance as the stepmother’s death uncovers a fortune. The couple vows to share life and wealth at a family home in the countryside.
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Ancle Treadwell
Marrial
Mr. Ashbrooke
Annie
Dr. Simpson
Italian Soup and Shelly Roll Recipes Summary
A scanned clipping lists simple home recipes including Italian soup with butter, flour, hot water or stock, pepper, salt, eggs, and a smooth yolk mixture. It also describes Shelly Roll with whites and yolks beaten separately, sugar, flour, vanilla, water, then rolling with jelly while warm.
Korean family shrine and sacred rooms in old imagery
A fragment discusses a Korean woman’s rooms as sacred to her age shrine and associates the wife or mother’s rooms with a man’s recall of law. It hints at treason and moral duty, framing domestic space as a public moral emblem.
Fashion Frills In Autumn Gowns And Turban Trends
Fashion notes describe volants and scalloped edges on gowns with powder blue skirts and narrow ruching. Three quarter coats with embroidered waistcoats become wrap coats. turbans and plumes in plumage adorn autumn millinery. A simple white mousseline evening dress features a raised ribbon rose garniture and silver thread sash, harmonizing with the overall chic look.
Fashions and theater notes mix with society gossip
A mixed column describes tentatively evolving fashion hijinks with soft fabrics, a chic crepe gown, and a chemisette. reports a theater wardrobe moment featuring a black crepe skirt and embroidered lawn blouse. plus social anecdotes about Alfred NeCoursey’s hotel blaze incident, a New York wedding with Kid McCoy as best man, and local gossip about engagements, divorces, and town figures.
New Wife of Chewing Gum Millionaire Married in Cleveland
A young woman became the second wife of W. J. White, the chewing gum magnate, a day after his first wife secured a divorce in Cleveland. The ceremony occurred in a New York hotel, and the bride had recently divorced James Maloney, a Chicago businessman. White denounced his former wife as a blackguard while asserting the new union followed an understood plan.
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W. J. White
Cleveland Court
White
New York
Versatile Cartoonist Homer Davenport Shapes Arabian Horse Works
Homer Davenport, famed cartoonist, merges crayon and pen as he diversifies into horse portraiture and political cartoons. He recently accepted a commission from the Woman's Home Companion to sketch the Arabian horse and its master in desert settings, leaving a lucrative position to pursue four article series on the subject.
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Homer Davenport
Hop Smith
Davenport
Woman's Home Companion
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Wax floor polish recipe from Tuileries palace use
Aunt Polly explains a wax floor polish recipe used at the Tuileries ball rooms. Ingredients include yellow wax turpentine water and ammonia with a two to three day dissolve period. Application is by brush and wool cloth. The note adds kitchen tips on fat removal pork flavor in chowder and oyster dipping.
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Tuileries
Napoleon
Making of Glass Eyes Reveals Hidden Inhuman Defect
A London health writer notes an expert can detect glassy eye fabrication in a human socket. The piece recounts two regular patrons, a married couple of three years, who remain unaware that the other is missing a natural eye.
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London
Peek A Boo Waist Mania Sparks Sermon Clash
Report notes ministers denouncing the immodesty of peek a boo waist outfits during sermons while President Roosevelt comments on the trend. The era moves toward the mannish shirtwaist as waistmakers cut prices to clear stock and fashion shifts despite public moral debate.
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Changa Ia
Roosevelt
Fanhion la
Up to date patterns from The Bun fashion department
The Gun has arranged with a pattern supplier to provide readers with ten cent patterns. A new pattern description will appear daily. Each pattern costs ten cents and includes instructions and the name and address to request the design by mail.
Nine-Nineored Skirt Pattern and Finishing Details
Miscess ninecored skirt with cooler box style purlins and fitted plaits. Describes inverted seam at deck bottom, flare added by side pint, decorative wallasaped wares, and straps ending in points atop the plaits. Pattern Jatn Jaieee 13 to 17 years, price of a 10 peut.
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Prine
Bible study gift to Wellesley College funds banks for study
Wellesley College received a sum from A. A. Sweet to be used for purchasing banks to aid the study of Biblical history. The note mentions growing attention to Bible study in colleges for women.
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Wellesley College
A. A. Sweet
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