Misadventure of a Heroic Dame in New York Transport
Miss Schodyke battles fashion and fate to keep a dinner date. She selects transit methods, loses a pink sash, and endures a comic ascent and platform mishap. The escape into modest humor ends with a resolve to rethink heroic impulses and carriage concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isa Bhodyke
Miss Schodyke
Miss Echodyke
Tse Rhodyke
Madison-ave
Misa Schodyke
Timmie
Third-ave
Sud
Mies Schogyke
Mise Schodyke
Sisters of Charity
Miss Sokodshe
Sbeforasha
Saya
Second Street
Mies Schodyke
Dennant
Stees
Paris Fashions Highlight Plaid Stockings and Velvet Belts
The article notes tartan plaid stockings to match plaid gowns and white silk stockings with white slippers as fashionable for evening wear. It mentions a Paris trend a sable velvet belt with crossed ribbon and diamond claws, plus a three and a half by two and a half inch calling card for married ladies. Gloves favored are four button glace kid with tailor outfits and mousquetaire suede eight button gloves for dressy toilets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Odds and Ends Reflections on Society and Greed
A fragmented collection notes social pretensions and moral snippets. Remarks on friendship, wealth pursuit in New York, a harness swap tale, a professor's lecture quip, and Hearst linked Black Hills mining ventures by H Rorapaugh describing 4000 workers and a 300 foot wide vein with decades of ore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Angelo
New York
Theirutcher
Lewiston Journal
Home Stake
Black Hills
Hearst
H. ©. Rorapaugh
Deadwood
N. Y
Quips and recipes amid a jumble of old tidbits
A collage of humorous exchanges and household tips appears, including a window joke about mosquitos and poverty, a six year old’s school day quip, and a minister and deacon exchange. The piece also shares cucumber pickles, tomato catsup, and a Hood's Sarsaparilla promotion within a dated newspaper flavor.
G P Maroth Shoemaker Ad Invites Confidence at 16 N Penn
The ad extols G P Maroth as a trusted seller of boots and shoes. It promises enduring confidence and fair treatment, claiming extensive experience and a guarantee. It invites customers to visit at 16 North Pennsylvania Street to buy or repair footwear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. P. Maroth
Pennsylvania Street
Wilde and Barrett anecdotes in early 1850s Detroit tale
A collage of reminiscences about Oscar Wilde playing piano and weeping for uncommitted sorrows, Lawrence Barrett once a Detroit dry goods clerk, and James Carlyle deflecting claims of kinship. Congressman Kilgore recalls a wartime Louisiana chicken wager with a sharp ending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Wilde
Lawrence Barrett
Clark
Detroit
James Carlyle
Carlyle
Sam James Carlyle
Congressman Kilgore
Texas
Washington Post
Louisiana
Sia
Bludbilder Purifier and Carbolisalve Ad from Wis.
An old advertisement promotes Bludbilder a vegetable blood purifier and Carbolisalve a skin remedy. It claims to cleanse the blood and treat pimple eruptions eczema boils rheumatism and other skin and constitutional diseases. The product, priced at $1 for one bottle or six for $5, is by J W Cols & Co Black River Falls Wisconsin and sold by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Cols & Co
Black River Alls
Wis
Keauver
Lyall
Ian
Daniel Stewart
Emg & Jefer & CO
Indianapolia
Ind
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Iss Schydoke
Shiles
Horiatta
Detroit Free Press
Germantown
Philadelphia Record
Freddy
Freddys
Hood
Bludbilder
A. Fletcher & Co
Tarrington
Mize
Enoch Morgan’s Sons CO
Grand Opera House
Stuart Robson
Bronson Howard
Henrietta
MR. Robson
Bertie
the Lamb
Seata
Pricas
Rand Opera House
Law &Rence Barrett
Bate
Monnay-Hamlet
Aire “Barrett
Ham- Pisasing
Francesca DA Rimini
Dante
Mr. Barret
Lanciotte
Pennsylvania
Sanday
Union Station
South Illinois Street
Indisnapatia Yates Gisting
Ee Easti
Wrst
Ter
Cantreal & Lasvg
Pillsbars
Bmore
Washington
Mhilsdialphi
Columbus
Richmond
Obicero
Louisville
Vincennes
Cairo
Gally
Vamanso Lise
Smcoerthet
St, Louis
Arziva
Indianapelig
Folloyya Ly
Bt. Louis
Tito
Groentastie
Greencastie Secom
F. 3
Doring
Gleveland
Cincinnati, Ai
Chicago & St, Lots, HU
Cleveland
Depert
Yikb Sm
Crado & Cieginnati
Rasz
Oficals
Cincinnati
Peoria Division
Pu Peoria
ST. Louis
Patty
Sundey
Pullman
Wailiamstongonton
Alty Tlelist
Ilmois Street
Kentucky Avenue
Eid
Daytor
Bban
Ial
BOR Toledo
Slam
Wdbam
eDaily
Ely
ELY Bros
Warren St. N.Y
Nerve Bean CO
Burra
N.Y
Browning & Son
Wash-st
Trentlea
Fultonst
Wil
Atd
Will Pantzer
Bates Bouse Pharmacy
West Wash
St. Indianapolis
Erie Medical
Buffalq
ME Abbett
Virginia-ave
Indianapolis
Docuta
Msii
Docuta Mig, Co
Chandler & Taylor CG
Indianapolis, Ind
Indianapolis Brewing CO
Ee. See. Hildridee & CO
Lumber
New Jersey Street
ISF
Conde Implement Co
Indianapolis Bolt and Machine Works
Indiana
Esntucky Avenue
Girdes
Tan Sun
Lou
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