Gowns of the Moment Colors for Complexions and Empire Styles
The article outlines color guidance for brunettes and fair brunettes, advising suitable shades such as ivory, pale yellow, and navy blue. It then highlights Empire style in gowns and night robes, noting long yokes, lace fronts, puff sleeves, bolero effects, gathered fronts, and decorative trims including beaded and lace details. It mentions accessories like flowered radium silk scarves, beaver tricornes, and lace purses as wedding presents.
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Directoire Conte
Empire
Canhmeres
Directoire coat with velvet vest and lace ruffle
A Directoire style coat features an inner embroidered velvet vest and a delicate lace ruffle. Completing the ensemble is a darker velvet hat adorned with white wing trim.
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Directoire
Real Mulligatawney Soup Recipe Detailing Curry Powder Mix
A historical soup recipe describes grinding spices to create curry powder for Mulligatawney. It instructs simmering two quarts of water with meat, skimming fat, frying onions in butter, adding curry mix and rice, then combining into the soup until tender. Finish with lemon juice before serving.
Fashion Revival Delights Dressmakers and Clients
Fashion welcomes back Henrietta cloth sheening with fine textures and vibrant colors. Albatross and nun's veiling return with stiff new weaves for afternoon and evening wear. These cloths clean easily and all wool textures wash in the tub, keeping looks intact as household dressmakers outfit schoolgirls in cardinal red and Delft blue cashmere and soft serges.
Gathered Skirt Designs for Stylish Evening Wear
The article describes gathered skirts in soft pliable material usable for many waist models. It notes short sleeves for evening bodices and dresses, with fashions featuring a slightly low neck and a square neck opening.
Household Cleaning Tips From a 19th Century Page
Directions for preserving brass, kerosene indications for cleaning surfaces and mirrors, and care for pans and oak finishes. It advises rubbing brass with salt and vinegar, storing kerosene properly in a lidged tin or gas vessel, cleaning furniture with water emulsion and whiting, not scrap ing a frying pan but soaking it, and using wax polish on wax-finish woods.
Fur Coats in Fashion This Winter
Short gray squirrel blouse jackets gain popularity while long coats suit motorists and Siberia travelers. Brown mink jackets shine, black Persian lamb coats with salle collars remain enviable. Astrakhan and dyed squirrel—indistinguishable from sable to casual observers—gain favor. Seal skins endure, especially loose coats with wide sleeves, even if a decade old.
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Siberia
Pajamas Catch On For Children And Adults
The pajama age spreads to small children as mothers favor them for warmth and security at night. Simple yet attractive designs feature underarm and shoulder seams with a snug buttoned throat, finished with a cotton or wool braid. Medium size requires four and a quarter yards of thirty-six inch material.
Imported Skirt Showpiece With Lace Trim
A white soft flap taffeta evening petticoat was exhibited in a shop. It features a twelve inch accordion plaited point d esprit ruffle appliqued with a black lace rose design. The bottom edge of the ruffle is bordered by black French lace.
Autumn fashion notes for women’s wear updates
Povo a frock remains worn under a coat while red topped boots lead autumn footwear. A dark invisible plaid skirt remains in style with tan gloves as street wear. Gray or white furs pair with gray suits as the season’s best option.
Pretty Drese for Young Girl Blouse Description
A dressy blouse described in reform era terms features changeable taffeta with a gathered front below a scalloped yoke. The yoke joins a scalloped front strap with gold buttons, epauleted sleeves gathered at the base, and deep scalloped cuffs also adorned with gold buttons.
English Mince Meat Recipe Summary
Two pounds lean meat simmered until tender then cooled and finely chopped. Mix with shredded suet four pounds apples currants raisins orange lemon rind and juice nutmeg mace citrus juices preserves vinegar and salt to finish the mince meat.
Hints for Dressing Sacques and Lace Detailing
A new dress idea uses loose china silk sacques with accordion plaited lace mesh. The soko features three lattice work arrangements with half inch ribbon and ribbon tassels at the front. Also shown in long wrappers in pink blue lavender or green.
Blue and Pink Trend Brightens Fashion Headlines
The French mix blue with pink this year, a striking and refreshing combination not seen in years, pairing well with eirlish fills for a vivid color statement.
Year One of Great Prosperity Promises Continuation
A year of unmatched national prosperity across the North and South, with high harvests and strong cotton prices. The Secretary of Agriculture stresses farmer well being as central to national happiness, while trade grows with record imports and rising exports. Policy outlook notes possible statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, and a push for quarantine laws. The piece predicts continued prosperity into 1906 amid robust manufacturing and trade.
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United States
North
South America
Brazil
Continents
Arizona
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Unite States
Washington Offerals
Yearly disasters recount 1905 to 1995 calamities
A compact survey notes major disasters across years with Italy’s Calabria earthquake on September 8 causing 400 deaths, a Madrid reservoir collapse, and U.S. fires and coal mine explosions. It lists fatalities from Texas and Oklahoma tornadoes, a Brocton shoe factory fire, Western Maryland rail wrecks, and the Bennington gunboat explosion among others.
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Italy
Chicago
General Slocum
New York
Calabria
Madrid
Spain
United States
Texas
Laredo
Oklahoma
Sidney
Brocton
Mass
Lom
Wattstown
Wales
Southampton Railway Company
Hilda
St. Malo
English Channel
Bennington
San Diego
Lynch Law Witnessed in 1805 Lynchings by State and Cause
The article compiles a table on lynchings since 1885, noting 60 in 1805 the smallest since 1885. It lists states and territories with counts, cites 61 black victims and 5 white victims, and itemizes crimes including murder, rape, and robbery.
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Alia Wama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Missiesippi
Missouri
Nevada
North Carolina
South
Nobel Prizes Awarded for Five Disciplines
The Nobel prizes were distributed on December 10 in Stockholm and Christiania. Peace prize went to Baroncas von Lutther of Austria for decades in world peace work and as a delegate to the International Peace Congress in Boston. Physicia Philip Lenard, professor, is listed among the laureates.
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Kinin Onliy Or
Christiania
Norway
Stockholm
Sweden
Baroncas von Lutther
Austria
Boston
Your Age
Philip Lenard
Nobel prize distributions noted in 1909 report
Kiel University researchers receive cathode ray studies, Adolph von Boerger of Moon ohen leads in organic chemistry, Robert Kooh of Berlin cited for tuberculosis prevention work, Henry Slenklewicz noted as Polish novelist. This marks the fifth Nobel awards distribution with no American laureates yet.
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Kiel University
Adolph von Boerger
University of Moonohen
Robert Kooh
Berlin
Henry Slenklewicz
Fiih
National champions of 1905 list of attainments
National champions of 1905 list各 sport headliners include Martin J. Sheridan in Amateur Athletics Barney Oldfield in Automobiling Charles Conklin in Billiards Charles M. Anderson in Bowling James J. Jeffries in Boxing Frank J. Marshall in Chess Frank L. Kramer in Cycling Willie Anderson in Open Golf H Chandler Egan in Amateur Golf Missauling Mackay in Women's Golf David Nicol in Jockey Sergt C BE Orr in Rifle Shooting Herman Dietz in Skat Norval Battle in Skating Professional Morris Wood in Skating Amateur C M Daniels in Swimming Reals C Wright in Tennis Elizabeth Moore in Women's Tennis R R Barber in Trap Shooting.
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Martin J. Sheridan
Barney Oldfield
Charles Conklin
Charles M. Anderson
James J. Jeffries
Frank J. Marshall
Frank L. Kramer
Willie Anderson
H. Chandler Egan
David Nicol
Sergt. C
Rail disasters toll rises with deaths and injuries
The year records 3,142 killed and 16,004 injured in railway disasters on the steam route. Electric and elevated railways add 444 deaths and 2,622 injuries, highlighting mounting traveler fatalities and harm across systems.
Bradstreet Year in Review of 1905 Purchases and Output
Bradstreet assesses 1905 as a year of strong purchasing power with high prices and broad activity. It notes rich agricultural rewards, full employment, few major strikes, extensive mining and building, enlarged bank clearings, and robust commodity demand. The report highlights car shortages, open weather aiding outdoor work, and bullish forecasts for 1906 with ongoing demand for iron, steel, ore, coal, lumber, hardware, and textiles.
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Bradstreet’s
Wdo
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Morrins Wood
C. M. Daniels
Reals C. Wright
Elizabeth Moore
R. R. Barber
Bradstreet
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