Fashionable fall wear and fabric notes from a magazine page
The article outlines autumn fashion trends with glossy broadcloths and cashmere,French serges, wool blends, Venetian cloths, cheviots, and tweeds. It highlights circular skirts, various coat styles, surplice waists, and greens reds grays including amoke and London fog. It also notes bold tints like electric blue plum prune dahlia and mahogany. Practical tips include sardine handling and refreshing ribbons with ammonia and ironing.
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London
Grace Margaret Gould
Woman's Home Companion
Lace details in blouses feature Valenciennes trim
The blouses show allover Valenciennes lace with delicate edging. Tiny ruffles on the trim echo the lace patterns around the sleeves, down the front, and along the unusual yoke shape.
The New Fashion in Skirts of the Day
Helen Herkeley-Loyd discusses current skirt fashions in the Dellen dor noting careful hip fitting and a shorter length with high grade shoes and hosiery. Kilting grows narrower and plaits tighten to hips while French models influence American dressmakers to integrate gores and gathered panels with bias fronts and graduated flounces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Herkeley-Loyd
Quince Parfait From Woman's Home Companion
A vintage recipe describes treating yolks with sirup and quince, cooking to a thick custard, cooling, folding whipped cream into the custard, chilling in a mold, and serving with sweetened whipped cream around a sliced dish.
Confidences and Fashion Pieces Feature in Sale
A catalog notes twoletter monogram belt buckles, lacey summer shirts reduced in price, and colored silk lined lawn negliges for cool weather. Also listed are mission rockers with leather seats at £4.50 and children’s half hose in dainty pinks.
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Mission Rookere
To Clean Ostrich Feathers
A vintage care note outlines cleaning ostrich feathers. Create a lather with pure soap and a touch of ammonia in water, agitating feathers gently. Rinse through hot then cold water tinted with blue, hang to dry near a draft, shake occasionally, then finish by steam or gas stove briefly and comb stray strands with a silver knife.
Pickling Walnuts Guide From Historic Kitchen
Gather walnuts unripe and green and pack in strong brine for a week with daily changes. Drain, pierce each nut, soak in cold water, then drain again and pack in jars. Prepare two quarts of vinegar with sugar cloves pepper allspice and mace, boil five minutes, pour boiling brine over walnuts, and seal jars.
A Traveling Hint From an Experienced Woman Traveler
An experienced woman traveler explains she always carries a Wett in her travel kit. She keeps a white wax candle and a small box of matches in a tiny box at hand in her mantle. She says these items provide safety and readiness, especially before bed.
How to Clean Ivory
Ivory can be cleansed and color restored by washing with plenty of soap and water then drying in the sun while kept wet with soapy solution. Rinse with lemon juice water and salt rub, dry carefully. For ink and stains, dip lemon in salt and rub. extreme cases use oxalic wash and thorough rinsing, then dry away from heat.
Household Tips on Cleaning and Stain Removal
Short, practical notes describe using a flannel cloth with heroseny oil to refresh fabrics and remove fly specks from bras. It suggests rubbing with a vinegar-dipped cloth to dissolve glue and states Vinecap works better than water. For pests, Borax is recommended.
Nightcaps With Scented Hair Fashion Revival
The piece describes late fashion scenting the hair for ballroom wear and notes a revived ancient idea. It highlights a dainty scented cap that releases a delicate aroma during sleep, aiming for a faint violetlike scent without overdoing it.
Embroidery Fashion and Its Abuse in Tailoring
A fragment discusses Solled Embroidery and close or open work as a fashionable trimming for costumes. It notes confusion over meaning and warns that abuse has led to unwanted outcomes and disrupted admiration for embroidery.
Biscuit Tortoni Preparation Steps
A fragmented recipe describes whisking water and sugar, folding in yolks, cooking, cooling, then mixing with cold cream. It mentions vanilla, honey, wine, and almond toppings, with folding and chilling to finish the dessert.
Earthquake in Calabria Described as Highly Destructive
Historical account assesses the Calabria quake as far reaching across three provinces, noting heavy damage to life and property in an agricultural region. It compares with Japan and other seismic belts, discusses past shocks, and reflects on human resilience amid recurring natural calamities and depopulation fears.
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Calabria
Waly Con
Europe
Calabra
Japan
Hineke
Mediterranean
Azores
Weat
Central America
China
India
Persia
Asia Minor
After the Real Wrongdoer and the Crime Ring
Gratifying efforts to reach the men behind crimes. Investigators have turned their attention to the Londoncy and to the small fry and alleged embezzlers. Traced to a definite conclusion, the key figures are blamed for cruelty and fraud, and the public hopes major culprits are drained from the timeworn circle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emnall Fry
Eripes Agaioe
Bliler Etna
Petra
Two Bores Clash in Odd Country Editorial Tale
Country Editor Rich Himach of Two Bores at Once recounts a bizarre incident in which two men await him in an adjoining room as he tries to tell a tale about a country tour. The editor questions their identity and reasons, while the scene ends with a plan to inform a poet that the wait is on.
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Rich Himach
Vieny Watterson
Jonge
Oreos
Public Land Protection Under Consideration Reforms
A historical note discusses proposed public land protection policies and federal changes. It mentions population growth, calls for broader safeguarding, and hints at a future revision of U.S. land management with involvement from a United States senator and allied parties. The piece reflects debates on land use and federal oversight.
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Janda
United
Baten
Tory
United Bratese
Jane
United States
Choredand
George Herron Founding a New Colony in Nohh Nebraska
George Herron, former Grinnell College professor, leaves Iowa to establish a new colony in Nebraska. He will lead followers including his wife and several children, with plans to settle and cultivate a communal society.
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George BD
Herron
George 1
Therron
Lows College
Grinnell
Towa
Sociel
Fae Cenerat Fomre
Elation
Uhen
Aes Corre Rand
Bartinein
Bernaieon
American Minister in Danger at Tangiers
American minister to Morocco Gummere was forced to abandon Tangiers suburb and seek refuge in the city after a battle between bandit Ralaell and insurgent forces. He is brother of Justice William S. Gummore of the state supreme court and was appointed to the consular service in 1905.
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Gummere
Tangiers
City
Farunl Fk
Morocco
Siburba
Ralaell
Trenton
William
Gummore
State Supreme Court
Three Taggarts Reunite After Fifty Years at Encampment
Three brothers Rev. B. Taggart, M. B. Taggart, and David Taggart, long separated since the Civil War era, reunited at a G A R encampment in Denver. David Taggart, 72, and M. J. Taggart, 67, now live near Olathe Kansas. Rev. B. Taggart, a Pineburg merchant, was visiting Princeton Theological Seminary when they reconnected at Union Depot.
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G. A. AL
B. Tugwart
M. BR. Taggart
David Taggart
G. A. Fh
Penver
M. Ft. Taggart
Aleferent Pornsylvania Regimenta
BL Tageart
Princeton Theological Seminary
Bhane
M. J. Thee Art
David Taevart
Kansans Wid
Olathe
Union Depot
Denver
Aleht
David Tagmart
Tageart
Pineburg
David Tageart
Tagaert
Atton Hk
David
Donoghue Re-elected President of Postal Clerks
Arthur Donoghue of Chicago is reelected president of the National Association of Postal Clerks. He has served over twelve years in the registry division at the Chicago postoffice and is now nearing his twenty year tenure.
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Arthur Donoghue
Chicago
National Association of Postal Clerks
AbAtnet Publication Plan in North Carolina and Tennessee
North Carolina secretary of state plans to publish a defensive list of abatement records on cards for counties in North Carolina and nearby Tennessee. The project will print dates and marks showing how the records were revived, with guidance on viewing and timing for access.
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Willa
North Carolina
Cami
Orily
East Indians to Enter Cornell
Word from Cornell College of Persepective reports the government will send fewer delegates to Cornell to trace epoch work in horticulture live or lines after being peiltnoect. The provato atin Monta at Coppell if believed first sent to any role see in the United States by the government of Tudin.
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Cornell College of Perseetiice
Ted Tan
Cornell
University of Tab
Coppell
United States
Gove Erkmeot
Tudin
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