Millionaire Debunks Fake Antique Furniture Scam
Alpheus T. Jumper exposes a furniture dealer selling counterfeit pieces billed as Louis Quinze and Seize. The dealer arranges mock makers to swear to goods, but Jumper reveals all items came from one manufacturer with dead claimants, exposing the ruse behind a $15,000 profit.
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Alpheus T. Jumper
Louis Quinze
Louis Seize
Sheraton
Adam
Jumper
Mr. Jumper
France
Seize
South America
Mr. Adam
Eden
California
Grand Rapids
Quinze
Adam and
Mission
Ty W. G. Chapman
Stretching Economy and a Wartime Egg Story
The late Henry H. Rogers recalled that government work for the unemployed won t solve deeper economic ills. He compared such ideas to Tim Greely of Fairhaven who once traded cracked eggs at a wartime canteen and asked for two dozen best cracked eggs when none were available.
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Henry H. Rogers
Tim Greely
Fairhaven
Tim
Emerson Defends Stove Labeling as Imperfect
The story recounts Ralph Waldo Emerson demanding the stove be marked imperfect rather than pass the trouble to others. He refuses to auction off a faulty appliance without honest labeling, keeping integrity intact.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
Teach Manners by Example
Laura Spencer Porter argues that teaching good manners starts at home with parents. Hypocrisy and rude treatment of children erode truthfulness, kindness, and social grace, leaving a child ill prepared for life.
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Laura Spencer Porter
Mother’s Magazine
Whisky Stocks Grow in Kentucky Beyond National Levels
Report notes a surge in stored whisky in Kentucky reaching higher totals than the entire U S a decade earlier. Analysts cite robust bourbon demand and expanding aging capacity as drivers.
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Kentucky
Youthful Frocks with Suspender Blouses Popular This Season
The piece praises youthful looking dresses with suspender overblouses, crepe de chine and crape blouses, and varied waists. It suggests fabrics like flowery taffeta for dresses, and cretonne or cotton for house dresses, with possible evening dress adaptations and simple, classical sleeve styles.
Case for the nightdress
A dainty useful nightdress case is quickly made from three hem-stitched handkerchiefs and ribbon. It washes easily and irons well, making an inexpensive nice present. Decoration of the flap is the main work, with slots cut inside the hem stitched border.
How to make a ribbon threaded handkerchief case
Instructions describe threading ribbon through slits cut in handkerchiefs to form a slip case. It explains buttonhole stitching, centering an embroidered initial, padding the initial, and sewing three sides of two handkerchiefs with a flap at the top. A colored version uses lighter fabrics for durability.
Home made candle shades ideas and tips
A dialogue suggests making silk candle shades at home to achieve exact color. Purchase frames from department stores then stretch thin silk over them. Finish with tarnished gilt edging and decorative trim such as fringe and garlands of silk roses and green foliage for a glowing effect.
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Marie
Marjorie
Centerpiece Finishing Tricks Without Scalloping
The article offers tips to finish centerpieces using lace, fringe, tape, and crochet. It suggests pulling lace threads to fit fullness, using larger scallops to take lace, buttonhole edges with picot stitches, and options like white or colored tape for quaint, old fashioned looks.
Chintz Aprons and Caps Brighten Domestic Work
A young matron who sews her own housework garments uses chintz to create dustproof aprons and matching caps. The firm weave resists wrinkling and staining, while a gay allover design keeps the wearer looking stylish. The apron provides full gown coverage, a waist cinch, and a large pocket, with a striped blue and green floral motif as her favorite chintz armor against dust.
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Chintz
Prep for Guests by One Little Hostess
A cottage hostess keeps Sunday gatherings effortless by preplanning. She spends hours preparing on a couch with pad and pencil and makes four day menus. By Friday only dusting and bed remakes remain after guests depart.
Textile Materials for Art Needlework Departments
A note on materials common in art needlework shops lists cotton and linen braids as readily available items. The guidance implies these fibers are standard in department inventories and suitable for trims and decorative work.
Prank Play by Hurricane Destroys Storefront and Windows
In a New Orleans storm, a tall chimney on the Masonic temple swayed and collapsed onto a clothing store, shattering skylights and scattering garments along St. Charles Street. Wind hurled clothing across roofs, damaging windows and injuring nearby structures as bricks and glass rained down.
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St. Charles Street
Masonic Temple
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Explorer Kawaguchi Returns From Tibet Mission
The famous Japanese explorer Rev Ekai Kawaguchi has returned from Tibet after a lengthy quest to recover pristine Buddhist scripts. He originally set out almost twenty years ago, endured hardships, and finally entered Tibet again three years after leaving Japan. He studied Tibetan religion for ten years before being given Sanskrit scriptures and returning home.
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Ekai Kawaguchi
Tibet
Kawaguchi
Llamas
Japan
Squaring All Hands Leads to Odd Gift Tale
Ernest Eichorn recalls Gottlieb Muller in Savannah as the quadruple alliance seeks to square everyone. Muller, carrying candy meat cigars and a toy horse, explains the gifts are for his girl, dog, old man, and little brother as he jokes about “square all hands.”
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Greece
Roumania
Bulgaria
Gottlieb Muller
Ernest Eichorn
Savannah
Gottlieb
Washington Star
Three Prize Heifers Die After Eating Dynamite
Cornelia Warren of Waltham loses three prize heifers at Cedar Hill farm on Waverly Oaks Road. The cattle chewed dynamite amid stump blasting nearby and died from the blast remnants. Officials note no explosion occurred and speculate cattle ingested the explosive.
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Cornelia Warren
Cedar Hill
Waverly Oaks Roads
Waltham
Miss Warren
Ridge Hill
Fashion sewing notes on bindings and trims
Piping and binding methods describe bias bands used on skirts in chiff on and silk, with silk bindings for marquisette chiffon tulle or lace. Box plaits are secured by narrow folds of the same fabric. Full double plaited tulles edge pinked for a quaint old fashioned look on taffeta and tulle gowns.
Smart Felt Hats Shape Street Fashion
Felt is the chic material for hats and turbans as well as sport caps. New shapes include the Mexican sombrero style with a roll brim and the up tilted Boy Scout sailor hat, all designed to complement tailored street suits.
Swiss Hotels Hurt by War
Swiss hotels suffer from the war with broad economic impact. Tourism circulates about $160 million yearly in Switzerland, boosting postal receipts by $1.0 million and telegraph funds by $0.4 million. Railways gain $3‑4 million from tourist traffic. in 1912 there were 3585 hotels employing 43,000 people with salaries over $5.6 million and hotel capital at $227,000.
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Berne
Switzerland
National Railways
Rainbow Appears Over Harrisburg Night Sky
A bright rainbow was seen in darkness near Harrisburg Oregon at about seven o clock. The full moon broke through clouds in the east while rain fell to the west. The rainbow formed a perfect outline and several colors were distinguishable.
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Harrisburg
Ore
Companionship Leads to a Chance Encounter in the Woods
George Keene seeks companionship and crafts a plan to meet Elsie Cartright's circle. He befriends a family picnic in Long Island woods by staging a dog scare and a shared dinner invite. Molly Molly Neville and the mother laugh as the plan succeeds, and Keene earns trust with the trio.
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George Keene
Elsie Cartright
Hudson
Palisades
Jersey
Elsie
Peggy Arnott
George
Peggy
Keene
Long Island
Mr. Nevin
Molly
Miss Molly
McClure
Why He Fled. A School Run Goads a Boy
Two boys flee after a remark about avoiding school. Johnny notes seeing a teacher near the corner who might seek to bring them back to class. The exchange captures a tense moment of rebellion and duty in a city paper tone.
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Willie
Johnny
Richmond Times- Dispatch
Tired of His Condition Declares Town Spouse
In a clipped dialect statement Sister Mi asma Waters complains of her husband’s prolonged convalescence, saying he has been in recovery since their marriage and will not get over it. The remark highlights local tensions around domestic care and dependence.
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Miasma Waters
Not French Dauphin Myth That Captivated Many Now Seen as Fiction
Eleazar Williams, a Wisconsin figure, claimed in 1849 to be Louis XVII and the last French dauphin. Historians view his tale as fiction. he was mixed white and Indian, worked as a spy, and later as a missionary. He never ruled France and died in poverty in 1858.
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Wisconsin
Eleazar Williams
Green Bay
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Dauphin of
France
Tower of the Temple
Louis XVII
North America
St. Regis
Canada
Prince de Joinville
Louis Philippe
New World
Williams
Deerfield
Massachusetts
New York
Oneida
Stockbridge
Brothertown
Munsee
Northwest
Bourbon
Wisconsin Historical Society
Augustin Birrell Sits On Child’s Paper In Train Row
Secretary for Ireland Augustine Birrell caused embarrassment aboard a northern England train when he sat on a young girl’s newspaper. He apologized and returned the paper, but the girl later asked for her fried fish that had been in the paper.
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Augustine Birrell
Ireland
France
England
Birrell
Mr. Birreil
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