Fichy Collarette and Delicate Net Wraps For Coloured Fashion
Collarettes of many styles are in demand, offering warmth and grace. The description details a 4s peculiarly attractive collarette made of net with ribbon, diamonds and chiffon frills, with variations using one material or mixed fabrics. It covers cape, two frills, and scarf with intricate attachment, and notes yardage and buttoning for the medium size. Also included is a recipe for a chocolate beverage, using unsweetened cocoa, sugar, water, vanilla, and serving steps with milk and soda.
Salad of Iced Cherries for Game Course
Propose a fruit salad for the game course using white and red California cherries. Remove pita, arrange on ice with minced walnut meats moistened with mayonnaise. Nest shredded lettuce on small plates, fill with cherries and dressing, top with a red cherry and green pepper leaves.
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California
An Old Cookery Note From a Pruned Oak Book
A fragmentary kitchen guide discusses yeast measures from old oak book traditions. It mentions boiling lettuce as an innovation for the table, mending cracked kettles with home effort, a lime wash recipe, and adding jam or jelly to baked apples. A wire dishcloth helps prevent burns by shaping to a kettle.
Handsome Waists of White Lace Fashion Feature
A fashion snippet extols handsome waists made of liberty satin in multiple white shades. Lace trims in pale white to ecru create layered tones, with decorative stitches and embroidered pearl hues. The piece notes the smart effect of mixing whites and black velvet accents.
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Ecru
Currant Salad Lunch Idea From A Hot Day
A reader shares a novel luncheon idea pairing corned beef on lettuce with washed currants sprinkled with sugar. The currants are placed over the meat and topped with mayonnaise dressing. Suggestion: use sliced pickled beet stems as an alternative. If the dressing thickens, thin with vinegar.
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Lee
Care for Light Colors in Wash Goods
To preserve light colors in shirts and wash goods, soak waists in one gallon cold water with a handful of salt for fifteen to twenty minutes. Hang to dry in the shade. Once dry, colored cottons can be washed without fading with a little care.
Fashion Notes Highlight 1920s Color Trends
The article cites Pender 3 es and French blue as notable fashionable colors. Spotted and pagtille materials remain popular. Gloves in champagne or pure white appear in style. Tiny spangled fashions in geisha influence hair trends. Long coats are making a comeback.
Fashion notes on summer outerwear and accessories
The piece catalogs plate shirts for outdoor sport and lace and linen ensembles. It notes bolera jackets with Irish lace, novelty beads of amber and carnelian, elbow sleeves with lace, high square shoulders, and smart morning wet house jackets extending over the shoulders. A pink and white diminty model is highlighted with embroidered dots and fancy braiding. Materials guidance lists yardage for jacket construction by size and width.
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Eton
Creole Syllabub Recipe Instructions From July Housekeeper
A vintage recipe directs pouring two quarts of rich sweet milk with half a pint of strawberry juice and sugar, a splash of lemon juice or rosewater for flavor. Heat to froth, then set aside until serving. Just before serving stir in one pint of bleached almonds soaked in orange juice and serve in small glasses.
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Stiran
Children's Play Suite Fresh toys and costumes listed
The article notes novelties for children including sturdy old fashioned goods such as Jean and khaki linen. It highlights farmer sults top and Indian rigs cowboy outfits and soldier costumes as simple popular items in the play suite.
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Jean
Holl
Useful Berthas in shops at greatly reduced prices
Berthas of fancy lace may be found in shops at greatly reduced prices. They are very useful in freshening up a Bummer gown.
Rare act of generosity ends poker game tale
A Southern poker tale recalls two veterans the Majah and General at a postwar table. Facing ruin and a life insurance payout, the Majah raises twelve thousand dollars in Confederate bills as the General proposes a final toast to old times. The moment ends with a silent toast to what the war could not erase.
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Becwux
Talsin
Confederacy
New York Sun
Requisites of a Good Short Story From Editors Inquiries
A historical note reports editors favoring short stories that are original in conception well constructed and well written with humor sentiment or pathos. One authority adds the desire that a story compels reading to the end, likening it to the pianist’s emphasis on technique.
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T. BP
Tite
Liszt
Harper's, Weekly
Narrow Escape for George
A Louisville Herald report recalls a Paducah Kentucky classroom moment in which a primary pupil’s answer to what Washington would be the father of if the Confederacy had succeeded is twins, highlighting a lighthearted exchange during a lesson on history.
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George
George Washington
Paducah
Washington
Louisville
Herald
A BIT OF DIPLOMACY IN MARRIAGE SQUABBLE
A modern couple debates duties after marriage. The husband suggests his wife handle office tasks and rely on a housekeeping typewriter as a home adviser. She offers help but asserts her college education, ultimately choosing to manage home duties herself perhaps by attending cooking school.
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Fred
St Swithin's Day superstition and its weather lore
St Swithin's Day on July 15 is linked to a folk belief that the next forty days bring rain if it is wet that day, or the following twenty days stay dry if it is dry. A famed tale traces rain to the burial in the minster, but Greenwich Observatory data from 20 years before 1861 show no reliable pattern, with rain after July 15 often following dry periods.
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England
St. Swithin
Minster
St. Greenwich Observatory
St. Swithins
Auto Rubalyat of the Evil Red Engine Night Portrait
An archaic lyric fragment evokes a spectral automaton, a doomed lover, and a gaslit ride toward oblivion. The speaker laments a fading life spent on speed and fuel, longing for a final resting place while the machine roars beside a perilous Speedway.
Hobson's Bad Spell at a Spelling Bee
The article recalls Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson losing a spelling bee at Newport News while an assistant naval constructor. He fumbled on the word aerylum, showing no familiarity with the term. The embarrassing moment surprised locals, prompting laughter as Hobson faded from the event.
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Hobson
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Representative Bankhead
Alabama
Newport News
Comipany
Defiance Starch Stock Promises Better Value
When Your Grocer Savage runs out of Defiance Starch customers are advised to wait until new stock arrives. The 12 oz packages are marketed as superior to competitors and contain 16 oz per package, selling at a price similar to other brands.
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Savage
Fragmented caption hints at theft at travel hub
A distorted OCR fragment mentions a world fair site, travelers, and alleged robbery near Union Station with references to names and places. The readable bits indicate a travel hub setting with a potential guest and a reservation scene, but details are unclear and should be treated cautiously.
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Kelp
Hote Als Viste
Nour
Rtaln
Aledtria
Union Station
Omia i
Dake Reservatians
Old English Labor Law on Tailors Ends 121 Years Ago
Unearthed English labor law set a fourteen hour workday for tailors with a maximum daily wage of 43 cents and punished unionizing with two months imprisonment.
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England
Not as Fast as It Seema Express Elevator Pace
The text notes that the fastest speed in an express elevator in a tall office building tops around seventy feet per mile, equivalent to about a mile in over seven minutes, and observes pedestrians sometimes walking nearly that speed.
To Keep Shoestrings Tied
A shoe authority offers a simple method to keep shoe strings in place. After tying a bow knot, pin the bow underneath with a small safety pin, passing the pin through two loops and two ends to secure the ribbons for the day.
Ants Guide Travelers Natively in South Australia
In the tropical northern territory of South Australia travelers need not carry a compass. The district abounds with the nests of the magnetic or meridian ant. The longer faces of these nests point due north and south.
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Northern Territory
South Australia
Grape Nuts Help Child Heal After Diet Change
A mother recounts a four year old boy with stomach liver and kidney trouble and swollen feet. A Denver doctor prescribed a diet centered on Grape Nuts avoiding cane sugar. The child improved within days and now thrives, described as rosy cheeked and healthy. The ad promotes Post Sugar and Grape Nuts as a natural sweetener.
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Denver
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wallville
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Heaven
Turnpike Row
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Alan
Mother Gray
Ned
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