New York's surging doorway fashions mimic French chateaux
A New York City feature observes rising doorways and porte cochères on mansions transforming streetscapes. Wealthy owners, led by Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt and others, swap entries for grand parlor-adjacent arches, iron gates, and glass facades inspired by Parisian hotels.
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Tle
Dols de Boulogne
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Mra. Collis P. Huntington
Ston Bridge
Elbridge T. Gerry
Gerry
America
East Seventy-fifth Street
Goulil
The Princes Gown and Tired Housewife Topics
A fashion feature reviews the princes gown suited to a plump figure, detailing construction, color accents, and variations including mourning and Valenciennes lace styles. It urges rest for worn householders, cites bed rest as a cure for fatigue, and adds practical tips on teapot cleaning and fabric dyeing.
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Leosen
Barcelona
Tollsome Mountains
England
Parisian and Venetian Doorways Shape Grand Houses
The article notes how modern entrances dictate house design with Parisian and Venetian doors gaining favor among wealthy Americans. Mrs Stuyvesant Fish showcases a Parisian facade with a sunken front doorway and marble paved area while Mrs John Jacob Astor promotes a Venetian entry with an arched glass canopy and folding doors to shield guests from carriages.
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New York
John Jacob Astor
Fifth Avenue
Dress Details and Garden Party Gowns on New York Scene
An article describes lavish black and green gowns with jet insertions and mutton sleeves, a prominent glass screen door at a grand mansion, and a Barnard alumnae garden party on Hast 37th Street. It notes a Paris firm’s linen children's dresses with cream foulard, roses, eglantine, and heavy lace trimmings, plus delicate sleeves, ribbons, and decollete details.
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Hast 37Th Street
New York
Morgan
Sev
Paris
Rue Des Petita- Champa
Philadelphia Amor Sparks in Hartford Obituary Snippet
The fragment recalls Mrs. Emily R. Talcott of Hartford aged 105 with a long-lived line including a great-grandmother who reached 107 and a mother who lived to an old age, while quoting a terse exchange about encouragement from a daughter’s guardian.
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Emily R. Talcott
Hartford
Debating club's lively row at early Philadelphia meeting
A fragment recalls a lively exchange about a debating club led by Margaret with women spectators laughing as others rise to speak. The text hints at a return ticket to the Wabash and references the Philadelphia North American.
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Tinkeley
Margaret
Philadelphia
Northmerican
Ball's Catarrh Core in Jalon Internally Price 750
A fragment mentions Ball's Catarrh Core in Jalon with a $0.75 price and claims a remedy avoids disgrace. It includes a humorous dialogue about tramps and a San Francisco Wave, then shifts to health tips about tonic washes for tightened facial skin and seeds planting guidance for evening or morning light.
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Ball
Jalon
Wait til next year Clarenes aughested the ly maiden
The passage shows a playful exchange where a young maiden handles a suitor with coy humor about proposing. It mentions decorating with ferns and concealing a pot with fir cones as a whimsical plan.
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Clarenes
Mena Arkansas Emerges As New Railroad North-South Hub
Omegseekers and investors tout Mena as a once in a lifetime town with a tributary country within fifty miles in every direction. Plans highlight a division line on the Kansas City Portland Gulf main line, zur building south from Kansas City to Port Arthur on the Mexican coast. Look at the May prospects for the new Western Arkansas town.
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Uh Great North and South
Kansas City
Port Arthur
Mexico
Mena
Weatern
Arkineas
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New
Yor
Valenciennes
Cherriphle
paRistaee
Ray
Mailam
Hasinn
Kansan
St. Louis
Wabash Railroad
Mra. Fish
Millicent Arrowpoint
Barnard College
Sultor
San Francisco
Hood
Hall’s
Thompson's Eye
W. MU
Omeseekers and Investors
Etevario
Owa
Srotesauny
Aerray Sured
Mena Has
Lion
Tink Walon
Worthty
Falk County
Californi
Janne
Ataneas Conntenetion Co
Coe Ford
Constellation
F. A. Hornbeck
Cans
Kanana City
Hoebung
Gulf Hallresa
Kansa City
Pasa
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