Various Bits From a Busy Teletype Orbits the Nation
A wide collage of notes and jests from around the world. The column references Greece, Turkey, Macedonia and naval tension, plus musings on divorce, Patti, and a rumored pants company in Memphis. It notes Mt Vesuvius real estate dips, apple crop estimates, and a curious zebra like animal called the cebrula. A Philadelphia claim of turning metals to gold is treated with skepticism between jokes about clergymen and a New York mission to speed book writing through fasting.
Gown Details in Silk Batiste Fashion Plate Description
Garment description features a silk batiste gown trimmed with embroidered batiste straps and narrow ruffles. The bolero and sleeves carry ruffles, fringe, and stitched embroidery. A draped undersleeve with lace cuffs, a plain crêpe blouse, and a matching cravat complete the ensemble with a gold buckle girdle.
Embroidered GOS Dresses and Weather Adapted Costumes
The article describes deep cuffing and embroidery on a gown with a yoke, a black taffeta girdle and matching stock, featuring rexeda or apple green appliques. It notes travel outfits in flecked tweed and Weather mixtures for ocean voyages, plus lace medallions and fashionable sleeves.
Fashion Notes and Domestic Tips From Paris to New York
A collage of fashion and housekeeping tidbits traces garments, fabrics, and accessories from Blouses with applique glitter to green liberty mousseline gowns. It mentions preserving parsley, tender meat care, linen finishes, and wrist bags, with notes on materials like satin, chantilly lace, and panne.
Fringes and care tips from old style household notes
Fringes become more popular in autumn with silk fringe piping on gowns and mantels. New stockings use silk gauze with lace embroidery. Stains on dreams may be removed by rubbing with a raw potato. Carpet edges, curtains, and cleaning hints for Japanese trays and teapots are given with practical home care guidance.
Fashion Notes on Summer Dress and Embroidery Trends
Textile features highlight prints in white with red spots and black lines, wide leather belts, mohair and light cloths, and Parisian caps. Dresses emphasize large hems, lagerstick tucks, side openings, and fitted waists with belts, plus embroidered linen and broderie Anglaise gowns for fall accents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mateh
Life and labor notes reflect on giving and joy
Incomplete verses lament life without a cottage and flowers. The piece praises helping others and sharing joy through giving, contrasting muted chatter with the clatter of children in the street. A nostalgic New York imprint frames a moral about generosity and communal life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Labor News From Many Nations and Unions
Labor field briefs report carpenters in Austria working long days for weekly wages, Duluth messenger boys forming a union, and Cripple Creek Cripple Creek mining strikes closing plants. Gains include wage increases for engineers and firemen on Union Pacific, and consolidations of major unions in a broad labor movement across the United States and Canada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ams
Austria
Messenger Boys
Duluth
American Federation of Labor
Homestead Milla
Krupp
Montreal
Canada
United States
Tanetion and Refining Company
Colorado Springs
Florence
Golo
Cripple Creek
San Francisco
Walter Sherrero
Philadelphia
Charlen Grewe
Elgin
Rock Triland Railroad
Chicago
Bo Test Canes
Colo
International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen
Timothy Healey
New York
Washington
Omaha
Union Pacific Railway
Ilinois
d@ogates
Team Drivers’ International Union
Federation Window Glass Company Diretors
Wagexeale
National Convention of the Germent Workers of America
Union of Women Tailors of
Bt. Lents
St. Louis
Jersey City
Carpenters
Lafayette
Ind
Wnion
International ‘Typographical Union
Ageregala
Iznin
Inder Dixon
Denver
International Bricklayers’ Union
Mullders’ Exchange Longue
Building Trades’ Council
Pittsburg
Metcalf
Iron Molders’ Union of North America
Joseph Beott
Smelter Men's Union of Denver
Dixon
Globe Plant
Scott
Supreme Court
Boston and Albany Railroad
Allston
Boston
Boston and Albany
West Springfield
National Civic Federation
Law Committee
Journeymen Tailors’ Union
Bloomington
John B. Lennon
International Typographical Felon
Gilmour
Powell
Ottawa
Watony
Plumbers, Gas and Steamfaters’ Journal
Atck
TU. A
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kansas Agitator
Garnett
Kansas
Greece
Mt. Vesuvius
Turkey
Macedonia
Alexander the Great
Patt
Patti
Harry Ler
Glass Trust
Apple Shippers’ Association
Memphis
Switzerland
Sara Bernhardt
Nicholas
Russia
Nick
New York State
Columbia
Suat
Wellington Putnam
Wraryee
Gos Was
Jersey
St. Lawra Republic
Hou
Oehold
Teco
George Gould
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