Fashionable Evening Gowns in Modern Color Trends
The article surveys women and home fashion focusing on fabric colors for day and evening wear. It highlights silvery greens from pale to hunter tones, with shades like willow and forest, and notes Nile green for evening. Red dominates as outdoor and trimmings, with crimson to garnet varieties. Browns show chestnut and coffee tones, while interesting Paris ideas mix multiple shades of a single color in one gown for coordinated contrasts.
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Paris
Skirt Styles Tight Fit Dominates Fashion Brief
A vintage fashion note describes tight hip hugging skirts cascading below the knee with five to seven layers. It notes counterstyles like garter petticoats and skeleton petticoats to preserve a cling while allowing a smooth fit. The trend favors a close sheath silhouette and attractive fall models in blue tones.
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Rock & Tar
New York
Embroidered Lace Collar Trimmed with Stitched Bands
A description of decorative embroidery on a collar, noting corticalli stitching inserted between breadths and a belt area covered with thread edging. bands trimming the lace collar are also stitched with tow of stitching for decorative effect.
Model Evening Gown Described With Lace and Chiffon Details
Fashion notes describe a Havet model evening gown imported from Mane Hapel Paris. It features black lace over white chiffon and taffeta, with white lace appliques and canary chiffon accents. A low-cut bodice, velvet ribbon trim, rhinestone buckles, and lace bordered hems complete the design details.
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John Wareamekes
Devadwar
N.V
Porslander
Mane Hapel, Parte
Monogram fad sweeps fashion across garments and goods
The article notes monograms appearing on nearly every item from gloves and underwear to shirts, pajamas, linens, china, glass, and even candle shades. It highlights embroidered monograms on sleeves and pockets and repousse gold or silver tracery on candle shades, signaling widespread, upscale display.
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Awell
Talline
Velvet Persian Shirt Valets Spark Vintage Style
A peculiar fashion note highlights Persian velveteens as modish novelties offering comfortable options for older cold weather. When a dark coat reveals such garments, its splendor and charm lift the overall outfit, making the ensemble appear gay and stylish.
Odd Corner Gossip and Curious Tales from Cole Camp Missouri
A compilation of whimsical items and verses including a newly found cave description at Cole Camp with icy walls, a talk of Steworth on a weekly task, and notes on Wire-Dogs Monkey Wroner Sewing-Hee and a quoted verse by Jeannie Betts Hartawick.
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Cole Camp
Missouri
Jeannie Betts Hartawick
Wonderful cave near Cole Camp impresses with rare crystals
The cave, twenty feet high and twenty eight feet wide, features baryte encrusted walls and burnished gold looking pyrite. Calcite stalactites and stalagmites crown the floor, one topped by a gleaming lead cube. Panels of lead dots the baryte walls, revealing rich geological beauty. The owners plan to pump and study the site during Sedalia fair week.
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Cole Camp
Noor Anid
Sedalia
St. Louis
Ostrich Farming Prosperity in Cape Colony
For fifteen years ostrich farming has thrived in Cape Colony. From 189? to 1899 the flock rose from 115,000 to 261,000. Birds yield about 1.5 pounds of feathers yearly valued at $13 per pound, with the finest wing feathers from male birds selling at $50–$70 per pound. Female wing feathers are gray and cheaper.
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Cape Colony
Atutisticas
Caps Colony
A Dress of Glass Draws Attention at Paris Exposition
One of the era’s most curious objects at the Paris exposition is a dress made entirely of glass. The fabric resembles delicate, translucent panels that captivate visitors with their brittle shimmer and intricate craft.
Glass thread dress wows Paris as silk rival
A unique gown woven from millions of ultra fine spun glass threads, dyed to green in daylight with iridescent colors at night, was created in Dresden and finished in Paris after five months. It weighs about the same as a regular evening gown and is described as highly flexible and comfortable. The dressmaker paid $1,000 to the makers, who call the price barely remunerative.
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Dresden
Germany
Paria
Wonders of the Alps Told Without Guide Book Mention
London Telegraph notes a vivid Alpine tale hidden in geology. It recalls how a crack in Europe's crust spawned a vast uplift forming Switzerland’s tableland and peaks like the Matterhorn and Jungfrau, carved by rain snow and glaciers over ages.
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Alps
France
Mount Bline
Switzerland
Professor Judd
Geneva
London Telegraph
Highest European Railway Reaches Jungfrau Summit
The project builds Europe’s highest railway to the Jungfrau summit at 15,670 feet. A tunnel winds through Elger mountain to Eiger station, 10,587 feet up, with galleries opening the route. The line runs seven miles to a plateau at 42,300 feet above sea level, with the Elger wand station at 9,400 feet and Eljsmeer at 10,370 feet.
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Europe
Jungfrau
Elger
Eiger Staton
Jungfraujoch
Tt Im
Elgerwand
Eljsmeer
Une
Poisonous Tangen Tree Of Madagascar In Trials
A Madagascar tree known as tangen tree has venomous properties. In historic court practice an accused was given fruit from the tree to eat, with judges and witnesses watching to judge innocence or guilt by its effect. Many alleged offenders allegedly died from the poison.
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Madagascar
Ft 5
The Happy Christmas Night In Winter Home
A poem depicts a warm Christmas scene inside a home despite rain and cold outside. The speaker sits with children by a glowing hearth while awaiting a gateward visitor as a sign of peace and goodwill for the holy season.
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Elrife
Rancor
Welcome to the fight and the higher calling
The passage frames hardship and loss as a forge for strength and virtue. It quotes Rev. John Hall urging readers to see life as a transient earthly dwelling and to pursue a higher eternal home, while acknowledging sorrow as part of growth and regeneration.
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Ife
Rev
John Hall
Bantering New Year Exchange Between Mr and Mrs F
A humorous exchange begins with Mrs F complaining about a lack of a kiss on New Year's Day. Mr F retorts about age and youth, while Mrs P interjects with a playful jibe about girls of 19. The dialogue highlights age, romance, and witty hierarchy in a light domestic scene.
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Mr. F
Mr. P
Hexton Happiness and the Pleasure Book
A 19th century reflection on happiness under a bright year. An aged lady kept a "pleasure book" and found each year that small acts of happiness accumulated. The Louis Republic notes this gentle maxim about noting daily joys and cherishing positive deeds.
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Hexton
Est Louis Republic
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