Wedding Party Gowns Feature White Lace Satin and Striped Silk
At a recent wedding, gowns included the bride in white fallle with plaited chiffon vest and duchess lace border, the bride's mother in light-gray satin with a front panel and jet butterfly sash, a bridesmaid in fine striped silk in white and gray, and hats with ribbon hoops. The description notes lace epaulets, satin sleeves, and a prominent jet embellishment on the bodice and belt.
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Arepon
Paria
Old Fashioned Tonnet Styles Return At Weddings
Notes on nunts and bonnets for older women as fashion cycles revive old style. Describes net bonnets, bows, ribbons, and floral touches, plus hats with double bands and jeweled pins. Advises color palettes for elderly wear, including blacks, dark browns, lavenders, and creams, with caution on bold patterns.
Lace Welding dress design in Chicago wedding fashion
The article describes a bridesmaid costume with a lace welding style. The skirt lacks side lace strips but features three rosettes on each side. The waist forms a long yoke cut with three strips joining the yoke to the waist and epaulets over a large gathered sleeve.
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Chicago Daily News
Short Gowns Are Coming and Rise of Outdoor Styles
The article notes a shift toward shorter gowns as outdoor wear becomes standard, predicting the am ple garments will inevitably shorten. It describes trimmed skirts with wadding, velvets, or silk, including cross folds, white satin slashes, plain cloth skirts, and heavily trimmed black mohair crepon ensembles. Full petticoats with ribbon bands and bows shape the back fullness, tying with decorative bows.
Etiquette on Responding to Invitations and Visiting Cards
The article outlines proper social conduct for invitations and visits. It notes that a couple may use separate visiting cards when not attending a reception, and emphasizes sending a courteous note or card to acknowledge a wedding invitation or afternoon tea.
Notes on Maddes Fashion Trends in Summer Styles
Broadcloths in red brown green and pinkish tans appear with novelty elastic bretehes and gintles. White enamel buttons with a single brilliant adorn trim for white and ecru gowns. Hematite linen or cambric collars and cuffs dominate dark cloth costumes. Black lace on sheer white fabrics marks a new wrinkle in fashion. Dresden ribbons on white dresses with floral patterns lead trims. Feathers stay popular though flowers remain the main millinery trim. Coarse black net over silk used for bodices of mid summer costumes. Skirts stay white and untrimmed for children’s frocks. White tucking returns for yokes and plastrons with beading and satin ribbons. Shoppers should shop for these styles.
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Dresden
Young Men in the Senate. Its Choice of Men for Senators
The article recalls early careers of senators, noting Chandler as one of the youngest in the Senate when first sworn in. He boasts of being elected at 44 and contrasts with Mitchell who has served six years and is not yet 44. It notes only Morrill Sherman and Stewart remained in the Senate since Mitchell’s 1878 election.
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Zach Chaniler
Senate
Mitchell
Oregon
Chandler
Detroit
Michi- Rin
United States Senate
Morrill
Vermont
Sherman
Ohio
Stewart
Treasury
Nevada
The Bee Industry and the Idle Drone
Minnesota farmer William Russell says bees reflect human nature when idle. Last year rain kept bees busy and honey flowed. this year less honey leads to idleness and frolic. He notes the drone, the hive’s father, has no collecting role and is killed after its work ends.
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Minnesota
William Russell
Minneapolis Tribune
A Heart Party Makes Hearts The Talk In Old Time Club
Minnie Morss describes an old time party where guests pin a white circled arrow onto a red flannel heart. Numbers on arrows match guest lists and prizes point to center accuracy. Booby prizes include a Brownie heart and a satin beet pincushion.
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Minnie Morss
She Was Quite Old Enough Bo Mine
A brief dialogue shows a flirtatious exchange where a man insists she is old enough to accept him, while the woman counters that she is mature enough not to. The scene centers on consent and age in a playful, wary tone between the two characters.
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Biri
Remarkable Trance Ends In Child's Death At Eleven-Year Mark
Etta Moody of Hollister Florida died after a prolonged trance begun in January and ending April 20 with sudden speech and visions. Doctors call the case extraordinary and unable to explain the cause while noting the child’s transformation from restless energy to a quiet, dying state and subsequent death tests confirming death.
A Court Clerk's Finesse in a German Mixup
A stylish young woman, Marie Latouche, 22, is brought before a police magistrate in B- for shoplifting rib bons. The clerk, misled by a French lawyer, learns she does understand German after she answers ages and identity with a laugh. The exchange ends with a faintly comic misinterpretation.
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Wones
Marie Latouche
Discovered Snopeler Secret in Smuggling Ring
Canadian officials in Montreal expect an upcoming arrest tied to a Canada to United States Chinaman smuggling operation. Authorities estimate about a hundred smuggled across at various points in four months. Washington dispatched skilled US secret service agents, making Montreal the HQ to locate the ringleader and the transport method.
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Snopeler
Montreal
Can
Canada
United States
Washington
Secret Service
BAU
Faith Found Tonight Amid The Muscle and Horse Races
Unclear remnants describe a local event with references to faith, meat refinement, motor shows, horses, and purity of humanity, mentioning Munger as a place or person. The text reads as a fragmented, non-specific notice of community happenings and suspects a nineteenth or early twentieth century tone.
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Munger
Freaks Of Various Kinds In Odd News Tales
A Massillon girl died after a spider vanished from her ear causing terrible pain one week later. A Newark child born with twelve fingers twelve toes and a double palate died after only hours. In Lexington Schweinfurth followers he a live black snake head to win a 360 wager. A New York officer recognized two thieves he had arrested as schoolmates not seen in thirty years. Lightning struck a wall near Winchester leaving a ground hole dry as a mummy. A Kansas City couple divorce over the size of angleworms for their canary bird.
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Massillon
Ohio
Newark
N. J
Schweinfurth
Lexington
New York
Winchester
Kansas City
Don’t Drag Your Feet to Restore Manhood Power
A vintage ad copy promotes a tobacco related cure claiming nerve centers weaken with tobacco use and can be restored to vigor and vitality. It promises a free sample by sending a request to New York City or Chicago and mentions no refunds or guarantees.
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New York City
Chicago
Monte Carlo Wagers Show Big Casino Take
Reporters describe a day at Monte Carlo where boxes weighed with gold are carried away in view of losers. Tables yield seven to ten thousand dollars daily, eight tables grossing fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars.
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Monte Carlo
Principality of Monaco
Lady Hatberton Suggests Knickerbockers for Women Servants
The text notes Lady Hatberton, famed for inventing the divided skirt, now proposes that female servants wear knickerbockers. It contrasts a girl who bets kisses with bets on gloves or candy, implying she avoids paying when she loses and that kisses alter the outcome.
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Lady Hatberton
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