Valentine Day Parties and Festive Dress Occasions
Valentine day celebrations are a favored venue for fancy dress and costume parties ranging from masked balls to intimate home gatherings. Guests impersonate lovers and famous romances and enjoy heart shaped treats. games include archery on targets shaped like hearts and a version of the don key party with a heart prop. Music features old fashioned love songs and decorations emphasize sentimentality.
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John Alden
Priscilla
Evangelie
Gabriel Romeo and Juliet
Cupids
Ibarta
St Valen
Jong Hn
Choo
Noophass
St Valentine's
Les
Alice
Howland Created American Valentines in Worcester
Esther A Howland, Mount Holyoke graduate, sparked the American valentine industry after 1849. She turned ornate English designs into mass produced Worcester valentines, building a factory, importing materials, and expanding to $100,000 yearly sales before selling to a Worcester firm. Her story is remembered by Mount Holyoke alumni each February 14.
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Worcester
England
New York
Self
Germany
Miss Howland
Mount Holyoke
Valentine
Esther Howland
Cooper's Sales Are Enormous In Omaha
Omaha readers report an enormous Cooper preparations sale with daily callers thanking the inventor. Testimonies from W. J Grant and William Kennedy claim the New Discovery cures stomach trouble, restores appetite, and boosts strength after brief use. The flood of praise supports Cooper’s national claim of genuine success.
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Omaha
Neb
Cooper
W. J Grant
South Sixteenth Street
Earth
William Kennedy
Bennett Company
Sixteenth and
Harney Streets
Discovery
Relef
Coopers
Practical Christianity at Sewing Circle Fundraiser
The pastor thanks the congregation for 57 buttons donated in the past month and asks donors to place half finished undershirts and three pairs of secular garments on the plate next Sunday to sew the buttons. The note cites Harper's Weekly and remarks on women's fear of mice.
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Harper’s Weekly
Resinol ointment cured my summer neck eruption
Barbara Carpenter from Ogien reports a summer neck eruption like eczema that resisted treatment until using Resinol. The ad line claims it cured the skin issue when other remedies failed.
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Barbara Carpenter
Ogien
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