Practical Fashions Pattern 3295 for Little Girls Dress
Practical Fashions outlines pattern 3295 for two to six year old girls featuring a yoke front panels and flouncing bodice with a tiny skirt. Instructions specify materials and yardage for 36 inch width or 12 inch flouncing options, plus beading and ribbon. Also includes a detailed discussion on water power and river erosion illustrating how velocity and solid matter affect sediment transport and channel deepening across major river gorges.
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Paris
Hudson River
West Point
Hudson
Delaware River
Blue Ridge
Delaware Water Gap
Susquehanna
Potomac
Paria Pattern No 2269 for Everyday Apron Styles
Pattern No 2269 offers four sizes 32 36 40 and 44 inches bust with dotted ginghams chambray galatea striped Madras and even denim. Apron features square pockets for dusters and tidying supplies and requires 4% yards 27 inch wide or 3% yards 36 inch wide for 36 bust. Pattern Department note invites name and address and pattern number.
Hardest wood myths and a Tongue Twister Column
The item humorously discusses wood hardness noting coc ous wood as very tough used for flutes and instruments. A playful exchange follows about shingles and wood types with a mock news header from Yonkers Stateamer and a garbled “New Unk of Measure” line.
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Yonkers
Matchmaking in Japan as Orio Tamura Seeks Bride
An article describes Orio Tamura, a twenty year old Japanese student, turning from studies to marriage. Parents consult a go-between who arranges a formal look-at-each-other tea, where Orio and his future bride first glimpse one another without speaking, assessing each other.
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Orio Tamura
Japan
Orio
Fate of a Merchant of Fez
The London Graphic recounts Ali Mahmoud, a Fez merchant who prospers, purchases slaves, and raises a daughter under child betrothal customs. A false weight accusation leads to bribed arbitrators declaring guilt, and he is executed by hanging near his home as onlookers jeer, with his friends bearing the body at sunset.
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Fez
Morocco
Ali Mahmoud
London Graphic
Hic
Mohammed
Mahmoud
Carda
Ali
Sundow
Illinois Laws Take Effect In July Changes
Springfield notes several new state laws going into effect July 2 including mining safety provisions and primary election updates. Attorney General aides prepare explanatory opinions while other items report on Bribery allegations against a legislator, farmhand labor shortages, oil fires, a veteran’s death, a pastor’s resignation, and local incidents across multiple towns in Illinois.
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Springfield
Dhe
Iite
Vartoria
Charles Woodward
Incoherent Classroom Exchange From Old Text
Fragmented dialogue from a 19th or early 20th century source recounts a teacher pressed for China products and a student offering tea and laundry work. The scene shifts to a misheard dialogue about a bright side and an amputated leg, reflecting dated schoolroom humor.
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McSing
China
Suro
Degree of Misery Joke Heads to Engagement
Two young ladies discuss a woman engaged to a widower with four children. One quips that four children and a cornet is bad, the other adds that six children and a trombone would be worse, delivering a light humor punch line.
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Platte River
Nebraska
Columbia River
Oregon
Amur
Bureya
Miberia
Atream
Minusinsk
Siberia
Susquehanna River
Allegheny Mountains
Ohio River
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Children’s. Drebs
BIZEL
Ssesssnefones
Georg
Frederick Wright AM
Tre Pussissipp
Pattern Department
Mr. Sweetly
Aize
Bisukieigh
Ka Sean
News OF Illinois
Chicago
Charles M Spare
le Go Neill Browne
Wasman
IlInois
Moonington
Li Hols
Railroros
Felde
Sire Marshall Doyle
Sreme
Tag Lev -'Ic
Lawrenzveville
Estaing
Suaceys
Ieracon
Lawrence County
Cherlesto
Uly Wilkle
Solings
Mendota
Todor F O Hiller
Cenvol
Ozarks
Forsyth
Presbyterian
University of Edinburgh
Edwin Slagle
Surora
Moody Church
Passavant Hospital
Virder
Virden
T C. Coffey
First Baptist Church
Shak
Duquota
Southern Wiinels
Mount Vernon
McLeansboro
Harrisburg
Eldorado
Herrin
Macomb
R. G. Herrguth
Leslie, Mich
Bushnell
Woman VII
Sterling
Polovistor
Ogle County
Nashville
Okayville
Victor
la Salle
Bernard Kelly
Utica
Simon Peter Groves
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Onivra
National Live Stock
Manasas City
St. Joseph
S. Omaha
Mob
Planten
MAIL
TATES
Augeleu
Ork
Yamento
Cal
Italia
Masy Torma
M. L. Mollleter & Co
Citoage
Bervics
Langet
Enreee
Washington A Souls
Gratin
Rio Grande
Court House
Postem Cereal Co. Limited
Battle Creek, Mich
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