The Fashions From Harper's Bazar On Elegant Winter Dress
Readers learn about capes in seal skin and plush, short scarves and muita fur trim, and plush mantles in black with bright beaded borders. Velvet Dasques, heliotrope blue satin with butterflies, and green cloth suits feature bold color pairings and wide velvet accents. Diamond and Rhine stone brooches, long hair wings, and white wool with pistache green stripes shape this season’s stylish ensembles.
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Paris
Winter to spring fashion in fabrics and jewelry
Midwinter display reveals new cotton fabrics with stripes plaids and cord designs in primrose shades. Primrose and helio trope combinations dominate ginghams while embroidery and velvet trims reappear on dresses. Broadway jewelers showcase diamond and faux gem devices including roses lilies star shapes and antique style chatelaines.
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Harper's Bazar
Broadway
New York Post
Fashions and moral counsels mingle in period notes
The column blends fashion notes on collars hats and textiles with sermons on parental restraint toward pastors. It includes praise of woolens velvet plush and novelty dress buttons, plus a lengthy homily urging parents to guard their talk before children and uphold Christian teaching.
Saved by Kindness Shown To a Drunkard Jim
A doctor persuades a gutter drunkard known as Jim to quit drinking with a compassionate warning and declaration of care. Fifteen years later Jim is a respectable man, illustrating the power of kindness to transform lives. The piece urges readers to try to win someone with kindness this week.
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Pylager’s Archiv
Meuli-Hilty
Jim
Mr.m
Kindling Lightning in Clouds and a Diet Note
Meteorologists explain how vapor rising from the ground carries positive electricity into clouds. As condensations form, many vesicles store charge until strong repulsion causes a lightning flash. The article also includes a health diet and exercise section with cautions and lifestyle rules.
Dr Mary Walker the cat vanishes after fly paper incident
A St Paul cat named Dr Mary Walker disappears after becoming stuck to fly paper in Mr Sweeney s drug store. The tale chronicles her distress, the mischief, and the final mystery of her whereabouts with humorous but sympathetic narration.
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Mary Walker
St. Paul
Yellowstone National Park
Reminiscences of Pubry Men and Monkeys in Chicago
A collection of anecdotes and reminiscences includes a heartbroken monkey in a city zoo cage shocked by his own reflection, legends about Col Benton and the Bowie knife tale, Garfield’s death and medical reports, Lucretia Sturgis Bates and her rise, General Lee’s Washington visit, and portraits of notable Washington society figures including Mrs. George Spencer.
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Chicago News
Col. Benton
Congress
Philadelphia
John Randolph
Virginia
Nat Macon
Nathaniel Magon
MM. In P
Garfield
Senator West
Hull
James A. Garfield
Lucretia Sturgis
Joshua Bates
North End
Boston
William Sturgis
Samuel Hooper
Mr. Bates
Bates
William
Creeche
England
House of Bering Brothers
van de Weyer
St. James
Leopold
Lord Holland
Sidney Smith
Miss Bates
Windsor
Robert E. Lee
Washington
Joint Committee On Reconstruction
Lexington
Metropolitan
Church of the Ascension
Georgetown
Arlington
Republic
Gen. Blenker
George Spencer
New York
Alabama
Gainsborough
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Harper’s Bazar
Christ
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King of Terrors
Jesus
Nineveh
Babylon
Diana
Ephesus
Egypt
Thebes
Delphos
Nero
Rome
Sharples
Staffordshire
Lafayette
Donald G. Aitchell
Herr W. C. Moeller
Herr Moeller
Gothenburg
London News
Goulbourn
Athenium
Ben
Perley Poor
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