The Styles and Glance at the Fashions in Bridal Dresses
The article describes dress details with dark blue jerseys, faille silk vests, and gold interwoven ribbons. It covers bridal gowns with bouffant tournures, lace panels, pearl ornaments, white kid gloves, and white or ivory footwear, plus accessories like veils, blossoms, and jeweled accents. It notes bridesmaids in transparent fabrics on silk foundations, suede trim, and colored accents paired with white themes, and mentions jewelry placement under guimpes and chemisettes. It recommends two wool dresses for a bridal outfit and outlines traveling and dressy options in plum, navy, mulberry, heliotrope, or dark green with fur accents.
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Telle
Chinchilla
Pailadelphia
Fashions of the Season Include Coiffures and Silver Trinkets
The article outlines Diana and Psyche coiffures gaining favor with hair raised into rouleaus and loops secured by tortoise-shell pins. New silver jewelry includes chatelaines, frames, and flower-holders, with St Michael motifs popular. Short street costumes feature plaited skirts, striped fabrics, and jackets or ulsters with capes, hoods, and fur trims, plus Astrakhan wraps.
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St. Michael
Paper Collars and Cuffs Gain Popularity Across Classes
A Fulton Street haberdasher notes paper collars becoming fashionable again across society, with wealthy elderly men and farmers adopting them. Prices run about 25 cents per box of ten collars and five-pair cuffs, while linen collars fade in use. Celluloid variants have waned, and paper bosoms nearly disappeared. Brooklyn Hayle reports removable vests as a practical fashion innovation, with few accessories to vary a plain costume, often inserted into jerseys and basques with button-hole details.
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Fulton Street
Eagle
Brooklyn Hayle
Home Decor Notes and Novel Accents in 19th Century Style
A catalog of decorative ideas and small novelties showcases blue and gray themes, porcelain pug card receivers, brass umbrella props, and frosted Pomona glass sets. It notes cleaning hints with salt and buckwheat flour, plus sugared water and soda for old painted surfaces. Includes Japanese teapots, square lanterns with opals, Italian wine jugs, and gum arabic frosted grass sprays.
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New York Mail
Elepress
Sabbath Reading on Faith and Courage in Daily Life
Sermon-like piece urging reflection for thoughtful men and women. It cites Richard Baxter and ponders moral duty, sacrifice for religion, and the accountability of one’s actions before the final judgment. The text centers on spiritual preparation and conscience in everyday conduct.
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Richard Baxter
Chicago Herald
A Brave Little Girl and Leyden Canal Quietude
A report contrasts a brave Bengali child defending Christian devotion under abuse with a reflection on daily spiritual duty and present living. It then shifts to Leyden, describing rare tourists, quiet canals, aging merchant mansions, and the tranquil, reflective city life along green water channels.
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Leyden
Rhine
Rapenberg
Leyden Canal
South Holland
Amsterdam
Europe
Indies
Holland
Leyden Caryl
Norich
Living Island Alligator and a Plovers Nestmix Tale
The Florida alligator sleeps through dry seasons and can become a drifting island when mud and plant growth cling to its back. A plover nesting on such a living raft prompts a fishing party to investigate, only to be startled by the alligator’s sudden attack and the nest’s ruin. Also notes microbes’ role in plant growth and a timeless moral about duty.
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Florida
John 2
Coryell
St Nicholas
John Tt. Coryell
Nicholas
Glaciers and the debate on glacial drift origins
The article surveys theories of glaciation from Agassiz and Dana to Darwin, weighing continental ice caps against land and submarine glaciers. It traces how Arctic currents and rising land shaped glacial basins in eastern North America, noting regional differences in the proposed drivers of drift and the timeline of glacial action.
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Agassiz
North America
Dana
St. Lawrence
Hudson Bay
Great Mountain Plateau
Darwin
Labrador
Newfoundland
St. Lawrence Valley
Mississippi
Dentistry for Horses Brings New Care to St Louis
Reports from St Louis note dentistry for horses as a recent advancement introduced by Dr J C Kelly. Previously equine teeth were filed to straighten crooked teeth and extract decayed ones, but modern practice fills cavities and treats pain, aiding valuable horses in nourishment and behavior.
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St. Louis
J. C. Kelly
Kelly
FUN FOR Zz JUDGEp and the desertion case antics
A humorous courtroom tale centers on Lias Bugson nicknamed Pitch. The judge fines him $50 after a staged divorce case where the defendant admits desertion as a ruse to poke fun at the court. The scene ends with the felon boasting of cleverness and the judge clamping down.
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Zertion
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M. Laurent
Lias Bugson
Arkansaw
Sawyer
Jedge
Stofah
Washington
San Francisco
Roberts
Chambers
Leachman
Knott
Frisco
Thompson
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