Romance Across Ages and Marriages in New York Society
A survey of famed divas and society women shows Ellen Terry Patti and others entering new marriages from age fifty plus. The piece traces Mrs Leslie and Patti's decades long romances with Yerkes Mizner Wilde and others, questioning when a woman’s prime ends and romance fades.
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New York
Ellen Terry
James Carew
Pittsburgh
Justice of the Peace
Campbell
Terry
Pennsylvania
Carew
Indiana
Miss Terry
Charles T. Yerkes- Mizner
Mary Adelaide Moore
Philadelphia
Charles T. Yerkes
Mr. Yerkes
Europe
Chicago
Golden West
Mizner
Frank Leslie
Marquis de Campallegre
Paris
Jueslie
Trousseau
Oscar Wilde
Patti
the Divine
Cupid
Diva
Barilli
Norma
Marquis de Caux
Signora Nicolini
Leslie
Chemist’s Cure for Love Brings Science to Hearts
A gray-haired physiochemical expert laments lovesick cases and explains he healed two women by restoring digestion with hydrochloric acid after meals. He argues science can illuminate romance and moralizes on truth in love.
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Kunny
Samuel in the Temple A Young Hero in Israel
A young Samuel serves in the temple while pondering how God speaks to people. He longs to learn from Eli and his mother prepares him a coat, as he wrestles with faith, duty, and devotion to God in the temple service.
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Moses
Pharaoh
God
Temple
Israel
Eli
Samuel
Hophni
Phinehas
Mother
Gnure
Shiloh
Needlebook Patterns for Bazaar Fancy Articles
Instructions describe historical perforated card needlebooks using embroidery silk and ribbon. Two designs show folding panels for holding needles and a single card needlebook with layered card flannel leaves, stitched edges, and ribbon ties, detailing construction steps and materials.
The Word of the Lord Precious in Those Days
A sermon lamenting spiritual dullness in Israel and the preciousness of God's word. It urges readiness to hear and respond like Samuel, warns of lost blessings when revelation is ignored, and calls faithful witness even when delivering condemning truth to friends.
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Israel
Samuel
God
Amazing Life Journey of Million Mile Express Veterans
Mr James Guest, retiring after fifty years as a Great Northern express driver, reportedly traveled between four and five million miles. Rival Benjamin Jeans, a London and Birkenhead guard for 54 years, is credited with four million miles. Other long-serving rail workers include John Higginbottom and Robert Maybank with two million miles each.
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James Guest
Great Northern Express
Guest
Benjamin Jeans
John Higginbottom
Midland Railway
Robert Maybank
London & Southwestern Railway
Prince of Wales
London
Princess Alexandra of
Denmark
Olive oil trade routes shift bottling to New England
The article notes that most olive oil consumed in New York arrives from New England. California producers form an association supplying about 250000 gallons annually. A major bottling plant in New England services the eastern market, receiving bulk shipments of oil.
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New York
New England
California
Picture Coats Enter Fashion With Color and Drapery
The article notes a shift from conservative coats to picturesque wraps for many occasions. Cape models rise in popularity with clever sleeve drapery, kimono sleeves, and Chinese Japanese influences. It highlights short mandarin coats, blue embroidered imports, taffeta wraps, and hip length semi fitting coats for summer wear with jedn of soutache and dyed borders. Natural pongee or tussor coats with self tone braiding appear as chic options.
Design for Midget Frame Embroidery Sample
This design specifies using art linen or silk as the foundation with mercerized cotton or silk embroidery. Satin-stitch flowers in iris mauve, pale green leaves, and cording-stitch green stalks. An opening for a photograph in center. shape flexible. Suitable for enlarging for cabinets or cartes-de-visite.
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Cartes-De-Visite
Surplice Effects In Favor At Paris Themed Fashion
Surplice favored styles feature a draped bodice with a single piece sleeve. A Saxe blue voile chic frock uses a circular skirt with an overskirt ending in points over silk-mounted voile. Bodice in filet lace with voile draping and blue silk embroidered braid borders.
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Paris
Graduation Gift Suggestions From Madam Merri
A reader asks for gift ideas for a man who graduates from medical college. Madam Merri recommends usable pillows for his couch, good pictures, an art nouveau scarfpin, books, magazine subscriptions, a die for his stationery, a tobacco or smoking outfit, a book rack, traveling drinking cup, a necktie clasp, a silver pencil, or a book for his calling list.
Simple Summer Cottage Wedding Invitations and Menu
A couple plans a small ceremony at a summer cottage with two families. They consider informal notes to relatives and announcements to friends, with refreshments of chicken salad sandwiches olives nuts coffee ice cream and cake, aiming for a dainty home wedding. The mother-in-law notes no graduation gifts and a daughter wishes to print no gifts on invitations.
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Miriam Florence Folline
New Orleans
E. G. Squier
United States
Peru
Willie’ Wilde
Leonard Jerome
Wall Street
Lord Randolph Churchil
England
America
Grace Church
Lady Randolph
All England
Lord Randolph Churchill
Cowes
Randolph
Lieutenant West
Kitty” Dudley
Leslie Carter
Broadway
Boston
Payne
Craig-y-Nos
Norway
Churchill
Lady Randolph Churchill
Lieut
Cornwallis West
Jennie Jerome
Andover
Professor Phelps
Seminary
Mr. Ward
Miss Phelps
Langiex
Delft
Madame Merri
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