Walking Dresses in Aubergine and Royal Blue Styles
Two early 20th century walking dress sketches describe outfits in Aubergine Amazon cloth and royal blue serge. The first features a high waist plain skirt, a black braided Directoire coat with velvet revers, long tight sleeves, invisibly fastened, and a feather trimmed hat with specific fabric needs. The second shows a simpler royal blue serge walking suit with box plait front, trimmed buttons, stepped fronts, and a matching braid edged coat and blue felt hat with flowers.
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Directoire
Rollers Prolong Linen Life Care Tip for Dainty Linens
This article advises rolling delicate linens for storage to protect centerpieces, covers, and bureau textiles. It describes making a long pasteboard or mailing tube roll with a washable cover and casings, noting avoid rolling freshly laundered linens due to pervasive dust. It emphasizes practical storage and careful handling.
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Howells
Pretty Cloth Waist Fashion Description In Vintage Essay
A wine colored cloth or cashmere waist features plaits and a scalloped yoke with small plastrons. Satin edges buttons and buttonholes, plus a matching satin cravat and girdle. Long tight sleeves are trimmed to match.
Floral muffs charm wedding bouquets in season trends
Large muffs crafted from flowers serve as bridal bouquets. The season’s fashion features a bride with a white orchid muff accented by lily of the valley sprays hanging from satin ribbons. Violet muffs with lavender ribbons also dazzle this year’s weddings.
White slippers dyed and painted in home craft
The article notes that white canvas or suede slippers can be dyed or painted and that many women bronze old slippers for bedroom use. It warns that a white slipper becomes stiff and unattractive if overcoated, and suggests vas shoes can be colored with dye. It quotes Buxton on self-sacrifice in work.
Sewing Hat Ornaments With Black Shoe Thread
A home millinery guide recommends black shoe thread and a glove needle for securing hat trimmings. Velvet bows should be stitched around the loop and to the lid with firm thread, while ostrich plumes require fine thread and a No 10 needle for nearly invisible stitches.
Bandanna Kimonos Inspire Vibrant Room Wear
A fashion note describes bright season trends using bandannas as short kimonos for room wear. Five handkerchiefs, preferably yellow and red with wide selvedge, yield a stylish garment. Edges are joined by ribbon threaded through button holes and tied into small bows.
Silks Steal Spotlight in Paris Fashion Drapery
A Paris letter to Vogue notes silk fabrics dominate dress and ceremony ensembles. Silk returns after years in the background with ardor, offered in plain silks, satins, ottomans, crepes, meteors, cachemire, and silk-faced textiles. Fabrics display shifting color and metallic gleams, shaping costume selection.
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Paris
Vogue
Paris approves imitation pearl headgear in theater style
Paris sanctions tiny hats made of imitation baroque pearls with side flower clusters. Theater managers allow the headpieces while banning other hat styles. The lattice wire design features jet beads and gold ivy accents.
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Paris
New Strength for Women's Backs Boosted by Dean's Pills
Mrs Mary Hinson of Sterling Kentucky reports dramatic relief from back pain fatigue and vision issues after using Dean's Kidney Pills. She credits the product with recovery from weakness dizziness headaches and inability to bend or move easily. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
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Mary Hinson
Strother
Mr. Sterling
Dean
Mrs. Hinson
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Home Tonic For Old People
A brief old newspaper item touts a home tonic mixed from food whiskey syrup sarsaparilla and Toris compound sold by druggists. Doses are a teaspoonful before meals and at bedtime. A humor snippet follows where a young man compliments Jeanette, sparking a playful exchange about radiance.
Letter Praises Hunt's Lightning Oil From Arkansas
An extract from H. H. Meyers of Stuttgart Arkansas requests introduction of Hunt's Lightning Oil to Millidgeville Illinois. He claims the oil cured him of Bloody Flux in half an hour and his granddaughter of Cholera Morbus quickly.
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H. H. Meyers
Stutgart
Ark
Hunt
Milligeville
Simmons Cough Syrup Endorsed For Cold Complications
A brief health note warns neglect of a cold can lead to bronchitis pleurisy pneumonia or consumption and recommends Simmons Cough Syrup to soothe irritation loosen phlegm and cure. The text includes a humorous Wisconsin Sphinx quote about a student asked to identify if he belongs at school.
Waterspout Sighted At The Plumber's
A seaside exchange records a salty wink about waterspouts seen by a captain and a visitor. The captain jokes the sight occurred at the plumber's shop, preserving a playful nautical tone in this brief dialogue.
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Oldsalt
Important to Mothers Castoria Bottle Safety Notice
Examine carefully every bottle of Castoria a safe and sure remedy for infants and children and see that it meets standard. This ad urges mothers to ensure product quality and safety in children's remedies.
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Fouitry
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
U.S. A
Penny Saved and Candles in a Bank Fable
A Penny Saved in a bank overhears two voices plotting a 50 million dollar Candle trust. The bank later awaits a buyer as the candle maker loses his funds when the trust collapses. In a separate note, Anna Margaret resists giving away her cherished baby doll despite toy donations and her mother’s urge.
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Puck
Anna Margaret
Santa Claus
Jessie
Jean
Harper’s Bazar
Note mix up leads to washed miscommunication
A young American, careful about his washing, mailed a note to his laundress and another to his sweetheart with wrong addresses by accident. The laundress received an invitation to ride, while the sweetheart saw a sharp rebuke about tumbling shirts. She cried and vowed not to speak to him again.
Marine Eye Remedy and Misc Advert Statements
An assortment of vintage ad lines tout Marine Eye Remedy by physicians, claiming relief for weak watery eyes and non smarting, with cautions under Pure Food and Drug Laws. Also promotes Hamlin Wizard Oil for sore cords, Brown’s Bronchial Troches for coughs, and generic quips on love and heartbreak.
Prize Food Grape-Nuts Praised for Health and Economy
A Nebraska woman extols Grape-Nuts as palatable economical and nourishing after seven years of use. She notes improved health after quitting tea and coffee and says her family, including two children, thrived on the cereal even during whooping cough. The Postum Co. of Battle Creek promotes the letter as genuine and timely.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Buxton
Jeanette
Percy
Pearl
Wisconsin Sphinx
In Veo
Allen
Woolford
California Fig Syrup Co
Ben Francisco
Cal
London
England
Louisville, KY
Mec
New York,ny
Cardui
Jim Ant
Fellows
Bill Beetle
Robertson
Brown
John S. Brown & Son
Boston
Mass
Adn
Xn Fisuer
Houst Tex
McCane’s Detective Agency
Houston
Texas
Houston Typewriter Exchange
Prairie Avenue
Paxtine
Paxton
The
Bollwinkle Seed Co., Ltd
New @leans, La
H. H. Green
Putnam
Midwrde Drug CO
Quincy
Ilinois
Lond
Rue de la Paix
Recartes Chin Ee Kong Co
Cit i Ltd
Toxo Rusa
Moncion
Ty ON
Potter Drug & Chem
Gorp
Basia
VO Acbau
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