Fairylike Frocks at Chantilly Fashion Parade
A vivid account of Parisian race meetings at Chantilly with Princess Murat and Mrs. Vanderbilt in striking gowns. Designers Paquin and Paris show broderie Anglaise and supple taffeta ensembles featuring black lace, Valenciennes, and ornate hats. The piece highlights feminine styles, lace flounces, and the season’s shift back to exaggerated femininity.
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Duchess de Brissac
Gerard de Rohan-Chabotte
Mile
Prevost
Chantilly
Paquin
Valenciennes
lIdalia de ‘Villiers
The
Boston Globe
Showing Lace Tips for Mounting and Display
Real lace shown over tulle in white or black best reveals its mesh and design. A slight foundation prevents limp folds that conceal beauty. Lace is in vogue this season with blouses featuring panels and lining that show through the outside.
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Couturieres
Raincoat Made Without Rubber Promises Light Wool Weave
A new raincoat uses a light weight wool weave with an invisible herringbone stripe and porous quality claimed to be rain proof without rubber. It features a rolling collar and high throat buttons, offered in many colors including dust tones, suitable for car use and rain wear.
Lingerie Hatpins Featured In Dainty Hat Accessories
Lingerie hatpins described as novelties for Ungerie hats and small straw hats. Pins feature large heads about two inches wide with lace and ribbon flower motifs. The design uses tiny ruffles to resemble delicate Valentine style decorations.
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Deason
Daintiness and Fashion Imagery in a Mistress Modé Portrait
The fragment describes Miss Modé's daintiness with pet, ribbons, pink and blue patterns, diaphanous gauze, and chlorine hues. It notes delicate charm and fashionable detail as key elements of the portrayal.
Sheep and Lamb Rearing Advice for Winter Flocks
A farmer explains annual culling rounds for ewes, emphasis on selecting quality rams, and preparation for winter lambing. He details keeping flocks healthy, housing, and careful lambing routines, plus using oats straw to sustain sheep through winter and avoid stomach troubles.
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R. B. Rushing
Kangaroo Hunting in Australia Aims and Tactics Described
The article describes early colonial sightings of tame kangaroos on Kangaroo Island near Adelaide and details up-country hunting with dogs. It explains the chase method, dog and animal dynamics, and how the kangaroo defends itself before being subdued. It closes with notes on meat use and conflicting reports on kangaroo population trends.
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South Australia
Flinders
Kangaroo Island
Adelaide
Commonwealth
Destruction of Old Fruit Trees and Heritage Plots
The writer notes farmers desiring to remove old apple trees for timber mill uses while new stock rises. He recalls his grandfather planting 80 years ago and naming a tree "Bill's Apple" still bearing, with another grafted tree also yielding fruit. A gathering of descendants last August honored the planter. gavel from the old trees was presented to the society.
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J. H. Haynes
Bill
Harter
Boston
Mass
Plant grape cuttings in the spring when soil can be worked
Advice to plant grape cuttings in early spring as soon as the ground is workable. The note emphasizes timing for optimal rooting and growth.
Forage Plant Seed Imports Show Low Vitality and High Weed Content
Secretary of Agriculture notes that 1911 imports of forage plant seeds including alsike red and white clover and hairy vetch had low pure seed content and poor germination. Analysis of 18 lots totaling 228 780 pounds found pure seed percentages of 44.9 64.2 51.2 and 23 with germination at 38.8 37.0 30.5 and 77 percent respectively, making actual viable seed cost far above market value.
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United States
WEMA
Canada
Cranberry Crop Leaders Reported With Varying Yields
A rough summary from the fragment notes Massachusetts leads cranberry production with about 400 000 bushels on average. New Jersey is close around 350 000 bushels while third place families show roughly 100 000 bushels.
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Massachusetts
New Jersey
Boston committee member urges revealing dress to teach beauty
Joseph Lee, a Boston school committeeman, told the National Conference of Charities and Corrections that modern girls should dress to reveal beauty not conceal it. He urged romance for boys, recommending novels like Scott and Doone, and said dressmaking from Praxiteles to Worth should teach girls to reveal beauty. He warned dance halls and simple rhythms dulling conscience like an anaesthetic.
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Joseph Lee
Boston
National Conference’ of Charities and Corrections. S
Laura Jean Libby
Lee
Scott
Lorna ¢Doone
Praxiteles
Botticelli
Origin of gloves traced to ancient Egypt and mummy attire
Amon of the twenty first dynasty article in the Egyptian Review posits gloves originate in that era. Mittens with priestess mummies and leather foot coverings suggest early use of gloves matching sandals and lacing.
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Amon
Amm
Daresey
Reform and Liberty in the Orient Sparsely Examined
The piece questions Western political liberty in Turkey Persia and China as Eastern reforms are tested. It notes mixed results from adopting Western institutions and casts doubt on the success of representative government in these contexts.
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Orient
Turkey
Persia
China
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Sahin
Pes Bates
Weatern Ranch
Tiye
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Ito
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