One-piece frock for girls moves into fashion
The article praises the year long rise of the one-piece dress for girls twelve or older, detailing construction from serge to other fabrics. It describes underbodice styles, box plaits, shirring techniques, cloth covered buttons, girdles with three tabs, and decorative finishes for a chic, age appropriate silhouette.
Luxurious Beaded Bags Catch Holiday Attention
A feature on costly beaded bags and velvet accessories previews holiday fashion. Beadwork drives high prices from twenty to one hundred dollars, with beaded hats and Paisley covered bags highlighted. Skilled handcrafts permit shoppers to save by making their own.
New Old-Fashioned Girls in Blue Frocks Return
The article notes Miss Alcott drew a heroine in a homespun blue frock with a squirrel fur tippet. It observes that young girls are again wearing wide skirted blue dresses and similar tippets this year, praising the look as flattering to youthful complexions.
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Miss Alcott
Snowball Muff Makes New York Debut In Fine Fur
The latest muff shown in New York is perfectly round with tiny slits along the sides and barely larger than a grape. Snowball muff designs come in ermine white fox and squirrel fur, showcasing a novel, compact style.
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New York
Simple Coiffures For The Woman Of The Hour
The article lists popular hairstyles as brushed back and fixed with a knob, sleek brushing, and compact hair arrangements. It notes a compressed ton of Japan styling, a Madonna arrangement, and fashionable elaborate Paris and Petrograd styles seen by a recent French visitor, with artists hoping for success.
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Japan
France
Paris
Petrograd
Bishop Steeve fashion note on bishop sleeve styles
In various forms the bishop sleeve appears as a dominant present style. The review highlights its popularity and versatility across garment designs.
Goose and holiday cooking lore from a bygone era
A long collection of domestic tips and recipes covers selecting a goose, stuffing ideas, and roasting times, followed by desserts and puddings. It also offers faddish prose on harmony and balance, plus apple and pork dish variants and festive cake and custard ideas.
Musk Radioactive Odor Shocks Indianapolis Market
The Indianapolis News reports musk’s penetrating odor is linked to radioactive traits. Prolonged contact to the body allegedly causes sores resembling radium exposure among natives selling musk in markets.
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Indianapolis News
French Opera Evolution From Lulli to Massenet and Carpentier
The passage traces the development of French opera from its late seventeenth century beginnings with Lulli and early eighteenth century Rameau, through Gluck’s influence in the later eighteenth century, to Meserbeer, Rossini, Jounod, and Thomas as popular successors, and the modern contributions of Massenet and Carpentier.
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Lulli
Rameau
Gluck
Meserbeer
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Thomas
Massenet
Carpentier
Beef Stew with Dumplings and Shinbone Roast
Old fashioned beef stew uses an ulted bone for five servings with shinbone as substitute. Meat browns with onions carrots and turnips, simmered in water until tender, then dumplings drop in and cook quickly. season to taste, avoid overliquid, and cook dumplings in the broth.
John Bull Plum Pudding Ready Recipe Note
A vintage recipe outlines quantities for suet sugar currants raisins and candied peel plus bread crumbs flour salt and spices. It details mixing method adding brandy soaking a buttered mold lining with a napkin and steaming for 18 minutes then making a glossy pudding sauce with butter and sugar.
Dove Chicken Cooked With Tomatoes and Roast Potatoes
A rustic recipe for dove chicken explains covering the bird in water, simmering until tender, then braising in tomato gravy. It includes pepper, salt, and a finish with mashed potatoes and served with remaining tomato gravy.
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Antons
Lamb and Asparagus Stew From An Old Recipe
An early recipe describes cooking lamb with asparagus celery onion parsley and pepper until tender. It instructs simmering in water with seasonings, skimming fat, arranging meat on a hot dish, pouring gravy, and heating the asparagus separately for serving.
Lemon Pudding Recipe Follows Simple Steps
A lemon pudding method describes dissolving cornstarch in water, boiling water, then mixing lemon juice and rind with sugar and eggs. Bake in a buttered dish, top with stiff egg whites and sugar, bake briefly, then chill and serve.
Cold Bean Croquettes From Leftover Beans
A Boston Globe note suggests shaping cold baked beans into cones for breakfast croquettes. Mix two cups beans with yolks, melted fat, and salt, form cones, roll in cracker crumbs, and bake without egg coating to avoid moisture issues.
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Boston Globe
Pickled Eggs and Beets Featured in Simple Pickling
A quick home recipe describes fresh Boll eggs half an hour in cold water, while beets are boiled until tender, peeled, diced, and covered with spiced vinegar. The eggs are shelled and added to pickle jars, offering a tangy, easy method described as an excellent mental pick-me-up.
Butter Substitute for Saving on Butter Costs
A reader suggests a cheap mix of equal parts good roar girine and fresh butter to replace butter. The blend is claimed to taste like fresh butter and could lower costs for households seeking savings.
Modern Chickens and the Meaning of Modern Times
A fable style dialogue among Chickens and parents about being modern. They debate what it means to be up to date from telephones to alarm clocks, while Father Rooster and a worm reward straighten the tale. The piece preserves a vintage playful tone and gentle moral.
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Nancy
Nick
Daddy
Edo
Wigan
Whitey
Father Rooster
Tam
Father Hooster
Punctuating a Satz About That That Is Not
A classroom exercise shows English teachers presenting a string of words that seems nonsense until properly punctuated. The example reorders with that that is is that that is not is not is not. The puzzle demonstrates how punctuation alters meaning.
Lessons on Revelations seven churches and their trials
A compact study of the seven churches Ephesus Smyrna Pergamos and Philadelphia with notes on their historical setting moral conduct and the dangers of compromise. It links each church to a Christ described as holding keys protecting converts and urging repentance to avoid removal from their place.
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Paul
Ephesus
Diana
John
Ibst
Christ
Jesus
Justis
Wren
Smyrna
Eyphesus
Po Uiby
Owst Philiadelphis Ree Monter
Polycarp
Bishe
Alex
Ag Merayen
Mirone
Pergamos
Bergius
Siyrna
Israel
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