Enamel Brooches and Handkerchiefs Teeley Spring Styles
A mid century column surveys fashion and accessories. It highlights bow brooches and enamel hearts for all, long decorative chains for watches and eyeglasses, and the popular sweetheart bracelets with gem settings. Handkerchiefs display linen and lace trims, while spring styles hint at overskirts and seamless pewter waists inspired by Bernhardt. Gauze Empire fans reflect French influence and vivid colors. A note on nerves and strength accompanies the fashion report.
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Ala Bernhardt
The
New York Tribune
Stable Fire Safe Stable Design for Horse Housing
A detailed description argues stable fires stem from ignition sources and poor maintenance. It describes a three horse stable with box and common stalls, floor drainage, vitrified brick floors, clay versus wood debates, and a heat system using a stove and gas jet. The design emphasizes sanitary conditions, drainage, and an enhanced manure bin with a vented brick construction.
Storage and decor notes feature ornate fabrics and library pieces
The fragment describes a storage area with hayloft like bins, ornamental design, and a higher over space between rooms. It mentions Louis B. Grason, gilt and blue ornamental Abdrabescus, and jute barisp with dark red plush. Also includes a recipe for small chocolate cakes with butter and chocolate icing.
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Abdrabescus
Singular Lamprey and Traveling Spiders Featured
A short extract on the lamprey Geotria silpera with its blood pouch and parasitic habits, noting its presence in oceans and rivers, historical Roman use, and modern culinary view. Also mentions a traveling spider species driven by seasonal instinct to cover long distances.
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Natureltide
T. Isis
Tasmania
Lily of the Valley and Sassafras Plant Lore Through History
The article surveys lily of the valley and sassafras, noting folklore and medicinal uses. It describes the plant’s names, roots, and flower forms, cites Culpeper and Gerrard, and recounts legends about St Leonant and the drake. It then shifts to sassafras, its tree forms in New Zealand and other climates, fruit characteristics, and essential oil production.
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Solomen’s Seat
St. Leonant
Sussex
St Leovsan
Culpepper
Mercury
Gerrard
New Zealand
Italy
Sassafras
Aluminium and wind power loom in 1900 era visions
A fragmentary text discusses a spider’s aerial silk travel, aluminium’s predicted dominance in paper and covers, windmills powering electric lighting, and a French claim of aluminium’s future versatility. It notes a St Lunaize residence using a windmill on a tower to drive a dynamo and charge storage batteries for home lights.
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van Hive
Gistrcis
Europe
St. Lunaize
France
Cheat the Gods and a Great Rocky Mountain Tunnel
From The North China Herald an item describes the manufacture of counterfeit coins buried with the dead to aid souls in the afterlife. A box of 100 fake dollars sells for 24 cash. Also notes the Ivanhoe tunnel near Leadville, 9,200 feet long and third longest in the United States, connecting Busk to Ivanhoe Eve and cutting nine miles of danger on the Divide.
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North China Herald
China
Rockies
Ivanhoe
Rocky Mountain
Leadville
United States
Hoosee
Massachusetts
Bowider
Montana
Great Divide
Tenner
Busk
Ivan
Eve
How Indians Make Their Bows
From the white sapwood of cedar, with the outer side bowed to form the bow. The stick is scraped and polished with obsidian pieces. It is roasted in ashes and bent into shape. Arrows use button willow, buckthorn twigs, and cane fibers.
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California
First Charge and Trials of a Young Clergyman
A reminiscence recalls the opening chap ter of a clergyman’s career in Bound Brook New Jersey in 1832. Young deacon and his bride face their first parish, with skeptical welcome from prominent parishioners and a faltering sermon followed by warm, forgiving support from the community.
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Bors
Rev
T. de Witt Talmage
Bound Brook
M.J
University of the City of
Belle Fille
Descen
Hromlette
Washington
Dominic
Saratoga
Cortiage
MacMillan
New Covenant
Westminster
David
Brownstone
Duncan
Glen
Harry Bronson
Parson
Mr. Bronon
Maek
Parsonage Mystery and Gifting After Evening Arrival
A narrative scene unfolds at the parsonage as a mysterious event precedes a lavish reveal. A door opens to a fully furnished home with gifts, bouquets, and notes from friends, sparking curiosity about the donor and purpose. The tale follows reactions and a later reflection on the minister’s memories and career.
A King's Own Story Ring Found On Street
A morning finder picked up what looked like a gold ring with missing setting on a sidewalk and brought it to a jeweler on Eleventh Street. The jeweler authenticated it as 14 carat gold with a three carat diamond, noting it had been worn as a third finger ring by a slender woman, later altered, and likely stolen or discarded by a thief.
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Eleventh Street
Philadelphia
A Bat Weak Point and Wing Damage in Bats
The text explains a bat’s wings are both its strength and weakness. It notes delicate finger bones and the wing membrane can be damaged, disabling the bat. It cites a South Sea Island hunting method using a thorny bush on a long bamboo to injure a bat’s wing near a fruit tree.
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South Sea Island
Joma
Moon photographs show irregular lunar plate features
Late photographs of the moon by an astronomer photographer reveal curios plate marks. The plate depicts embankments about 200 feet high and 195 to 29 years in width on top, running parallel to each other and spaced from 100 to 330 yards apart.
Mexican Jumping Beans Description
A curious vegetable product from the Mexican tree Carpocapsa sa. When placed on a flat surface the beans roll over or slide forward at short intervals without an apparent reason.
Ancient Poplar in Dijon Crowned as France’s Oldest Tree
In Dijon France a tree within city limits is claimed as the oldest poplar in the country. The town council is reviewing its history since the Fear THAD period. The tree is 122 meters tall and 45 feet in circumference at the base.
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Dijon
France
Fear Thad
Deieut
The Tanabata Festival Swim Tradition in Japan
A Harper's Bazaar writer describes Japan's Tanabata festival extending through a day of revelry on the seventh day of the seventh month. Boys carry bamboo trees and swim with sea monkey myths used to explain drownings, while elders supervise. Queen Wilhelmine of Holland, age 13, owns a large doll collection including 20 dolls in full officer uniforms given by sovereigns.
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Harper's Bazar
Tanabata
Japan
Sea Monkey
Lom
Archit
Wilhelmine
Holland
Copper Plate Engraving and Card Printing Offer
An advertisement from The News in Frederick Maryland promotes copper plate engraving services. It lists prices for engraved names on copper plates and sets of printed cards, including options for 50 or 200 cards, with various add ons such as engraved addresses, invitations, monograms, crests, and dies. The notice targets individuals seeking custom stationary and calls for mailing old copper plates to the printer.
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Tes News
Frederick, Md
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