Medicinal Bath and Fashion Notes for Gentle Sleep and Garments
A vintage guide offers a nervous system bath recipe using sea salt ammonia spirits pure alcohol and hot water to aid sleep. It also highlights garments for girls including a blue cheviot coat with velvet trim and sizes for eight to fourteen, plus brown fashion trends and lace chemisette details.
New Wall Papers and Fabric Effects Described
New wall papers show silk satin and moire textures with rich air when used in single gentle colors. Soft old rose canary yellow mandarin yellow silver and robin's egg blue brighten parlors drawing rooms and boudoirs. In libraries and dining rooms burlap canvas waves and gobelin tapestries add warm ivory backdrops for oil paintings sepia sketches and etchings.
Tallor Made Silk Gowns Impress Fashion World
Silk tallor made gowns debut with chic appeal. Dominant colors include golden brown and green shades. A notable model features a six flounced skirt with a flat hip line and a flounced bolero over a high girdle.
Lace and hat fashion tips from an old quarter fashion page
The article outlines frock girdles, Brussels net for flounced gowns, cottage shaped straw bonnets for children, lace quimpes with muslin gowns, jeweled clasps for jackets, and various trimming trends. It notes coarse lace revival, linen dusters with decorative buttons, buckles on hats and gowns, white net neck ties, flower wreaths, and roses in hats, plus an Easter lace scarf hat. It also mentions a home remedy called carton oll for burns and scalds and a trend toward an old fashioned long hot summer.
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Brussels
4711 Brouse or Shirt Waist 32 to 40 Bust
4711 pattern for shirt waists priced for multiple bust sizes from 32 to 40 inches. The model features a long, tapered line with yoke, front and back tucks, and pearl button trimming on ecru fabric. Available in washable, silk, and wool waistings with size options and fabric yardage listed.
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Ecrie Batiste
Table Cloths and Spreads in Velours and Flax Velours
French velours in colors with soft lusters and velvety shadows make charming spreads for large tables. Flax velours is versatile for home use, wide with istrows, resembling expensive fabric at moderate cost. It fashions valances scarfs spreads and curtains for bookcases with open shelves.
Medallion gloves feature duchess portraits and gilt frames
The New Gloves describe Medallion gloves as soft kid white or made, fastened by a single enameled gilt framed clasp. Duchess of Devonshire and other beauties of the Picturesque period are favored subjects for the medalliors.
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Duchess of Devonshire
Patchwork Wartime Household and War Memory Chronicle
A collage of home economic tips and veteran reminiscences recounts stove polish blends and cabbage methods, wartime poems, and stories of Seaman and Wytheville soldiers. It recalls a Union widows monument and a dramatic Civil War ballot execution in South Carolina.
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E F Seaman
Seaman
Black Diamond Steel Works
Park Bros & Co
Pittsburg
Salem
Quartermaster Seaman
Sweet Sulphur Springs
New Castle
George
Jackson River
West Virginia
Wytheville
Jackson Grubb
Virginia
Sixty-third
Virginia Regiment
Palmer
Hood
W--P- Sherman
Midway Station
Branchville
South Carolina
Orangeburg
Joseph Headrick
Nashville
Hand Hygiene Guidance for Cold Weather
The guidance suggests rinsing hands in cold water after exposure to warm water or blood warm conditions. It notes cold or windy weather as a factor to consider and advises best practices accordingly.
Captured Monster Wildcat in Franklin Conn
Louis Ortmann a hunter and trapper from Franklin Connecticut secured a monster wildcat while checking traps. The animal measured forty eight inches long and twenty five inches around with legs over fifteen inches. the cat bore marks suggesting many battles.
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Louis Ortmann
Franklin
Conn
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