Sash fashions grace season gowns with varied belts and sashes
The article surveys sash trends for gowns including silk and chiffon belts, fichus ends, and empire girdles. It notes designs from First Consul sashes to Japanese obi with bold bows, bullion fringe, and refined options like Paquin embroidery. It contrasts black white and colored sashes and coats with Napoleonic touches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon Bonaparte
Paris
Recamier
Josephine
Paquin
What One Woman Thinks
A collection of fashion and life observations set in Paris and elsewhere. It notes Cherry colors fashionably in Paris and advises on eye beauty and personal values while touching on wedding dreams and the trends in headwear and hairstyles.
England's B-P Schottische Launch Described by Dancers
The British Association of Teachers of Dancing unveils the B-P Schottische, a new dance featuring side by side partners and an eight bar pattern. A dancing master praises its simplicity while Ivan Caryl provides the accompanying music including Rue Britannia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Association of Teachers of Dancing
Rotary
Ivan Caryl
A Daily Hint for the Table
Fruits guidance from the Ladies' Home Journal on serving berries grapes and melons. Hulled strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, plums peaches pears and apples are arranged on dishes with sugar and greens as appropriate. Cherries prefer cooking but are edible raw. Serve watermelons and cantaloupes chilled but not cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Home Journal
Are Girls Growing Mercenary in Modern Times
The writer recalls childhood sharing among four sisters with little money and contrasts it with modern behavior. She notes a perceived rise in barter and exchange within families and describes an auction among friends where a stylish auctioneer spoke freely, illustrating changing social norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aeiter
New York Tribune
Out of the Ordinary Promises and Peculiar News Bits
A scattered feature mixes a proposed marriage deemed invalid for false hair, a breach suit over engagement, a Sigourney Iowa endowment company formed by bachelors, and notes on China’s servant system. The Nassau Railroad faces a $2300 verdict for injuries from a heavy man, plus odd items from Opelousas Louisiana about a women’s brass band and a pair weighing together 700 pounds. It also mentions Benjukovsebtschina Russia run by women and local legal curiosities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Ice Cream and Ancient Sweetmeats in Early Tables
Fragmentary historical notice describes early 17th century ice goblets and iced fruit as among the oldest desserts. It notes limonadiers and sellers from Parté attempting to popularize these treats, with a fragment mentioning De Coutesux in 1660.
Ice Liquors and the Rise of Iced Treats in Europe
The article traces the spread of ice liquors in Paris by the late 1700s, noting their becoming common by century’s end. It highlights iced butter or ice cream, its 1774 Paris debut, the Duc de Chartres patronage, and the 1776 English adoption via Clermont’s The Modern Cook. It concludes with calls that cooks later expanded the ice craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Pris
Duc de Chartres
England
London
Clermont
Queen's Linen Preferences Highlight Royal Standards
The article notes the queen favors fine linen over cotton in royal palaces and insists on no sewing machines. Bedding is ironed to a rough finish by smoothing tap experts and marked with a red Q over V R. Pillow slips lack embroidery or frills, and all clothing is muslin-covered, prepared by women of taste at the palace.
The Bachelor a wary man is he
A historical note on marriage ages and trends showing the bachelor as increasingly cautious over time. It cites that in 1807 the average groom was 24 and that many marriages included older brides, with data suggesting a decline in marriages involving minors among men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wien
Strawberries on Trees Grower Demonstrates Novel Method
French specialist M Baltet claims to cultivate strawberries on tree like plants by training runners vertically and tying to a stake. Lateral buds are removed to form a strawberry tree on a small scale. The method, once tested, could yield compact fruiting trees for homes and gardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Baltet
Downfall of Captain Wallace as Duck Theft Accusation Stirs
A Philadelphia Artillery unit camped near Lenape on the Brandywine faced a dramatic incident when Captain Henry Edward Wallace was accused of duck theft by Constable James E. MacFarlan and Ex Sheriff Robert L. Hayes. Wallace denied the charge, signaling a clash with local authorities and ending in his perceived military downfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Artillery
Lenape
Brandywine
Holy Trinity Parish
John Sager
Henry Edward Wallace
Philadelphia
James E. MacFarlan
Robert L. Hayes
Mr. Wallace
Wallace
Rittenhouse Square
West Walnut Street
Jim
Hayes
Lindsay
Phillypeens
Knights of St John Elects Old Officers in Annual Session
The final Knights of St John session re elected all existing officers led by Henry J Fries as supreme president. New trustees Joseph Winum and Thomas O Connor were chosen as the supreme trustees. The Ladies Auxiliary constitution was ratified amid debate over a proposed national insurance plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of St.John
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Henry J. Fries
Erie
Board of Supreme Trustees
Josph Winum
Akron
Ohio
Thomas O'Connor
Peoria
Illinois
Erié
William P. Horan
Denver
Jacob J .Nunnold
Rochester
M. J. Kane
Buffalo
John B. Todenbier
Detroit
Joseph Winum
Feorlh
Ilinois
William H. Elder
Katherine Largy
Cleveland
Knights
Atlantic City
Edward I. Remsén
Erle
Hanover
John B. Hemphrey
Eight Years Of Wooing Crowned With Success
George Henderson aged 67 and Miss Jennie McLeren aged over 50 of 4031 Lancaster Avenue will marry after an eight year courtship. Henderson, a widower, works at a mill near Twenty second and Spring Garden Streets. He obtained a license from Clerk Bird of the Orphans Court yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Henderson
Jennie McLeren
Lancaster Avenue
Henderson
Clerk Bird
Orphans’ Court
No State Troops for Active Service Rumor Debunked
Washington reports debunk a Nashville rumor that Tennessee state troops would be called into active service for China. The War Department sought data on state militia strength to allocate a $1,000,000 annual fund for arms and equipment, prompting the Adjutant Generals to supply current troop counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nashville
Tenn
Adjutant General
War Department
Tennessee
China
Secretary of War
Weighing Uncle Sam's Gold in New York Assay Office
Examiners B F Butler and W F Bowen began the annual weighing of gold bars at the United States Assay Office in New York. The process, expected to take about a fortnight, will check and account for every piece from bar size to the smallest fragment under Mint Bureau regulations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
New York
United States Assay Office
B. F. Butler
W. F. Bowen
Mint Bureau
Washington
Public Schools Budget Projections For Coming Year
The Board of Education estimates session produced a preliminary schedule of funds needed to run schools next year. Increases reflect higher enrollment and staff. Salaries may total about 2,501,485 dollars with additional allocations for books, materials, operations, architects, superintendent, and night school expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education Committee On
Ape Erecating Fire and Supply Department
Connells
Board of Education
Central High School
Normal School
High School
Manual Training Schools
Central Manual Training School
Filbert Street
Nicaragua blamed for trouble on Isthmus of Panama
Washington reports indicate Colombia believes Nicaragua sponsors the Panamanian revolts threatening Isthmus stability. The U S policy emphasizes protecting the Panama Railway and American lives and property, with naval action only if necessary to keep order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nicaragua
Panama
United States
Teieretcia Weauseacer
Pty Hs
Six Youngsters Face Court Over Burglary Case
Six children aged 9 to 14 appeared before Magistrate Stratton at the station house on Thirty-seventh and Spruce to answer charges of stealing trifling items from a Market Street house once owned by Charles Ramus. The youths from nearby families were summoned from their homes near Fifty-seventh and Ladiow streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratton
Thirty-seventh
Spruce Streets
Market Street
Charles Ramus
Baltimore Avenue
Asmus
Inter
Green
William
George Hannan
Flora Allman
Edward Peck
Wittlem
Ladiow
Shipping News Roundup of Arrivals and Vessels
The issue lists arrivals at port on June 28 including Steamer Tyr from Denmark, Vora from Britain, Elko from Warren, and Yemassee from O'Neill with merchandise for William P. Clyde & Co. It also notes numerous schooners and barges loaded with lumber, ballast, and ice bound for various ports, with multiple tugs and tow services referenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyr
Funder
Sama
United Fruit Company
Vora
Forth
Las Palmas
Barker & McCall
Elko
Warren
Troy
Albany
William P. Clyde & Co
Vesper
Goslee
New York
Yemassee
O'Neill
Richmond
Ericsson
Grace
Baltimore
Groves
General Cadwalader
Hart
Pottsville
Lloyd
Salem
Suffolk
Boston
O. H. Hagerman
Wallace
Savannah
Stetson & Winsmore
Jennie E. Richter
Crossley
New Bedford
J. Goucher
Millie R. Bohannon
Smith
H. D. Per & Co
J. R. Teel
Hansen
Providence
Mitchell & Megee
Sunlight
Wilbur
Wilmington
Del
Portland
Gilberton
Gener
Lykens
C. Hagerman
Lone Star
West Virginia
Taurus
Breakwater Shipping Movements Report June 28
Breakwater and Cape May notices list vessels passed, sailed or in quarantine on June 28. Nor man, Archter, Alicia B Crosby, James C Clifford, Rebecca R Douglass, J R Teel, Maer, Elwood Burton, Swatara, Tamaqua and others appear with destinations including Boston Philadelphia Portland Virginia Port Antonio Lynn Georgetown and Richmond. Monitor and barges in tow noted with Lykens and Mahanoy. British and Norwegian ships are named among the movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potomac
Anderson
Liverpool
Philip Ruprecht
Breifond
Knudsen
Banes
United Fruit Company
Siberian
Outram
Glasgow
St. John’s
N. F
H. & A. Allan
Gulf Stream
Tunnell
Richmond
William P. Clyde & Co
Richard Willing
McLaughlin
Baltimore
Groves
Eagiet
Liam P. Clyde & Co
Ericason
Bangor
Schuylkill
Boston
Richardson
Yingham
Tamaqua
Breakwater
Norman
Archter
Philadelphia
Amsterdam
Alicia B. Crosby
Portland
James C. Clifford
New York
Virginia
Rebecca R. Douglass
Georgetown
Smoky
Cape May
J. R. Teel
James McCaulley
P. M
Lykens
Monitor
Mahanoy
Gilerton
S. Reedy Island
Maer
Port Antonio
Elwood Burton
Lynn
W. E
W. 1
Tuck
Swatara
Charles EF. Latesaye
Buenos Ayres
Port of New York Arrivals List June 28
Movant Vernon and Partan Prince among vessels reported arriving at the Port of New York on June 28 along with ships Seneca Tampico Benedict Manaos Gwent Gibara Lisbonense Pernambuco Capri Santos and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Movant Vernon
Partan Prince
Seneca
Tampico
Benedict
Manaos
Gwent
Gibara
Lisbonense
Pernambuco
Capri
Santos
Travel route fragments and place names listed in note
A string of port and city names appears: L' Aquitaine Havre Forst Bismarck Hamburg Plymouth Cherbourg Grosser Kurfurst Bremen Cearense Para Philadelphia Kentucky Copenhagen Singapore Karamania Marseilles and others with scattered symbols and figures. The text reads like a sequence of destinations and ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L' Aquitaine
Havre
Forst Bismarck
Hamburg
Plymouth
Cherbourg
Grosser Kurfurst
Bremen
Cearense
Para
Philadelphia
Kentucky
Copenhagen
Singapore
Karamania
Marseilles
Fragmentary place names list appears in historical notice
A garbled OCR fragment lists locations such as Maraval Grenada Grenada Trinidad Naples Marseilles Maracaibo and San Juan with scattered names like Karamania Potions and Besansos Matias, offering no clear event or context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maraval
Grenada
Trinidad
Chateau Yquem
Naples
Marseilles
Maracaibo
Curacao
Iser
San Juan
Philadelphia
Town
Aigon Bay
Karamania Potions
Arseilies Ae
Battleship Alabama Construction Delayed at Cramps Yard
Work on the battleship Alabama at Cramps' yard continues with armor shortages delaying trials. June 30 was set for the official trip but will be postponed beyond that date as weapons and torpedo tubes are installed and final fitting proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Cramps
Will Release Lefurgey To-Day From Quarantine
United States National Quarantine officials at Reedy Island informed agents of British vessel Lefurgey from Boence Ayres that the boat would be released this morning. Abe had been on the scene since Monday and the captain and crew prepared to depart promptly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Health and safety measures face criticism from critics
Station officers defend actions as necessary for public health and safety while defying criticism.
Arcadia and Puritan collide in fog damage reported
The German steamer Arcadia from Philadelphia arrived in Hamburg with plates bent after a collision with the British steamer Puritan from Leith for Pensacola. Puritan bows stove in and forepesk filled with water. Arcadia’s damage feared heavier than reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arcadia
Philadelphia
Hamburg
Leith
Pensacola
New York
Veale Schaarschmidt
Steamboat New Brunswick to Run Cape May Lewes Summer
The steamboat New Brunswick, which reached the Delaware Breakwater on June 24, will operate between Cape May and Lewes, Delaware, during the summer months in conjunction with a new excursion business linked to Delaware railroad trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Brunswick
Delaware
Cape May
Lewes
Del
Freights and Charters Market Steady Amid Sparse Tonnage
The seI tonnage market shows quiet activity with firm rates across departments. Coal and lump freights remain subdued. grain steamer shipments pause awaiting wheat and corn figures. Several full cargo boats are available with mostly steady rates, including 3s 6d to Cork and 5s 1 1/2d berth terms for July August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cork
Bagem
Amér Glanton
Philadelphia
Rotterdam
Spot
Opton
Bodlewell
Jennie C. May
Boston
Tse
William R. Huston
New Bedford
Teamer Dunevic
Christiania
Copefibagen
James H. Hargrave
Baltimore
Hampton
Shipping Notes Report From The Atlantic Seaways
The Danish bark Erna sank after striking a reef near Antigua on June 6. crew saved. The Tyr arrives with 12 365 bananas in ballast for United Fruit. Potomac clears for Liverpool with 1 251 416 gallons of inch petroleum worth 69 429 and 236 229 gallons residuum worth 12 608. Americana reaches Honolulu for water then sails to San Francisco under Captain Perry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erna
Nantes
Mexico
Antigua
Tyr
Sania
United Fruit Company
Potomac
Liverpool
Caleta Buena
San Francisco
Honolulu
Perry
Banker's Narrow Escape From Runaway Carriages
Frederick Fraley, a respected banker, escaped serious injury when a horse-drawn carriage and a passing automobile caused a runaway near Seventeenth and Locust. The carriage wheel came off but both vehicles halted as onlookers and a servant contained the frightened horses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick Fraley
Seventeenth
Locust Streets
Albert Vincent
Nineteenth Street
Seashore Excursions From Philadelphia via Reading Route
Pleasant 1.00 round trips advertised on Atlantic City Railroad extend Sundays in July and August from Chestnut Street and South Street ferries to Atlantic City Cape May Ocean City Sea Isle City with 7.30 AM departures in September and 7.00 AM weekdays until Sept 10. Tickets good only on day of sale and on regular excursion trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Reading
Atlantic City Railroad
Chestnut and
South Street
Atlantic City
Cape May
Ocean City
Sea Isie City
Atlantic
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Wessed
Woo Mn Fi
Sigourney Endowment Company
Sigourney, Iowa
Mary Johnson
Nassau Railroad Company
Opelousas
South
Opelousas Academy Ladies
Gus
Dublie
Chauncey Morian
Indianapolis
Herovide
Benjukovsebtschina
Russia
Saechka
Belize
Knights of St. John
Committee On
The
United Gas Improvement Co
News OF the Shipping World
Port OF
Warren, New York, Wil
Delaware Bay and River News
Friedrich Peer
Melville Hee
Gibraltar
Sae Beer
Seeteene
Ae Havre
Jane Erma
Spain
Ee Es Goss Vader Pc
Lefurgey
Saludo Tort
Ackers
United States Hydrographic Survey
Navy Department
Hydrographic Office
United States Observatory
Laurentian
Clyde
Fraley
Shan
Ceylon
Monogram
Bradford Clarke
Siem
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