Royal gowns and gowns in London shops fascinate readers
A dated London dispatch surveys royal ladies’ wardrobes from Medeme Toward’s to Thomas in Brook Street. It notes lavish gowns, lace, and embroidery, with comments on waistlines, color contrasts, and the Empress of Austria’s height. It also observes changing tastes toward practical attire and the season’s selling items.
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Europe
Mademe Toesand
Medeme Towaud’s
Beatrice
Princess of Wales
Duchess of Fife
Duchess of Edinburgh
Empress of Austria
Russin
Connaudht
Luxuries of needlework and new turning to London shops
At Helbronner's in Oxford Street I saw exquisite war era embroidery and table linen. Lady Monckton and Miss Frith plan a Fulham Road shop to furnish and decorate with antique furniture and fine linens. A London salon promotes electrolysis by Mme Dudley for wrinkles and hair removal.
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Helbronner’s
Ox'ord Street
Berlin
Lady Monckton
Miss Frith
Fulham Road
London
Mme. Dudley
Portland Place
Very Fashionable Remedy Glazes Moles and Hair Warts
A London practitioner describes popular cosmetic removals for moles warts and superfluous hair. She notes high charges sometimes paid by clients including a costly mustache removal and comments on patients needing to shave beforehand to appear presentable.
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Miss Mantalinil
Leather trims and velvet calf garments described
The text discusses leather trims on garments, noting velvet calf material, showy pieces, and piping details. It mentions coats, hems, and skirt edges where leather may be used inside and out, suggesting edge finishing considerations.
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Wade
Isis
Temper and Turmoil in Brooklyn Couple Told by Citizen
A Brooklyn Citizen tale recounts a young Eastern district professional husband enduring his wife's fiery temper. He recalls during courtship she could hide it, but during lucid moments she admits locking herself away to vent by biting holes in quilts, a habit she says she used to excuse herself from him.
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Guspoewider Gris
Saya
Brooklyn
Mrs Annie A De Barr Licensed as Mechanical Engineer
Mrs Annie A De Barr received a license as mechanical engineer from the Chicago Board of Engineers. She has 18 months of full charge of the engine and machinery of a large steam laundry with a model engine room and a neat appearance as described.
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Annie A. de Barr
Chicago Board of Engineers
Seateem
Bunsby-ilke Wisdoan
Unclear Text Sparks Hope for Roda and Cyilin Mystery
Fragmentary notes reference a son asking a mother about mysteries surrounding Roda and Cyilin Ders linked to the United Brotherhood. Details are sparse and unclear from the readable lines.
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Roda
Cyilinders
United Brotherhood
Shells and Horns as Unusable Fashion Motif
Evelina notes shells will not fit into anything as fashion pieces. The editor agrees horns and shells have distinct personality and function, making them unsuitable for decorative reuse until their essence is lost. They debate usefulness and wrap with playful mockery about gifts and engravings.
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Evelina
Boston Courier
Chaira Marie
Evilina
Borna
Etiquette Debate Over Bread Crumbs and Toothpicks
The Boston Herald criticizes using bread with fish, grimly predicts a future ban on forks and knives, and condemns public toothpick chewing as a sign of poor refinement. The piece argues women should not chew openly and links good manners to appearance and decorum.
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Boston Herald
Parisian Women Craft Personal Perfumes and Refine Taste
A Brooklyn Eagle Paris letter notes old scents fall out of fashion and Parisian women increasingly create their own perfumes. A few keep to subtle blends, retiring to quiet rooms to choose oils, sometimes sprinkling beds with essences believed to aid sleep and pleasant dreams.
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Emma Bullet
Paris
Brooklyn Eagle
How to Eat Peaches Etiquette Debate
The Pall Mall Budget notes a dinner table etiquette question on peaches. An expert says prick with a fork, quarter, peel, and eat piece by piece, but a bold young lady in a story drinks the peach juice directly from a dessert plate, challenging norms. The French rule is “n y mordre pas en pleines.”
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Pall Mall
Answered Daughters of America Poem Fragment
A poem fragment explores summer endurance and fleeting moments as a speaker questions living through heat and time. The piece contrasts sighing with steady repetition and a hopeful return to routine, ending with a personal reflection on consistency and love.
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Daughters of America
Saratoga Fashion and Diamonds Dazzle the Grand Season
The writer describes Saratoga as exceptionally gay with over 30,000 visitors and vast diamond displays. Wealthy guests fill hotels, dance halls, and the famed piazzas as hundreds of thousands are spent daily on outfits, jewelry, and luxury carriages. Grand Union Hotel figures and numerous portraits of ostentatious adornment illustrate the opulent scene.
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SaraToca
Saratoga
Piazza
Monte Christo
York
Lancaster
Pennsyla
Ornate jeweled butterfly and luxury cottage life in New York
The scene describes a brunette with wings of diamonds and sapphires, a ruby head, emerald tail, and a gold background. It contrasts lavish cottage wealth on Wall Street with Judge Hilton and Henry Clews, noting Burlesque-style notoriety and a guest list including Tom Ochiltree, ending with a playful quip about a newspaper persona.
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Willionaire
Judge Hilton
Wall Street
Henry Clews
United States
Travers
Clews
C—Clews
Tom Ochiltree
Highlands
New York
Crosswoods
Texas
Mr. Ochiltree
Miss Gruypy, Jr
He Liked to Poke the Fire to Well Be Bought Pokers by the Dosen
A long obituary sketch describes Ericsson a meticulous dresser who kept clothing boxed and labeled, and whose eccentric habits included heavy five foot long pokers and a ritual of stirring broth with ever newer spoons. It notes his charitable generosity to a fellow countryman on every birthday.
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Boston Globe
Ericsson
Balonce
Snes
Salt and water advised for health by Boston physician
A Boston Herald physician urges balanced salt intake and daily water consumption. He warns against both deprivation and excess, notes salt supports blood and body functions, and recommends about two quarts of water daily with gradual sipping, plus a before breakfast sip of water.
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Boston Herald
Macy
The Memory Hoop Craze Among Society Young Ladies
The memory hoop is a new fad among Daughters of America with hoops covered in ribbon gifts and painted giver names plus dates. Copper cents engraved with donors' initials hang from the hoop as signs of a friend’s status.
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Daughters of America
Precocious Infant Trick Reveals Grammar Guffaws
A witty exchange shows a youngster claiming grammar prowess. When asked for the plural of sugar the child quips lamps as the answer, much to a proud mother’s amusement.
No, darling bloodshed in a fragile family moment
A sick mother resists reading aloud as a child pleads for a story. The exchange captures quiet tension and familial care amid illness.
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Eas
Humble Baths Among New York’s Public Ocean Visitors
A feature contrasts modest bathers with the more glamorous Newport scene, noting Neptune’s equal pleasure for rich and poor. It highlights simple attire and the varied costumes seen at the city’s public seaside spaces.
Public Baths At the Battery Show City Charity And Striking Contrast
The Dispatch notes the Battery’s public baths as a long-standing charity for the poor. Attendants include watermen and policemen with female attendants on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. Baths lack towels and attire. observers praise the health and sport value while noting ragged dress and playful water feats among women and children.
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New York City
Battery
Aternoon
Calling for Reform of Bathing-Suit Reporting
A reader denounces sensational reporting on women at resorts and urges modest attire and self-reliant, healthful bathing. He criticizes lax punditry, defends flannel garments, and calls for women to unite in swimming to demonstrate competence and safety.
Committed to Public Baths for the Poor and Cleanliness
A review praises the Ewing bath house for safety and care of bathers including women and children. It notes a plan to prevent sewerage contamination and urges cooperative laundries to improve health, calling for action in New York and beyond.
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Bargin
Poor
Thigas
Isles of the Sea
New York
Phawes EG
Boston Man Plans 500-Miles-Per-Hour Air Ships
Boston inventor Charles G. Loeber pitches steel air ships capable of 500 mph to carry passengers and freight from Boston to San Francisco or London in under six hours. The monster vessels use movable 75 by 27 foot wings and a steam driven propeller system. Loeber cites a force called Anthesis but withholds details until patents are secured.
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Boston
San Francisco
London
Charles G. Loeber
Loeber
Anthesis
Mr. Loeber
Assenti-Minded Actor Roland Reed Dashes From Fire Scene
Boston Globe recounts Roland Reed’s farcical absent mindedness in New York. While his wig and facial hair were unfinished he joined a street crowd at Union Square. Fire engines roared by and Reed, hatless with soap on his face, helped fight a small blaze then sought a drink at Morton House bar before realizing the laughter of onlookers.
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Boston Globe
Roland Reed
New York
Union Square
Hairsatian Palace
Roland
Sixteenth Street
City of
Reed
Morton House
NATURES STIMULANTS AND Emerson on Tobacco
The piece cites Emerson discussing natural stimulants and intellect restoration through simple pleasures like a breeze, rest, tea, and conversation. It notes he rarely smoked and did not until age 50, contrasting gentler excitants with tobacco’s harsh effects on the brain.
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Emerson
Nature
Everson
Sign Near Cleveland Cottage At Marion Tells A Message
A fragment describes a sign near Cleveland’s Marion cottage reading Eat Not The Pails There. The text also notes a similar dwelling and a tree with a tacked sign, hinting at a small local notice or message from the period.
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Cleveland
Boston Globe
Marion
Persistent Quakeress aids Kickapoo in tough Oklahoma journey
Correspondent documents a trek from Chiloco to the Sac and Fox Agency via Oklahoma City. He notes Oklahoma City’s boom and chaos, the Boomers’ leaders dead, and a Kickapoo reserve wary of schooling. He describes Miss Lizzie Test aiding education, a lone schoolhouse, and encounters with Shawnee and Kickapoo people while seeking pupils.
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Sac and Fox Acency
Uncle Sam
Chiloco School
Sue and Fox Agency
Oklahoma City
Chiloco
Toe Sac and Fox Agency
Oklahoma
Captain Couch
Wharphhaise
Oklahoma Ci
Oklahoma Country
Lizzie
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the Diver
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