Fancies for the Fair Show Latest Summer Draperies and Hats
Fashion notes describe summer dress ideas with white chip beach hats, chiffon trims, and floral corsages. Skirts with gores and flounces dominate, while ballooning bustles and inflated rubber pads trend, sparking concern over fit and safety as lace wraps and famed collections populate the season.
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Vastien
Reacty
Osteanes
Seasmarco
Jesuty
Ampesty
Harper's Razor
York
Xaareel
Fashionable Cape and Tea Gown Styles in Seaside Wear
The article details luxury wardrobe items from the Vanderbilt and Astor circles, focusing on Spanish, Moorish, Egyptian, Persian and Chinese robes, capes and tea gowns. It covers travel capes with lined hems, color palettes, and decorative yokes, plus a scarlet seaside evening cape, a blue straw hat, and an Egyptian inspired tea gown with lace trims and high collar. It also offers fashion advice on graceful carriage and posture to complement attire, and ends with eclectic notes on melons, summer drinks, and simple recipes.
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Hanes
Harper's Bacar
New York
Gotham
Aroum
Alstave
Repley
Ladies’ Home Journal
Little Red Ridinghood
Air of St Andrews By The Sea A Summer Journey
In St Andrews New Brunswick a traveler recalls a summer choosing trains over palatial boats and finds a town aged yet lively. The article notes wide drives, Indian baskets, cordial shopkeepers, and Loyalist origins with Fort Tipperary, Minister’s Island, and the Kirk. Governor Sir Leonard Tilley visits as Canadians and Americans mingle in hospitality. The piece ends with hay fever in sea pine air and plans for bathing ponds.
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St. Andrews-By-The-Sea
St. Andrews
N. B
Lex
Chillon
West
Sterne
Yorick
Porter
Bangor
Prass
Tate
Bay
Montreal
Quebec
St. Augustine
John Jones
Crown
Lake Chamcook
Mt. Chamcook
Joe’s Point
St. Croix
Andrews
Massachusetts
Passamaquoddy
Church
Poce En Guise
St Andrews
Ft. Tipperary
John Scott
Sir Leonard Tilley
Sir Leonard
St. John's
Tilley
States
Canon Ketchem
Ketchem
Miss Ketchem
Charles Tup
Jitty’s Cove
Women of Fifty Years Ago and Modern Society
A nostalgic essay contrasts fifty years of American women with today’s. it cites self discipline, homemaking, reading, and Sunday schools of the past against modern clubbing, public schemes, and relentless social pursuits driven by ambition. It notes women in business and charity must balance honesty, independence, and public life.
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Dispatch
Chautauqua
Litera Uy
Lot
Aomen
Ashe
Shimatey Dare
Choosing a Melon Sound and Fresh Oatmeal Drink Idea
The article extols watermelons as a luxury fruit suited to hot climates and hints at refreshing uses like oatmeal drinks. It cites unnamed authorities and mentions Dr Livingstone and other scholars in Africa in a discussion of melon suitability.
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Asia
France
Epicure
Dr. Livingstone
Prof
Drowmond
Peruna Promises Relief for Nervous Prostration in Heat
An advertisement warns that nervous prostration rises with heat and lists symptoms such as dizziness, eye specks, heart palpitations, and despondency. It touts Peruna as a rapid reducer of distress and a cure with continued use, urging a dose before meals during hot months and noting available directions and a free copy of The Family Physician No. 1 from the Peruna Medicine Company of Columbus Ohio.
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Perang Medicine Company
Columbus
Ohio
Endorsements for Dr Price Flavoring Extracts
Several experts including PETER COLLIER in Washington DC THOMAS HEYS PETER J. RICE and J M LONG attest to Dr Price's Delicious Flavoring Extracts. They praise purity absence of deleterious substances and superior flavor across vanilla lemon orange almond rose and other varieties.
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Dr. Price
Thomas Heys
Toronto School of Medicine
Peter J. Rice
Toronto
Canada
Ontario School of Pharmacy
Fox Girls toe joint hoax a New York seance tale
In 1850 the Fox sisters visited New York amid reports of violent spirit sounds. Richard B. Kimball disputes their toe joint denial, recounting a seance that allegedly convinced a great novelist there was spiritual activity. The piece labeling the toe joint explanation as a humbug appears in the New York Times.
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Fox Girls
Rochester
New York
Richard B. Kimball
New York Times
Rufus W. Griswold
Broadway
Bleecker
London amazed by American women in Lady Brooke gown
London correspondent notes Mrs. Russell Harrison and Mrs. McKee as the two most admired American women. They wore the long Lady Brooke gown of soft white silk with diamonds, paired with full mousseline de soie bodices. The outfits featured diamond accents and patterned hems, drawing much attention in society.
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Vanderbilts
Mexicos City
Americas
Vandertilt
Emne
Belgium
Germany
Austria
Europe
New England
Agfellow
Francesa Sargent
Byron
Childe Harold
Graham
Sartain's
Putnam's
Ibsen
Russell Harrison
McKee
London
Test It Yourself Cleveland's Baking Powder Pure
Test it yourself to prove strength and purity of Cleveland's Baking Powder. Boil a teaspoonful in water to detect ammonia if adulterated. Cleveland's claims include stronger, more economical leavening and better keeping qualities than rival powders.
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Cleveland
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Ace Etcics Sramwa
Octave Thanet
New Brunswick
Moose Island
East Io Indian Island
Indian Island
New
Parson Andrews
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Handel
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Houston
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Ww. O
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Myuest
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Cooper
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Lee
The
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Fenimore Cooper
Phinney
Ivison
Washington, D.C
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Department of Agriculture
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Chicago Medical College
College of Pharmacy
Lady Brooke
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