Sweet Girl Graduate Dress Advice for Commencement Attire
The article guides the high school and college graduates on suitable white commencement outfits. It covers fabrics like sheer silks, nets, crepe, and mousseline, with styles such as rosette net and Greek-inspired borders. It recommends accessories, corsages, and keeping a poised, polished look for the ceremony.
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Louise Alcott
Delsarte
Hypatia
Charles Kingsley
Brussels
Troyd
Dress Tips For Public Address In 19th Century Style
Meg offers fashion guidance for speakers focusing on dress to enhance stage presence. She discusses imported fabrics, belts, ribbons, shoulder styles, and bodice decoration, plus sleeve height choices for different figures. Tips include low necklines for summer comfort, va loise or Medici collars, simple skirts with inventive fronts, and the importance of fit and poise for an amiable, confident delivery.
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Medici
India
Meg
Stara
Soft and Pretty Hands Home Treatment Guide
A detailed home remedy for hand care describing daily washing, trimming nails weekly, glycerin and almond flour use, and careful cleaning under nails. Emphasizes hot water soaking, chamois polishing, avoiding acids, and the role of butter during fruit season.
Expressions of the eye and the new ocular expression science
The piece describes eye expressions as a coded science taught to Washington girls. It asserts 729 distinct expressions using the upper lid, lower lid, and eyebrows to convey thoughts and senses. It predicts future women trained to make eyes on exact principles will be more seductive.
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Heston Transcript
Washington
Rome
Imperial City
Shieley Dare
Washing the Windows Day for the Operation
Two servants discuss window cleaning methods. Brightness depends on cloudy days. Use dull weather to avoid streaks. Start with painter’s brush, wash woodwork, then glass with warm water and ammonia, avoid soap. Dust corners with a stick and dry with cloth. Polish with tissue or newspaper.
Muff of Flowers and Novelty Muffs in East Fashion
Fashionable weddings in the East showcase floral muffs worn by guests. Silk velvet or brocade muffs match gowns, often featuring trellis violet designs with sprays of yellow roses and mimosa. If flowers appear in bonnets they should be real and coordinated with the muff.
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London Court Journal
The Use of Perfume Delicate Odors Should Be All Pervading
Guidance on subtle fragrance use for women advises keeping scents light and pervasive. Practice includes sachets for gloves and handkerchiefs, lightly scented hat linings, corsets, and bodices to avoid overpowering the senses.
Etiquette in Holland An American Lady Teaches a Banker’s Son
An American traveler recalls teaching a young Antwerp banker’s son manners in a Dutch country house. She notes the shock at her request for scissors, then shows how she demonstrated polite behavior such as a gentleman letting ladies exit first and offering to turn music sheets.
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Holland
Door
Fifth Avenue
Typewriters Enter Royal Circles and Offices
The Prince of Wales has ordered a dozen typewriters for private use and questions about a possible female operator accompany the machines. A London letter notes the invention’s elegance and asserts it will not disrupt appearances despite royal privilege. A Parisian anecdote describes a wife praising the typewriter for improving her husband’s office by tidying, purifying the air, abolishing profanity, and reducing male attention to women in the workplace.
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New York Sun
Prince of Wales
London
Jesve
Mr. Biasak
Miss Bella
Webster Monument
John
Jack
Subtle Embossing and Coloring For Note Paper
The piece discusses replacing old everlasting embossing with elegant simple methods for note paper. It suggests gold or silver lines of varying widths, plain or with sprays or stars, rosettes with ribbon in the left corner, and optional silver lines for luxury to guide straight writing.
Black Wood Engraving Opens New Idle Hands Pursuit
New York World notes revival of burnt wood or poker work as a decorative art. Portable kits with lamp and benzoline enable engraving on letter racks headboards tables chests cabinets and easels, creating ornamental pieces and many employment opportunities in decorative woodwork.
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New York World
Woman Eats Like A Lioness Says London Doctor
A famed London physician declares women are omnivorous and more prone to eating unseasonable foods at odd hours than men. He notes women recover next day with no apparent fuss while men risk dyspepsia and mood. The piece ends by praising Kearse's Heapacue Capsules as a pleasant alternative to powders and elixirs.
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London
Korne
Kearse
Electric baths described as remedy for nervous fatigue and beauty
Shieley Dare narrates a first person visit to electric baths and Turkish massage highlighting intense heat, electric current, and cleansing rituals. The piece extols renewed energy, improved skin and mood, and argues for widespread public bath adoption as a health and social good.
One of Napoleon's Men in Western Pennsylvania Mystery
A DisPatcH account recalls Colonel Egmont who fled Napoleon’s baggage van after Waterloo. He and his wife reached Upper Jefferson around 1816, hiding table linen marked with N and imperial crown and valuables from Napoleon’s chests. They vanished from Jefferson, leaving few clues about their fate.
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Pennsylvania
Dispatch
Agent Gaskell
Adam
David Postlethwait
Colonel Egmont
Upper Jefferson
Egmonts
Napoleon
Waterloo
Emperor
Egmont
America
New York
St. Helena
Bordeaux
Mahoning Creek
Madam Egmont
France
Jefferson
Clara Belle and the Madison Avenue Romance Gossip
A long feature piece tells of a paused wedding in a Madison Avenue mansion. The bride’s chosen husband, wealth and status, wait as the bride’s lover and the daughter of Helen Gould are woven into stories of romance, class, and social spectacle.
Florence Meets His Match in a Comic Fish Tale
The New York Press reports Billy Florence, at the Wilth Avenue Hotel, tells a fish story of catching a 500 pound fish. Mexican onyx mine owner Mr Cooper laughs as Florence retorts about a 600 pound possum. The crowd enjoys the gag before Florence admits defeat.
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New York Press
Billy” Florence
Wilth Avenue Hotel
Mr. Cooper
Mr. Florence Gravely
Mr. Florence
Florence
Orchids of Diamonds Rare Flower Jewelry Feature
The New York Sun highlights diamond orchids as a modern jeweler’s art. Odontoglossum Alexander is the favored variety, petals encrusted with brilliants and rubies. Five blooms form a calyx, removable petals, set on a long slender stem mimicking the real flower's delicacy.
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New York Sun
Alexandra
Dead fox mounted on display in Detroit saloon
A Detroit man sought to sell a stuffed fox on Gratiot Avenue. He bragged of its life like pose, but a bulldog snatched the mounted fox from the saloon floor, tearing the skin as onlookers watched the scene unfold.
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Detroit
Pellets From Various Pestles and Society Talk
A fragmented New York society note mentions that at least 3,000 Four Hundred members will summer abroad. It also references a saber wound disfigured hero and a biblical student claiming Eve sewed garments with pine.
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New York
Eve
Flowing With Fun and Trifles in a Witty Pageant
A collage of comic verses and sketches mixes poems about remembrance and honor with satirical riffs on fashion, slang, and public life. It plays with dramatic irony and light verse to sketch social scenes and a blunt Alabama election anecdote.
Tax Talk Turns To Tariffs In A Rural Exchange
A speaker debates tariff policy and regional economics with a listener who shifts from ancient myths to McKinley era duties. They discuss kerosene wool sugar lumber and regional rate inequities while poetry and affection soften the tax argument and reveal lingering frustration.
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Jupiter
Dian
Olympus
Billy
McKinley
Troy
Homer
Tacoma
Kankakes
Mauch
Kalamazoo
Alpaca
Fragmented Parents and Babble Speak in Odd Dialog
An odd overheard exchange shows parents and others joking about inventing devices to calm midnight baby cries and a plea for a new heart or a new liberal. The crude dialect and mixed names hint at a humorous or satirical social fragment.
Mother Gooseiet. A Queer Increase Bartletts or Paragraphers
A writer reflects on the value of crisp paragraphs in dictionaries and the desire to craft speech and poetry like notable figures. The speaker considers ambition and the itch to create, contrasting past comfort with current restlessness.
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George W. Homer
Roseer J. Buaperrz
A Case of Necessity in School Discipline
A teacher recalls enforcing discipline on a pupil named De bed Ge for pranks at school. The account notes the speaker’s reluctance yet necessity to act, describing how fairness and winded consequences shaped the incident.
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Thas
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