Fashion's Gay World in Fall and Winter 81 Styles
In autumn fashion there are few changes mainly in garment shapes and rich fabrics. Velvet and silk rival plush and cheviot with bold designs in new cheviot. colors include dark brown madder red grey blue cinnamon fawn and dahlia red while black and grey fade. Mrs Marshall C Roberts returns to NYC stirring society with a large income and estate. Rose Post, Vanderbilt connection, captivates with refined wardrobe. Mrs Herman Oierichs arrives from SF social season. new velvet glove belt purse and silk bow trends noted. Murray Hill hosts the Bymster's club of society women.
A Texas Stopover With Col Knox In Austin
The writer revisits Austin Texas recalling old friends and enemies from a past era. He jokes about legacies, hunting jack rabbits with old companions, and reflects on missionaries in China versus domestic faith, questioning how conversion costs are spent and urging focus on reachable areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Correa
Austin
Texas
Congress Avenues
Tesas
Binks
China
United States
Jersey
Human Nature Dialogue Reflects Parental Intuition and Engagement
Ethel recalls her father's anger over her engagement while Maud notes his belief in understanding human nature. The conversation centers on a clash between parental control and romantic choices, with references to trust and deception as they discuss handling a similar situation. The excerpt hints at propriety and wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel
Lbe
Maud
Jack
Light and Airy Judge Wye Memoir and Pencilmaking Oddities
Fragmented account blends a judge anecdote with Victorian era pencil care tips and satire. It cites Judge Wye facing coal shortages, a clothier’s shirt anecdote, and a curious method to soften pencil lead by oil soaking. The Pittsburgh Dispatch, Keeley remedies, and charity exhibits are referenced in passing.
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Wye
Jury Magazine
Pittsburg
St Certs
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Global trends hint at American exports and imperial interests
Column notes strong demand for American shotguns abroad and streams of Baltimore ore shipped to foreign ports. It mentions Nicaragua needing water, American well drillers in demand, Britain asserting Venezuelan mine claims, and Chicago World’s Fair plans a large pumping plant.
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Baltimore
Nicaragua
Great Britain
Venezuela
Chicago
United States
Cunard Line
Guaranoeing
Across the Atlantic. Economic and social notes from 1920s press
Kimberly reports De Beers profits at 1,000,000 pounds sterling for last year. A Berlin surgeon cites skin injection as a safe anesthetic. Japan seeks closer trade with China amid native agitation. Nine peer titles have gone extinct since the election of the present parliament, averaging a new extinction every seven months. Paris hosts 181,000 foreigners, Italians 21,000, Luxembourg next, then Great Britain.
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de Beers
Kimberly
Berlin
Japan
China
Paris
Luxembourg
Great Britain
Fragments from a Curious Local Column
A garbled OCR passage presents humorous aphorisms and stray lines about love, hosiery, drinking, and a remark on Mr. Cleveland and infantry tactics. The readable items include a tally “A. Slim: Deters ninety-seven drinks, $14.55” and scattered phrases with unclear origins or context.
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A. Slim
Canyon Dak
Cleveland
Unborn Inventions and Futuristic Household Ideas
A playful list of imagined devices including a changeable bonnet and a trunk that never fills. It envisions an interpreter for infants a cheerful adjustable spirit and a plano that is mute at odd hours. Also a dinner-knowledge cook floor crawler an doorbell caller indicator and a universal name tag to ease memory.
Love and Law Reflections from a Judge’s Note
A fragmentary meditation on justice and belief quotes Kathrine Gresjean about love, orthodoxy, and the role of information. It pivots on the tension between execution and law, noting great minds and the distractions of appearance.
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Itn
Kathrine Gresjean
Epitaph Wit and Auctioneer Advice Note
A Pittsburg Despatch quip-filled column muses on honor and debt age, punctuality and waiting, ghosts in cemetery epitaphs, combining butter and margarice, and the auctioneer’s lot. It counsels acting on advice like medicine, to be well shaken before taken.
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Pittsburg
Quotable Wisdom on Small Kindnesses and Duty
A collection of aphorisms on doing right, small acts of love, and everyday kindness. The quotes emphasize habit, quiet effort, and the value of daily courtesies in shaping character and sustaining the heart.
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Ruskin
F. W. Robertson
Sir EL Davy
Unclear verse from Detroit Rice Press excerpt
Fragment from a Detroit Rice Press piece discusses hardship in poverty and social judgments. It notes a man with little to show and a boy ashamed of his father, highlighting a harsh life lesson about speech and dignity.
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Detroit Rice Press
Also Mentioned on This Page
Crisp
Marshal C. Roberts
New York City
Roberts
London
Arthur Eaten Mackay
Leith
England
Ramer
India
New York
Rose Post
Frederick Vanderbilt
Thomas Howard, Jr
Vanderbilt’s
Herman Oeirichs
Fifth Avenue
San Francisco
Murray Hill
Bymster's Club
Four Hundred
Chapler
Amelicain
Col Knox
Lone Star
Ren Geng
Ike
Scott Alleise
Eben
Jobo
Bunld
Dwight
Herry
Hartford
Danbury
Brooklyn
Mass
Sharett
West Front Street
United Tem and Coffee Growers Association
M. Ulrich
Ction
Jaco
Elkwood Cafe
J. B. Miller
Ou R
Engroun
Dent’s Gloves
Hallock ,& Davis
Demir
Plainfield
Ratitan Mills Feed and Meal
North Aven
Oathlyr
R. J. Shaw
Front Street
Park Avenue
A. M. Griffen
East Front
Oethloe
E. L.ge Lehigh Coal
North Avenue
Madison Avenue
Across the
Atlantic
O. M. Dunham’s
Derby. Net
Somerville and
Kastom Maile
AMO
Trenton
Philadelphia
RK BR
Pope P
Says Uncle Jabez
A. D. Cook & Bro
Lehigh Coal
Pune
John Johnston
South Avenue
Plower
East Front St
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