Modish boudoir prints guide by Julia Pottomley
The article surveys dainty sheer boudoir prints and silk outfits for summer, urging careful material choice and color schemes. It highlights peach, orchid, and cream lace blends, plaited borders, hand-finishing details, and the vogue for white crepe satin negligees with lace. It notes printed silks, chiffons, and crepe de chine as seasonal trends and mentions silk jackets with plaited skirts and decorative pockets.
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Milady
Paper aprons and decor: thrifty crepe cloth fashions
The passage touts paper aprons made from a half roll of crepe paper, noting no ironing or washing, low cost, and short life. It also describes paper tablecloths, crepe paper dust taps, and girls at boarding schools wearing crepe paper bows in place of ribbons, attached with coms or taped loops.
Unusual Basket Pillow Craft From Simple Pillow
Instructions describe turning a square pillow into a basket shaped cushion using chalk marks and sewing to press feathers inward. Silk cover in gray green or old rose, two yards, with dull gold braid for basket texture, pale green ribbon leaves, brown satin flowers, and gilt braid handles.
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Western Newspaper Union
Medieval Flowers in the Middle Ages
Flowers served as charms against evil spirits and carried medicinal value. They were used in love potions and as emblems of rival camps, reflecting beauty, superstition, and practical uses in medieval culture.
Native American Muskrats Have North American Range
Nature Magazine notes muskrats are purely North American with long scaly tails used as rudders in water. Presently little danger of extermination exists, though fur traded widely under various names. Average length about two inches, weight around two pounds.
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Nature Magazine
Oldest American Line The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad is the oldest in America its first rail was laid July 4 1828 by Charles Carroll of Carrollton the last survivor of the signers of the Declaration of Independence It can claim this distinction though the Delaware and Hudson is an older company.
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Baltimore& Ohio Railroad
America
Charles Carroll
Carrollton
Delaware & Fodson
Their Long Suit: Short Skirts Return Says Maria Gallo
Maria Gallo of Tarim, Italy, at a welcome dinner for an international beauty contest, argued the short skirt is back. She said reforms urged lengthening it for better marriages, but the reverse occurred, and she noted that the long suit wasn’t the true fit for women.
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Maria Gallo
Tarim
Galveston
Gallo
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Women and Men Face Equality in After-Dinner Speech
In Los Angeles Katie Reed Humphreys of the Women s National Relief corps questions men saying women are equal, noting men expect wives to stay slender and beautiful while they age. She asks to find a man who would tolerate his wife snoring as he does.
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Katie Reed Humphreys
Women’s National Relief Corps
Los Angeles
Miss Humphreys
More Eggs-tLess Sheil Claims on Egg Breakages Rise
Imported egg carriers report a steady rise in breakages and have been informed that increased productivity of foreign hens is the cause. A poultry expert notes that faster production by foreign poultry keepers has led to thinner eggshells.
The Brute Attack Allegation Revealed in Bizarre Exchange
A fragmentary dialogue scene reveals a confrontation where a character named Osbinion is accused of harming a man after an incident where he was kicked down stairs last night. The exchange centers on denials and accusations of ongoing violence.
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Osbinion
Will Do for a Start Mistress
Dialog shows a cook warning Linda about her fiancé, noting he is not worthy but promising to endure for the moment. The exchange hints at tension between social roles and marriage expectations.
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Cook
Linda
It Pays to Be Polite in a Polite Exchange
A brief dialogue shows a character accusing another of gonuntiness for politeness toward Jones. The reply clarifies that Jones did not inherit wealth but merely started a job collecting statements. The exchange underscores social pretensions and practical hired tasks.
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Jones
Business Suith I Thought You Hated Golf
Brown-Forced to It the only place I can meet men I do business with on the links appears in this fragment.
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Brown
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Moone
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