Fashions for Children Emphasize Refined Playful Styles
The New York Times fashion note highlights gentler, refined outfits for children moving away from heavy lace. It describes ensembles for two to six year olds, with yellow dominating midsummer wear, French influences, and a shift toward longer skirts, smocking, and simple trims. It also notes practical play clothes: backless, sleeveless, perforated designs in linen, cotton, and gingham for outdoor life.
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New York Times
Paris
Elizabeth
Jersey
Little Isle
Seasonable Good Things and Mushroom Recipes
A vintage cooking column offers luncheon ideas with sardines on toast and a lettuce onion garnish. It then lists dessert and mushroom dishes including almond soup cloves cake Brazilian salad and various mushroom based entrées with step by step prep tips.
London Tit-Bits Praises Sir Maugh Rigby Doctor Baronet
The piece recounts a story about Sir Maugh Rigby the new doctor baronet honored for services during the king's illness. A hospital boy asks which doctor attends another patient and is reassured you will get better. Rigby is praised for looking after the king and others.
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London
Maugh Rigby
Man Finds Importance In Hotel Lobby No Longer Stays In Room
A man discovers his prominence in a hotel lobby and leaves his room to mingle. The scene highlights how social attention alters his behavior and routine.
New cactus dye named cactorubin by German chemist
Prof H Moliseh a German chemist claims a new plant dye from a dead cactus. He calls it cactorubin for its reddish color and says it forms when cactus cells die.
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H. Moliseh
Stray Story Sparks Threat After Impolite Remark
A reader recounts a confrontation sparked by a rude comment about appearance. The speaker vows to find the man who insulted him and threatens to punch his head, illustrating escalating tempers in a stray stories item.
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Pye
Car with no motor sits outside home
A light exchange reveals plans to repaint a cheap car missing its engine. One person notes the vehicle will not run, while the other counters it will look nice when parked at the house.
Odham and Newgilt Banter About Ancestry
A light exchange features Mrs Odham asking about ancestral lines and Mr Newgilt replying that only his great grandfather is present in memory and he was not notable.
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Mrs. Odham
Mr. Newgilt
Proof Positive quip on proposal turns on a cigarette
Hortense teases Marjorie about an earnest proposal as a cigarette goes out and goes unnoticed. The exchange carries a light, social tone typical of a witty newspaper capsule.
The Connection and the Gift of Perfect Poise
A fragment discusses a marriage link and remarks on the idea that dullest men may display perfect poise as a social gift. The speaker notes someone married their fiancée, highlighting a subtle connection through marriage.
In trying to be popular a man can become unendurable
An old adage notes popularity can sour close friends as tips for use of Red Cross Liquid Blue appear in a grocery advertisement. The note includes a joke about failure spoiling by success and references a large bottle priced at 10 cents at nearby grocers.
Advice From Her Mother Boosts Woman’s Health
Wetmore Colorado woman recalls years of fatigue after marriage and six births. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief and recommends it to hundreds of women, noting her mother also used the tonic.
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Wetmore
Colo
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ae John Brassea
Wetmore, Colo- Tadao
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