Dainty Candleshades for Tailors and Dressmakers
Ad says versatile accessories for fashion workrooms. Mentions best tailors and new head dresses, plus options for any material suitable for ties and other miscellaneous items.
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1898
Page
6
Dainty Candleshades Described with Silk and Floral Embroidery
New dainty candleshades feature white silk with embroidered blossoms including roses forget me nots pansies buttercups and violets. The center shows a ring of circular apertures revealing gem like studs or crystals creating glittering little windows.
Best Tailors Favor Bourette and Camel Hair Fabrics
The New York Ledger notes that bourette and camel’s hair fabrics along with rough-textured suiting materials are favored by top tailors for handsome costumes. These fabrics are used in strictly tailor made outfits with or without matching jackets, and affluent women often align jackets with dresses while others choose versatile wraps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bourette
New York Ledger
Ties for Women Grow in Range of Styles and Colors
The New York Times notes women may wear many neckwear options from black satin and plaid ties to four in hand stocks ribbons mull lace and riding ties in flannel. Bright scarlet leads fashion with lighter blue and pink shades also popular and green showing strong interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Newest head dresses dazzle with delicate tulle and pearls
The article describes miniature hats and head-dresses, noting airy crowns of white tulle held by pearl strands. Designs include a pearl and gold butterfly front piece, a three inch satin crown with lace and turquoise gems, a lace-frilled brim with a jewel, a cerise velvet wreath, and a pearled top-knot with a pearled tulle bow and white roses.
Elaborate Handles Highlight Pearls and Inlayed Art Pieces
The article describes a range of ornate umbrella handles from ten inches long, featuring pearl enclosures in chased silver, with onyx, chrysodelite, and tortoise shell variants. Chinese and Japanese ivory carved designs depict Oriental maidens, mushrooms, birds, and other figures, with French artists creating diverse forms. Precious materials like turquoise, gold, enamel, and gun metal with pearl or gold monograms add to the high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Japan
Rimona
France Adopts Female Bicycle Costume Changes
In Paris and rural France the feminine bicycle suit shifts from old culottes to more form fitting divided skirts. The new model favors a close habit with hidden divisions, designed for mounting and skimming without help, and eliminates the cross bar riding aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
N. Culottes
Paris
Ion
Fashion notes: jackets and boots redefine the French dame
The article describes a shift in women’s attire with blazer jackets featuring small revers and rolling collars, worn open or closed. It notes button-holes on a flap as a practical alternative and mentions boots with gaiter-tops paired with a sailor or Alpine hat, altering the bicycle fashion image of French women.
Oriental Women Weavers and their Labor
A London Mail piece describes East women, especially in Turkey and Persia, as hard workers who earn meager wages for tapestries and carpets. It notes wives often rely on their husbands for pay, comments on gossip at work, and explains skilled weavers create original designs rather than copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East
West
Turkey
Persia
Orient
Croesus
London Mail
Miss Augusta Main Aimed Miss Beebe With Revolver Near Berlin N Y
A Michigan born spinster farmer near Berlin New York faces Grand Jury bail after allegedly firing six shots at neighbor Myron Beebe while he collected water from a well. Beebe charges he was struck at least twice with bullets in his clothing. three bullets narrowly missed. Main handles farm work alone, hiring help only during harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta Main
Berlin
N. Y
Myron Beebe
Beebe
Miss Main
Chicago Chronicle
Fashion notes describe cape wraps and poke bonnet trends
The article highlights popular cape shapes for wraps and a stylish poke bonnet with a smooth black velvet brim, ostrich tip trimming, and chin ribbons. It also mentions a pale straw hat with blue ribbon trim and a conservative reaction to its daring style.
Victorian fashions and distant rights in turn of the century notes
A survey of London stage fashion and women’s coats and hats details velvet wraps fur combinations and the return of the dolman. It also reports on global topics from polygamy in Utah to Antarctic exploration and a Chicago crime bureau for identifying criminals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden
Utah
Hydraulic water massage tank touted as pain relief
A New York Herald report extols a water massage tank that uses heated water and powerful jets to soothe aches. Hospitals already use the system while gyms and Turkish baths may adopt it. the device is controlled by a steam powered pump and adjustable temperature, pressure, and flow for therapeutic effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
New York Herald
Navy to Build a Full Rigged Ship for Cadet Training
The Navy invites bids to construct a 1175 ton full rigged sailing vessel with 175 ft length and 27 ft beam for Annapolis seamanship instruction. It would have 20000 sq ft canvas, yellow pine hull over steel frames coppered, and a $250000 estimate cut in half by Congress, prompting bidders to propose partially complete designs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy
Navy Department
Annapolis
Department
Congress
How She Took Down the Line
A Philadelphia woman recounts hiring a skilled but inexperienced assistant from an employment agency. The worker, assigned to remove a clothes line, labored long with a spade and had already dug up several posts before the mistake was discovered. The narrative ends with the worker not remaining with the family long.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Coats of Arms and the Rise of Family Devices
The practice began in the twelfth century with Germans originating the badge system and the French advancing the science. Early knights freely adopted devices and songs, inheriting or selecting emblems that suited their taste.
Good-Natured People Comment Lacking Backbone
An Atchison Kansas Globe opinion piece argues that some individuals gain a reputation for good humor by not resisting when wronged, describing them as lacking backbone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison
Kan
Globe
Origin of Names Links Occupations and Etymology
The article explains how surnames like Smith and Baker arose from early jobs and notes examples such as Cicero deriving from a bean grower. It also discusses how scientists rename plants to honor individuals, citing Baillou naming Vendrenia after the island figure Friday and Crusoe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero
Baillou
Jean Fernandez
Robinson Crusoe
Crusoe
Chicago News
Thomas Dunn English Denies Reading Du Maurier’s Book
Poet Thomas Dunn English author of Ben Bolt says he has not read Du Maurier’s Ss book and has never seen a copy of it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Dunn English
Ben Bolt
Trilby
du Maurier
Not a Button Left on Twenty Seven Boys in Westport Home
Catholic sisters at the Orphan Boys' Home in Westport rewarded boys for returning found buttons with candy. Over a few days many buttons were gathered, and on Sunday the sisters discovered not a single button remained on the coats of twenty seven boys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westport
Kansas City Star
Cats Friend of Cats Joseph Dunn Dies in Sullivan County
Joseph A Dunn died at Glen Spey Sullivan County leaving an estate valued at 80000 He was known as the friend of cats and spent much money caring for home less felines He did not eat meat but bought large quantities to feed the cats and supplied many dozens of eggs He once stated he had put to death an animal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph
A. Dunn
Glen Spey
Sullivan County
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