Dainty lingerie sketches from mercerized lawn to cambric nightgowns
A read through vintage fashion sketches detailing undergarments and nightwear. The first sketch describes a simple underdress with a flat waist, basque, and ribbon threaded insertions. Materials listed include yards of lawn, insertion, and ribbon. The second sketch outlines an evening camisole in camile with Valenciennes lace and bow-embellished shoulder straps. Additional items show a front and back French drawer with full style, a nightgown of Indian calico trimmed with insertion and frills, and a cambric nightgown with lace frill at the wrists.
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Materiaix
Worth on the Tailor Made and Dress Color Trends
Worth the great French dressmaker disapproves of tailor made gowns. The article discusses morning wear attention to blouses, wedding attire, and the Frenchwoman’s preference. It notes color schemes for rooms, nerv e tone impacts of blue, and the shift toward tailored models for day wear over frilly lingerie blouses.
Slippers For The Evening Fashion Notes
A fashion note on coordinating slippers with evening gowns. It explains color matching, options for ready stock slippers, dyeing with pastels or rouge, and cautions on dyeing silk. Suede pumps trend, cautions on browning, use of carcoal for blacking, and care with shoe trees for kid and satin shoes.
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Sally Eawn
Dressy Gowns Veils Fabrics and Velvet Tailoring Trends
Dressy gowns favor sheer veils and fabrics like gallé and collenne with plain or shaded stripes. Wool taffeta textures contrast with chiffon mohair and velvet suits while tailoring showcases checks and two-tone color schemes. Slim skirts, short ornamental jackets, and slim blade plaiting in taffeta define spring styles with vanity trim.
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Paris
A Classical Sash Adorns New Gowns With Beaded Fringe
A new classical gown features a sash hanging from between the shoulders held by black velvet straps studded with brilliants. Straps pass from back to front and fasten with buckles. The fringe uses gold and silver and color beads to edge the sash, creating a regal effect.
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Gods of May
Mystery at Lonely Inn Turns to Poison and Fire
In a secluded inn near Losere, Innkeeper Avignon and his sister guard a nephew as a sickly stranger seeks shelter. The guest is poisoned during supper, Avignon shoots at two approaching figures, and the tale hints at a plot to seize valuables.
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Aurel
Fangeas
Losere
Frente
Avignon
Elyde
Hig Ste Nephew
Avignod
Wat
Nolther
Uleny
Miele Xecommitee
Sidier
End of year talk on church controversies in New York
Dr Chacor Aked of Me Fi Avenue Bautist church discusses church conflicts at a New York dinner. He recalls an Argyllshire elder’s London tale of first buying 409 members, then 200 remain, then ten, then only him and Dugald remain, illustrating dwindling orthodoxy.
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New York
Chacor F. Aked
Fifi Avenue Bautist
Aked
London
Aweel
Mint Brither Dugald
Dugald
Million Labels a Day Contracting Brewers Order
Million Labels a Day, Messrs Bass and Co the brewers have placed a vast contract for the well known triangle label supplied by Mexico Pass. The order runs to over 1,000,000 labels daily for every working day of the year. A staff of about 50 workers devote their full time to this single contract.
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Messrs. Bass & Co
Lrewers
Luvels
Mexica
Transmission of Sound In Cold Arctic Air
Reports that in Arctic regions sound travels over miles due to dense cold air and smooth ice surfaces. Also notes Colwyn Bay station master Mr. Noble securing abstinence pledges among his staff. Peru’s fertile coast valleys run 1,800 miles to the Andes and Henry Watterson praises tolerance for republican patriotism. A traitement for backache cites Donns Kidney Pills with testimonial from Mrs Dunn of Columbus Ohio.
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Arctic
Mr. Noble
Colwyn Bay
Eng
Peru
Unusual Qualifications and a Stenographer Tale
A fragmentary column highlights Jocelyn of Wichita as a court stenographer for Judge Panecoast of Oklahoma over years. It recalls a trial moment where a witness jokes about his “business,” then shifts to assorted ad like bits including eczema cures, a rheumatism remedy, and letters about Canada migration and sensational snippets from a vanity page.
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Jocelyn
Wichita
Panecoast
Oklahoma
Pancost
Guiner
Saskatoon
Wan
Canada
W. H. Bliwanger
Ghien Mownrada
Jows
Saya
Central
Gut
Elwinner
Western Canada
Paynton
Sask
Montgomery
Iowa
Bowdstead
States
Turtle Lake
Yankee
Des Moines
United States
Fragmented health note hints at headaches and remedies
The text mentions headaches and a mix of unclear phrases about causes and remedies. It references months October to May and a laxative product, with scattered names and garbled terms. The overall content reads as a disjointed health note lacking coherent narrative or verifiable facts.
Cure All Cataract Scam Promises Big Reward
A damaged ad touts a supposed cataract cure claiming a $100 reward if it fails. It promotes a “positive cure” for a constitutional disease and urges readers to mail for a sales form from CORNEY & CO. at a listed address, typical of late 19th century trickery.
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Tail
Mall
Corney & CO
Pake Lai
Pacilly
State St. Chesebrough
Fashion column jokes about bulldog shoes in vogue
Mr Stubb reads a men’s styles column and jokes that bulldog shoes are back in fashion. Mrs Stubb teases about where a bulldog carries shoes, prompting a playful exchange on fashion and canine humor.
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Mr. Stubb
Mrs. Stubb
Marla
John
Cours
Unclear fragment hints at chores and pride in work
A garbled passage cites domestic tasks and a claim about pride in work. It mentions chores for a lazy son and a remark about repnon or a special cause requiring it, attributed to Thomas Kempia, with a Denver Post source reference.
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Denver Post
Thomas O Kempia
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Child
Thomas Dunn
Vine
Columbus
Ohio
Nyetta
Donn
Foster Milburn Co
Hultalo
N.Y
Witnes
H. P. Mudke
LeSueur
Minn
Lumsago
ST. Jacobs
Miss Keépepp
Scott
Spei
Papa
Subbubs
Popley
Ponsey
Jerry
Cmeern
Allen
Olmstel
le Foo
Winslow
Maruing Minto Meine Fai
Wal Sunrie
Cincinnati
Bartotore
Timothy
Hugh—Astra
Colla
Mangaman
I erawGsh
Putnam
Alors
Monroe Drug CO
Guincy
Minele
KOE
Castoria
Bears
the Centaur Company
Sass
Tee Rete
Quincy
Earl S. Sloan
Boston
Mass
U.S
W.l.douglas
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