Illustrated FASHIONS Show New Fall Skirts and Coats
Fall and winter skirt fashions emphasize intricate cutting and multiple flounces with fullness at the bottom. Pebble cheviots and rich purples with red tones lead color trends, while silks remain in strong demand for dressy wear, with taffetas renamed for variety. Short walking skirts stay dominant as three quarter length coats pair with suits in plain and rough textures, collars returning to prominence, and stitching as a key finishing touch.
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Jack Frost
New York
Four Courses Sufficient for a Dinner and Leisure Women
A short essay contrasts women of leisure and working women, noting envy from the leisure class of self improvement opportunities. It cites Good Housekeeping on ideal dinners and tastemaking, ending with a gendered claim about epicures and women.
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New York Times
Woman in Blue Overalls Appears in West Side Court
A New York Telegram report describes Annie Brown in blue overalls and a blue serge coat entering the West Side Police Court. Magistrate Pool and spectators watched as she and a companion faced the hearing, amid a scene of mixed reactions and curious commentary.
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The Cooking Club Marmalade and Butter Method
Among the choicest ways to put up peaches is marmalade and butter. For marmalade, three quarters of a pound of sugar to each pound of fruit after puring seeding and weighing is used. Heat slowly to draw out juice and taste. stir from the bottom.
Walking costumes feature skirts that clear the ground
Fea tures of the season include blouse waist 4339 and walking costumes with ground-clear skirts. The penger fabric waist shows tuck seams and snug sleeves, while the nine gore skirt uses plaits and flounces to hide seams. Pattern 49 and 446 offered with a 10 cent coupon via Pattern Dept The Journal Indianapolis.
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the Journal
Indianapolis
Ind
Marmalade Hints From a Classic Recipe
A historic cooking note explains boiling sugar and water with kernels for an hour, skimming, then adding lemon juice per three pounds of sugar. The mixture, flavored by the kernels, cooks to a smooth paste and is sealed in glasses or stored like jelly.
Practical education debate in New York Tribune dialogue
A New York Tribune piece quotes fathers and educated women debating whether formal study equips women for practical work. A Western millio niress recounts cooking, housekeeping, and self reliance, arguing true capability comes from hands on skills and emergency readiness.
Mint remedies and summer drinks from old Philadelphia notes
The piece extols mint as a versatile plant and medicine chest for hot weather. It covers spearmint and German peppermint, mint julep preparation, and uses in tea and crème de menthe. Also notes distillation, menthol imports, and mint usage across cultures, with practical tips for storing and serving.
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Philadelphia
Preserving Mint and Citrus Drinks from a Vintage Kitchen
A vintage kitchen note describes simmering a lemon juice mint drink with sugar and water until a thread forms, then mixing in orange and pineapple juice and chilling in wine glasses. It adds tips on drying mint for winter, hanging the sprigs to dry, bagging them heads-down, and storing for later use.
To Be Attractive in Philadelphia Telegraph Advice
A chaperon counsels debutantes on charm over vanity. She urges stylish but affordable dressing, meticulous grooming, calm demeanor, healthy mind, and moral and intellectual improvement. Avoid nerves, jealousy, or gushing, and remember charm and a cheerful outlook can outshine mere beauty.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Pilgrim Guide to a Quotation Matching Evening
A magazine style note describes selecting author pictures from catalogues and attaching ribbon loops to pin to gowns. Guests pair authors with well known quotations, Kipling Lowell Burns named, with a judge matching unmated couples using a numbered key of authors and brief quotes.
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Kipling
Lowell
Burns
Remedies and fashion notes from a home region column
The piece offers gout relief from apple acid, seasickness remedy via apomorphia, and a tip for jelly from cider vinegar. It also provides chest expanding exercises, a hair thickening styling method, and fashion notes on rain coats with raglan sleeves and blouse detailing.
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Raglan Shane
An Irreverent Look at Women and Birds in a Century
A fragmented 19th century column blends social etiquette with natural history. It catalogs women’s car alighting habits, contrasts East and West bird songs, and ends with a playful essay on fashion and height influenced by lifestyle and cigarettes.
Flea control tips and Paris fashion display described
The article advises sealing a flea infested room with carbolic acid for twenty four hours then airing to repel fleas for a year. It also suggests salt water for eyelid inflammation and alum use on hands. A Paris fashion show at Musee Guimet featured robes and staffs from ancient Alexandria with professional mannequins displaying outfits around 1900 years old.
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Paris
Musee Guimet
M. Gayet
Alexandris
London Letter Apprentice Wins Lottery Prize in Wall Paper
A Joinville pork butcher's assistant, who bought a lottery ticket eighteen months ago for the Consumptive Children's Hospital drawing, found his ticket on a wall after a second drawing declared it the winner of 12 000 dollars. A neighbor’s offer of 20 dollars for the wall prompted him to check the ticket and realize his entitlement.
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Joinville
Haute Marne
France
Children's Hospital
The Pope’s Unconventional Ways
The Philadelphia Press describes a new pope as a man of the people who wears a nickeled watch with a silk guard and has pawned a ring in Venice to raise funds for charity. The report suggests he will abolish much of the Vatican’s formal ceremony.
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Philadelphia
Venice
Vatican
To a Pretty Girl. Billy Girl! Morning Eyes and Form
A fragmentary poem praising a pretty girl, noting morning eyes, a creamy neck, and the allure of her lips and hands. The speaker compares her radiance to stars and hints at a deeper understanding required by an unseen God. The text includes garbled lines and misspellings, suggesting OCR errors.
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Billy Girl
In The Time Of Typhoid A State Of Mind
Washington Evening Star warns that disease avoidance depends on mindset as well as hygiene. Germs lurk in food water and the body, yet overthinking illness weakens resistance while calm vigilance helps. Identify infection sources, seal them, and pursue simple hygiene and diet to prevent typhoid fever.
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Washington Evening Star
Bacilll
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