Feminine Readers and Hall Bedroom Fashions in 1900s NYC
A collage of social notes on mothers’ clubs teaching child training, hall bedroom trials, evolving dress sleeves, and summer gowns. Anecdotes include a grandmother’s views, a New York hall room life story, and a humorous arithmetic trick for dating rivals while detailing fabrics, skirts, and blouses suited for fuller figures.
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New York Hall
Mothers’ Club
New York Tribune
Kipling
Perha
Renewing Old Puarniture in New England Farm
Low old rockers remain comfortable for sewing and merit repair. Craft tips include removing the splint seat, sanding and varnishing the frame, and reupholstering with sail cloth or duck using a Mat-headed tack. Finish with corduroy trimming and matching gimp to protect a heavy covering.
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New England
A Cheerful Dining Room on Long Island
A New York Commercial Advertiser piece extols a white and yellow dining room with sunlit windows and a green view. An Long Island cottage features ivory white woodwork, seven-inch paneling, a stencil frieze in daffodil orange and chestnut, brown and pale blues, and yellowish brown tile.
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New York
Long Island
Odds and Ends From a Curious Market and Dress Notes
Boas of all descriptions appear from ostrich to coque feathers alongside silk ribbon rache. New cabbage cucumbers lettuce and onions are mixed for a fine salad dressed with oil and vinegar. The Moral brooch is highlighted by matching fruit or flowers to gown color. A palette knife aids scraping batter from olives and similar tasks. The flexible broad place adjusts to the bower pan leaving it spotless. A late note from a complexion specialist mentions wearing dotted and open mesh fabrics.
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New York Sun
Legion
Lawn
Batiste
Paris
Fashion notes mix veiled looks with hats and breads
A fashion and home hints column discusses veiled styles and rival hats the Nell Gwynne and Gainsborough. It explains back dress hawking, circular bread shapes for delicate sandwiches, velvet touches on gowns, and at home ice cream tips stressing slow initial freezing to avoid sour cream and poisoning risks if left overnight.
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Nell Gwynne
Gainsborough
Queen Mary Pearl Dazzles Chicago Buyers
A Wisconsin clam fisher found the largest and most perfect pearl in America aboard a Mississippi River shell off Prairie du Chien. The pink 103 grain gem, nicknamed Queen Mary, was bought by H Deakin for about 50 000 with the clammer and seller Mary’s permission. Deakin reports strong interest from Chicago and calls the pearl one of the world’s finest.
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Chicago Evening Post
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Lansing
Prairie du Chien
America
H. Deakin
Fine Arts
Chicago
Deakin
Mary
Queen Mary
New York
London
Wall Street Philanthropists Plot Securities for Public Buy
In New York Telegraph W G Nicholas argues insiders seek to supply the public with new railroad and irrigation securities worth about 92 million dollars. The consolidation of two major tobacco firms would create a holding structure capitalized near 170 million, with 92 million more issued, allowing a small group to retain control while letting the public invest only a fraction of the total.
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W. G. Nicholas
New York Telegraph
Wall Street
The Late Potato Crop and Fertilizer Formulas
The article examines potato farming economics focusing on fertilizer use, soil nutrients, and experiments from Long Island. It discusses optimal nitrogen phosphoric acid and potash ratios, yields vs cost, and how soil conditions affect fertilizer choices for profitable production.
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Philadelphia
Long Island
Hall and
Jordan
New York Agricultural Experiment Station
Geneva
United States
Lone Island
Indiana Highway Law Aimed at Heavy Hauling Revisions
The act amends 1881 law empowering boards to alter routes by using land not previously used, with damages paid. It tightens heavy load limits on gravel and turnpike roads during thaw or wet conditions, defines loads by tire width and vehicle weight, and sets fines up to 50 dollars. It cites court rulings on prior ambiguities and notes trainer Dr Currier on colt handling.
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R. S
Boards of Commissioners
Board of Commissioners
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Currier
Government plan for rare trees distribution sparks horticulture interest
Orange Judd Farmer reports that the U S Department of Agriculture will not broadly distribute all trees. Dr B T Galloway and Secretary Wilson favor targeted yearly releases of a few rare native trees to boost public interest and horticultural awareness without harming trade. Nut trees will be among early focuses, with ant culture promoted especially in the South.
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Orange Judd
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Plant Industry
B. T. Galloway
Wilson
United States
South
Up to Date Farming by Green's Fruit Grower
Green's Fruit Grower highlights modern fencing for farms using woven wire instead of stone walls rail or board fences. Living fences with rows of apple mulberry cherry pear or poplar trees offer wind resistant boundaries and flexible field division by stretching wire along tree rows.
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Green
Farm Notes on Garden and Poultry Practices
Practical notes cover soil treatment with nitrate of soda near plants while avoiding leaves, bird boxes for wrens with small entrance holes, cat deterrence, and pole protection from martens. Tips include butter production quality, feed impact on dairy, use of coal ashes for soil and paths, and market lessons on butter quality. Discusses cattle breeds, Jerseys vs richness, and selective breeding for farm profitability. Also advises laying pullets to roam and minimal grain, with late hatchlings for winter lays and weekly insect dusting to control lice.
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America
Canadian
Carter and Enid Love Triangle End in Minor Poet's Fall
In a dim London room, journalist and artist recall Carter the critic and Enid, daughter of a wine merchant. Carter, once poet Leslie Barrington, dies after a heated pursuit, while the artist marries Enid and Carter ascends as a wine merchant. The tale ends with a sharp twist on love, money, and literary fame.
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Carter
Leslie Barrington
H'm
Lincoln's Inn
Benehers
Julius Caesar
Temple
Maisie
Enid
Rapzer
Fleet Street
Leslie Baverington
Express Companies Move Toward Practical Consolidation
W. G. Nicholas reports in the New York Telegraph that Adams American and United States express firms have reached de facto unity of ownership. Major stockholders of Adams and American are said to control United States, planning joint operations and coordinated territory. No more cutthroat contract competition is anticipated.
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W. G. Nicholas
New York Telegraph
Adams
American
United States
Adams and
Harmoney
A New Jag Cure in Philippine Army Temperance Drive
A Kansas soldier writes from a Philippine island about a temperance movement in the army. He notes the adoption of a new standard that groups of soldiers pursue sobriety and discipline, reflecting a drive to curb drinking among servicemen and foster order.
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Kansas City Journal
Kansas
Philippine Islands
Lotus
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Philadelphia Times
Piazzi
Odds and
Wall-Street
Ohio
Taft
Horticultural Department
Michigan Agricultural College
Henry F. Cramer
Wenderville
N. d
DeWitt & Go
Frank H. Carter
Henry J. Huder
E. W. Stucky
Ean
Co. Platt
Express Companies
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