Woman and Tea Gowns Set Fashion Mood in 19th Century
A vivid fashion column catalogs tea gowns and household wear with Paris imports, velvet millinery, and satin ribbons. It highlights a tan Melton frock billed as the Princess, ornate yokes, epaulet-style shoulders, and fur chains for muff attachments, alongside Parisian negligees in dark blue velvet with steel buckles, and French flannel wraps trimmed in white moire. It notes widespread variety appealing to many women, plus Japanese Empress robes, velvet trends, beaded embroidery, and the evolving winter millinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heldern
Valor Melton Elatic
Tennssance Inc
Gemteronts Legen
Len
Paris
Practical manual on berry cultivation and pruning methods
A detailed reader Q A on cultivating berries, primarily blackcap style vines, with spacing, planting depth, pinching, pruning, and year to year care. It covers mulching, soil preparation, canes, hills, and wind resistance, plus notes on older rows and variations among varieties. Insights from the National Dairyman and Hoard's Dairyman discuss manure handling and long history of English farming.
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Hakpheredes
Tama
Tian Dian Ve Blacken
Regina
Queer shots and rabbit hunts told by old timers
In a rugged frontier gathering, Hank and John Mitchell recount wild hunting yarns. A rabbit hunter describes a fox killed by a stray bullet after a fox chased a rabbit, while a Hemet lake tale ends with a city sharpshooter missing a buck and bringing down a hedge hog. Bill McDougal recalls pigeons so thick a wheat patch was alive with birds and branches piled with feathers.
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Wien
Tunde
Pat
Bear Valley
Giebensh Ly
Tim
John Mitchell
Hank
Hemet Lake
Steawberry Valley
San Jacinto Range
Frisco
Santa Anna River
Thad
Bill McDougal
Mitchell
Raymond
Burglar Proof Coffins at New York Funeral Firm
A Rochester inventor unveils a burglar proof coffin designed to prevent graveside theft and burial alive. The boiler iron enclosure uses flush rivets, external hooks, a spring lock, and separate vault and grave models. In vault versions torpedoes trigger from inside, while ground coffins use a spring and arm to release after an internal push.
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New York
Opapesitis
Rochester
Noticed 1 Stardome in Western Heights
Buffalo Courier recalls a year with elevated air causing breathing trouble and mentions witnessing two lynchings in the first week out West.
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Stardome
Amy
Bineway
Buffalo Courier
Miscellaneous Pickings From A Busy News Sheet
A jumble of short items notes 9 742 locks in a Grand Opera house a steel ship built in Cardiff and rigging and hull of steel a Maine man lifts a barrel with his teeth and holds a quintal of fish aloft an African American boy in Cherokee Ga bitten by rattlesnakes recovers in days a Philadelphia jail inmate awaiting trial hangs himself an Indian in Madera Cal shoots a doctor who did not cure his wife yet collects his fee and takes the man’s horse wool on mutton in New Mexico and Arizona carcasses a Waverly parish in Surrey resists being absorbed by Farnham Walter Scott’s naming a novel from the parish petroleum as locomotive fuel on the Baltic railroad plus plans for large oil reservoirs in St Petersburg and Reval during a distant Russian line expansion
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Paris
Cardiff
Charles McVeagh
Harpswell
Maine
James Foley
Philadelphia
Madera
Cal
New Mexico
Arizona
Waverly
Surrey
Farnham
Walter Scott
Waverly Abbey
Baltic
Russia
St. Petersburg
Reval
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Woman
Tome
Japan
Datney
Tbutante
Traby
Draubh
Patel
Cere
I. KK Talland
Partners
Hailing
Mianiee
al Aman
Dairymvan
Dairyman
Hoard’s Dairyman
J. 2D. Smith
Delaware County
England
Mr. Corbett
Wat Tyler
Ket
Henry IV
Henry VIII
United States
Maryland
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
J. L. Erwis
the Hunters
Mike Plunkett
Lynnyr Daele
Nike
Mil
Dowasnet Mann
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