Fashion Snakeskin Coat Advances In Women's Wear
A Montreal Herald report highlights anaconda skin fashion, noting Crewent’s unique coat by inventor Mr. Ganner, and describes a lavish three waistcoat length ensemble in brown and team colors. It also covers lavender gowns, velvet trends, furtrimmed gowns, and the growing use of caracal, mink, ermine, and other furs in evening and street wear.
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Crewent
Ventor
Ganner
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London
Montreal Herald
Modish Winter Fashion Furs and Empire Coats Rise
Pieties of fur scarfs appear on streets as new derbies and velvet domes shape women’s hats. Empire coats, petunia velvet, and draped sleeves hint at a stylish winter, while lace frills, embroidered plastrons, and velvet trims enhance checks and tailored jackets. A Rose Jar offers fragrance craft with mace, cloves, lavender, and oils for continual scent renewals.
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New York
Two new costumes feature velvet trims and gathers
A green coatume shows a gathered skirt with velvet bobbles and silk shells, a draped blouse, and matching belt. A brown cloth outfit follows with a redingote trimmed in taffeta bands, violet velvet collar, and embroidered cuffs, completing the coordinated look.
Empire Coats Show New Three Quarter Length Styles
Empire coats feature three quarter length designs among cloth coats and skirts. Tailoring highlights original details in collars and buttons. A recent example in dark blue uses cloth strappings, an invisible closing, sealskin collar, and pearl gray satin throughout.
Household care tips and fashion notes from a vintage column
Scrubbing brushes must be dried bristle down to avoid loosening bristles. Clean decanters by breaking up egg smells and shaking with water. Disinfect toilet ware with hot soda water after washing with soap. Do not store dirty summer clothes. pack linen unstarched to prevent yellowing. Fashion section describes a blue broad cloth matinee suit with jacket and wide strap revers. Stocks section notes advances in neckwear with transparent, boned styles. high stiff stock fading.
Castle Point Hoboken Stevenses Preserve Ancestral Home
Special correspondence describes Stevens Castle atop Castle Point Hoboken New Jersey amid rapid urban growth. It details the castle’s 200 year lineage from Col John Stevens to the present, the estate's 10 acre park, grand rotunda, eight ground floor rooms, and extensive historic furnishings. The piece notes the Stevens Institute of Technology funds and legacy, plus a brief tangent on German ship identity plans and New York state riverfront spending.
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North River
Stevens Castle
Hoboken
New Jerland
New York
Castle Point
John Stevens
Bayards
Mae
Hackensack
England
Royal Yacht Squadron
Washington
George
Busan Stockton
Bayard
Stevenses
Col
Revolu
Stevens
Edwin A. Stevens
Institute
Stevens Institute of Technology
Cracks in Concrete Walls and Roof Attachments
This article explains common causes of cracking in concrete walls including foundation settling and frost heave. It outlines remedies such as ensuring solid foundations, anchoring roof plates to walls with bolts and washers, constructing false jambs for narrow door and window openings, and plastering walls with a thin mortar coat to improve finish and crack control.
Ventilating barn or stable and cement cellar remedies
A practical note describes a biward vented cupola system for sheep barns to maintain airflow and keep weather out, with hinged doors that adjust to wind. It also offers guidance on cement walls floors for cellars, recommending cement mortar mixes, floor layering, and drainage using stone or gravel to prevent water seepage and floor cracking.
A Cord of Stone and London Movement Quips
A cord of building stone equals 128 feet and when laid in a wall yields about ninety six to one hundred cubic feet. In London, Charles T. Yerkes notes Londoners are slow to move yet improving. A writer jokes about riders leaping from trains as they stop, landing on their nose.
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New York
Charles T. Yerkes
Meriy
Lomion
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