Garter craze sparks coy fashion contrasts in 1890s talk
In a brisk stylish column, readers glimpse the silk elastic garter fad with colorful anecdotes about yellow garters, lavender frosted-gold clasps, and flirtatious street sightings. The piece notes garment tricks, gifts to actresses like Fanny Davenport, and the social intrigue around garter symbolism.
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Les
Sallie
Jennica
Jim
Fifth Avenue
McGinty
Notion Counter
Mademoiselle
Fanny Davenport
Melbourne McDowell
Will
Mizpah
la Tosca
Tosca
Ned
Bob
Sylvia
Clara Belle
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Widely Praised by Lowell Druggists
Lowell Massachusetts druggists report Hood's Sarsaparilla outsells all other blood purifiers. Statements from F C GoovAre Troll A W Dows & Co Cantox Hovey and others claim Hood's leads in sales and is among the best medicines. Hood's Sarsaparilla sold by druggists at $1 a bottle or six for $5, prepared by C L Hood & Co Lowell MA.
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Lowell
Masa
Hood
F.C. GoovAre
A. W. Dows & Co
C.F. Buaxcuann
Maxstox
Sitaw
F.& E. Gater & Co
Canstox & Hovey
P. Moony
Tlood
A. Swas
Beak & Co
Gail
Seienise
Ameria
New York
Ciyaat Pataita
Pollyland and Follyland Echoes in Verse and Tea Trade
A collage of verse fragments about Pollyland and Follyland, recalling a moonlit dream and playful escape, interwoven with a travelogue on Ceylon tea production and its claimed superiority. Includes a civic-essay on labor in penitentiaries and a promotional note for Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
Advice to Mothers and Mrs Winston Teething Syrup Ad
Fresh buttermilk at the Can Can. Mrs Winston's soothing syrup for teething is touted as the prescription of a top nurse and physician. It claims to relieve pain, cure dysentery and diarrhoea, griping, and wind. Used for over forty years by millions of mothers. Price 52 cents a bottle. jan26-1y
What Is Shown by Statin thes Origin of Diseases
Professor Francis Minot lectured at Harvard Divinity School on professional men's health. He linked longevity to a healthy life and analyzed English and American death rates among clergy, lawyers, physicians, professors, and others. He urged proper hygiene, ventilation, drainage, regular baths, exercise, and balanced work and rest to prevent illness and overwork.
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Francis Minet
Statin Thes
Ith
Harvard Divinity School
Minot
Massachusetts
England
India
Sawyers
Lange
John Lubbock
J. R. Curtis
Darwin
Dr. Little
London
Bird
Boston Advertiser
Lost Arts of Buffalo Hunting Described by Dr Carve
Dr W F Carve in the San Francisco Examiner outlines a cruel buffalo hunting method. He prescribes riding on the right, using a large caliber rifle, and firing to quarter through the lungs. The animal does not drop immediately, but bleeds from mouth and nose and dies after a final struggle on the prairie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. F. Carve
San Francisco Examiner
Harris the Tailor Seeks Clients and Suits
An advertisement from Tombstone Arizona touts Harris as a practical cutter offering nobby suits and pants with a claim of honest work and fair terms. It lists Allen Street address and a note about salesmen wanted, plus a stray notice of seed garlic esparsette seed interest and a seed grower in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Street
Tombstone
Arizona
Corpoition
P. O. Box
New York
Nervous Weakness and Bitters Sell Common Ailment Cure
Pessimism shadows life with nervousness described as irremediable without proper relief. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is claimed to conquer nerves and chronic weakness, aiding malaria rheumatism biliousness and kidney issues. Advertises whiskey saloon and cigars, job ads, memory prospectus, and military forage proposals with dates and locations in Arizona and New York. Proponent pushes agents wanted and worldwide distribution.
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P. F. Collier
Warren St
New York
Loisette
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New York World
Chamberlain
H. J. Peto
Harris, the Tailor
Hoefler
Notioe
Carman Key
Department of Atizens
Chef Quartermaster
Los Angeles
Cal
Fort Grant
A. T
Prince of Bidders
Fort Grat
Oanal
Pacific Coast
Tucson
Kimball
U. S. Army
George Berrott
Presiden
Geo. H.carrell
Presien
R.W. Wood
Cashie
KING
J.W. Vickers
Fremont Street
Cohn & Bro
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UluAn
The
Cochise Hotel
Gan
Allen ST
S Bi
Nellie V. Walsh
Walson Doree
A. Tuquey
Juan A. Garcia
San Pedro, Sonora
Mexico
Juan Custom House
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Washington Penn
Elaine
Downer’s
Sacramento
Oakland
San Diego
Stockton
Portland
Oregon
Cochise Haviare Até ‘Trading Co
Bet
Tioseph Hoefler
General Merchandise
Fifth and
Fremont Streets
A. R. Meyer
N. Witherell
R. S. Towne
Treas
el Paso Smelling Works
Paso
Enc
Tants
Kansas
City Seller & Refining Co
Capital
H. A. Trap
Geo. D. Potter
North American Review
America
Times
W. E. Gladstone
James G. Blame
the North American Review
East Fourteenth St
Montezuma
Leon Larrieu
Fairbank
Connection
P. O
Omaha, Neb
Boston
Thomas Delaney
Danny Epivarn
Santos Aros
J. & Pave
Ceese
Hte Beine
A. Lolsettte
N.Y
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Atlas Engine Works
Indianapolis, Ind
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