Simple Street Hat Styles Show Elegant European and American Craft
The article reviews two hat models, one French in one-piece weave with a black velvet demi facing and pheasant feather ornament, priced at 200 francs in Paris, praised for balance and chic. The second American model, royal blue and white braid, features a soft draped brim, folded velvet accent, blue wings, and a flower hatpin, highlighting comfort and artisanal millinery with modest price.
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Paris
Simple white dregs dress with plastron and lace details
The description outlines a plain white dress with a center front plastron, joined bodice and skirt, silk edging on the skirt, over-gleeves, shoulder strap, and a lace yoke bordered by a silk plastron. Materials listed include six yards of 44 inch fabric, one dozen buttons, two yards of lace, and two yards of silk.
Ornament for the Instep Lace Insertion for Stockings
Lace is used as an insert on black or white stockings in a diamond shape. A long lace strip is basted on the instep, outlined in white, then covered with a floss stitch band. Edges of the lace are trimmed, the stocking turned, and the under lace clipped to prevent pulling apart. A lacy relief suitable for a June bride.
Dressing Table Triplet Bags for Vanity and Desk
A yard of pompadour or ribbon makes three small bags hung beside a dressing table. Tie long ribbon hangers to a rosette or silk cabochon. The same triplet design can become a desk accessory for scraps, with initials sewn on each bag.
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Dresden
Bug Pugilist Heavens Clash With Spider Match
A bantamweight battle turns comic as a pugilist fears the spider in a dramatic exchange. The bout references a tense confrontation and comic bravado, capturing a moment of theatrical ring psychology.
Itching scalp cured by Cuticura remedies in six weeks
A Liberty Maine woman Miss Lillian Brown recalls a severe scalp condition that caused raw bleeding and hair loss for years. She treated with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills, followed directions for about six weeks, experienced a relapse six months later, then regained relief after resuming the regimen.
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Cutiura
Lillian Brown
Liberty, Me
Doan's Kidney Pills Promised Quick Relief
An old advertisement touts Doan's Kidney Pills for backache and urinary disorders. A Columbus Texas user claims Bright's disease and dropsy were cured, crediting the pills and urging readers to remember the Doan's name. Also references a horse of product lines and a quote from Spurgeon about persistence.
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John L. Perry
Columbus
Texas
Bright
Doan
Free remedy promised by Rev Lapley in Alabama ad
A local church minister, Rev J D Lapley of Avondale Station Birmingham Alabama, advertises a free trial bottle of Dr Caldwell s Syrup Pepsin for indigestion and dyspepsia. The ad urges readers to send name and address for a prepaid sample and notes bottles sell for one dollar with guaranteed results. Mrs Alice Northrup of Quirey Tennessee is pictured as a cured patient.
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Lapley
Avondale Station
Birmingham
Ala
Alice Northrup
Druggs
Bishop Eats His Own Boots in Arctic Journey
Bishop Stringer and a missionary companion toured Herschel Island in the Arctic Ocean and returned to Dawson City. With food exhausted they ate muckafucks and moccasins made of raw sealskins, soaked to a glaze and toasted over the fire. The bishop praised the meal, especially the mucka fucks.
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Bishop Stringer
Herschel Island
Arctic Ocean
Dawson City
Cheney & Co. promise reward for catarrh cure
Frane J Cheney proclaims himself senior partner of F J Cheney & Co Toledo and offers one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Advertisement and testimonials mention Halls pills and electropodes, with other period humor and notices.
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J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Frm
Frank J. Cheney
A. D
Fragmented Classified Fragments Include Ads and Pseudo Remedies
A mixed parcel of vintage advertisements and dubious claims appears. It references a daily fly killer, a superstition about wedding cake dreams, Petitus Eye Balm, a note on jurors excluding women, Perry Davis Painkiller, and Lewis' Single Binder cigars.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum Riddle On Bus Route
A tour guide on a rubber necking wagon near the Twenty second Regiment armory at Broadway and Sixty-eighth Street spells a word aloud as def en dum. An amused aunt asks what it says and the guide reveals the phrase deaf and dumb asylum in three parts.
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Regiment
Broadway
Sixty-eighth Street
Guide
Shawnee Development Promise Boosts Local Growth
Shawnee Oklahoma rises from brush pile to city of 25 000 in 14 years with a meat packing plant employing 1600 and a cotton mill employing 100. Baptist and Catholic state universities will enroll 1000 students. Investment opportunities claim unprecedented profits as property prices are framed to advance, with contact to Shawnee Development Company.
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Great Southwest
Shawnee
Shawnee Development Company
Oklahoma
Circumstances Alter Cases and Odd Advertisements
A fragmented clipping mixes quotes on gifts and manners with snatches about Mrs Winslow and nursing syrup. It mentions mischief from expensive presents, a quip about a wife’s father giving a house, and a boastful line about a straight cigar sale with 9.5 million units.
Transparent objects example in dialogue
A teacher asks for a clear object as an example while a boy mentions a keyhole as a transparent element. The exchange illustrates perception of transparency in everyday items and a child's imaginative response.
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Rire
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