Fur fashions for season dominate coats and wraps
The piece details a fur rich season with moleskin, rabbit lamb, sealskin, and squirrel trends. It notes long coats and short jackets, fur trimmed wraps, pony coats for automobiling, and ornate fur hats with beaver or velvet, ostrich plumes, lace, and velvet bows shaping stylish headpieces.
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Ermine
Tate
I Come From the Great South to the City
A rough speaker declares himself a salty outsider from the Great South arriving in the city. He brags of streetwise bravado, warns of con games and confidence tricks, and promises to drink success to the trade before passing another day in bustling urban life.
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Great South
Drifter's Street Scene Echoes a Drunkard's Rant
A garbled dram of a drunken narrator laments crime and fortune in a rough urban street. He rails at a banker, boasts of holdings, and curses turn of events as a bartender watches, the scene dissolving into confusion and violence.
Grape Wine Making Instructions From Early Text
To every 100 pounds of grapes after mashering add one gallon of water. It ferments four or five days in an open vessel. They strain the juice and add four pounds of sugar to each gallon of mixture. Pour into a keg. Leave the bung out until fermentation ends. Cork the keg for a year, then bottle.
Winter fur fuss sparks tea time tale
At a club gathering, ladies discuss winter furs stored for summer, joking about hideous looks and waist size. A humorous family anecdote follows about a father who never sold a bearskin coat, ending with the group laughing and the conversation fading away.
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Kirs, Jones
Mrs. Jones
Mary Wilkins
Henry
Tail of a Bog
A fragmentary verse by DY ARTHUR J. HARDICK reveres a noble soul and steadfast humility. The poem extols integrity and steadfast friendship, praising a figure who remains true and worthy, even as life bends toward distant horizons.
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