The Fascinating Customer and Abijah at the Haberdashery
Abijah Bunkle’s shop life draws a golden haired heiress, Miss Smith, into flirtation as he hawks ribbons and goods. She hides in an old nurse’s home while plans for poetry fame collide with a perilous papa and a bill yet unpaid.
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Abijah
Chey
Bunkle
Calico
Uncle Bunkle
Sammy
York
Eton Streat
Burkle
Uncle Burkle
Peter
Bil
Nanky
Eton Street
Miss Smith
Papa
Angel
Wayde Bunkle
Home Cookery Fragments With Egg and Sugar Dishes
Recipes for Cream Toast and Kae Ssgee sauces, a baked pudding of milk and eggs, escalloped fish with butter and stock, a sugar icing for cake, fritters with eggs and flour, breakfast rolls with Morsford’s powder, and a squash pie with ginger and cinnamon.
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Laydrai
Morsford
Fashion notes from Chicago Tribune a century ago
The article surveys prom accessories and hats with red shades, lorgnettes, and veiling trends. It notes Jersey gowns with crystal and embroidery, plus cretonne gowns priced around three dollars. It also warns about veil injuries and hat moth damage, and outlines autumn wedding procession customs with an odd number of bridesmaids and ceremonial details.
The Little Coat and the Lost Child
A Riley verse uses a ragged coat and collected items to mourn a vanished child. The poem lists toys and odds tied to memory, ending with calls to return the missing boy and honor the coat as a symbol of innocence departed.
Shad Delusion Delights a Sick Man
A Philadelphia man in poor health in the West pined for shad. Friends could not obtain the fish, until a clever Eastraised man offered a comb fried in butter as a substitute. The patient bit the comb, smiled, and proclaimed the taste of shad.
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Philadelphia Chronicle
Paper gag leads to talk of bulldog gift
Mrs Brown tells her husband that Jones has received a bulldog from admirers and hints it could ruin him because it involves his marriageable daughter. The exchange mocks social schemes and gossip.
English Girls And Women Decline To Be Surpassed In Exercises
A correspondent notes English girls excel in physical training. He contrasts ages seen in public with actual ages, praising English mothers for delaying girlhood and criticizing American girls as prematurely aged and dressed.
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America
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Irda
Hyar
New York Times
Carlyle
C. Matthews
Chicago
France
Dhaan
New York
Avor
Alveriaas
Nelston
the Fashions
The
Chicago ‘Tribune
Pampas
Llano
Amazon
Saute & d
Wooster, Ohio
Herald Printing CO
James Whitcomb Riley
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