Notes of Fashion From a Peculiar Styles Preview
A Chicago Chronicle fashion note cites a Europe-returned designer on tailor-made gowns staying dominant. Styles favor jaunty box front jackets, clinging skirts with satin bands, camel hair and broadcloth fabrics, and varied sleeves. Wraps shift to three-quarter and full-length coats with velvet trims and rich brocades. Fur use rises, and silk waists remain essential. rain and walking skirts adopt double faced cloths.
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Europe
Chicago Chronicle
A Quince Cake Recipe From a New York Tribune Feature
A detailed older dessert method describes a quince cake with two sponge layers, quince jelly, whipped cream with gelatine, and a lemon or quince jelly meringue. The process includes beating eggs, folding in flour and cream of tartar, and slow baking to keep moist and tender, then assembling with jelly and meringue.
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N. Y. Tribune
Pullington Loses Outfit Then Wins Trousers Mystery
In a Chicago Daily Record tale Pullington buys gray and black VHIE cloth trousers for 4.50 and pays in advance, only to face a stalled order. Deputies, a sheriff, a receiver, and a judge complicate the case as Pullington fights to recover, amid delays, bets, and a fumbled parcel that arrives cut but not sewn.
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Pullington
Tullington
Josh
Masy
Publington
Pullingtor
Trausers
Pidlington
Wullington
Circuit Court
Leun
PaHington
Wallington
Beehuana
Bechuana
California
Pellington
Purlington
Chicago Daily Record
Squashes with Cream from the Housekeeper
Wash fresh summer squashes and cut into quarters then steam until tender. Mash in a strainer cloth, press to dry. Reheat the juice with the same amount of cream, thicken with butter and cornstarch, and season with salt and pepper. Serve with the squash.
Humorous quips from old papers on colors and manners
A collage of vintage jokes and cartoons from US papers. Lines poke gentle fun at shopping talk, baby chatter, acting, in laws, betting, wireless gossip, coon song, racist tropes, and a portrait of social differences. The tone is light, period humor with name checks to newspapers.
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Yonkers Statesman
Zoo
Detroit Journal
Chicago Evening Post
Harlem
Marconi
Erastus Winkley
Washington Star
Penn
Pitt
Tittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Overexercise Risks Detrimental Effects On Digestion And Heart
A medical journal warns that excessive training can injure digestion and nutrition through toxin buildup and reduced excretion. It notes long exertion can destroy appetite, cause sickness, and erode bodily strength, with rare but serious risk to the heart’s function in overtaxed athletes.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Nehemiah Prayer and the Susa Context in Ezra-Nehemiah
Special study notes describe Nehemiah as cupbearer to Artaxerxes in Susa during 445 to 444 BC, detailing the city’s location, the broader Persian capitals, and Nehemiah’s role. The prayer chapter outlines his mourning, fasting, and confession, plus the plea for help, remembering past mercies and a specific, persevering petition for support to rebuild Jerusalem’s walls.
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Peloubet
B. C
Artaxerxes
Ezra
Jerusalem
Susa
Shushan
Ecbatana
Babylon
Choaspes
Erekhah
Tigris
Nehemiah
Chisieu
Hanani
Adeney
Azne
Judea
Wall of
Nebuchadnezzar
Jehovah
Cambridge Ible
Israel
Egypt
Joshua
Samson
Deborah
Sennacherib
Confusion of Gentralona in Ga licia estate
A grandmother mother and daughter each bore a male child the same day on Count Potoki's Ga licia estate. The three boys share the same age creating generational confusion. Emperor Francis Joseph sent money to be divided among the children.
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Galicia
Count Potoki
Francis Joseph
London Daily Graphic
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W. Jarvis
Publiahor
Troy
Nehemiah’s Prayer
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