English Silks and Fashion Notes From The Era
A fashion page discusses the Gibson Girl style with tailored pleats and simple elegance, pairing English silks with a man’s shirt neck band and white linen collar. It covers sweet potato baking, a pale green bridesmaid’s frock with lace and aigrette, a linen party gown with serpentine blouse, and current coiffure trends featuring a straight rouleau fringe and soft curls. It also praises voile fabrics, color palettes, and new genteel checks in voile designs.
New Voile Fabrics Feature Embroidered Dots and Ribbon Work
A fashion roundup describes delicate pinkish orange, white and blue voiles with embroidered dots, fish scale like textures, and creamy gray and white motifs. Ribbon work adorns waistcoats and fronts, featuring pearl gray and oyster pink brocades, gathered borders, and lace centers. Blue dominates the palette, with multiple blue shades in outfits, and a mauve and white checked voile for a going away ensemble.
Fashion notes on linen trims and new wraps of the season
A fashion column surveys linen trims and soutache braid on linen garments, circular Valenciennes lace, leather embroidered girdles, open-work shoes in white kid, shaded stockings and patent leather tints in mauve and white. It covers silk bodice and cloth skirt combinations, wide stocks, and redingotes in varied shapes, noting jackets with basques and elbow sleeves and the season’s wardrobe contrasts for church weddings and social events.
To Make Scones and Trim for Street Hats
Instructions detail a scone recipe using oatmeal, white flour, salt, baking powder, milk, sugar, butter and kneading without hands, rolled thin and baked brown. The piece also notes trimming trends for street hats featuring ostrich quills and white peacock feathers as smart accents.
Milk stored in shallow pan stays sweeter longer
Practical household tips recommend pouring milk into a shallow pan to preserve sweetness longer. Additional guidance notes hanging clothes by the toes, shoulders, and hem, and using cold boiled potato to rub in emergencies.
New Chocolate Cake From Old Recipe Card
Pound of almonds and chocolate with butter and eggs form a rich cake. Melt chocolate with minimal water, combine with remaining ingredients, fold in lightly beaten egg whites, bake in a charrette mold forty five minutes, then glaze with chocolate icing.
New Wrinkle in Belts Design Trend Details
A fashion note describes daily belt designs featuring flowered pompadour ribbon on a foundation bound with kid. Buckles are square and covered with kid, with pink accents and pale blue or white bindings. Belts are straight, not full, and two inches deep, noted as extremely dainty.
Home Made Cement Recipe From Historic Text
A dated recipe describes making a cement by combining one quarter ounce gum mastice and one ounce gum shellac with one ounce of sulfuric ether and a quarter pint of alcohol, then dissolving to form the cement. The process reflects historical chemical handling and material use.
New Idea in Incubation Eggs Rotate Continuously
A Chicago inventor patents an incubator design where eggs rotate in a warmed chamber. A rotating wheel with peripheral pockets holds eggs in bands and turns to bring the germ into contact with all nourishing parts. The device aims to mimic daily turning done by hens with less manual involvement.
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Chicago
Commotion Over Mixed Baby Sheep and Mountain Goat
In a New York zoological yard Mrs Mountain Goat arrived with a white baby while Mrs Common Sheep brought a lamb. The two babies were swapped, sparking a playful chase as each mother tried to reclaim her own infant. After a brief scramble the rightful mothers separated with one baby for each.
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New York Zoological Park
Mrs. Sheep
Baby Lamb
Mrs. Goat
Out of Sight Tobacco Aged in Ohio Farm Trial
Dr. W. G. Kishler of St. Marys Ohio aged tobacco on his farm for twenty nine years to test if age improves quality He now makes cigars from the aged tobacco and users report improved flavor validating his theory.
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W. G. Kishler
St. Marys
Ohio
Crude Surgery of Papuans and Insect Eating Flower
A historical note describes Papuans of New Guinea performing forehead vein bloodletting with a cassowary bone drill driven by a bow. It details the process, fainting, and use of ashes as a styptic, noting possible heart disease immunity. It also features Aristolochia flowers that trap insects, with a Magdeburg collection and US-native species.
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New Guinea
Montreal Herald
Magdeburg
United States
London Zoo Feast Feeds Animals With Wide Variety
A London Zoological Gardens report details last year’s diverse menu for animals including 144 tons of horse flesh 9 530 chicken heads 14 ½ tons of fish 260 pints of shrimps 297 loads of hay and 6030 bunches of greens. Also listed were 972 pounds grapes 498 pounds sugar 6262 loaves of bread 5086 quarts of milk 30 pounds of crackers and over 33000 ounces.
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London Zoological Gardens
Ghost rat traps family in Vineland home
In Vineland New Jersey late one night the Allen family heard ghostly thumps and squeaks as a hungry rat crawled through the cellar seeking a meal from clams. A trap with a clam foothold caught the rat and it died, ending the eerie sounds.
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J. E. Allen
Vineland
N. J
Mr. Allen
Gate that can be opened from a car advances in farming
A Brookyln Eagle summary notes an Illinois inventor from Petersburg proposing a tilting farm gate that can be operated from a vehicle. The gate uses a counterbalanced pivot and a rope and pulley latch to lift and secure the barrier, with a duplicate system for two directions, reducing farmer effort at the gate.
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Nois
Petersborg
Brooklyn Eagle
Bees Swarm In Chimney At Court Street Home
Middletown correspondent reports Mrs. F B Chaffee of Court Street faces a bee swarm occupying a chimney. She refuses to have them smoked out and seeks a humane solution to coax the intruders to leave.
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F. B. Chaffee
Court Street
Campaign Medal of 1840 Claims By J K Butler Of Burtington
J K Butler of Burtington VI possesses a campaign medal from the Harrison Tyler campaign of 1840. The obverse shows a bust of Gen Harrison and his birth date, while the reverse features the fog cabin and the phrase The choice of the people.
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J. K. Butler
Burtington, VI
Gen. Harrison
Gentlemen urged to return dark blue Chesterfield overcoat
From the agony column a request asks the owner of a dark blue Chesterfield Overcoat taken from the 21st Lancers coach at Greenford on 1h April to forward it to Rimmell Allsopp tailors 69 New Bond Street. A Nashua New Hampshire cat rescued after three days trapped in a shade tree. The duke of Oporto, brother to the King of Portugal, noted as a fine Gate player.
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London Daily
21St Lancers
Greenford
Rimmell 4 Allsopp, Tailors
New Bond Street
Nashua
N. H
Oporto
King of
Portugal
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Deudoir S
TN Tee
Tors
New York Herald
Paris
China
England
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