How to look pretty at the sea shore fashions revealed
A chatterbox gossip column details summer etiquette for seaside visitors, from bathing robe hacks using sailcloth outfits to daisies of fashion. It notes humor and hints about naval and yachting girls, country-house routines, and the risk of a run in stockings at Narragansett Pier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Divi iv
Hedley
Powler
Iris
Sumer
Elef Oaks
Wile Shi
Ashton
Pimieme
Mars
Acer
Abe
Doleg
Ronkia
Ibis
Woony Davenport
Rose Coghlan
O'Chesk
Tharn
Cleveland
Ohio
Narragansett Pier
Moss
Narraganeet
Walter
Hoe
Flea plague shocks Palmer's Theatre cast in comic medley
A lively cabaret at Palmer's Theatre turned bizarre as fleas sting the cast during a medley of national airs. Actress Annie Myers leads a frantic sequence hopping and scratching, while others pinch themselves backstage. The flea outbreak grows from a month of nuisance to a full stage-wide torment, blamed on Broadway digging and ongoing rehearsals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palmer’s Theatre
Uncle Myers
Dixie
Laura Joyce Bell
Josephine Kuspp
Pelmely
Mrs. Bell
Harry Askeu
Aaken
Noas
Carrie Noyes
Annie Myers
Digby Bell
Kierian
Bell
America
Aoe
Thas
Carmen
Cita
Thirtieth Street
Jery
Eighth Avenue
Businessman confronts tailor over deposit scam on Main Street
A Kansas City businessman visits a Main Street tailor seeking gray fabric for a suit. The tailor insists on a $10 deposit to cover misfit returns, prompting a sharp exchange about trust and business practices. A second anecdote recalls a wife who cleverly mends a coat tail, joking about hidden rips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Times
Main Street
Bradstreet's
Kansas City
Theresa Young
Tye
Leone
New Bowery shifts to Eighth Avenue in New York
A New York Herald observer describes the Bowery’s transformation as crowds move uptown to Eighth Avenue from Twenty-third to Forty-second. The article notes bustling dives, cheap shows, and a rowdy crowd, with fights, swindles, and malevolent atmosphere amid concert halls and saloons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowery
New York
Chatham Square
Cooper Union
Eighth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Forty-second
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Carrie Careless
Bow
Bea ‘Saal
Wing
Waat Georgin Onyvan
Georgia
Ifery
England
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Ber
Ares
Hikte Wienna
Duchess of Pife
Freatres
Onwin
New Yor
Nat C. Goodwin
West End Avenue
Nat
E.G. Stme
Western Reserve
William B. Hayden
Stuart Robson
Manaee
Berane
Tone
Germany
Herr Passart
Herr Possert
Shylock
King Lear
Richard Til
Healer
Fabricius
Jack Mason
Marion Manola
J.M. Hill
McKee Rankin
Abraham Lincoln
W. J. Ferguson
Laura Keane
Lincoln
Booth
Ste Sen
Herr Klauser
Berlin Courier
Ludwig Barnay
Berlin Press Society
Washington
George Edwards
Red Gaiety
London Gaiety
Chicago Opera House
St. Louis
San Francisco
Harry Lee
London
Lee
Wes
Hood
Ray Iceda
Impose
the New Bowery
Baer
Noiny Concart Halle
New York Herald
Harry Minler
Eight Avenue
Variety Theatre
Alhambra
Jim Fink
Grand Opera House
Sewing Maida
Auditorum
Madeline de Germo
Madeline
Rhodes
Sateens
Grenadines
India
Mobil
Rhodes &C
Mainst
Rene
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