Autumn Fashion Letters From New York Gilded Society
A magazine style note describes autumn leaves, weddings, and fashion in New York society. It contrasts English and French modes, highlights fur trends, gowns with pleats, and decorative leaves in receptions near the Hudson. It mentions Yale and Harvard fashion contrasts at football events and references gowns with embroidery and color contrasts.
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Hudson
Nyack Hills
Yalo
Yale
Harvard
Marvard
New York
Searles
Princeton
Og Msans
Women Who Are Spendthrift in London Society
A Victorian era critique notes that many wealthy women incur vast debts and hide bills from husbands, detailing dressmaker claims of thousands of pounds. It argues reckless spending erodes judgment, harms character, and prompts contempt from payers, while praising sight-saving parasols and fans as practical uses amid fashion obsessions.
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London
Rich
Bond ‘Street
Felix
London Telegraph
The Little Dutch Queen and Indian Love Tales
A comic vignette on Queen Wilhelmina’s doll regiments and a Sitka Indian romance blends with essays on women’s education and jealousy. It reflects early 20th century views on household economy, gender roles, and social reform, interwoven with anecdotes from Sitka Mission life and distant marches.
Labouchere’s Crawfish Advice Sparks Mockery
A New York Sun clipping recounts Henry Labouchere defending cruelty to lower creatures. He cites a fish tale about an angler who loses an eye, then hooks the same perch again, praising the humor and originality of his anecdote as harmless fun.
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Ware
Henry Labouchere
Labouchere
New Fork
Purely Feminine Woes and The Bright Litk Queen Tale
A fragment titled Purely Feminine presents a dramatic trio of figures Woes Who and Spevithrifis They Care the Taetr Eyoe The Bright Litk Queen The Practical in Education chronicling challenges in gendered roles and moral instruction amid a violent torment in a historical theater or educational setting.
Higher Education of Women in Alaska Mission Lesson
A report from Sitka describes missionary methods to train native children from age four, aiming to wed and settle them in mission cottages. The account details long years of schooling, supposed cultural reformation, and the effort to bond indigenous youths with missionary families and transplanted residents from various states.
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Alaska
Sitka
Ajeskac
Alghteso
Jealousy as the Worst Form of Love Torment
An essay argues jealousy is the most tormenting passion, more brutal than greed or wrath, increasing with imagination and tenderness. It traces jealousy from primal emotion to its worst form, noting the jealous man or woman becomes a prodigy of imagination, each new fancy a fresh torture.
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Elrla
Sitka
Peter
Mr. Dunboys
Mellakatla
Polly
Matlakatla
Mr. Duncan
Duncan
Metlakatla
Jess
Chicago
Annie Howel Harns
Association of Collegiate Alumnia
Helen Hiscock Backus
Vassar
Lucy Salman
Katherine Coman
Wallesing College
Mary Roberts Smith
Stamford University
New York
Feria
Win
Pall Mall Gazette
Love
Paradise
Farther Particulars and a Wife Question in Gossip
Fragmentary dialogue shows social pressure and marriage entanglements amid cholera season. Conversation references wealth, arrangements between lovers, and a wife sought through a will. Names and details are incomplete but imply a dramatic domestic plot from a Geneva-period source.
Fashion Notes From The Gotham Exhibition Dress Parade
The article tours Chicago women’s attire seen around Lincoln Park and the Gotham Exhibition, noting driving and walking costumes, gowns, wraps, and accessories. It contrasts Chicago styles with Gotham fashion, highlighting velvet capes, furs, sable trim, floral bodice sprays, and subdued colors. It describes specific outfits, fabrics, and silhouettes while praising restraint amid the fair’s closing scene.
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Chicago
Gotham
Windy City
Gothamite
Lincoln Park
Piano Tuning Charge In Alley Confronts Detroit Reporter
A garbled Detroit Times snippet recalls a man asking the price for piano tuning in an alley. The stern stranger asks how much to tune the piano, replying three dollars with a hurried payment and a quick departure as the scene fades.
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Walt
Titi
eSay
Detroit
Fragmented Tale Reflects Cosmopolitan City Debate
An OCR fragment presents a garbled exchange about New York as cosmopolitan. It mentions a barber, a tailor, a doctor, a preacher, and various nationalities in a puzzled dialogue. The passage ends with a bystander asking where the Irishman fits in.
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New York
Lane
Aloon
Ding
Lee
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