Scandalous Advice From Cash and Company Couture Ad
A sensational 19th century style callout targets women shopping for dresses. It warns that ornate gowns and cosmetics cost fortunes, pushing readers toward a costly purchase plan from Serpent Cash & Co. The piece mocks female vanity while illustrating the era’s aggressive advertising tactics and social pressures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wexaan
Serpent, Cash & Co
Mira Serpent
Mrs Cash
Wits
Paria
Amd
Nosharg
Casi
Advice on Home Life and Business for Women
A fragmented Victorian era prose piece offers guidance on self sufficiency, domestic roles, and moral conduct. It contrasts home life with professional ambition, urging women to cultivate order, modesty, and practical skills while highlighting gendered expectations in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sachse
Ms Society Propia
Chrisian Union
Becines
Acai
Queck
Ely
Wits
Fragmented Victorian medical and social era notes
A collage of Victorian era observations discusses home care for the sick, nursing and nourishment, cleanliness, and clothing. It includes anecdotes on a husband aiding a wife’s writing, an Empress Eugenie health note, and speculative social notes about fashion and manners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aimee Oaks
Alice Willeme Brotherton
Lippincott
Lemnper
Crise
Eugenie
Endiansi
Italy
Mr. Pitt
Lacko
Telegraph Office Oddities and Commodore Vanderbilt Tale
An aged visitor at The Telegraph office writes a note with pencil and ink then asks for an envelope stamp and train timing. The piece recalls Commodore Vanderbilt’s stubborn carriage on Staten Island with a humorous chase and a vivid, chatty tone from the New London Telegraph.
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Humanize
Telegraph
Pepe
Almot
Stonington
New
London
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Albert Jew
Mice
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Webualen
Gh Wark Ba Beall
Gisle
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Staten Ian
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Eric Few
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Coleman
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Gavras
U.S
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Few
Lani
DJ AE File
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Cookie
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State National Bank
Wichita, Kan
Compan
L. W. Miller
Fire Insurance
Kansas Loan and Investment Co
N. F. Naveatawonn
M. W. Levy
Trees
A. W. Ourver
J.C. Rotax
Sec
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Wichita
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Chicago Lumber Co
1St ST
Lawrence Ave
Chicago
35Th and Fron Sts
W. A. Smith
Geo. L. Pratt
Geo. D. Cross
Wichita City Roller_Mills
Oliver & Imboden - CO
L. C. Jackson
Hacker &Jackson
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North Main
G A Walker Tieton
Derst
Conhier
Citizens Bank
State of
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Sod
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R. P. Murdock
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