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Orleans County Monitor, Barton, Vermont, May 6, 1872
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Orleans County Monitor, Barton, Vermont, May 6, 1872
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Oakland Tribune, California, June 8, 1919
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Chicago Tribune, Illinois, August 18, 1908
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, May 26, 1907
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The Daily Republican, Monongahela, Pennsylvania, March 2, 1896
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, March 8, 1909
The front hangs perfectly straight from the shoulder, and has a chasuble like that worn by a priest, or like a smock of a peasant.
Mourning neckwear is difficult to obtain..
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The Leavenworth Times, Kansas, December 15, 1896
…the floors of the room gave way and precipitated the entire party a distance of eight feet into the cellar. The casket was broken open and the corpse rolled out.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 28, 1896
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 23, 1896
I am sorry that I cannot suggest anything in the way of a mourning bicycle suit.
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Frost’s Laws and By-Laws of American Society, 1869
Etiquette Problems in Pictures, Lillian Eichler, 1924
Rules for mourning: part II, Ladies and Gentlemen’s Pocket Companion, 1800
Rules for mourning, Ladies and Gentlemen’s Pocket Companion, 1800
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Pittsburgh Dispatch, Pennsylvania, September 13, 1891
Proper widow’s weeds, The Atlanta Constitution, Georgia, December 9, 1900