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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
7
A damaged OCR excerpt mentions trust, a city, a clerk, and a death notice. It references a court or legal proceeding, a 1 litre measure, and various names or roles, but the legible content is sparse and fragmented. The readable bits suggest a local notice involving a death and related financial or legal actions.
The passage advises against fad fashion and emphasizes proper grooming and fit. It stresses neat, well-maintained garments, fresh linens, clean shoes, a trim waist, and attention to details like collars and gloves as essential for smart dressing. It promotes appropriateness over wealth in attire.
A Philadelphia woman claims her suitor named Fallow assaulted her hand during courtship. She says the injury left her unable to use her right hand and seeks damages of 25000 dollars to cover medical pain and heartbreak.
Unclear clipping discusses women's fashion and money worries. Mentions fees meals and husbands, hints at social pressures and roles, with scrambled phrases about dress, spending, and propriety, reflecting a magazine style commentary.
Scarf trimmings for hats including leghorns and Tuscan shapes, plain and fancy, are favored for smart summer wear. Fine fancy straws in mother of pearl tints are plaited palest gray with light pink and blue, popular among top milliners. The Otero capeline features a long lace scarf through a square buckle with white aigrette and Amazon plume cascading from the crown.
The piece urges young women to choose a vocation carefully and pursue it well. It warns against mismatching talents such as painting versus dressmaking and stresses that real respect comes from credible, successful work.
A historical note advises inviting guests with a warm greeting and careful appearance checks. It encourages not overburdening the host by heavy prep, leaving guests gracefully when serving, and maintaining a bright mental atmosphere to invite future calls. The piece cites a Home Journal quotation on living to eat versus eating to live.
A recipe for cucumber boats filled with chopped tomato and celery dressing on lettuce. Notes on global book production in Germany France Italy England and the United States. A humor snippet about wives guarding husbands from imagined wants. A dart at microbes and modern necessities.
The exchange features a father and son debating a black eye as a mark of esteem. Johnny boasts that he overestimated his own boxing merit, claiming he was better than rival Tommy Jones, in a humorous Chicago Daily News snippet.
An old medicinal advertisement claims three hours of brain work destroys more tissue than a day of physical exercise. It argues brains earn livelihoods and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as an appetite enhancer and dyspepsia cure. A private stamp sealed bottle neck is mentioned.
Advertisement style notes offer a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cures by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Multiple testimonials cite Cheney and associates in Toledo. Also promotes Allen’s Foot Ease with 40,000 testimonials, price 25 cents, free trial by mail. Ends with a light dialogue about octogenarians.
A Paris photographer pioneers mummy photography in which a living subject is wrapped in ceremonial wrappings and seated upright in a sarcophagus from Cairo. A smiling face peeks from embroidered grave clothes, creating an odd effect and a vogue for counterfeit mummies in salons.
The fragment notes Hoitt's School in Menlo Park California reopens in a new building led by Principal G Hoiti and highlights its accreditation and emphasis on mental moral and physical training. It references broader topics from teething syrups to world statistics and telegraph cable costs, reflecting a varied 1890s newspaper page.
O R and N introduces buffet library cars on the fast mail trains with a spacious smok ing saloon writing desks and current periodicals. A modern dining car service through the O R and N and connections to the East begins uninterrupted dining car service. New stream-lined chains cars baggage and mail cars join Pullman sleepers in through service. The entire train is vestibuled making East and West trains equal to leading limiteds.
The article extols cucumber juice as a cosmetic for cyclists and boaters, outlining a method to extract juice from cucumbers with a lemon squeezer. It also suggests buttermilk baths for sunburn and notes sardine oil as a substitute for butter in fish cakes.
A guidance piece discusses that beauty is attainable through gentleness, self-control, and noble conduct, stressing calm speech and kind home demeanor. It also offers practical tips for bath preparation with bran bags and cleaning gilt frames using egg white and chalk, followed by a soap and brush application.
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