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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1897
Page
6
The article promotes making Martha Washington napery at home using plain cotton or linen. It describes a simple hemstitch hem and stitched decorative designs around a hand letter. It emphasizes inexpensive materials and easy at home embellishment by housewives.
Katherine Worden notes in Woman's Home Companion that many well dressed women now wear outfits made at home. Fashionable cycling, street, and evening dresses are often self sewn with modern aids and patterns guiding cuts, making sewing a practical skill for women of limited means.
A 19th century-tinged excerpt praises a New York hotel chef for a roast turkey with unusually moist flavorful meat. It describes cleaning the bird lightly, stuffing with bread crumbs and pork sausage, wrapping with pork on the breast, then removing the pork before serving to enhance taste for Thanksgiving.
An emergency at City Hospital details a left ovary condition ending in removal and near death. The account urges women to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and cites testimonials from Agnes Tracy and a praising letter claiming cure after seven bottles.
A decorative miniature railway signal clock with thermometer barometer calendar and lever operation. Polished oak with nickel mounts imitates real signals saying In and Out to indicate if the mistress is at home. A quirky household oddity from the Chicago News, suited for hall tables and floor display.
An expert operation on a Dublin tiger involved a strong net, the cutting away of a diseased claw, and careful paw handling by Dr Haughton. The tiger’s mate, a tigress, remained protective yet calm, licking and purring as the process healed a week later under the keeper’s watchful eye.
Tea originates in China but is now largely produced in India, Ceylon, and Japan. Global consumption reaches about 25 million pounds annually, with Asia leading in teahouse tradition, street tea culture, and refined rituals. Chinese and Japanese palates resist milk or sugar, while bricks differ from pressed tea. labor costs influence prices and availability.
A New York Times account describes a fashionable young woman at a Broadway confectioner’s soda fountain attracting notice for wearing a false hip pouched up at the hip. Onlookers laughed as she appeared self-assured, while the crowd speculated on the wearer’s true identity and the moral implications.
The report profiles Judge Alton Brooks Parker, a New York jurist favored by Tammany Hall as a possible 1890 presidential candidate. Born in Ulster County, Parker rose from teacher to attorney, served as surrogate, joined the state supreme bench in 1885, and was noted as a Gold Democrat with ties to William Jennings Bryan era politics. The piece also touches on Parker’s political activity and alleged associations, alongside a brief aside about five men seeking drinks aboard an Atlantic liner to illustrate varied motives for drinking.
A German genealogist finds nearly all European monarchs are cousins through two sisters who lived about 150 years ago, excluding Turkey. The report also cites France with 1,307,400 unmarried women aged 25 to 40 and 1,376,000 unmarried men over 30.
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