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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1894
Page
5
Reports from New York cafes reveal strict rules banning unescorted women after 6 pm in summer or after dark in winter. Delmonico’s and other top establishments defend the policy as necessary to protect ladies and maintain respectable surroundings, with limited liquor served when escorted.
The couple will ride to New York then Colorado Springs for winter stay and spring abroad. Relatives including Mrs Davis and Mrs Pulitzer of New York attend. The gown by Worth features heavy white satin with antique Venetian point lace, orange blossoms, leg of mutton sleeves, chiffon vest, tulle veil, and diamond crescents from the groom.
Mrs Carlisle prepares her Washington home for the October wedding set for next Wednesday at noon. The drawing room, bay window floral bower, and doorways with white flowers signal an intimate ceremony led by Rev Dr McKay Smith. Colonel Thompson and best man James Archer, of Denver, will be part of the procession with a reception to follow.
An article notes how twentieth century women gain strength and confidence through school athletics. It highlights Durant gymnasium in Boston and the New York Berkeley Athletic Club offering calisthenics fencing and cycling, with a focus on un corseted training and athletic kindergarten for children.
Paris report says Kaiser Wilhelm suffers a painful ear wart between tympanum and cartilage, driving him to hide at a country house. Berlin dispatch cites Caprivi's fall and the choice of Prince Hohenlohe as a temporary chancellor amid cautious foreign reception, with Koeller viewed as a more conservative successor.
The passage notes large copper coins used in China with values under a tenth of a cent. It lists chu dynasty era coins and a sequence of reign titles or era names from Heavenly Mandate in 1616 to Bright Beginning in 1876, implying monetary and political history.
The piece recalls Italy's premier Signor Crispi's daughter engaged to Prince di Linguaglossa in Sicily, notes a hospital in Soo Chow China led by Dr. Anne Walter, a Mississippi native, and mentions the fate of every woman who crosses Brooklyn.
An article warns elders against running after street cars and cites a physician’s claim that elderly deaths linked to such effort number seventy three in fifteen years. It discusses heart wall fragility with age and promotes Caroline, an ox heart extract, as a remedy offered by Columbia Chemical Company via Dr. William A. Hammond’s laboratory in Washington for heart strengthening.
Mary J. McCann awoke to a thief in her bedroom at 44 Sidney Street Cambridgeport. The burglar fled through a ten foot window after she whispered for help. room was ransacked with only a pearl set pin missing. Police were notified.
The article notes Mrs. Roebling guiding bridge construction during caisson fever aftermath and a Vassar student ordering strong tea during exams. It reviews food needs for 200 students at the Women's College in Baltimore and details a reform navy blue velvet costume with a coat knickerbockers outfit worn by Mrs. Sloan at a Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting.
Yesterday at 10 30 a.m. the Friends' Church on Townsend street Roxbury was dedicated before a large congregation. The building cost 17000, fully paid, and features Queen Anne design with a 60 foot tower, slate roof, English cathedral stained glass, quartered oak pews, gas and electric fixtures, and a basement dining room. The church will host services and gatherings as the membership grows.
The Baldwin Roberts & Co pork packing house in Newcastle Indiana burned yesterday. The blaze caused about 25000 dollars in losses and was deemed incendiary in origin.
The two masted schooner Robert P. King has been chartered by the New Haven Steamboat Company to serve as a lightship for winter. It will be stationed at the harbor mouth southeast of the regular light and stay there until March.
European Edition of the Herald shares a humorous exchange on marriage. A couple resolves early in life to share by compromise. The wife favors linen sheets while the husband prefers cotton, so they settle on linen sheets.
A history professor at a girls seminary finishes a chapter on Marie Antoinette and invites questions. The class asks in unison what she wore, prompting a lively inquiry into royal attire and fashion.
The father criticizes repeated kisses between Rakely and his fiancée noting times at 8 and 10 while Rakely defends the acts as the same kiss. The exchange appears in a New York Herald piece.
A vintage recipe lists ingredients for velvet cake including sugar flour butter eggs water and leavening agents. Steps instruct separate egg whites and yolks beat sugar with butter then fold in flour and water then whites then yolks and bake about one hour with lemon flavor.
Mrs Quills questions Mr Quills about his hour and he replies at the office balancing his books. She jokes that his feet balance worse. The exchange features a humorous domestic quarrel quoted from Truth.
A light classroom punchline where a teacher asks Willie to calculate peaches. Willie answers two, meaning he and his sister, revealing a humorous misread of the math problem. The snippet captures a child’s simple logic and a touch of rural-school humor.
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