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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1889
Page
7
Shanghai hosts a flourishing guild of bankers with Celestials as prominent borrowers and lenders. The piece highlights China as a land of shy locks and evolving financial networks shaping regional commerce and finance.
Frank G. Carpenter recounts Li Hung Chang’s exposure to Mitkiewicz schemes, the rise of private Chinese banks, and the broad Chinese credit system. He travels through Shanghai, Peking, and Foo Chow, describing banking practices, currency, chits, and the moral economy that underpins commerce, including the Hou Qua legacy and missionary ties.
A nostalgic look at masquerade culture from historic Europe to modern parlors. It describes how children and adults dress as royalty, nobles, and comic characters, with guidance on authentic period styles and playful costume ideas inspired by portraits and operas. It recounts a Queen Bess reception as a vivid example of courtly attire and mood.
A detailed catalogue of garments features a Vandyck collar bodice with a bow and gilt badge, a black felt hat with ostrich plumes, leather belt, gauntlets, and boots. Also described are Tyrolese peagant dress elements, a red wool bodice with metallic embroidery, and a redingote with pleated sides. Other illustrations show black velvet with gold embroidery and elaborate looping with a bold corsage.
The text describes velvet trimmed peasant and Breton outfits with wide plaited crepe lisse, nine yards of velvet, and companion suits for a boy and girl. It then fancifully lists guests for a costume dinner at a castle in Spain, mixing historical and literary figures in a whimsical invitation.
Mrs. Former reads her husband’s papers and finds an unfinished magazine essay titled turn the Rascals Out. Mr. Former replies he now has an office of his own and shows little interest in finishing it.
A New York Graphic feature recounts a mirror dealer presenting a plate glass hand mirror that distorts the user’s face as a demonstration of multi plane surfaces. The exhibit shows a kaleidoscopic, painful view, illustrating how different planes alter perception and flatter or deform features.
An essay on the holly as a striking evergreen, noting its beauty yet rarity in cultivated grounds. It discusses transplanting challenges, the losses of wild plantings, and the plant’s festive Christmas associations as a wholesome, morale-boosting symbol amid winter scenery.
A Yale Realist professor and a student agree on a notable sentence in a composition. The professor admires the sentence, then notes the student also took pride in writing it, highlighting the clash between original work and encyclopedia assisted phrasing.
A Nebraska State Journal mockingly scrutinizes the Laborer and its editor. It ridicules a grammar dispute over "anybody else's" versus "anybody's else" and laments the influence of custom on language and editorial taste.
A businesslike man from a dime museum enters the A C Motor Company in New York seeking to buy an electric motor to run his perpetual motion device. The contract leads visitors at the dime museum to view the machine powered by a meter and storage batteries.
In Lonpony February 12 column, Mrs. Alexander urges modern girls to replace timidity with sincerity and self respect. Independence and training enable women to work for themselves and become capable wives and mothers, with strength, judgment, and natural charm forged by inner conviction.
The attorney questions the witness about exact timing of events claiming hours spent fishing. The witness insists on memory of the pre noon moment while the defense objects to the testimony as confusing and incoherent phrasing ensues.
A grab bag of curiosities and snippets from 1800s life including electric carts in England, a New York Assembly ceiling, a pet whale in Easthampton, vast hoop skirt wire use, a Milan Bible edition, a Baltimore deer horn valued at ten thousand dollars, and other bizarre notes on fashion, science, and society.
A historical survey discusses professional diseases and occupational hazards. It links paralysis and other toxic effects to long term exposure in trades using lead mercury and related pigments, plus nerve and muscle disorders from repetitive work and financial overreach.
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