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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1899
Page
4
A pale blue poplin frock with yellow guipure trim is described as fashionable in News and Notes For Women. Queen Victoria’s devotion to Prince Albert is recounted with details of a memorial portrait and watch kept near her bed.
The report recalls Coralie Cahen a renowned nurse who served in Vendome during the war aided by two nurses and seven sisters of mercy. She challenged German officers to protect the French ambulance and Red Cross symbols winning German admiration and a farewell gesture from their chief surgeon.
A skilled restorer earned a summer income repairing fragile ware for a department store and an art museum contract in Boston. She assembles thousands of shard fragments using an egg albumen and evaporated whey cement, creating flawless rebuilt pieces like a built-up glass ark from the Nile Valley exhibited in a museum. A recent high bid for the urn was turned down.
Gossip notes varied achievements among women including 60 000 US typewriters 60 000 women typewriters in the United States the Queen of Sweden gardening consulting fashion expert in St Louis New Orleans all women orchestra in Albany October assembly of mothers in New York Russia 29 women pharmacists Germany 100 Miss Hazlett Britain golf champion Miss May Moran endowment fund $10000 for Gaelic chair at Catholic University Bedford High School Girls headmistress salary $5000 Baroness Burdett Coutts fortune $9 000 000 Anna Danbridge Mitchell great granddaughter Betty Washington Lewis Martha Washington Crown Princess Marie Ronmania scent bottle collection valued at $35000.
Gleanings from the shops show silk embroidered polka dot poplins dimities and silk gauze crepons in artistic colorings. One piece girl suits, silk voile shades, embroidered swiss muslins, and new allover embroideries with Valenciennes lace insertions accompany Eton coats in black taffeta and sheer lingerie in lawn and batiste with delicate ribbons.
A rare white tiger skin from Assam’s Dibrugarh District, shot by Grenish of Naharkutia, is examined and deemed possibly the most perfect white tiger ever found. The skin shows pure white hair with black stripes visible only when wet, measuring about 9 feet 6 inches from tip to tail, suggesting a fine young specimen.
Harper's Magazine notes that Arctic travel mainly pushes behind the sled. Dogs guide little without trails, so a runner for the head team helps over rough ground. A man alternates running and walking to avoid fatigue while natives travel long distances.
A millionaire credits hard work for success and later spends on health. The ad touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as restoring health to the overtired body and brain, tackling the stomach, nervousness, sleeplessness, dyspepsia and indigestion. It asserts true contentment does not depend on worldly wealth.
The Pope in London during a prior term of office as Papal Nuncio to the King of the Belgians wandered Piccadilly in a rare royal visit. He stayed in a side street off Piccadilly whose exact name he could not recall, and Cardinal Manning failed to identify the lodging. He appeared as Monsignor Pecci then, later noted in period papers for greetings to the Queen and attendances at Stafford House and Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and St Marys Moorfields which was set for demolition.
A collage of health remedies and moral notes dominates the page. Advertisements tout No-To-Back tobacco cure, Cascarets candy cathartic, Dr Kline nerve tonic, and Hall's Catarrh cures, interwoven with quips about virtue and self-denial and a line about a “death by own action club” among girls in the West. The page also lists puzzles and a specimen book offer.
Nothing beats a daily bath in warm weather with pure soap and soft water. Ivory Soap is praised for purity lather and skin benefits, with morning or bedtime baths recommended. Exiza R. Pasxes.
The marsh bird family includes about 180 species, with fourteen in North America and four suitable for hunting the king rail clapper rail Virginia rail and sora. The sora or Carolina rail is nine inches long with striking fall plumage, a summer resident from the Middle States northward and east of the Great Plains, wintering in the West Indies and northern South America. It nests on the ground with drab eggs, breeds northward of the middle states, and is prized for its dainty flesh. Common names include rail carolina crake and soree. Shooting is popular at high tide from boat bows. in the south locals fire-hunt using pine torches and brush.
A farmer near Middletown reports eggs vanishing from the hennery. He finds a large black snake with a china egg in its stomach, suggesting the reptile ate real eggs while the farmer watched for a thief. The tale is cited from the New York Sun. WANTED young men to learn telegraphy for railroad positions. Southern Railway Telegraph School Atlanta Ga. Beauty is blood deep. Cascarets clean your blood and skin.
A reader from Brooklyn, NY, reports long standing female weakness and severe symptoms improving after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She says she feels like a new woman, has recommended it to friends, and shared it with her daughter who is “getting along splendidly.”
The piece notes that over eighty thousand letters were received by Mrs. Pinkham in 1897 as evidence of her reputed ability to help women in distress, highlighting broad public reliance on her remedies and advice.
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