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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1896
Page
2
A New York Tribune reflection on the businesswoman’s adaptability and challenges. It argues that despite efforts in dress reform, diet, and physical culture, the essential aid is a mother’s guidance, while praising women's ambition and the friction with business norms. It surveys professionals who seek practical needs in attire, home life, health, and mind over matter.
An English authority states pointed toes will vanish from footwear soon. He notes that long pointed toes require extra length, inflating apparent foot size and even prompting bootmakers to alter shoe sizes.
Epaulet trimming on French dinner and evening gowns features long loops of broad velvet ribbon or velvet lined with satin. Ribbons extend from shoulders to the belt, rosetting at the back and forming a girdle in front, or creating long loops ending on the left side with a round waist.
The San Francisco Call reports that in France mushroom farming is ancient yet still a mystery to many. In Seine, about 800 people live as cham pionnionists in over 8,000 subterranean caves beneath Paris, using rope ladders to descend. Beds are kept around 42 degrees with north to south air flow, and production begins after about three months, yielding large daily quantities.
The article traces ancient cake as plain breadlike cakes up to wedding customs in Rome and Elizabethan spice cakes. It notes modern rich cakes with fruit and butter, then explains solar, civil, nautical, and calendar time measures and calendar year definitions with minor accuracy details.
A witness notes the prisoner lacked whiskers. The exchange highlights an odd moment in court. The 2 cent bronze coin composition is copper with tin and zinc, and a German patent covers Prussia and the empire.
The article describes Greenlandic eating habits with no fixed meal times and extreme appetites. It highlights matak whale skin eaten raw, various plant foods, and the prized contents of a reindeer's stomach as a delicacy, noting preparation methods and the use of gastric juice as a sauce.
The piece explains how an hour's walk seemingly covers vast cosmic distances. It calculates Earth’s rotation, orbit around the Sun, and the Sun's galactic motion to show a travel distance of about 85 thousand miles in an hour. It cites Cincinnati Enquirer and discusses Vatican divisions and Renaissance art heritage highlighting Sistine Chapel and galleries.
The article notes that bank patronage rests with directors with rotating clerk appointments, plus a single clerkship per seven awarded to a son of a clerk. It mentions the middle ages magnetic powder made from skulls, used on weapons not wounds. It adds a fact that an egg holds nourishment equivalent to 11 pounds of grapes or 134 pounds of cherries.
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