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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1897
Page
2
A DIY Jimmie Cobb toy crafted from corncobs and hairpins is described with steps and materials, followed by a Detroit Free Press fashion rundown. Sashes of maire and lace, Roman striped silk choices, and shifts in waistline trends are noted, alongside tea gowns and house gowns adopting hidden seam joins.
A Chicago Record note describes a party word game called Word Rhapsody. Guests pick one word each, the hostess lists all words on a wall, then players craft ten minute stories using every word grammatically. Reading aloud or hostess recites, often producing amusing results and educational use.
The text traces how John Adams influenced the national motto E Pluribus Unum and notes its adoption by Congress in 1782. It mentions the eagle symbol with a ribbon bearing the motto, and that the original seal held 18 arrows until 1841 when six arrows were added, with unclear legal basis for the change.
A short verse about a young girl waking from a dreadful dream in which she feared failing in school. The narrator, recalling a line from Elizabeth R. Burns in Primary Education, notes the child’s relief that it was only a dream.
The article recalls the earliest friction match invention, crediting John Walker in England for the discovery in 1829 and noting rapid spread to Europe and America. It mentions a Vienna factory 1833 and claims Chicopee street in Springfield was operating nearly as early, if not before.
Polybius credited Aeneas with inventing cipher writing in twenty methods that could not be easily decoded. The practice, crucial for diplomacy, was denounced by Elector Frederick II as diabolical. Trithemius and Boville attempted revival, Poissevin echoed, and Frederick burned Trithemius’s original work in zeal.
The New York Tribune details several glass substitutes including Tectorium a German manufactured material of lightness and flexibility. Bichromated gelatin on metal webs forming thin unbreakable sheets that are heat insulating yet inflammable. Hornales similar but clearer and harder. Manilla paper treated with boiled linseed oil to create waterproof translucent sheets for hot houses these cost about one hundredth of glass and require no shading.
An earnest male voice calls Elizabeth to come as a Jersey train conductor rings stations in stenographic notes. The scene shows a woman by the window reacting with rising emotion and unhappiness, framed in refined urban settings.
Customer asks if selling price covers costs. Jeweler confirms price covers making cost and notes profit comes from repairs. Context from Boston Traveler.
A quirky exchange between a baker and his new wife centers on the holes in doughnuts. The wife questions littering while the baker promises a liberal allowance upon their return. The dialogue captures a humorous, domestic moment.
Mrs M E W Sherwood contrasts life in her girlhood with today noting in the forties and fifties people lived on less and dressed modestly. Daughters of Boston's wealthiest wore plain attire with one brocade. Display was vulgar and books replaced fashion for entertainment.
Ushers the manager and a policeman urged an Atlanta woman to remove an objectionable hat during Governor Bob Taylor's Tennessee lecture with fiddle. The woman argued that men brushing past and asking her to rise is as annoying and would remove the hat only after theater etiquette reforms.
Fashion notes describe cloth gowns with tan and gold braiding for demidress wear. Black and steel accents appear on prelate purple and Danish blue gowns. Gray wool gowns feature black velvet or gimp trim, with continuous bands from shoulder to corsage edge and down the skirt, a style suited for stout figures or short waists.
The Enterprise cautions readers about portrait agents who enlarge photographs and demand high frames or threaten to keep originals. It cites a Leo minister who restrained an agent and reported the incident to police. It advises dealing with reputable local firms to avoid scams.
A noted visit by the late Duke of Marlborough to a Chicago cable line ends with a puzzled Duke brushing sand from his garments after a quick stop by a Connecticut driver who answers I can stop her in two yards. A hotel parlor scene follows a bride on her wedding trip seeking conversation to avoid isolation.
Mrs Josephine K Henry of Kentucky seeks the prohibition and agnostic tickets for the 1900 presidency. She argues her win would yield woman suffrage, repeal the Dingley tariff, have the government own coal mines railways and telegraphs, abolish social functions, and discourage Sabbath observance. She is described as educated and loyal to prohibition with no other organizational ties.
Bertha V Thompson a 1592 Chicago medical college graduate has been named city physician of Oshkosh Wisconsin by May or Ideson to replace suspended Dr R N Nintzel. She is the first woman to hold the post in Wisconsin and was born in Neenah Wisconsin. She taught briefly and then worked as a nurse before studying medicine and is the only woman physician in Oshkosh.
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