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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1899
Page
5
Mid summer hats shift from brimmed shade to picture hats with tulle strings and velvet accents. Queens Louise influence appears on veiled necklines, chiffon scarves, and dramatic streamers. The look pairs a backset hat with a low neckline and a prominent tiara-like veil, echoing palace style.
The article surveys summer fashion trends with cravats, hats, and veiled trims. It highlights English walking hats, pineapple material accents, fraise velvet details, and the shift toward wash gowns and light tempering in cravats. It cites Countess Castellane in Paris and a Prince of Wales party ensemble, noting color shifts and decorative techniques.
William C. Dewey, a New Haven coal and wood dealer and Civil War veteran, recalls serving in the Second Massachusetts battery during 1864 campaigns along the Mississippi. He recounts a battle sequence near Morganza Bend, Port Hudson, and Jackson with Union artillery, captures, and combat hazards including shellfire, a rebel rider captured, and a morale-surging engagement where a gun and horses were damaged but held.
Mrs. Young claims a simple method to avoid servant trouble by never finding fault, submitting to everything, obeying, keeping out of the way, paying good wages, and offering privileges to ensure no issues arise. The Philadelphia Bulletin frames the joke as Jem’s punchy statement and Mrs. Young’s supposed genius solution.
Myrtle writes she has been engaged six times since reaching the seashore. The conversation notes a bet that she will be engaged as often this summer as Alger denies plans to resign from the cabinet. The tone suggests light social gossip and political subtext in Chicago Times-Herald.
A Chicago Times-Herald chat questions Burkhart’s nerve as a man who stays in the house to face his wife when she reads sensational summer resort news in Sunday papers. The exchange mocks his bravery by contrasting war or rescue deeds with domestic bravado.
A Philadelphia Bulletin item recounts Mrs. B providing dinner to a tramp who declares her a hero, praising the open air experience as a morning awakening to dew, implying a lighthearted moral about charity and perception.
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