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Newspaper
Daily Inter Mountain
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1899
Page
6
Paris fashion notes describe graduation dresses for schoolgirls and American visitors in Paris. The trend favors light wool crepe de chine and grenadine over silk, with embroidery, tucks, and gold or silver tracery. Gowns are simple white or soft colors, with trailing skirts and careful sleeve work.
A description notes a plump figure wearing a skirt lined with cashmere 80 that will cling to the figure. The observed style emphasizes luxurious fabric and a form fitting silhouette.
A New Orleans florist recalls a self styled botanist near Richmond Virginia who produced jet black roses by chemical means. He guided visitors to a potted rose tree and claimed elaborate fertilizing produced dark blooms. Later a chemist disclosed the flowers were colored by gas fumes in a clever hoax to mystify skeptics.
William C Whitney once fond of horses reveals his conversion to motor vehicles after riding in an electric carriage guided through crowded ferry-area traffic. His son Harry Payne Whitney has long championed electric carriages and already owned a notable Newport automobile.
A detailed wartime style account recounts Johnsons tunnel fire on the Santa Fe line in Bill Williams canyon. Engineers note lime corrosion, iron lining failure, and a week of traffic halt as crews replace the aging lining with reinforced galvanized wood and sheet iron.
Offenses against Kaiser Wilhelm's dignity in 1898 led to severe punishment totaling 2000 years in prison.
The Bank of England’s strong room sits 66 feet below street level with a 20 foot concrete bed and seven foot deep lake, then iron plates. Doors weigh four tons each and are undrillable. Astor’s valuables total about 8 million pounds kept in a steel fortified room with a two ton door and premier lock. Similar vaults exist at the Imperial Ottoman Bank in Constantinople, featuring a water bearing rock foundation, concrete bed, steel walls, and nearly 39 tons of steel within six feet of masonry.
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