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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1892
Page
5
A portrait of Mme Bernhardt extolling constant outdoor exercise and self discipline. She stresses robust routines of morning travel and fresh air, cautions on drafts, bathing rituals, and varied activity to combat fatigue. The piece blends her health philosophy with notes on modern women’s interests and shifts in literature on women.
A Brooklyn Eagle note describes women crafting home perfumes in sticks and scented accessories. It cites Florentine Orris and Peruvian balsam blends, with vinegar and rose water, for bath recipes. Nightgown sachets and large handkerchief bags become portable, scented storage, reflecting a rise in self-made fragrances.
A brief note on the British Museum's latest index, highlighting growing interest in women and their portrayal, with discussion on how women and their traits are recorded and analyzed by scholars.
Parisian furriers shape heirloom garments with ermine prized for purity yet easily stained. A St Petersburg expert’s method uses tallow soap and lukewarm water, soda rinse, and a benzine prewash for grease. If yellowing occurs, immerse damp furs in cold water with sulphuric acid of natron and salicylic acid, then rinse thoroughly.
The debate on foot ventilation yields several plans but few practical results. A ventilated sole shoe claims air enters via heel openings, but reliability in snow is doubtful. Rubber substitutes are urged as healthier, with rubber footholds and oiled calfskin boots offered as dampness protection, per the New York Tribune.
Two prominent figures die in northern Michigan history. Margaret, an Ottawa descendant known as Aunt Margaret, aged by legend and educated in St. Louis, drew thousands of tourists. Sophia Gravereant, 102, a French settler descendant born at Mackinac Island, lived through the island’s 1812 capture and shared early experiences until her death.
Illinois counties will each send a representative to the woman's exposition board to locate notable achievements by women in their areas. The plan was approved at a recent board meeting to ensure a strong statewide display at the World's Fair.
A state organization by congressional districts plans monthly county reports to the secretary of the board. A woman in each county will collect and relay information. The agents serve without compensation, with the aim of full field coverage.
A New York City girl works at a type foundry earning seven dollars fifty cents weekly to support her mother who died of consumption and two brothers. After their wages faded she cared for her imbecile father, cooking, washing, and feeding him between shifts. A serious illness forced a temporary substitute, but she persevered, titled as a calamity.
In Kaweah Tulare County fifteen women adopt a reform dress with skirts three inches below the knee leggings a shirt waist and blouse worn for comfort. The fashion spreads as more townsfolk shorten skirts though many stay at home rather than wear it in public.
Twenty women run a Buffalo founded factory making tissue paper novelties. The showroom walls feature loops of white tissue paper, roses in Louis XVI style, paper petticoats for candles and lamps, and paper roses and butterflies letting light pass in rose hues. The venture thrives by timing its products to demand.
A young New York woman plans to enter the perfume business with a modest start using a hall bedroom as a lab. She argues women may excel in odor combinations because their sense of smell is untainted by tobacco, and she claims men lose the fine discrimination needed for expert perfumery.
New York women widely adopted a custom of driving about around New Year not on January 1 but for friends. They sent by footman a dainty calendar for the year with inquiries on health and messages of love and good wishes. The practice has led to an overstock of calendars in some homes.
Rosa Bonheur, now well into her seventies, completes one of her largest works after three years of work. She has been offered and refused £12,000 for the painting, which depicts ten life size horses in full trot treading out corn.
A Park avenue young woman amuses friends recounting a New York trip with a quip about a bust of her foot. A Philadelphia girl, eleven, has raised 150 for Hahnemann hospital through two years of hospital visiting work. Obituary notes Mrs. Harriet L. Brady, linked to Major Brady and Walker’s filibustering. A new ministerial partnership Sprague duo at Pomona First Unitarian. Ouida’s Florence home praised as a palace. Lime juice recommended with milk for nursery use. An educational project links a women’s college with Sydney University.
A New York Daily remark lauds Dr Franklin Miles as entertaining and educating. Advertisements note his nervous and heart disease works distributed free by Bradshaw and Thomas with trial Nergine bottles. Mentions National American Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington and Massachusetts school election turnout. References Bradfield's Female Regulator and local druggist Geo M Clarke. Concludes with winter ice cutting easing life’s burdens.
New principle regulation of liver stomach and bowels via nerves claimed. Dr Miles ills said to cure billiousness bad taste torpid liver piles constipation. 450 doses 25 cts samples free at Bradshaw Thomas. London manufacturer to illuminate Chicago World’s Fair opening with unprecedented fireworks display.
A collage of ad copy cites patent pills such as Little Giants and De Witt’s Early Risers, praising their cures for constipation headaches and dyspepsia. It mentions sensational testimonials, legal actions, and figures like Geo. D. Clarke and brands Bradshaw & Thoma, plus notes on public figures and notable deaths linked to overwork.
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