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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1896
Page
3
Fashion notes describe new winter fabrics and silhouettes. Velvet sleeves and crepe velvets appear in varied colors with draped overdresses and drop skirts. Slim jackets and tabbed capes pair with velvet or satin girdles, while soft wools and delicate dyes define the season’s refined palette.
Women discuss difficulties in getting husbands to attend church. One says her husband sleeps late and pretends to snore rather than go, while another notes her husband wants to do nothing on Sundays. A practical tactic is noted: the wife goes to services with the nurse girl to keep the husband at home with the baby.
A Buenos Ayres Standard letter cites a proposed bachelor tax in Saltu by Jabez Balfour. Ages 20 to 30 face 35 monthly, 30 to 45 10 monthly, 5 to 50 20 monthly, 50 to 75 30 monthly, 75 to 80 0.50 monthly. Widows and widowers get three years freedom after the death of a spouse.
A Providence Telegram excerpt discusses phrenology led “new noses” in women, highlighting two feminine types the business and society woman. It cites Mrs Booth Tucker as a strong example, noting a firm nose signals ambition and rights awareness. It contrasts nose shapes for typists and other roles, then shifts to a school note about W G Thompson’s class, and ends with praise for the Indians’ challenging football schedule including Princeton Yale Harvard and Pennsylvania.
Rolly Smith and David Hill, noted Jersey Shore Junction hunters, pursued squirrels on Shore mountain in Lycoming County. After a slow start, Smith shot at a large black squirrel that bolted into a hollow tree trunk, evading capture as it slipped from one end to the other despite their efforts.
A clipping discusses phrenology and facial features, arguing that a woman’s nose reflects intelligence and character. It predicts a future science of noses with Mrs. Booth Tucker as a highlighted example, noting changes in expression and implications for independence and enterprise.
Carlisle football team, described as a clean, manly Native American group, showcases prowess in an exhibition likely to draw wider attention to the Indian School system. The article notes Carlisle’s status as the oldest federal school for Indians with 800 capacity, 662 enrolled, alongside 21 similar schools and 27 reservation boarding schools. A playful anecdote about football origins includes a tree-climbing hunt and a mistaken fear of a catamount, later revealed as an opossum.
A Welsh Rip Van Winkle tale tells how a boy named Taffy ap Sian sits beneath a tree and awakens to a withered world. An old man reveals he is the nephew and grandfather speaks of legends that bind him to fairies until the last sap dries. The scene ends with humorous confusion over ages and kinship.
A Chicago Times-Herald summary condemns Dubois Mantle Cannon and Squire as no longer Republican and suggests they join Populists. It notes a Republican caucus resolution to appoint five members to study a plan for international bimetallism. Supporters praise Senators Carter Wolcott Mitchell Shoup Hansbrough Pritchard Perkins and Clark for backing an international agreement to preserve gold standards until then.
Senator John H. Mitchell of Oregon argues the Wilson bill diverts American earnings to foreign importers, draining specie, worsening the balance of trade, depressing farm prices, cutting wages, and driving poverty. He claims it harms wageworkers farmers and manufacturers while enriching foreign competitors.
George Fred Williams ran for governor of four parties in Massachusetts and received 108,662 votes while Roger Walcott on the same ticket secured 258,204. The gold Democrats totaled 14,164. The note from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat remarks Williams as spanning many parties and feeling solitary at times.
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