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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1898
Page
4
Ladies and misses' blazer trends feature garnet cloth with white corded silk trim and tailored seaming details. The text references Paris's Societe Philanthropique unit dispensing aid and Baroness Hirsch endowments, including pensions for widows, in a New York Tribune note.
The shepherdess hat debuts in summer styles with fine chips and lace options. It features a low crown, medium wide brim, a crook shaped back arch, and decorative clusters of violets roses and tulips with green foliage braids.
Revival of tartans and Highland motifs influences women students in Scotland since coeducation began. Fake coats, bonnets and plaids appear as uniforms across clubs while scarves and shawls echo Caledonian heritage. A Rebecca Parks letter reflects early etiquette and restraint in historical female roles.
The Princess Victoria of Wales, renowned for intelligence, seeks a practical role beyond marriage. She trained as a nurse in London and now pursues bookbinding and cover design. Her Sandringham library houses notable works, and her prize winning book covers were only later recognized by judges and the royal family.
The item describes a ladies blouse waist in tan and green novelty fabric with velvet, silk, passementerie and lace decorations. It features a fitted bronze, center-front lining, invisible left-side closure, waist fullness via gathers, and lace frills with velvet collar. Epaulette-topped sleeves and pascrunterte wrist trim add embellishment.
The article highlights women holding singular roles such as Miss Puller in Tacoma who manages harbor records and annual reports, and Lime Rock Lighthouse keeper [da Lewis] near Newport Harbor still tending the light past fifty. It also profiles Beatrix Jones, a writer and landscape gardener in Bar Harbor, earning $750 a year plus coal, known for road building and drainage projects including a 25 acre swamp drainage.
A Bar Harbor resident proposes drainage work on a 40 acre forest. She has also recently drafted designs for the New York Park Department.
The piece surveys late season fashions with silk hose Chantilly lace peignoirs and trains on gowns. It highlights feather boas six ends, jeweled ornaments, and colored straw hats with black poppies violets and roses. Bolero coats, ruffles, trims, and cordon details define the season.
The article notes a vast international trade in vegetable oils used as butter substitutes from Egypt and the Soudan to India and Belgium. It highlights archide oil from ground nuts, its use in soup and as an edible, and its growing French consumption in tens of thousands of tons, with competition from cotton oil when prices rise.
A historical notice describes an Argentine law penalizing bachelors for refusing marriage offers. It imposes fines and government permission for marriage, with exemptions for those under twenty. After twenty eight, single men face heavy penalties. women may propose, making bachelorhood costly for men while few older spinsters remain.
An English statistician studies how music affects hair loss noting 11 percent baldness in general professions with physicians at 30 percent. Musicians share the trend and instruments like the trombone are cited as highly depilatory while regimental bands experience intense baldness from fanfares.
The steamship Cera, from léremen, faced a fierce storm at sea. Captain Meissel released oil then soft soap mixed with oil into the water, hoping to calm the seas. After several hours the waves subsided and the weather moderated.
A New York man named George Erb believed he could fly and leaped from a third story window. He was spared fatal harm but was promptly admitted to a hospital after the fall. The account notes his brain troubles and the delusions of wings and heaven.
Col. R. W. Gruber notes a peculiarity of the Japanese they never utter oaths. He explains there is no word in the language equating to an oath. He adds that despite foreigners and new words the Japanese remain unchanged in swearing, unlike others who resort to stronger expressions.
Miss Monterey and Miss is plinade discuss Mr Northside as Ealon't see you with him. Edd notes intervention by a papal figure.
A young woman in Lowville New York sent 2 cents to a New York advertiser seeking a hand whitening method. The reply, in a few words, advised soaking hands in dish water, a suggestion that amused her tired mother.
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