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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1894
Page
4
Fashion notes describe an Earl gifting his American bride and detail current styles. Two toned laces, spangled net, feather ruches, black velvet bows, and plaited ribbons shape evening wear. Accessories include ostrich tips hair pins, unique pearl hair ornaments, and silk mull ruches. Gloves in prune, navy, and bottle green feature heavy stitching.
Fashion notes describe lavish ostrich ruchings and black and white boas leading at the helm of opera wear. Lints of Nile rose and heliotrope tones highlight hats bonnets and embroidered basinet caps with white satin and heliotrope velvet, while frill ruchings and net lace dominate necklines. A practical hexagonal work basket is offered for fancy needlework with white linen and decorative embroidery.
Fashionable ermine returns as black and white attire influence. A black velvet cloak with ermine tippet showcases the style revival. The piece also notes gloves reveal a wearer’s habits and character, with the Detroit Free Press quoting the idea that glove handling hints at personality during courtship and outings.
The Earl of Essex wed Miss Adele Grant and gifted a complete traveling set for his bride featuring silver fittings, diamond cut glass monogrammed A. E. with the Countess’s coronet, a green leather bag with secret drawer, and a white morocco traveling case. The set includes manicure items, scent diffusers, writing materials, bottles, and a clock, among other silver articles.
The piece describes current tea table styling with simple corner tilde accents, tasteful cup and saucer arrangements, satin damask and linen damask options, fringed home made tablecloths, embroidered silk floss designs, and delicate carnations in pink as decorative ideas.
A New York World note laments the persistently pocketless modern dress through year end. It quips modistes would mock any protest and observes jackets lack handkerchief or ticket receptacles. Women compensate with large, unfashionable pocketbooks to hold lists, money, keys, stamps, samples, and even business cards for ads of furniture and cosmetics.
In a mid century scene the room displays a decorative tea tray and two English teapots, one blue and white the other terra cotta, with a lemon platter and cracker jar. The text extols afternoon tea as fashionable yet affordable hospitality, urging every home to offer a cup of kindness to welcome guests.
A fragment describes women riders in Northern riding schools provoking derisive smiles from Southern and Western women while noting fearless young women among the riders. The text hints at gendered views on horsemanship and advancing rider skill.
A Philadelphia Telegraph excerpt notes women riders in country fields show skill yet struggle with weight. It describes women, sometimes heavy, enduring tight habits and effort to complete a half hour ride, then weigh themselves hoping for slimmer figures while riding masters suspect post exercise feasting prevents weight loss.
Millicent explains Pa's plan to outfit the household with aprons to win male admiration. The coterie purchases varied aprons from long white linen for chores to blue bibbed kitchen versions, silk decorative designs, and pocketed variants, all to charm Henry and seal affection.
A fragment from the Chicago Record describes an intimate moment where a young man, Jimpsy, kisses a coral toned admirer as she gazes up. The dialogue hints at playful theater chatter about plays needing three nets, spoken to George.
A dramatic warning against overuse of harsh purgatives. The piece denounces violent laxatives as harmful and urges Ritter as a gentler, effective remedy that cleanses the stomach and stimulates the intestinal canal without weakening the body. It claims benefits for liver stomach and overall health, noting relief from malarial rheumatic kidney and nervous complaints.
Dr Thomas L Jones a Milwaukee physician born Pekin China owns a Pekin Gazette the world oldest newspaper dating back to 1600 AD. The relic measures a railway folder size and carries court edicts imperial government notices and other official Chinese affairs as a private enterprise gazette. He also holds rare Chinese coins including one dating to about 200 BC.
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In a brief exchange Morick asks if Wee Son thanked the man who carried him across the crowded street. Wee Son says he tried but words failed yet his dog wagged his tail for both of them, signaling gratitude.
The Rural New Yorker cites Alw. Hahn of Wisconsin and Salzer Seed Co claiming record yields. Reported 1,410 bushels per acre from Salzer’s Hundredfold seedling Lightning Express. Early potatoes promise low prices. mail to La Crosse Wisconsin for a free giant potato catalogue and sixteen day Get There Eli radish packet.
In a brief humorous exchange a militia member defines the rear guard bearer with a bucket and tin cup as a lemonade de camp, a jocular riff on the French lemonade de camp phrase. The line captures wartime rough humor and camaraderie.
Travelers can join personally conducted travel groups from Chicago to Los Angeles or San Francisco via the scenic route through Ogden or a daily tourist car service via the Southern route through Indian Territory and Fort Worth. Special agents accompany each party on the entire trip. Tickets available at Rock Island office OE Clark Street Chicago.
Dr. Perkins Soonover visits Hostetter McGinnis who complains of chest pain. The doctor calls it dyspepsia and explains the term derives from Greek, prompting the question about its origin.
Sudden changes of weather cause throat disease with coughs and colds. Brown's Broncutal Trochks claimed as the most effective remedy, sold in limited quantities for 2 cents each.
An eccentric 19th century advertisement features a man pledging health beside a drinker with a drawn sword to prevent stabbing while drinking. It promotes Beecham’s Pills for biliousness and headache, priced 5 cents, and Hatch’s Universal Cough Syrup at 25 cents. Also notes a banana skin slip titled Aland slide-Slipping.
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