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Newspaper
Fremont Eagle
Location
Fremont, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1899
Page
6
A female audience coverage notes the nuisance of facial hair and urges tweezing as a remedy. It warns of embarrassment, cites no lasting solution, and encourages weekly grooming with a hand mirror to remove stray hairs.
Queen Victoria runs a vast household with a deputy overseeing routine duties while she notices every lapse and often offers fixes. She catalogs her belongings, keeps few table services in use, and once revived a foreign guest’s china to honor his birthplace. The queen is seen as strict yet fair, understanding reasonable excuses for slips.
A New York Tribune piece notes that some women seek perpetual youth through tonics dyes and cosmetics, masking gray hair and wrinkles to stay vibrant past sixty. It argues the spirit stays young while the body ages, yet society pressures constant youthfulness.
A clever woman’s remedy for torn tape uses a safety pin as a makeshift needle. She threads the pin through the tape or ribbon, clasps it, and uses either end as a leader. The blunt pin guides the tape smoothly and holds it securely to finish.
A witty guide describes the elusive tape needle and its mislaying tendencies. It compares the needle to a shirt stud, notes how it vanishes when needed most, and offers the safety pin as a reliable alternative for sewing lace and finishing baby ribbon with less fuss and damage.
Northwestern University in Chicago faces a moral flare as Dean Harriet Norris scolds seniors for what she calls widespread spooning with male callers. She warns the hall will be closed to male visitors if the behavior continues, urging stricter conduct across the student body.
Ed ward A Steiner praises Holland and its young queen Wilhelmina in the Woman's Home Companion. He extols the quiet beauty of the land the clean streets and homes and the modest strength of a nation that has faced the sea and tyrants. The coronation in the plain old kerk ushers in a hopeful reign.
The text portrays eighteenth year old Wilhelmina as an attractive young woman embraced by her subjects. It highlights her vow to defend liberty and promote welfare under the constitutional framework, signaling a transition from a girl ruler to a mature queen distinguished by her heart and mind.
A fashion notes feature describes a novelty in evening gloves with silk urn coverings attached to four button kid gloves. Cashmeres are popular for draperies and chenille embroidery. Velvet hats and muffs, sable tails, lace, and violets trim outfits. Sleeves show inch and a half folds, heavy fabrics remain in use. Lightweight taffetas create regulation petticoats for gowns with net or white chiffon flounces finished with baby ribbon.
Professor Hugo Munsterberg recounts treating a physician driven to suicide by telepathic powers from his brother in Europe. Cocaine-induced hallucinations fueled the urge, but six weeks of daily hypnosis restored sleep and appetite, eliminated voices, and dissolved the telepathic delusion, though the patient warned of possible recurrence if health failed.
A cyclist, a wary passerby, and a penny-a-line paper boy all note a missing lamp as dusk falls on Fleet Street. The rider reacts with polite confusion as a verbose observer proclaims the beacon’s failure in ornate terms.
W H Patton, a mail route agent on the Chattanooga and Rome division of the Southern Railway, set a new record by processing 10 815 cards in five hours and twenty seven minutes with nineteen errors. He distributed the cards to post offices across Georgia Alabama Tennessee Kentucky Virginia and Mississippi. Chief Clerk Welch says the result surpasses all world records and is the best ever achieved in such examinations in the United States or England.
A Chicago firm profited from cornering sunflower seed, with prices jumping from 2 to 34 cents per pound. Sunflower seed, mainly grown in western states led by Kansas, fuels parrot and poultry feed markets and even substitutes for peanuts in candy. The dealer notes limited eastern cultivation and hopes for using stalk pith to expand future crops. Unexpected canary seed shortages have boosted bird-food speculation.
The Spectator weighs Abyssinia’s strengths and Menelek’s cautious stance. It argues that while most Abyssinians can arm themselves and resist commissariat dependence, Menelek seeks to unite the feudal state into a real monarchy. With Tigre in revolt and southern Gailas hard to control, England may someday find Menelek a useful ally but not a threat, anticipating possible future campaigns.
A descriptive piece explains Arab tea brewing in a tent. The mistress wipes the kettle with a horse tail and boils water with coarse tea and salt, then browns the mixture. After cleaning the kettle again she adds fried meal paste, fresh butter, thick cream, and tea, serving it in wooden mugs to the company as a hearty beverage.
Genoa crowns its summit with a hotel and large restaurant overlooking the bay and Rivera. A tunneled funicular climbs nearly 1000 feet to the top where 1,200 diners can sit on the veranda as music fills the evenings. The top resort offers board rooms, music halls, and banquet spaces with rapid access from the city center.
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