Strangest Headlines of the Day Ride Across the South
Odd items circulate around express agents in a hat tour tagging miles of travel. A 971 carat white diamond was found in a Missouri catfish. Queen Victoria receives a living lion cub family from the Sultan of Zanzibar. A famed circus elephant named Diamond breaks loose, and a Chadd's Ford funeral marks a remarkable life. Wolves maul and save, a Maine dog keeps boat from sinking, and a blind beating steals a boat. An Idaho skull find hints at Indian massacres, Gibraltar monkeys trace Europe’s prehistory, and a Salem woman nearly buried alive is rescued. Diamonds stolen by native laborers are paid for by De Beers, with shafts sunk to prevent cave-ins.
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South
Covington
S. B. Bayard
Missouri
Louisiana
Queen Victoria
Zanzibar
New Jagersfontein
South Africa
Sinas Hornnook
Hast Harnwell
Maine
Ilis
Diamond
Wallace & Co
Peru
Ind
Bathvons
J. V
Valles
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Joseph Heiner
Iron River
Wis
Heider
Idaho
Gibraltar Rock
Europe
Spain
Strait of Gibraltar
Africa
Strait
Dheets
Mir. MacGresor
Cailer
de Beers Company
Mecregar
McGregor
Baltimore Sun
New York Girl Artist Earns Living Painting Fans
A young New York City artist makes her living painting fans. Her work is praised for quality yet valued more for practical sense, focusing on items with constant, profitable demand rather than selling traditional Madonnas.
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New York City
New York Recorder
TINCHING AS AND KINDNESS
A New York Advertiser note describes a girl’s habit of drying hands in a specific way learned from her mother. After wiping, she pinches fingertips with a towel and rubs the skin around the nail to “find the moon,” then pinches again to finish. The method, kept as a habit, supposedly elongates fingers and prevents rough skin, more than manicuring.
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New York Advertiser
Empress Couture and Million Dollar Gowns at Worths
The New York News recounts imperial fashion history with Worth gowns for Empresses of Russia and France. It notes a coronation robe with six weeks of heavy silver embroidery costing 5000 dollars, Eugenie’s three and a half hour gown, and a 24000 dollar lace laden dress sent to a South American woman, likely jeweled with mines and emeralds.
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Worth
Russia
France
Eugenie
Maison Worth
New York News
Fashion notes and profile of Miss Mary Garrett
The piece surveys winter millinery trends with tall ostrich tips and black satin rosettes and highlights Miss Mary Garrett of Baltimore. It depicts her as a railroad heiress versed in Europe affairs, fluent in languages, well connected in finance, and active in business while sparing time for charity and society.
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Demorest
Ave
Lenness Miller Monthly
Mary Garrett
Baltimore
Europe
Garrett
The White Apron A Symbol of Femininity in Fashion
A description of the white apron as a symbol of purity and womanliness in dress. The piece notes how it enhances a woman’s attire, tying at the waist with a satin ribbon, and evokes admiration and reverence from onlookers.
Old Fashioned Aprons at the Church Fair
Describes women’s roles in days past and various apron styles. Lace ruffles, Empire gowns, dotted Swiss aprons tied to church fairs, and decorative sewing aprons from embroidered bed ticking. Novel designs include a fringed linen towel apron with matching border fringe and sewn pockets.
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New York Herald
FASHION NOTES on costumes and accessories of the season
The feature catalogs jewelry and garments from elaborate gowns to gowns and petticoats with lace trim. It notes fourteen karat gold hairpins priced around sixty dollars, regence silk costumes for ceremony, magpie blouses, ribbon waistcoats, and nouvelle fabrics in greens and browns with velvets, brocades, and jet trim.
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Marie Antoinette Fichus
Thiak
Vinmgt
Massive Telescope Reflector Glows in Parm entuwen
A colossal forty ton telescope reflector stands in a fifty five foot wooden tube bound by iron bands. Its sensitivity is extreme as pressure distortions alter the image. It dwarfs conventional lenses with 130000 to 1 light amplification and 500 power, able to reveal stars 60000 years distant by light.
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Parm@entuwen
Earth
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Mars. Row
Pittiaces
Salem
Mass
Sue
Phoar
Mera
Phillips
Webster’s
Warren Agre
the International
Merriam Co
Springfield
Bank OF
Frem Fremont
INT
Indiana
Gro
F. Bauu
Newr. G. Baus
Scientific American Agency For
UPA
JNN & Sr
Bereen Ae
Bert Ore
Scientific American
Broadway
New York
U. S
U.S
C.a.snow&co
Patent Office
Wageincron
Freidomt Mil
A. Pilliod
Wee
Hilton House
Fremont, Ind
Heberling
City of
Fort Wayne
Geootu the Star Restaurant
West Main St
Geo, H, Staneup, Prop'r
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