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Newspaper
Graham Leader
Location
Graham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1890
Page
3
Century marks since the high silk hat gained vogue in Europe with the stovepipe style. The shift from liberal to conservative symbolism by 1840 is noted, with modern political figures still favoring the tall hat.
Poem of domestic morning rituals where a family warms by a kitchen fire as father rises early. The speaker recalls mother’s care, chatter, and the scent of coffee and sizzling sausage, with faith described as a daily blessing guiding the household routine.
Mme Pauline Lucca, staying at a remote Berlin country house, spots a former servant lurking in the cupboard through a glass reflection. With others away for a wedding, she deduces the intruder planned the robbery while she read letters by dim wax light.
Mme Pauline Lucca feigns sleep while a thief circles her room and a maid Editha warns of danger. Lucca recalls the Baron von Rhaden’s revolver and traps the intruder by locking him in a garden passage. She emerges with a six barrel pistol as the would be robber is captured by police.
Avarice shocks the traveling miser as Emperor Nicholas tests his generosity. Crossing a flooded road, the laborer carries the emperor and a rich companion. When asked to pay for both, the miser balks, prompting the emperor to urge full payment. The scene ends with the miser finally paying three hundred rubles, humiliated yet chastened.
A humorous Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a sufferer seeking relief for wounds deemed Jersey mosquito bites by a doctor who cannot assist. The scene shifts to a courtroom interlude with Cholly informing Alfred he has ended things with Miss Flossie after she mocked him with a trained pug dog performing an odd trick.
An Austin gentleman returning from Mexico after a long absence is recognized by Gus De Smith who insists the other man would have failed to identify him by appearance alone. The exchange underscores how much the man has changed.
A humorous exchange features a Fond Father asking to see a Jive count, the Italian organ grinder preparing to play, and a joking window moment. An Oakland girl reveals to her mother that Charlie gave a cold shake, but the mother remarks affectionately it was a milk shake.
A New York visit by the Duchess of Marlborough is noted with every night’s invitation to dine. The item reflects social rounds and prominent guests amid the city’s social season.
A critique from Home Magazine traces a history of decorating fads from bold walls and stark ceilings to soft colors and textured surfaces. It notes the shift from plaster to floors with rugs, draped furniture, and elaborate fabrics, followed by corseted children’s wear and heavy headgear, all reflecting vanity and changing taste.
A compact history notes spoons used by high society over centuries. Apostles spoons carried saints images, with early records dating to 1500 in the Stationers' Company ledgers. The piece cites references to godparent gifts and Shakespeare as cultural context.
A discussion on co operative enterprises in publishing notes failures of stockholder control and rewards. Walter Besant’s Incorporated Society of Authors aims to publish a low cost cooperative magazine to bypass intermediaries while warnings on selfishness and inequalities temper optimism.
In aTwelfth street shop a monkey named Mistress Monkey cradles a guinea pig like a baby, rocking it under her chin and nursing it with affectionate care. The scene draws amused observations about animal behavior as a second and even third guinea pig are alternately presented for the doll baby act.
A collage of notes: rising longevity in Russia, Paris thunder near the Eiffel Tower, a Liverpool woman jailed for robbing steamship cabins, Zanzibar clove cultivation and yields, French pine plantations fixing sands for resin and paper, Manchester’s “gouttling” misdeeds, Paris wholesale women dominating dry goods, East Indies dessert cakes and saffron pastries, and a Persian powder anecdote.
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