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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1891
Page
7
Article explains ventriloquism as learned skill not gift, outlines three branches ventriloquism proper colloquism and polyphonism, and offers practical hints on breath control imitation of distant sounds and stage deception. Historical notes include anecdote on eels from Dutch Neck and a description of a shipbuilder’s eel skin exhibit.
A Brook lyn fragment tells of an 8 year old boy with pride who hides a coat given by his mother to a classmate. During Sunday school he covets the coat and finally betrays envy by peeking into a pocket hole. The piece ends with a moral note on humility.
Courtenay de Kalb notes in Harper's Young People that bananas arrive in large green bunches from Panama and the West Indies. In New York they cost one to two fifty per bunch, varying by variety, and can ripen gradually if kept cool. A green bunch yields ripe fruit daily until exhausted, mirroring methods in palmland.
A ferry traveler recalls life preservers under seats that look rotten and never seem checked. He imagines grabbing one to save his life, only to find the straps fall apart like worn shoestrings, a relic of neglect reported by the New York Tribune.
A Pittsburg student reading Nahum ii 4 in the Vision of Nahum, Eliashite, believes a verse predicting chariots raging in streets, jostling in broadways, resembling torches and running like lightnings foreshadows the use of electricity to propel modern urban railways.
An anthology of brief quotes and curiosities contrasts ambition with practical wisdom. A youth vows to seek fame through power or writing while a father counsels discovery of a new bacillus. Other items note travel manners, an author writing left handed, and woolen cloth origins.
A feature on how Mrs Astor and other leading women of New York society wear back hair. It details Mrs Astor Vanderbilt Sherwood Tiffany Yznaga Bend and others with styles ranging from coronet to peruke fashion, noting color, waves, braids and accessories. It comments on labor behind the look and recalls a mishap from overheated curling irons.
Special correspondence from Washington notes a string of repartees and puns that blurred lines between the sublime and the ridiculous in the U S House and Senate. Senators Spinola Dawes Reed Ingalls and others traded quips on collars, records, and precedents, drawing smiles and roars as politics teetered toward farce.
If women press on with their clubs councils and societies as they are doing they will soon care little whether they are admitted to men's societies or not. The note points to evolving gender roles and social access in elite circles.
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