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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1891
Page
7
A New York Times column notes the season's fan trends from four and six stick designs to gilt and jewel embellished pieces. Feather fans remain popular with ornate feathers and diamond accents adorning cafe au lait hues. A related New York Sun snippet recounts a courting scene and a first kiss that ends in engagement.
A New York Times physician urges women to avoid chilly drafts and sudden temperature shifts. He warns against running from warm rooms to cold parlor and lingering at doors, insisting proper clothing and heat balance prevent fatal colds.
A lively York society vignette follows a famed roamer with many Juliets as he meets a demure brown eyed maiden. He doubts all women yet notes she is not perfumed and wonders if she uses any at all. The evening brings a fateful meeting.
A well known furnisher in direct competition with large stores states he targets women all year, displays toilet articles in windows for both men and women, and believes women now choose more practical items. He plans to buy decorative neckwear and embellishments but avoids overreliance on ladies fashion, noting a shift in taste and spending.
The National Council of Women will hold its first triennial meeting in Albaughs Opera House Washington from February 22 to 25. Eleven national women’s organizations belong to the council with delegates named from Sorosis and the New York Woman's Press Club. Papers are planned by Anna Garlin Spencer and Julia Holmes Smith representing reform groups.
During Beattie's illness Miss Cynthia Westover ran the department for a fortnight supervising 1509 workers. She allocated daily budgets for dump carts and sweepers and chose who to hire or dismiss. She measured cart capacity herself and is noted as a capable young woman and one of New York's four women notaries.
A dainty lip salve recipe from Shirley Dare’s Letter describes melting yellow beeswax with oil of sweet almonds, then pounding until smooth. The guide, copied from MSS. of maids of honor and gouvernantes of well born girls, advises storing the mixture in a galley pot once cooled.
The Countess Taafe leads Vienna fashion with carved mother of pearl hairpins to aid fishermen. Arch duchess Valerie champions silver ornaments for silver workers. The Princess of Wales promotes Irish poplin and heavy woolens with sisters-in-law to feed hungry weavers and textile workers.
Saturday at twilight a cougar was found feeding on a salmon near the Nooksack farm. Men rallied to the brook and, while planning to shoot, heard a rifle crack. The cougar leaped and died after a bullet pierced its neck. Miss Maud Durning fired the fatal shot from a second story.
A New York Post piece describes an artistic display where flowers nestled in a bamboo cane appear to grow from a papered wall. The arrangement uses water-filled notches along the cane to sustain blossoms, creating a seamless botanical mural.
London notes describe the ten year old princess Wilhelmina as pro claimed queen and the youngest living sovereign except Alphonso XIII of Spain. Queen Emma raised her with Spartan discipline and once resumed driving after a carriage incident when horses frightened.
Milledgeville November 27 cornerstone ceremony for the Georgia Normal and Industrial College for Girls drew the entire state legislature to attend the event. Citizens provided a special train and hosted a large barbecue. Governor and other leaders spoke. Miss Julia Flisch read an essay.
At the last commencement of the Royal University of Dublin nine clever Irish girls took the degree of B A. One, Maud Joynt, received an M A with highest honors in modern literature. Frances Helena Gray wears her LL D with becoming dignity. In the examination papers the women students ranked above the men.
Mrs Delaney Kane of New York owns a dazzling tiara centered by a large brilliant stone and several precious stone necklaces, including a pearl strand with three diamond pendants. Her sparkling ornaments make her a conspicuous figure at the opera.
Miss Lillian Baird, aged 9, is becoming famous as the youngest problem composer in the world. Her chess instinct has been honed by practice and hereditary talent, with her first problem, made before age eight, printed in about twenty chess columns across England Germany and America.
Last summer Wellesley College housed poor girls sent by the Boston YWCA for a two week holiday. The visitors received lessons in housework and socialized with local ladies during their stay.
A speaker advises adding a pinch of cinnamon to evening chocolate after pouring to impart piquant charm similar to nutmeg with lemon, lemon juice with vichy, or sliced lemon with tea, drawing a parallel to salt in an egg.
Mrs. Annie Baxter of Jasper County Missouri is elected county clerk. Nominated on the Democratic ticket in a Republican county, her victory is notable as she becomes the first woman to hold this office in the south.
A guidance piece urges parents to fill a child with good manners benevolence and beauty. It advocates abstracting virtue from vulgarity selfishness and rudeness while cultivating love and admiration for the child. The aim is graceful conduct and steady parental work.
A Canadian woman who died at 92 left 17 children 145 grandchildren and 286 great grandchildren. Married in 18 she maintained the family line as 803 descendants survive.
Swedish literary figure Miss Concordia Lofvings earned a gold medal from the French minister of public affairs for a published lecture on Physical Education and Its Place in a System of Rational Education.
Mrs. Abigail Dame, 82, of Farmington New Hampshire, in two days recently split and piled three cords of wood. The labor was done “just to pass the time away.”
An Austrian professor asserts that many women who keep lapdogs suffer liver affliction caused by a small parasite unique to the dog's liver. The claim ties pet ownership to a medical condition via a parasite found in canine livers.
Domestic science receives attention at Mt Holyoke and Wellesley colleges and at Dwight L Moody's seminary in Northfield Mass highlighting curriculum and program emphasis.
A brief excerpt of a sonnet by Donald R. McGregor expressing yearning and romantic longing. The speaker imagines being wind, flower, moon ray, or breath to earn a single sigh or word from the beloved, seeking blissful oblivion in her memory.
Paris correspondents note a surge of marriages this season boosting jewelers profits. Brides now favor pearls, with rare exceptions like a Russian ambassador’s daughter who wore a sapphire and diamond set with a blue ribbon, a diamond buckle, and multiple sapphire and diamond brooches.
A nervous woman asks a doctor about recurring symptoms and cites a relative who died after futile remedies. The doctor interrupts with a macabre quip suggesting “flatulency of the fangs,” reflecting satirical, sensational humor from the New York Tribune.
The College of Women plans a quarterly titled The Outlook, first issue in January. Edited by Margaret B. Dodge and business manager Emily H. Bright, both from Boston University, the publication aims to unite cultivated women and promote higher education without competing with suffrage or domestic magazines.
Miss Nelly Kelly of The Ohio State Journal in Columbus is described as the country’s only female first wire operator for the Associated Press earning 30.50 weekly. She works daily from 5:30 pm copying AP messages on a typewriter and telegraph instrument, producing about 15 000 words each night.
A Boston Transcript note describes several girls seen at a symphony rehearsal. The piece highlights distinct characters such as the girl with a big violin and the girl with her knitting, capturing a lively glimpse of the audience on a winter afternoon.
The oldest and largest mercantile establishment in Huntsville Texas is now managed by a woman. The business, valued at 250000 dollars, was founded over forty years ago by the late Sanford Gibbs who requested his wife continue running it.
The Martinsville Indiana coroner reports Rhoda Mitchell was killed in her Jennings county barn on September 10. Her diary and records show a solitary life after her lover married another woman years earlier. No robbery motive is evident. a tramp is suspected. Remaining family ties are in Tennessee and Ohio.
The New York Herald notes Miss Clementine De Vere is the best paid church singer in America earning high weekly sums from concerts. Once an operatic star she now enjoys rich home-based engagements, praised for a pure flexible voice, precise staccato, and world-wide triumphs in Paris Florence and other cities.
Ten years after a bare start the Illinois Training School for Nurses now owns the Nurses' Home and furniture valued at $70,000 and runs twelve wards at Cook County Hospital plus nursing at Presbyterian Hospital. The school employs a large staff including a superintendent, two assistants, one night superintendent, 100 pupil nurses, 12 probationers and 98 graduates. The John Crerar Fund of $50,000 and a £20,000 legacy from Miss Phebe L. Smith enabled mortgage payoff and completion of the home.
Deborah Powers senior partner of D Powers and Sons Bank in Lansingburg New York is the oldest banker in the country at 99 and remains sharp in business. She founded the Deborah Powers Home for Old Ladies in Lansingburg and has been in banking for over a dozen years.
New York churchgoers will hear Miss Clara Pavie, celebrated contralto, fill an important place in the choir of the Episcopal Church of All Angels. Pavie recently performed as leading contralto at the Handel and Haydn festival, marking her second consecutive engagement with that organization.
Poem describes winter scenes with elms tracks ice and snow. It notes skaters, sliders, and travel paths across hills hollows and frozen brooks. The speaker seeks neighborly warmth by a glowing fire and a peaceful home during cold nights.
Henry Gibbs, 51, born in Clay County Kentucky, has survived multiple gunshot and stab wounds from clashes in Jellico and Cumberland Gap. He was shot seventeen times across several encounters, including a Sunday night attack that laid him up seven days, yet he remains unbowed and keeps a joking tone about the scars.
Twenty years after William Dodsworth of Ohio married a Hamilton heiress he staged a cross country honeymoon using relays of coaches between Hamilton and Philadelphia. The spendthrift lit cigars with five and ten dollar bills and caused a national sensation before ending up in police court for disorderly conduct. He was fined and sent to the workhouse for lacking one bill he once used.
Mrs Fred Robinson a farmer's wife was approaching a Sugar Creek trestle west of town when a fast Lake Erie and Western train neared the curve. She leaped off with her baby in her arms as her dress caught on a spike and they were suspended until the train stopped and rescuers freed them.
C Hagermann of Morrisville fell asleep with his right hand beneath his head and awoke unable to move that arm. Doctors report the limb remains paralyzed with circulation attempts failing. Recovery is expected to take months depending on vascular response.
The comptroller of the currency reports 296 new national banks formed in the year ending Sept 30, the largest yearly total since 1865. Most are in growing northwest and southwest regions, boosting aggregate capitalization in those areas.
The aged statesman Hannibal Hamlin moves through the street with a swinging stride. His attire remains the old black swallowtail coat and the stock and dicky of a bygone era, while his hat is the regulation silk top.
The Albany Express reports a youth arrived in Schenectady last summer to find work. He paid $100 for an option on a plot with a $7,650 payment due December 1. He has since sold half the property for $13,000.
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