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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1883
Page
10
The piece debates a new dining doctrine urging five meals daily, warns of ill effects from fasting, and cites anecdotes about diet and sleep. It then shifts to Detroit fashion notes on arm-improvers sleeves and autumn corsages, mantles, and redingotes.
The article surveys fashionable hats and wraps, notes the popularity of English turbans, nuns gray sandals with silk stockings, and fur or cashmere walking dresses from Paris. It highlights gold and velvet carriage dresses, brocaded ottoman silks with fruit and vine motifs, and new sleeve silhouettes from Paris including pagoda and Vandyke styles.
The Chicago Times notes Mexico's sugar potential driven by railways and reciprocity with the United States. It suggests cultivating nopal prickly pear for juice and duke, citing US sugar-from-watermelon experiments and a growing export focus by the Interior Department. It compares nopal to beets, sorghum, rock maple, and beet sugar, predicting possible new major sugar crops.
A London club erases gratuities, enforcing civility with firm rules, while American hotels rely on fixed prices with no per diem tip. The piece argues tips sustain service quality in England and notes America’s system pushes guests to tip for comfort, affecting civility and experience. Boston newspaper item.
A Philadelphia Press item describes Mount Mitchell as the highest peak in the Appalachians and details a mountaineer community near Black Mountain. It recounts a burial atop the summit, mica mining fortunes, a photographer seeking poses, and a romance at Black Mountain Station ending in a morning wedding.
A magazine writer discusses dire poverty in England noting 300000 London families pawning small items and 360,000 unredeemed pledges yearly in Britain while Paris shows less use of pawnshops. The piece contrasts classes and cites Marl. on middle and lower orders relying on pawnbrokers.
Francis Murphy returns from Europe as apostle of te apostle? John Cockerell joins the New York World as managing editor. Charles Head, English novelist, pursues a life of Biblical biographies. Grant’s life taxed. Napoleon clocks join philanthropy. Polk’s widow honored in Nashville on her eighty eighth birthday. Arabi Pasha indulges in literature in exile. Mrs Speed’s poetry to be published posthumously. Senator Logan recounts Civil War brutality in an Indian encounter. Chinese minister marks his daughter’s four week birthday with a Washington dinner. Mi Ju named meaning America born in the capital.
A collage of humorous quips and vignettes from various papers mentioning fishing dames baseball in Philadelphia and a hospital scene. Cartoonish dialogue and casual banter about weather, gossip, and small town life appear in a mash of clipped anecdotes and jokes.
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