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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1896
Page
7
Fashion notes discuss a renewed hoopskirt trend appearing in autumn and evening gowns. Silk and crimpling are common fabrics, with metal-supported hoops still rare for street wear as society tests the revival’s acceptance.
Fashion notes describe the season’s changes with five dress pictures showing new shapes fabrics and trims. Readers learn about visiting dresses jackets bodices and skirts in greens browns velvet and broadcloth and the evolving tailor made style with lace braids and plastrons.
A Newark Advertiser piece argues against proposed spelling reforms as a threat to historical spelling and printing. It cites Ward Muller and Sayce, defends tradition, and warns of the cultural harm in altering common words. It also stresses the teacher’s personality as central to education and urges boards to value inspirational teaching over test results.
John Huston Finley, Knox College president in Galesburg TL, is noted as the country’s youngest college president. An alumnus who returned five years after graduation to lead the college, Finley was born near Grand Ridge TL thirty three years ago and studied at IBSS and Johns Hopkins. Also discussed is Pennsylvania compulsory education shortcomings and crowded Philadelphia schools.
A dramatic corpse case in New York ends with a family recognizing an unknown man as their father after a long search. Undertakers rush the body to a funeral home as tempers flare, a daughter declares the man missing teeth, and shouting erupts over the burial’s mishap.
Sir Andrew Clarke, traveling in Italy, meets a tourist who menacingly threatens to throw him from a tall tower. Clarke remains calm and argues that throwing him from the ground would be harder, prompting a tense exchange before help arrives and the danger ends.
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