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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1895
Page
4
Spring and summer fashion notes describe daring hats with Greek Jet bands, silk crowns, and decorative bows, plus outfits using nun's veiling, grosgrain belts, and leather trims. Prominent garments include shirt waists in wash silk, India crepe dresses with velvet fronts, and luxurious silk waists with velvet and passementerie trims for summer wear.
The article describes a delicate morning dress of soft twisted silk with continuous shirring and full folds, large shirred sleeves, lace cuffs and yoke, and decorative bows. It also notes dainty negligees with lace and embroidery, rose beads, velvet shoulder capes, and chiffon ruffles as fashionable house dresses and sleepwear.
A column of light humor reveals a armor plate ruse, a cannon inquiry, treacle measure cleanout, grocer scorn, barber costs, tract-distributing fate, and village life curiosities. It captures witty exchanges among proprietor, agent, grocer, wife, and townsfolk.
A fragment from a Chicago talk hints at no fixed mourning period for widows. Mrs Marhattan notes it varies with personal closeness to the husband, while Mrs Wabash Weeds adds that there is no set rule, suggesting luck influences duration.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is advertised as the universal spring blood purifier. The endorsement claims the medicine cleanses germs, strengthens the body, and aids ailments from nervousness to poor appetite. A Boston reader testifies of relief for her daughter headaches and the husband’s improved strength after use.
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