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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1896
Page
5
A garbled jumble of brief jokes and vignettes from earlier newspapers. Cartoonish humor, a police court quip, household recipes, and animal anecdotes mix in a single column, with farcical lines about sleighs, jewelry theft, a talking mule, and an old dog’s bedtime rituals.
A collage of fashion commentary cites Parisian revival ideas from Paquin and Bernhardt, detailing the semi rigid silhouettes, three planchettes at the waist, accordion skirts, and baby sleeves, followed by social observations on marriage manners, a Civil War breakfast anecdote, and brief notes on clergy dialogue and osprey nests.
A fragmentary column mixes an Argentina ant destruction method using a sulfur smoke device with tales of Thomas Carlyle meeting Mrs Ross's circle and an excursion into ideas of beauty across races. It cites travelers Hearne and others noting varied European, Asian, and African beauty ideals and ends with a biblical note on crowns in Exodus.
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