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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1898
Page
11
The piece outlines spring dress ideas with rose and satin ensembles featuring white skirts festooned with roses and green foliage, bodice trims, and braided gilt accents. It also covers hats, fans, gloves, and color trends, noting streetwear constraints and practical, long skirts.
The anonymous pattern text details fashionable neckwear with cravats and collars. It outlines techniques to press pleats, assemble bows, and mount collars on stiff boards. Descriptions include velvet, lace, tulle, and chiffon trims, plus decorative elements like pendants and a novelty powder-puff centerpiece.
Mrs. Rushe of Lead, South Dakota, was hypnotized by a traveling gypsy woman who induced her to reveal a $140 purse hidden in a bureau. The gypsy allegedly took the money and fled, with police pursuing the outfit now believed to be in Montana or Wyoming. The husband filed a complaint after discovering the loss several days later.
The story recalls Hamlin and John Smith in a Maine town about a century ago. A Democratic caucus elected no full delegates to state conventions as Huntin chaired and Smith kept minutes. A dispute over credentials arose when the pair paused to draft the delegation list.
Kalamazoo commercial traveler A J Carson claims a dice shaped buoy device to locate wrecks. A buoy mounted on deck releases on sinking, rope winds through a deck hole to a ball bearing reel, preventing tangling and guiding recovery once the ship settles on the bottom.
Under New York law Lee Young Woman's Settlement is incorporated to promote the physical, intellectual, and spiritual improvement of women and girls in crowded U S cities, especially New York, through educational and industrial classes and similar agencies, training young women and college graduates for pavement work in New York.
A German inventor introduces an apparatus to increase passenger comfort in rail cars and ships. The design uses a back rest supported by a strap with arm loops and a head net, suspended from ceilings by springs.
In Brooklyn Life remarks, Tr. Reaper advises his patients to visit Waite Beach this summer, prompting speculation that he himself plans to go there. The note mirrors local gossip about physician travels and leisure plans.
Modern Machinery cites the Bavarian Society journal noting frost as a serious danger to steam boilers. Examples show ice formation and ruptured seams from prolonged cold and poor protection, stressing warmer operations or water discharge as safety measures during winter.
Names of months and days derive from various mythologies and rulers. The article ties Roman and Anglo Saxon roots to modern terms such as Friday from Frige, October from Wynhnora, and Sunday from dies Solis, noting gods Mara Wodin Saturn and Venus among others.
A Canadian woman patents a star carpet fastener using a wire cone and coil to grip carpet edges. A portable elevator aids reusing packages from wagons to upper stories with a sliding frame and derrick. Bicycle crank improvements involve sliding chrow cranks with eccentric disks and grooves. A gridding mill features flatrimmed wheels on a vertical shaft driving grain to a circular rail for rounding wheels.
In St Louis two young men staged a bicycle duel to win a heart, distance 159 ds. They failed to injure each other and were bound with tape, then transported for permanent skull repairs with improvised plugs. Wheels were collected by scoop shovels as onlookers watched.
A fragmented verse piece paints twilight shadows and memories of days gone by. It leans on imagery of ghostly figures, fading light, and upheaval as fame wanes. References to a ruined reign and a funeral rite add a somber, dreamlike mood.
A Chicago Record correspondent outlines Victoria's immense fortune totaling hundreds of millions, noting her personal palaces and royal rail and yacht fleets. The piece compares royal salaries worldwide, highlighting the queen's economical habits versus public expense across Europe and beyond.
A new rich gold vein has been found near Jake Wawa Ontario with experts reporting assay results up to 682 to the ton. The discovery follows a trend of frequent mineral finds in gold, silver, and copper fields, underscoring rising mining optimism and public interest in fresh orebodies.
A Washington Star remark notes a man seeking a fitting laundry advertisement. The artist contemplates the brief, musing that he will create an appropriate, perhaps quirky, wash and wear themed design to suit the client.
The text portrays a reformer as a man happiest when wandering and pulling another man by the arm, suggesting a confrontational, mobile figure who seeks to push others toward change. The fragment hints at a personality framing rather than a specific event or outcome.
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