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Newspaper
Marshfield Times
Location
Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1898
Page
3
A Victorian style guide outlines elaborate Easter costume options featuring roses, satin skirts, and braids with jade foliage. It details colors, trims, and accessories including gloves, stockings, and feathered hats, along with spring hat trends and tailored gowns.
Mrs. John Rusche of Lad, South Dakota, says a traveling hypnotist gypsy woman entered her home and attempted to foretell her future. The intruder hypnotized Rusche, learned of a $140 desk drawer, stole the money, and fled. The case prompted a sheriff’s warrant and pursuit toward Montana or Wyoming.
In a half forgotten Maine incident Hamlin and Smith chaired a Democrat caucus to choose delegates. They claimed a large respectable gathering, but only the two men attended while drafting credentials for the state convention, revealing a hollow show of democracy.
The text describes cravat construction with silk and velvet varieties. It explains cutting strips, folding, and pressing by hand, shaping at the neck, and tying styles with a flare knot. One cravat uses crepe lace edging and back hooking, while another uses white tulle for neck wraps.
A fragment describes smart wear detailing a velvet neck arrangement using half a yard of black velvet ribbon and ecru lace, tied into tassets at the side, with a back fastening. It mentions a velvet Louis XV cult and pendants including an apple market motif with a central bold heart and a rooking-glass and powder puff.
Carson of Kalamazoo Michigan patents a system to keep a buoy on a sinking ship. The buoy frees as the hull sinks and rises to surface linked by a steel rope to a reel in the hold. The reel is ball bearing mounted so winding rope avoids friction. The buoy then marks the wreck on the surface.
Under New York law the Your Woman's Settlement was incorporated to promote the physical mental and spiritual improvement of women and girls in crowded city areas. It aims to train young women and college graduates for benevolent work in New York City through educational meetings and similar activities.
A Germain inventor devised a head and arm rest system for trains and ships. The device uses a strap supported back rest with loops for the arms and a net for the head, all suspended from the ceiling by springs to increase passenger comfort.
A quoted exchange from Brooklyn Life questions why Dr Reaper urges all patients toward White Beach for the summer. A companion comment suggests the doctor may plan to visit the resort himself. The remark underscores skepticism about medical guidance and personal motives.
The Journal of the Bavarian Society for the Inspection of Steam Boilers reports frost can damage high pressure boilers. Frost causes ice to form between shell and core, bending parts and weakening structures. Cases show water freezing in manholes and cross-tubes, prompting winter precautions and water discharge to prevent damage.
A Canadian woman patents a star carpet fastener using a wire cone to grip carpet edges. A portable elevator aids moving packages from wagons to upper floors with a derrick and adjustable platform. Bicycle crank throws use sliding sleeves and eccentric disks with rollers. A grinding mill features two rimmed wheels on a vertical shaft turning via a V-shaped bed and a circular tail to crush grain.
The article traces month and weekday names to deities and festivals. It cites Juno, Frigge, Maia, Odin, Mars, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, and other powers, noting Roman and Anglo Saxon roots for names like May, March, November, Monday, Sunday, and December.
New York Tribune reports a dangerous duel in St Louis where two young men aimed to win a heart by bicycle race racing 150 yards. Both riders collided, injuring each other and requiring hospital care as spectators wired tape measures and improvised gear to assist.
A Chicago Record correspondent notes Queen Victoria would be the richest woman even if dethroned. She owns Balmoral and Osborne personally, occupies or funds several palaces, and maintains a vast royal fleet and carriages. Her vast incomes fund Windsor, Kensington, and other estates with pensioners and veterans. The piece contrasts royal spending with other rulers’ salaries across Europe and calls the monarch economically immense yet costly to taxpayers.
A notice claims a new rich gold vein near Jake Wai in Qatario has been uncovered. Experts say preliminary tests show promising signs, with frequent discoveries of gold veins in silver and copper regions. The tone suggests optimistic mining speculation and sensational prose about abundant future finds.
A poetic fragment evokes twilight shades and burning firelight amid crumbling dreams and ruins. Ghostly spectres inhabit a pine glow as memories rise and fade, stones of ancient days crumble, and a desolate quarry recalls past, while fire and ash mark the cycle from night to day.
A fragmentary Washington Star passage quotes an artist musing on a laundry advertisement and a reformer figure described as pulling another man by the arm. The text shows garbled dialogue and unclear context about a wash drawing and moralizing reform.
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