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Newspaper
Mccook Weekly Tribune
Location
Mccook, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1885
Page
7
Interview discusses how fashion plates are developed by merchants and tailors. It notes the push for quarterly or monthly plates, regional taste variation, and the rise of fashion magazines shaping both US and European dress trends. It also references the small number of major houses controlling design and the growing global influence.
An American Agriculturist article explains why onion seeds fail to form bulbs and instead grow thick necks. It cites poor seed from inferior stock, poor land, late sowing, and weeds as main causes, and stresses thorough tillage, weed control, and early spring sowing after frost. It notes roots go deep and rich, well-prepared soils help, with proper selection shaping better seed.
A description of Miss Cleveland resembling Anna Dickinson in appearance yet modest in manner. Her clear voice suits her lecturing, with Elmira Female College frequent talks and a medieval history lecturer in the faculty catalog. The nation benefits from a Christian woman in the White House.
Mr James Staten of Orange County North Carolina reports a lemon weighing six pounds ten ounces with a circumference of twenty five boBees.
A correspondent reports the Battle of Flowers at Nice during the carnival. On Friday February 13 and again Monday, flowers and fruit decorated vehicles on the Corso showered crowds with violets mimosas and roses as riders and pedestrians volleyed bouquets. A notable victoria was hidden with scarlet pinks and peasant carts tossed leeks cabbages and blooms to spectators. The spectacle drew lively crowds amid vivid costumes and festive pageantry.
Memphis Appeal recounts Senator Vest describing his dog as clever from shoeshine scenes to church attendance. The dog allegedly polished shoes with a brush, played to a dog audience in a woodshed, and contorted with a torn almanac as four peers howled.
A bill urged by Fish Commissioner Blackford would destroy star fish thought to threaten oysters and offers a reward of 25 cents per bushel for star fish captured from state oyster beds when the tally reaches thirty or more bushels at once.
The hunting dagger of Col. James Bowie, the prototype for all bowie knives, is sent to New Orleans for exhibition. It is a double edged horn handled weapon, fifteen inch blade and an inch and a quarter wide at the hilt. Like Dr Guillotin, Bowie lent his name to a device with a grim reputation.
A child asks where policemen go after death. The father replies heaven, but the child counters that in heaven it is always day and nobody sleeps, reflecting a playful, philosophical exchange.
Washington report details the conviction of Peter Finnegan in a capital fraud case. He posed as Alice A Baker and wrote to solicit money, using letters from Omaha, Neb that drew in victims including a Baltimore man, a grocer, and a bank president. Finnegan received a three month jail sentence after evidence of multiple solicitations and letters was presented.
Beale recalls Grant as a steady friend in fifteen years of near daily contact. He praises Grants purity and self control, notes his restraint toward personal enemies, and recounts Grant signing autographs for children despite fatigue, showing generosity and concern for others.
Des Moines judge rules that under the Fritz decision he shall order injunctive action on buildings where intoxicants are kept. The ruling affects enforcement practices and compliance in local property cases.
The Tucson Star reports Mrs. Jesus Castro of American Flag in the Santa Catalina mountains was paid her weight in gold by a would-be husband blocked from marrying her due to kinship. She weighed 117 pounds at the time and bore eleven children with her first husband before he died. she later remarried Mr. Castro.
A compilation of brief notes on Niagara Falls power estimates and global marvels. It cites the falls’ height and calculated horsepower, then shifts to varied items including a hotel ad, a Kansas family, Miss Parlon on cooking, the Valley Springs Enterprise anecdote, Oscar Wilde, racial quips, Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh, a testimonial, and Paickly Ass Birriers as a laxative.
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