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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1887
Page
3
A fashion column discusses how white and cream tones dominate winter wardrobes, exploring shades from pink to ivory and the shift from cotton to wool. It notes fabric choices, care costs, and silhouette trends, including corduroy and velvet accents, with predictions of color changes next season.
A long piece surveys plush fabrics, millinery, jewelry and decorative arts, praising applique, pins and embroidery while noting strict home economy. It contrasts women’s independence with traditional duties, urging careful self management, modest budgets, and skilled domestic labor as a path to empowerment.
The Illinois Women's Press Association hosted guests at its fourth reception of the year. Notables included Mrs. J. W. Surry of Orange New Jersey and artist ALGANI who recently spoke with the German Empress. The piece notes musical works by Mrs. Sloomfield Moore set to Sir Arthur Sullivan.
A garbled early 20th century text recounts a chaotic scene with names like Richard Ring and Dick Hing in a tense fort setting. Soldiers and bystanders move under strain as observers note divisions, marches, and a strike that reshapes ranks and loyalties amid confusion.
A pasted page recounts courtroom quips and rural wit with banter about trials and verdicts. Humorous exchanges involve a defendant’s honesty, a judge’s patience, and a motherly offer of meals to a ragged tramp as lines blur between law, laughter, and everyday life.
Fragmentary extract recounts vast ancient fortunes of figures like Seneca and Julius Caesar era anecdotes. It notes debts and gifts among Antony Cleopatra and Caligula era figures with curious scenes including Cleopatra’s pearl and a risqué moment between Augustus and Angelina.
An art exhibition features a grand painting as the public inspects it while a small group, including a connoisseur, debates its merit. A passerby and a child discuss Cain and loneliness, prompting a tangential exchange about a homely young lady and a kin-like resemblance to a historical figure.
A Harper's Bazar essay argues that measuring nervousness shows the wife bears greater stress in daily child care than the husband. It describes a trick where a husband endures dressing children for school to feel the burden and cost, while the mother manages repeated daily trials with patience and perseverance.
A historical note from Popular Science Monthly on early attempts to measure Earth's meridian. A French doctor used a simple method driving from Paris to Amiens and counting carriage wheel revolutions. Though crude, the results surprisingly aligned with modern, precise measurements, due to compensating errors.
A Massachusetts teacher grapples with defining common words including the verb to be. Jests about ambassadors and counts, a judge and his wife, and a family grandmother’s sergeant coat appear as brief anecdotes. Doctors advise sleeping on the right side for the deaf left ear.
A collage of wits and social quips from late 1800s papers. Jests about a barber, a crying baby, a vestry funeral, vaccination fears, and a laughing minstrel reflect light gossip in a small town. Anecdotes include a colonel’s funeral sermon wish and a minister’s wife auction joke.
A domestic essay argues happiness comes from letting children grow with minimal toys and intervention. It praises simple routines, plain food, early bed, and respect for nature, urging parents to wait for a child’s readiness and rely on self sufficiency rather than constant pampering.
A Boston Cultivator summary notes paraffin wax from Standard Oil refineries at Bradford Pennsylvania and shipped to New York and Boston. It claims paraffin wax is used for chewing gum production insulation candles wax paper coatings and barrels keeping them sweet and clean and resisting acids.
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