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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1887
Page
3
English tailors offer covert green, terra-cotta and brown coats with strapped seams and velvet collars, along with single and double breasted jackets, yachting styles, and navy blue tweed military coats. The article details collars, braiding, trims, and scarf mantles, plus summer mantles in velvet, lace, and beading, with plains, checks, and vivid color pairings for women and schoolgirls.
The article surveys current jewelry trends among the wealthy and fashionable. It highlights turquoise settings, onyx pins with flower centers, link buttons, plain diamond bands for men, love turquoise in plain settings, double strand coil bracelets, opal rings with diamond trefoils, French style vest-chains, a platinum locket, a queen chain with red and green gold, and a ball pendant. It notes bright contrasts of metals and stones, the domi nant butchered descriptions of gems like golden beryl, and whimsical pieces such as a frog clasp necklace and a cherry hairpin with a slug trail.
A long catalog of textiles and accessories details spring trends including colored cotton crepes for sash curtains, tea cloths with Venetian lace, Bay ribbon hair adornments, and finely trimmed outfits in wool and velvet. It notes corsages, hats, and decorative touches, plus a history excerpt on Cossacks and varied cork wood trade notes.
An overview of Austria-Hungary as a united empire under a single sovereign with separate parliaments and ministries. Delegations from both kingdoms govern common imperial matters while an imperial cabinet handles foreign affairs military and finance. The shift from despotism to constitutional monarchy expanded freedoms and opened political life across Germans Magyars Czechs and Slavs.
A humorous memory from Col. Cleary ties to a Chicago balloon incident. Cleary, in danger as the captive balloon rose higher, pulled a knife and demanded descent, threatening to cut the rope if not lowered. The tale reflects frontier bravado and rough news humor from the West.
The Indianapolis News notes the Great Wall of China contains 6.35 billion cubic feet and, if labor valued at a standard rate applied, would rival all US railroad costs. It asserts the wall’s construction in twenty years without debt as humanity’s greatest individual labor, then cites maxims on faith, life, law, honesty, and temperance.
A historical medical treatise links corpulence to intemperance, sedentary life, and obesity linked diseases. It explains how fat forms, how alcohol mimics fat production, and how oxygen transport and heart function are affected. Prevention focuses on diet regulation, gradual dieting, and avoiding drastic restrictions, with an anecdote about a farmer named Tim seeking a bank loan.
A Spectator writer shares Cork humor and odd phrases from country life. Anecdotes range from a dying man’s bedside quip to Cork mispronunciations, phrases about charity and drink, and a balloon ascent vivid with Arctic echoes, ending as a farmer refuses to “work his bellows” while the balloon lands at Talbott Mountain. The tale blends Irish wit with travelogue recollection from The Century.
The piece notes an experimental inquiry in France into attenuating the presumed consumption virus to enable vaccination like smallpox or inoculation similar to Pasteur's hydrophobia work. Eminent scientists back the effort and a sizable sum is pledged to cover costs.
A laywoman notes gossip about Mrs Candonr as Bridget reports observers’ scornful looks and suspicions of her home life. An amended Litany petition proposes praying for laborers and for the people to support them, highlighting a call to missions and social duty. The piece closes with a moral edge on consistent prayer versus social scrutiny.
At the Grand Opera, Pauline wore a diamond necklace that eclipsed all else. An officer claimed Empress Marie Louise admired it and a theft ensued, yet the necklace vanished and the detectives could not recover it, despite Napoleon’s fury and police probes.
In a Saturday Review critique the author argues readers must judge Mary Stuart by the era's statecraft and morality, not modern absolutes. They warn against preconceptions and urge examination of recorded conduct, ultimately finding not proven on key charges, with acquittal leaning on Darnley and mercy urged for Elizabeth, while condemning Mary’s execution as a crime.
During a legislative vacation Senator Cullom traveled to Paris where he met Chauncey Depew, the first person he found who understood English. Cullom spoke warmly, wishing to converse in English, but Depew answered in fluent French. Frustrated, Cullom threatened to seek him in Ireland and demanded Irish if they spoke.
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