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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1886
Page
3
The piece surveys current fashion trends with emphasis on subtle changes in skirts and collars. It notes gradual shifts in hat height, the rise of plain but varied walking-skirt designs, and the return of plaited and boxed plaits with decorative trims for summer attire.
The Philadelphia Record details a series of women’s costumes featuring foulard and etamine fabrics, plum leather touches, and elaborate tunics. Descriptions cover hats, trims, and accessories, including moss green and wood color outfits, striped satin creations, and decorative veiling with velvet and ribbon accents.
The Boston Herald highlights white gowns as accessible style, noting inexpensive fabrics can rival high fashion. It describes outfits on streetcars and beaches, pale complexions, and concise ensembles with bows, hats, gloves, and parasols, plus millinery trends and country wear details.
A fragmentary tale compiles airy banter on marriage and matchmaking among sisters and friends. Dialogues reveal romantic nerves as siblings contemplate weddings while gossip and plans ripple through Rozbury Advocate and Boston Beacon items.
In Newport during the 1869 season Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker delivered a speech reading from a manuscript yet improvising along the way. After a Moses reference Mrs Stanton quipped that Moses might be a Beecher. A questioner then asked if Stanton wished to see Moses in heaven, and she answered I want to see Lot's wife.
An authority explains ring practices for men and women indicating relationship status. For men a ring on the left hand's first finger shows single, second for engaged, third for married, and a signet on the little finger signals being unavailable. Ladies use left hand rings to show not engaged and move rings to right or left hands to indicate engagement or marriage.
A humorous note on a new England hand book of marriages and quirky vows. It contrasts modern primers with the old blue-back speller, recalling illustrations and a public fascination with moral education and spelling games.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat laments shifts in children’s reading, noting a move from crude primers to illustrated fragments from literature and songs. It contrasts old moral volumes with a glossy present where reading begins before spelling and credits new education for a culture fed on beauty and imagination.
A European view contrasts Stockholm’s female labor with male leisure, noting women carry bricks, mix mortar, tend plaster, sweep streets, haul rubbish, load bricks at quays, run ferries, and manage the city dairy. Men parade in uniform and perform light tasks, while heavy work falls to women who bear the yoke of double burdens.
A Tennessee seed agent Bronson experiences a vivid dream of being pursued on a gray horse marked with a Y. The next day, a stranger on a gray horse appears, the same route is taken, and an ambush ends with Bronson exchanging gunfire. the attacker escapes on foot, the horse dies, and Bronson survives to report the event.
A long column mixes a Detroit Free Press reflection on the tramp with a vignette of a unknown man found dead near a creek, a signed letter reading Dear Father, and calls for compassion. It recounts barroom anecdotes from Pall Mall Gazette, and ends with a moral about using good advice and talent.
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