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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1887
Page
3
A survey of the season's styles highlights ostrich feather bouquets and Queen Anne fans in dyed hues, swan’s-down fans, novelty braids on dresses, garnet gowns with wide black pleated panels, and velvet collars. It notes how fashion shifts with society's purse and emphasizes opera and social occasion wear.
The piece details fabrics and trims for formal gowns and wraps, including faille Francaise wools, corded silks, satins, and velvet futt jeans. It notes English crepes, Japanese crapes, Watteau drapery styles, sling sleeves, and chemisette fronts, plus Newmarket cloaks and plush mantles for the season.
Mink fur returns to favor while English corduroy coats and petticoats prove durable. Hats feature sloping crowns and coin filigree. feather stitching decorates dresses in silk and satin. Velvet skirts pair with plain woolens, seal skin wraps stay short in back, and lace dresses revive a thirty year old trend.
A New York Advocate piece shares a playful vignette titled The Little Boy's Sermon about kindness. Two boys Eddie and Harry trade proverbs and life tips for kindness toward papa, mamma, baby, Jane, and Kitty, with Eddie torn between listening and preaching.
An essay contrasts rural upbringing with city schooling, praising the country boy's hard work, frugality, and practical roots. It pairs a domestic scene with a granddaughter Jennie learning to “shine in her corner,” and ends with reflections on moral self-improvement and humility.
Jennie Gray asks about a corner in life and learns from grandma that everyone has a place. The grandmother explains that her corner is the house and Jennie’s is beside it, and they should shine in their respective spaces. The dialogue frames a gentle lesson on personal purpose and kinship.
Greenville Tennessee hosts a tour of Andrew Johnson historic sites including his last home a brick house owned by his daughter Aunt Dolly Johnson and the old tailor shop described as plain and unadorned. The article details the monuments graves and memorials with portraits of Johnson family members and a family gravesite circle near a marble monument with inscriptions.
The item surveys telescope magnification to the moon, Crater Lake depth claims, glass annealing by heating and cooling, a German ventilating window pane with many holes, and a tropical bird spider. It covers arid Australian shrub water, dust condensation by electricity, fly biology, moth and flea aromas, and malaria and cholera cautions tied to occupations and plants.
The article recounts ancient belief in the indestructibility of diamonds and chronicles key experiments from 1609 to 1771. It notes De Boot first suspected inflammability in 1609 and Averant and Targioni burned a diamond in 1694 under concentrated sun rays, revealing cracking and eventual disappearance.
A dialogue cited by the Pittsburgh Dispatch recounts friends offering to settle a difficulty through Jones and the speaker attempting to settle it personally. The exchange ends with Jones ultimately settling the matter, yielding experience rather than concrete gains for the speaker.
Professor Joseph Tito Conte dismisses the link between electricity and earthquakes. He argues there is no scientific proof for electricity triggering quakes and notes the public misattributes unexplained events to electrical force.
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