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Newspaper

Mitchell Capital

Location

Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America

Date

Jan 01, 1892

Page

4

Ladies Corner on Household Reform and Manners

A column from Philadelphia Record discusses the Columbian Housekeepers Association and its aims to improve home economics, wages, and training for domestic staff. It covers chaperone guidance for debutantes and defends the bang as a fashion statement, arguing hair framing enhances facial expression.

Columbian Housekeepers’ Association United States Maine Froebel Dolly Madison White House Housekeepers’ Association Tull House

Why Fashions Rage and Die

A compact critique explains fashions fade not for lack of value but due to being unadaptable to conditions. A white and gold room becomes painful beside another pale occupant, so styles shift. Hats flatter or offend depending on facial fit, and the milliner’s success rests on enhancing the wearer’s looks, not the object.

Wit and whimsy weave through a crowded page

This clipping blends quips, stray observations, and short jokes from various sources. It notes a London lady auctioneer, a Conorapo girl's arm injury, fashion and home hints, cheese folklore, and brief humorous exchanges. It also mentions Oslo, Washington timber claims, and literary snippets.

Inities London Ness Boston Milwaukee Byornsen Henry Ward Beecher

Congress Committees in Both Houses Listed

The article details Senate and House committee assignments. Senate names span Civil Service to Irrigation with leaders like Gallinger Peffer Gray Vilas and Crosby. House lists Ways and Means to Public Buildings and Grounds with Springer, Hoar, and Culberson among others.

Senate Civil Service Power Gallinger Peffer Gray Vilus Winnnce Morrill Sherman Jones Allison Aldrich Hiscock Voorhees McPherson Harris Ransom Carlisle Wisheries Stockbridge Dawes Stanford Squire Blodgett Call Gibson Frye Dolph Davis Morgan Butler Kenna Chandler Hale Proctor Dubois Daniel Cockrell Mississippi Washburn Pettigrew Walthall Bate Palmer Platt Manderson Shoup Vilas Higgins Gorman Barbour Hoar Wilson Teller Mitchell Pugh Coke West George Hawley Cameron Stewart Warren Felton Chilton Irby Plumb Cullom Galt Blackburn Sawyer Quay Dayvis Paddock Hansbrough Turpie Brice Sawyer Mitchell McMillan Walcott Dixon Casey Berry Gordon Turple Carey Kyle Allen Sanders Pasco White Faulkner District of Columbia Gullinger Amerman Bailey Dearmond Seerly Hare Stout Pickler Townshend Sweet Clark Wyoming Peet Turpin Rockwell Brawley Lynch English Clover Kern Washington McKenna Hooker N. Y Hopkins Harvey Oklahoma Kilgore Munsur Campbell Parrett Branch Terry Simpson Donovan Rife Smith Ill Perkins O'Donnell Joseph Lester Va Cate Bentley Page McKinney Lagan Warner Beeman Hour Williams Harter Taylor Morse Return Cowles Cooper Pendleton Camin Tti Arnold Bowman Miller Stevenson Post Huff Bankhead Abbott Lewis Tarsney Warwick McKaig Newberry N. C Milliken Shenk Enochs Tilman Heard Greenleaf Hall Lapham Hamilton de Forrest Buchanan N. J Belknap Quackenbush Scull Martin Fyan Vanhorn Snow Cribbs Enloe Clancey Cobb Winn Scott Shell Dolliver Houk Rite Hayes Carr Brunner Brase Everett Grady Coburn Cheatham Sanford Tarsnay Wilcox Dickson McGann Dungen Bunting Capehart Causey Brosius Haugen Lane Blanchard Stone Combs Stackhouse Wheeler Mich Watson Henderson Cutting Envichs Griswold Ibrary Cummings O'Ferrall O'Neill Richardson Case Broderick Johnson Ind McKeighan Andrew Boatner Wike Patterson Ohio Sperry Meredith Coombs Harries Russell Barnes Chipman Tucker Crane Compton McClelland Gantz Bushnell Cox Lodge Powers Dean N.D Owen Bynum Bussey Babbitt Lawson Baker Boutelle Hutt Stahiecker Durborow Wright Clarke Lester Barwig Lanham Brett Onolidge Randall Curtis Caine Stump Covert Elliott Geissenheimer Eppes Hara Ketchum Funston Fitch Anderson Crawford Bingham Lind Storer Otis Hemphill Rusk Ala Fellows Cadmus Harmer Cogswell Belden Ellis Outhwaite Bullock Edmunds Norton Magner Brookshire Robinson Waugh State Department Breckinridge Iky Alexander Weaver Treasury Department Brickner O’neil Wadsworth War Department Montgomery Bunn Dungan Hitt Navy Department Dockery Johnstone Ray Burtine Post Office Department Oates Bowers Department of Justice Wise Dingley Payne Department Agriculture Halverson Youmans Ketcham

Nominations Confirmed by Senate for Various Diplomatic Posts

The Senate in executive session confirmed multiple nominations for United States ministers and consuls. Appointees include A London Snowden of Pennsylvania to Greece Romania and Servia Richards Cutts Shannon of New York to Nicaragua Costa Rica and Salvador Romundo Pacheco of California to Guatemala and Honduras John Durham of Pennsylvania to Hayti Jeremiah Coughlin of New York to Bogota Yenton R. McCreery of Michigan to Santiago Chill Lars Anderson of Ohio to London William Tripler to Coquimbo E A Berry of Florida to Santos Richard K. Kerens of Missouri to the Continental Railway Commission Ebenezer J. Ormsbee of Vermont to Samoa L. W. Colby of Nebraska to Assistant Attorney General.

Senate London Snowden Pennsylvania Greece Roumania Servia Richards Cutts Shannon New York Nicaragua Costa Rica Salvador Romun Do Pacheco California Guatemala Honduras John & Durham Hayt Jeremiah Coughlin United States Yenton R. McCreery Michigan Santiago Chill Lars Anderson Ohio London William ©. Tripler Coquimbo E. A. Berry Florida Santos Richard K. Kerens Missouri Continental Railway Commission Ebenezer J. Ormsbee Vermont Samoa L. W. Colby Nebraska

Outlaw Gang Burns Choctaw County Store House In Deadly Raid

Job Sims and about seven gunmen attacked merchant John McMillan in Choctaw County Alabama. They fired McMillan’s house killing his son-in-law and a 12-year-old niece, wounded McMillan and a teacher, robbed the store, and fled as neighbors fled. Sims family helper were among the gunmen and a larger pursuit followed.

Job Sims Choctaw County Ala John McMillan McMillan Sims Charley Utsy Fluellen Utsy John Kenedy Mcllan Wil Meillan

The Human Breath and a Knot of Nautical Mile

A historical piece explores the power of the human breath with a bag experiment and then presents a reader-friendly explanation of the nautical knot. It defines a knot as one sixtieth of a mean degree of the earth's meridian and computes its length, concluding with a practical conversion: thirteen knots roughly equal fifteen miles.

Jo Webster Iits Earth

A Value Battle on a Diamond Smuggling Tale

Robert Grosch recalls a New York customs stint aboard a passenger steamer. He questioned a mother with a baby and a suspicious handbag, shook the baby's rattle to amuse the child, and found no dutiable goods. The diamonds were hidden in the rattle, leading to Grosch's firing and his shift to selling dry goods.

New York Robert Grosch Occidental Seattle Press-Times

Living Upon Locusts from North Africa

A correspondent discusses the locust plague in North Africa. He notes that locusts, sold at a halfpenny per pound in Biskra, are boiled with salt and water and may be more nutritious than shrimp, being high in albumen when dried in March.

North Africa St. John, the Baptist Orthoptera Saltatoria Sauterelle Biskra Sahara

Despoiled Austrian Countess Publishes Stolen Smokers Kit

A youthful Austrian countess, heir to ancient titles, reports theft of personal smoking articles. The list includes a gold cigarette case, meerschaum mouth piece, aluminum cigarette case, an Irish pipe with onyx mouthpiece, silver match box, gold cigarette pipe, four plain cases in gold silver and platinum, and a set with diamonds and rubies. The inventory highlights the royal wearer’s smoking paraphernalia and implies a publicized loss during travel.

Royal Walk

Leather Harness Varnish Formula Description

A preparation for cleaning and preserving harness and leather goods combines four ounces of shellac, half an ounce of camphor, and one ounce of resins dissolved in one pint of methylated spirit. The mixture is shaken for forty eight hours and then colored to match the leather type. Other resins and proportions may be used.

Novel Electric Light Fishing Off San Diego

Report describes using incandescent lights lowered into the sea at night to attract fish beneath a large net. The method yields enormous catches as fish are visibly drawn to the glare before the net is hauled up. The other text provides generic musings and a quip about a tarred and feathered man.

San Diego Cal

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