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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1893
Page
5
A wealth of passages on female roles expands beyond cooking and cleaning to building a household, personal development, and business acumen. The piece cites Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher on foundational duties, fashion notes, learning routines for daughters, dress fabrics, baby care methods, and guidance for working women on self-respect and practical conduct.
A children's column highlights stories and verses about a sailor uncle and a black cat named Tommy Tiddlywinks. It includes a humorous alligator anecdote from Harper's Young People and a light exchange about fruit cake in a playful domestic scene.
The piece advises warming a spoon in hot water and mixing castor oil with orange juice to ease giving medicine to children. It notes the dislike children have and urges caregivers to avoid coaxing or frightening them, while acknowledging parents may rely on physicians or the medicine man as a coercive figure in some families.
The article explains the half tone method to reproduce photographs or wash drawings by a diamond-tipped screen creating a dot and line network. It covers the workflow from screen creation to etching a copper or zinc plate, finishing the plate, and producing prints with subtle dot size variations for detailed imagery.
In Frederick the Greats palace Sans Souci a spider and its web are painted on a ceiling in the breakfast room. A tale states the king forgot something, found a poisoned cup, and the cook killed himself after the pistol shot. The spider decoration commemorates that narrow escape.
A man entered a New York house while the resident woman was away. He gathered valuables from the flat and hid them in a mattress after cutting open a feather-bed. On meeting the returning woman he joked about finding few Smiths, then fled with the portable items.
M. Colombies of Paris bequeathed 6000 dollars to a Rouen woman who refused to marry him two decades earlier. The will says the gift was given because her refusal let him live independently and happily as a bachelor.
The public treasury money at the close of 1789 was so low that the Attorney General and several Congress members relied on the private credit of Secretary Hamilton to cover their personal expenses. Washington even had his private secretary Tobias Lear discount his household expense notes at 2 percent monthly. Congress members were paid with due bills accepted by Collectors for duties.
A lively tour of headgear from around the world at the Exposition shows hats from Mackinaw styles to turbans and fezs. Observers note English fore-and-aft caps, Eton caps, Turkish turbans, and blue French caps as visitors mingle with exhibitors from Iowa to Cairo.
The article surveys global headgear from East Indian turbans to Chinese silk caps, noting styles and symbols at fairs and in military use. It adds a Dublin libel anecdote about a chairman mishearing a sermon and a London social moment about a Rome trip.
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