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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1887
Page
2
A society fashion summary with tips on hats, gowns, and accessories. Describes hair trends like high chignons and pompadour styles, new bodice cuts, trims with ostrich feathers, velvet hoods for theater wear, and the use of pean de sole silk. Notes Turkish embroidery and decorative caps.
A fashion piece notes no bonnet trend at theaters and highlights evening hair ornaments. It surveys new spring goods, luxurious black velvet brocades, lace cascades, silk gloves with ribbon trims, and evolving overdresses with curved draping and belt emphasis.
The article describes outerwear with short mantles jackets and wraps in dark plain colors. Hooded designs with silk or satin linings dominate, offering versatile wear across suits. Jackets are mostly black with hoods and slack fastenings, while buttons and clasps adorn capes.
In the New Britain islands a man may not speak to his mother-in-law under any circumstance. He must avoid her even miles from home and hide if they cross paths. A ritual oath binds men to shake hands with their mother-in-law if they breach a sacred pledge, a terrible fate among locals.
A Lima resident notes that the manta, worn by Peruvian women from the President's wife to laundresses, covers a multitude of sins. The crepe garment, akin to Spain's mantilla, comes from China and ranges in price from ten to five hundred dollars.
The article details newborn and child garments with Noveltic embroidery and hemstitching. It highlights coats for girls with hooded backs and matched waistcoats, then focuses on evening gowns in tulle crepe cashmere nets in pink, green, lavender, and other colors with chenille accents and decorative trims like epaulets and collars. Accessories include removable waist coats, plastrons, jackets, dog collars, all in velvet, plush, jet beads, lace and ribbons.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch writer extols practical marriage, praising a wife who manages a household and finances well. It argues women should train in decorative arts and professional fields, offering paths for self‑improvement and independence beyond traditional domestic roles.
Berlin expert Prof Max Schiller reports fifteen male sciatica cases treated successfully by massage alone or after failed electricity or vapor baths. He describes a kneading technique along the sciatic nerve, noting rapid pain relief and gradual return of walking ability over about two and a half weeks on average. One patient stopped early but later cured with massage. The shortest answer is doing the thing.
A child writes of imagination as comfort and company in play while a sister recalls a book on imagination. The main essay surveys comets Barnard and Fairey, their forms and tails, orbits and classifications, historical theories of tails, and the aura of awe they inspired from ancient to modern times.
The excerpt muses that blunt practicality often outpaces chivalry and candor, noting how public virtue is misunderstood and private virtue shielded by surface manners. It condemns superficiality while urging high ideals and personal integrity amid social pressures. It cites fashion reform debates and a Paris library chart as examples of contrasting human pursuits.
The article extols old newspapers as versatile tools in heating and insulation, painting and cleaning, plant protection, floor covering, window weather-stripping, and even wall decoration. It cites examples of using folded papers to shield plants from frost, line windowsills, and absorb dust, noting their economical, readily renewed value and the broader literary appeal of illustrated papers.
An old hunter recalls a coon hunting night with mixed-breed dogs near Zebulon and the Flint River bottom. The pack chased what turned out to be a billy goat after misidentifying a tree top drop as prey, ending with Blue the hound and others colliding with the goat and each other.
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