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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1886
Page
3
The Philadelphia Times reports new fall fashions featuring woolens, stripes, and greens. Tailor made costumes, Suede cloth outfits, and beaded plush trim dominate, with bold braiding, velvet stripes, and ornamental jewelry like moonstone silver pins and opal accents highlighted by New York World.
A New York Sun report notes black stockings rise in popularity while brown tan and blue hues remain in use. It cites imports responding to fashion journals, with elaborate silk stockings in lavender, canary, and rose tones, and features diverse patterns from stripes to embroidered blocks.
LineEn enlfg and PoLoNAISES return to vogue as CuEMISEITS gain favor. New one piece sleeves, high collars, close linen cuffs, and whaleboned waists shape dresses. Velvet wool blends and hicu collars appear on frocks with slender corsage silhouettes.
In a whimsical St Nicholas vignette King Hubert the Second commands a nightingale to sing at his court. A herald announces the imperial order but no bird replies, leaving the royal procession waiting in the sunlit forest setting.
A sensational 19th century tale describes 12 year old Mary Newton pressing a button to detonate 50 000 pounds of dynamite beneath Hell Gate to blast away Hallett s Reef and flood rock. The event in 1876 allegedly also involved a 300 000 pound charge at Middle Reef Flood Rock.
Biographical sketch traces Tacitus from Umbria to Rome and law, his alliance with Agricola, career under Vespasian and Titus, later retirement, and works including The Life of Agricola and Germania. Notes his austere, aristocratic character, dedication to history, and view of Rome’s degeneration. A second section reports Dr V E Nyeshel’s experiments showing three tumblers of tea after a meal do not aid digestion, hot drinks slow digestion beyond that.
A town favorite named George learns his beloved fell asleep the night he left town. In Ohio a girl is noted as a skilled locksmith. Also a household tip suggests drying scorched clothes in the sun to lift marks.
A compilation of observations on Mormon settlement across Utah Idaho and Montana with notes on polygamy prosecutions Mormon leaders views and religious identity. Additional brief items recount a Sierra mining scene with Chinese labor and a dramatic Lake Erie shipwreck survivor tale followed by miscellany on Dutch surname shifts Huxley quotations and a Washington gossip note.
Dr Mary Walker rejects proposals based on appearances. She notes intelligent wealthy men seeking marriage if she dressed like other women, and she replies that many women dress as they want and that marriage must be for the highest motives.
Major Kaifer chastises Frank, a flashy young clerk, for dressing beyond his means and living beyond his income. The clash exposes class pretensions as Col. Swellbelt enters, prompting a jolt of realization and a wary promise from the Major. The scene ends with the unspoken fear of social exposure.
A grave stranger on the Fort Erie ferry poses a tale of a Buffalo banker and his daughter, who challenged a surveyor to place trees along the riverbank so no gap was larger than another. The crowd cannot agree which trees are furthest apart until the solemn man declares the first and last trees are the answer.
A Philadelphia Press anecdote recalls a man marrying his wife after a late poker game from Cleveland to Atlantic City years ago, praising her temper and the simple wager. Separately, New South Wateres raised its public debt by 27.5 million dollars.
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