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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1886
Page
2
Fashion notes on ongoing striped fabrics in fall and winter designs. Velvet and satin striped patterns appear in multiple color pairings, with half inch widths and contrasting threads. The piece also highlights accessories, gowns, and hats, plus Paris and New York fashion influences.
Paris in autumn attire glitters as holidays surge. Worth and Morin advise richer winter wear with fur and satin, while mantles stay quiet yet sumptuous. Names of gowns appear from New York society, including pale crevette satin tea gowns and moss velvet carriage dresses amid lively Paris scene.
Hints for mothers on updating children's wardrobes as autumn arrives. Discusses fabrics, sleeve styles, and trims for dresses and bodices, cautions about high heels, and notes new hat trims, plush and velvet millinery, plus a palette of season colors and lace trends.
Venetian beads arrive in abundance. Black silk stockings pair with red shoes. In Paris bonnets lack strings while Coloreed bows match stockings on slippers add flair.
A mixed folklore of sermon prose and poetry urges perseverance through tribulation and tempering by divine harmony. It contrasts toil with Sabbath rest, praising the day as the working man’s friend and a source of dignity, calm, and spiritual renewal in a hard life.
In The Workingman's Friend Lord Macauley argues that extended weekday labor would ruin civilization and worsen conditions for workers. He warns the Sabbath sustains labor dignity, productivity, and social happiness, detailing the moral and physical costs of perpetual toil.
A discussion on how tone reveals emotion and self control followed by Gen. McClellan's reflections on Gen. Lee. Both passages reflect Civil War era viewpoints and emphasize restraint, courage, and mutual respect between opposing forces.
The emperor commutes the wheel sentence for historian Wong-Tzi in a high level mercy act. He will be beheaded under special privilege, with his children spared from strangulation until next winter. Oswald notes the mercy contrasts with strict old customs, comparing small signs to character.
A survey of makeup techniques and stage tricks described in an English periodical, detailing how actors transform faces with powders, wax, teeth enamel, wigs, and papier-mache noses to render aged or youthful appearances, including the use of blue powder, rouge, and joining paste.
A writer from Cleveland remarks on the spread of slang among women and girls, noting a club of 10 to 14 year olds seeking to quit slang and costume a bead for each word spoken. The piece suggests a family or group fine system to fund charity, urging care in word choice. The column also recounts Senator Logan's habit of noting a wealthy man's millions when introducing him, leading to a humorous misunderstanding. Bangor residents report eels in water pipes, prompting cartoonish outrage at the absence of boa constrictors.
A study notes machine guns as a specialized weapon and argues for a unified carriage system, four-horse teams, detachable feeds, and armor against glare. It cites French mitrailleuses in 1870 71 and Prussian battle history to support improvements in Gatling Gardner systems and field fortification defense. It emphasizes mobility, night firing capability, and strategic roles such as sieges, defiles, bridges, and embarkation drops.
Consul General Van Buren notes Japan has a population of 30 million with fewer than 1 000 heads of cattle, fewer than 600 000 fit for food, and only about two cattle per hundred people. He contrasts with Americans, details daily fish consumption, and comments on national vigor and diet. The excerpt ends with a Longfellow reference.
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