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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1886
Page
3
A garbled passage discusses women’s clothing and appearance with scattered terms about dress, behavior, and unattractiveness. The text is incomplete and unclear, offering few concrete names or events to identify.
Current notes on women’s dress cover Gainsborough hats, turbans, gowns, visiting dresses, and wraps. Turbans shape face for all occasions. gowns feature silk foulards and shot silks with velvet jackets and postilion fronts. The Chapeau a Crenaux hat, Lyons satin gowns, and cream India batiste with Swiss girdle show varied autumn fashion highlights with rich textures and color contrasts.
An overview of the Gainsborough hat craze praised and criticized across society. It traces fashion from Duchess Georgiana Spencer to modern dress, noting ostrich plumes, simplicity in court style, and the hat’s lasting but fickle influence, with broader秋 autumn fashion notes on fabrics, colors, and accessories.
The note reflects on Southern belle allure and social gossip from a Washington letter, describing how gossip about complexion and attire spreads among men and women, and notes variations in beauty routines and the power of rumor alongside tales of marriage, engagement, and social schemes.
A Georgia man recalls a woods pond encounter where warmouth perch clung to a bloodied deer leg, followed by railroad laborer anecdotes of trout fording a Florida creek. The piece then shifts to bear hunting folly, foggy Chattahoochee misadventure, and a warning about drowning and safety.
A Georgian man recalls a May tornado in Harris County that leveled his cottage and left a two year old boy named Tommy missing. Runners failed to identify the foreign child, and a Mississippi beach search ended with the child carried away by the cyclone toward the sea.
In Charles II’s era restrictions on carriage weight and cattle led to tolls and turnpikes. Toll collection expanded in 1767, marking the start of organized stage coach posting and a surge of road improvement. England's roads then drew admiration, while France lagged, with elites driving grand coaches as commoners toiled.
The piece notes that while a spectroscope can indicate a millionth of a milligram of sodium, the sense of smell outstrips it, detecting one four hundred sixtieth of a milligram of mercaptan. It questions how minute a particle a dog can sense.
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