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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1897
Page
6
The narrator chronicles a desperate plan to flee a fire trap in a valley ruled by a sealed, sacred people. He studies the mountain crest for a coastward exit and imagines building capstans and ropes to lower a boat from a cavern cliff toward the sea, seeking a perilous open-water escape.
Two students, Alice and Helen, quarrel over Helen's questions and Alice's quick replies. The elevator chat reveals Helen's absent-mindedness caused friction, though underlying rudeness is denied as mere awkwardness. Chicago Times-Herald reported.
A woman chasing a mouse in flour barrel calls for the gun and dog. She pounds the barrel while the mouse crosses the floor. The dog pursues and is shot dead. the woman faints and falls. The man fearing arrest flees, leaving the scene. the mouse escapes.
The narrator recalls a week on a Scotland light ship near New York harbor where the assistant keeper, nearly deaf, lived ashore rarely. He spent days on a hatchway smoking and watching the harbor, asking to move to Cape Cod for a quieter, less busy station.
The Urbane Chauncey M Depew stepped from a Sixth avenue car and paused between tracks as newsboys hailed him. A rascal cried Dont get rattled while swinging papers, and others greeted him politely as he replied Good morning Mister Depew to the crowd on the corner.
The article describes current fashion trends including bodices fastening from right to left with varied trims, a new shoe with a modified bulldog toe, bow ties in Napoleon blue or Roman stripes, and belts of moreen or silk-covered leather with interchangeable buckles. Leather belts with harnesses are also noted as popular.
In a bleak northern room a clever redesign adds a shelf and bookcase, a $4 cot bed converted to a divan, Pompeiian red burlap, a stained oak bed, and a hanging bed lantern. The goal is to create a inviting, colorful retreat from a gloomy space.
A Philadelphia Record snippet reviews recent glove stitching and color, shirt waist sleeve fullness tucked near the cuff, gowns with satin bebe ribbon ruffles, and visiting cards made of near transparent cardboard, noting Jace as last season’s style.
Instructions describe making a hollandaise style sauce with rice and butter as base, then flour, water, salt, pepper, butter, and egg yolks with lemon juice and onion juice. It notes using remaining strawberry foam eggs.
A society leader discusses pick up work at Atlantic during Easter creating a table cover of olive and green denim. Finished pieces will be three strips with pale old rose ribbon and Asiatic twisted embroidery silk, to be catstitched to the denim. Suggestions on home decor include enamel floor finishes matching wall colors with matting or denim wainscoting and a palette of dull copper, moss green, shingle, and Dutch blue for smart interiors.
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