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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1893
Page
7
Accordion plaiting emerges as a fashionable technique in Parisien dress design. White silk gauze dresses feature extensive accordion pleats across sleeves and waist, with the style adapting well to afternoon and evening gowns and dancing dresses.
The article surveys tea jackets in scarlet and black day gowns with accordion plaiting, Valenciennes lace, and silks, plus bridal white gowns and underwear trends. It highlights lace trims, black dessert pieces, and refined footwear details, then briefly notes white muskins and the alligator relic trade in Jacksonville, Florida.
A detailed 1843 ad describes a nine room cottage with plumbing offered at 82,000. It highlights a large ball with an ornate open staircase, a spacious parlor with wide doors to the dining room, an open fireplace, a well fitted kitchen, a small rear bathroom, and a cellar under the left wing. The specification includes dimensions, ceiling heights, foundation details, brick chimneys, and interior finishings across two stories.
A Carthage home features eight latch locks and painted steel colors on the second floor while a furnace is prepared for installation. The structure, recently erected, shows a total cost of 82.00. This item blends odds and quotes from unrelated sources about travel and debt, reflecting newspaper page miscellany.
A popular science style report describes a quick cheap metal pulverization method. Crystals form and are broken into a crystalline powder by blows on a hot cupel, yielding sandlike material used to make galvanic battery electrodes, with zinc mercury amalgam chemistry and a gravity cell design by Mickel.
A massive white diamond found at the Jagersfontein mine in Africa reportedly weighs 9713 carats, about 8 inches long and 23 and a half inches wide, with a black central flaw. The gem, named Excelsior, dwarfs the Kohinoor in size and is hailed as the largest white diamond ever found.
The text notes unseen powers conquering elements and describes a secret method to manufacture goods with fibers dipped in a water repellent liquid. A test recalls an away coat holding a pint of water for 27 hours while untreated cloth leaked in three minutes. The project apparently yielded no result.
Reports from London Daily News describe fruit dealers in Paris coloring oranges red to imitate mandarins, tinting pineapples and strawberries, and even deepening melon hues with added essence. Pears are said dyed for a third their size with blue beneath the peel to show the national color when peeled.
Reports describe altKAY fever rose fever and rose cold with varying scents triggering catarrh and heightened senses in some individuals. Observations include altered smell perception during illness, rural prevalence, and anecdotes from diverse settings. A separate item promotes a skin tonic from Paris and discusses nervous prostration linked to liver inactivity.
Recipe advises mixing sea salt camphor and ammonia in hot water to create a cleansing bath. After 24 hours the mixture is used with a sponge and a teaspoonful applied, claiming dirt removal and tonic effects from camphor and ammonia.
Early notes advise amateurs to start landscape painting in late summer and autumn when scenery varies. Use a gray day for clarity, avoid cheap gear, and focus on form over dots. Beginners should not overdetail trees, choose suitable brushes, and study composition.
The excerpt presents Senator John J. Ingalls praising gold as a universal, incorruptible standard and central to civilization while warning against irredeemable paper money. It argues gold’s scarcity, divisibility, and endurance defend public credit and trade, yet it condemns gold’s use during crises when it harms nations and profits enemies.
A Lee gentleman recounts a bizarre vision of a large black hand with a light halo appearing as he slept after reading a newspaper. He coldly notes no superstition, yet fears a warning while his wife’s scream unsettles the household. The scene ends with the hand impression lingered by lamplight and print.
Fluffie the Angora, a gentle house cat, guards chicks and later proudly reveals three rescued Cochin China youngsters from beneath her. The tale blends pet antics with a north Alaska Eskimo duck hunting method and a curious miscellany of light stories and poems from a bygone page.
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