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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1892
Page
4
Small satin ribbons and dainty theater bonnets shape a season's style. Lace capotes paired with yellow and light blue satin bowls offer evening wear charm. Black tulle directoire completes the refined, expressive look.
Dutch text describes orange roses on a coin motif and orange velvet gowns at FLOBETITE Evening Gowns in Paris. It highlights a debutante gown in white bengaline trimmed with crepe de chine and silver passementerie, and a white striped dinner dress copied from Mile Berthe Cerny with pale rose and blue stripes, pink orange draped waist, black plume accents, and ostrich plume trimming on the demi train.
A Parisian idea uses scented biscuit china squares to carry perfumes and menus at each place setting. Readers in towns without live plants can grow winter greens by slicing carrot crowns into tiny vases, watering them to sprout delicate fronds through winter, with beetroot also viable for contrast.
Glove colors shift from lavender to pale tan with black points while BiLace velvet dresses gain brown and black fur borders and jet embroidered abe collars. Paris skirts stiffen with steel hints, foreshadowing crinoline and fuller shapes. A new bun hairstyle emerges, worn low with a large hair mass.
Grand Master Hugh McCurdy of the Knights Templar US issues a Christmas greeting in response to a nationwide toast. He extols Templarism as unity and charity, praises the spirit of Christmas, and urges brothers to embody peace and oneness through their deeds and faith.
Ben Wilson of Clarksburg and several Pennsylvanian partners are reported to have secured mining rights to 15000 acres of prime coal land in the state. This marks his second major transaction within a year. Meanwhile W A Brown of Chicago was arrested in Vergennes for forging a 400 check on an Oak Hill bank. He failed to post 1500 bail and is jailed at Middlebury. In Parkersburg a plan to open a Girls Industrial Home, modeled after Pruntytown’s Boys School, advances toward reality.
A report from Cairo states an elderly woman was murdered yesterday afternoon. The body was left unattended for several hours, and no further details were available tonight.
Hendricks & Co photographs at No. 68 Federal Street Allegheny offer a dozen cabinets and a large crayon for Sonly. No extra charge for family groups.
H E Bower a Northside grocer distributed 2000 boxes of candy to children yesterday at his 274 Robinson Street store with a Santa Claus visitor. Bower praised for generosity and community spirit.
Listing notes Capital Surplus at 81 000 with property on Smithfield Street Col Fourth Avenue. It shows loan terms with interest allowed at four percent and mentions Wing Bank and Lim as parties.
E and Corser & Co a longtime Minneapolis real estate firm announces failure with liabilities about 1 million dollars. Cause traced to wheat speculation by E L Corser, who owns a Red River Valley farm and has invested heavily in grain. No assignee appointed yet. creditors await estate management details.
Abel Burgess the Aberdeen attorney assists rich but wary client Oscar Battin who fears a forged will. Battin’s plan to disinherit his son triggers a chase for handwriting clues and paper trails leading to a copyist, Germaine, who becomes his wife. The case hinges on a deed of trust and a hidden will.
Reporter describes river diamond diggers working individually with limited gear near Hebron on the Vaal. The scene shows a diverse, impoverished group chasing rare finds. A recent fine stone valued £700–£800 and two brothers discovering stones worth over £4,000 mark a striking if variable fortune.
Youth's Companion notes M Edouard Blsne says Western Mongolia residents craft better bricks than Europeans using steam. After three days of baking the oven opens and bricks wrap in wet felt to trap steam, turning gray and gaining toughness and weather resistance.
A French scientific agriculturist reports remarkable potato cultivation experiments. In one test he produced 43 tons of tubers per acre using carefully selected seed and methods.
The text describes steeping potatoes in a solution of mx pounds of saltpetre and six pounds of ammonia in 25 gallons of water. After soaking, the potatoes are drained and left to stand 24 hours to swell their buds before planting.
Dr Welworth of Oberlin recalls a Swiss Matterhorn ascent that went wrong as three companions slipped. A guide severed the rope to save the remaining climbers, choosing three deaths over eight, an act the witness calls a stark lesson in necessity and self-preservation.
E E Green uncovered mammoth remains at 45 feet in Winston Street area while digging for a laundry company. The find includes a 12 inch joint ball and rib and vertebra fragments, suggesting a large animal perhaps hundreds of years old.
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