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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1892
Page
4
The piece notes how clothes shape self respect in children and describes a young girl’s promenade and calling dress. It explains the modest display of new attire in a drawing room and details the dress design in blue vicuna or cloth with muslin lining and a hooked waist.
Mary E Estes surveys the season's furs including Hudson Bay and Russian sable mink seal Persian lamb black marten and sa trakhan with Wolver ine trim ming. She notes styles such as the regulation back model Destrigox three quarter length and talma capes in seal and Persian lamb with raised shoulders and a fur hood rarely popular in America.
Readers note that earrings fell out of favor years ago and few stylish women wear pairs now. Many earrings have been repurposed into brooches sleeves buttons and hat or hair pins to avoid secondhand stigma. Experts doubt earrings will regain popularity and young women rarely have ears pierced.
The new fabrics are described as ondine silk with wide seamless skirts and back joins hidden by heavy lined folds. Empire style house gowns retain a high belt and a neck cutout revealing the throat while sleeves remain long and may vary in fullness depending on shoulder width.
A woman known as Mrs. Mattie Alexander, married yesterday in the Atlantic Hotel to Winfield Jefferson of Douglass county Oregon, fled at midnight, jumped from a second story window, and was found with $500 in cash and $9,700 in certified checks. Police pursue the hotel night clerk who aided her escape.
A promotional notice urges readers to pick any ulster in the house at bargain prices with discounts noted for uniforms. It proclaims the sale the sweeping cut on seasonable garments, inviting readers to read the large advertisement for details. The seller identifies SoLowon and Revnex at Smithfield and Diamond streets.
Cholera spreads in Dunkirk and a flood fears Sacramento Valley residents. international items include Uruguay war fears and German immigration protests. Civil unrest, robberies, strikes, and political shifts surface from Cleveland to New York. Weather chills persist in New Orleans. steamship links and hospital wills appear amid a flood of brief notes.
Jack Boswell, a wealthy, self assured young man, pursues Miss Eleanore Graham from Pennsylvania to California after meeting on a through train. He schemes to win her, aids her with a missing trunk and money troubles, but she rejects him proclaiming she is engaged to another man, ending his cross country pursuit.
Sacramento reports show the river at 27 1/2 feet and rising, threatening levee strain near the capital. Flood fears grow as embankments hold, a landmark washed away, and debris from hydraulic mining elevates flood risk across the valley with extensive lowland impact.
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