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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1890
Page
13
The piece extols summer fabrics and color combos for the fashion conscious buyer. It highlights ginghams, sateens, batistes, and percales with varied patterns, borders, and embroidery, noting bias cutting and new silhouettes. It praises courteous sales staff and references Sara Bernhardt’s influence on looser, laundried styles while naming firms Poges & Buhl.
Margaret E Sangster of Harper's Bazar discusses women's place in journalism. She notes pioneers like Mrs Swisshelm, sees broadening home focused topics for women, and praises female editors while cautioning that women may not fully supplant men in the field. She stresses discipline, efficiency, and a journalistic instinct in women.
The article describes decorative lamp mats used with grand lamps, detailing a green satin mat with a cardboard interlining and a border of maple leaf shapes in dark green satin and light green velvet. It also presents a simple cheap mat: dark felt with a red yarn border and knitted tinsel cover, sewn loosely over a cardboard core.
A column by Eliza Archard Conner notes JENsTE JUNE advocating cooperative housekeeping and lampoons strict church observing women. It surveys women writers, a Bermuda Riflewomen club, a Diana Park resort project near Denver, and plots of land sold to women for gardening and poultry raising.
The piece urges women to guard health after a harsh winter epidemic, shedding social duties and reducing club involvement. It extols silk undergarments for warmth, promotes a practical heating invention, and advocates nourishing, simple foods like kerosene-fired warmth devices and steam baked bread to rebuild strength. It stresses sun, fresh air, and measured activity to recover vitality.
A St Louis Globe Democrat account describes March 29 1848 when Lake Erie ice blocked Niagara River. A warm spring rain loosened the ice, a east wind pushed it into the lake then a west gale drove it to the mouth of the river, choking the outlet and halting water over the falls overnight. Spectators lined the banks as the ice finally released and waters returned to normal.
The Johns Hopkins University marks its fourteenth anniversary with President Remsen announcing the Caroline Donovan Chair. The piece highlights ongoing barriers for women seeking admission, recounting historical examples of women educated abroad and in the United States. It notes numerous women inventors and their patents, contrasting male-dominated patent leadership with female innovation in crafts and machinery.
Washington reports a surge of female inventors across industries with women lawyers doctors and typists in Washington. patents include infant to war vessel gear. notable claims include pillow lace, lamp fittings, corsets, a mustache spoon, electric devices, and a snow plow. many named inventors from Betsy Metcalf to Mary Montgomery and Ellen Mitchison appear among the 15,000 electrical patents noted.
A humorous New Jersey train anecdote about Miss Salamander and a second comedian opens a breezy column urging the “popular girl” to cultivate sterling virtues. The piece blends light gossip with guidance on frankness, discretion, sociable conduct, and proprieties, ending with a mock manual by Emma V. Swertdan.
Lecturer John Fiske argues lack of mercantile enterprise and limited knowledge of Europe in the eleventh century hindered Norse discoveries from being pursued. Columbus likely never heard of Vinland, drawn by Polo. He sailed in 1492 seeking Cepango in Japan and died believing the Venezuelan coast was Asia.
A Philadelphia firm receives an order from the Louisiana Electric Light Co. in New Orleans for 160 feet 72 and 500 feet 48 double belts. These are the largest belts ever made and will require the hides of more than 600 head of cattle to manufacture.
A call for practical reform in women’s walking dress suited to daily outdoor use. The piece argues that many women walk five to ten miles for health and work, noting current trailing gowns wear out quickly and soil easily, and asks how a practical reform can be achieved.
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