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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1892
Page
4
The article describes Gretchen braids as a new fad among young women with long hair and notes the playful mischief of a realization about a hidden braid. It also highlights a fashion trend toward old fashioned trinkets like buckles and brooches, including modern daggers and cimeters as new pin designs.
The piece describes high hairdos showcasing ornate combs. New tortoise shell combs feature tiny gold daisies and a central gem, while a silver comb bears enameled purple violets on a green stem. It notes these as desirable gifts for Christmas and mentions pencils as a current trend.
A fragment describes ordinary pencils fitted with gold holders and erasers, admired by girls who attach them to notebooks. The note mentions pale-blue pink yellow and white as attractive color options and ponders what girls will ornament next.
A famed Paris hat maker uses client photos to tailor bonnets for distant customers. Visitors see her at work with a portrait of a middle‑aged man on the table as she explains fittings for la masse reception or promenade outfits. She pledges satisfaction and envisions a chic, rejuvenating result for the imagined wearer.
Complete dictionary of 1 216 pages bound in cloth offered for Sac will open Xmas Mazar and Book Department today Caursri and Dick announce the sale event with 59 cent pricing.
Importer seeks to clear stock of soft silk fabrics including B and B Heavy and Broche to clear at 60 and 75 cents per 23 inch piece. Offers beige brown tan dahlia gray light blue yellow old rose white pink lavender. Emphasizes quick sale for profit and patronage with evening and wedding silks advertised.
SLiKs advertises moderate prices and exclusive white brocades with one pattern each for wedding gowns. It promotes a large silk business growing daily, a new dark room to view Evening Silks, and street and house gown options with endorsed styles and color combinations. Prices are mentioned but not stated.
A New York buyer secured an opulent stock of ladies outer garments now on sale in the Cloak Department with price marks indicating extraordinary bargains. Readers are urged to visit and compare the many value offers across locations.
Back to Us offers trimmed Black Cheviot, Tan Kersey and French Cheviot reefers with real fur heads, opossum, satin linings and shawls. Prices drop from $15 to $9, $10 to $6.75, and $18 to $9.98. Also Russian Box Coats $6.35, Cape Newmarkets $5.95, and French Seal Capes $8.68.
Anton Borodin abandons tutoring to join the Preobrajewski regiment as Colonel Miliutin’s fate intertwines with Natalia Gontcharoff. Borodin reports Miliutin’s liberal talk to the Third Section, aids a defense by Gorski in a high profile trial, and the jury convicts, setting a dangerous political tone in 1860s St. Petersburg.
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