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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1891
Page
5
The season shifts from heat to harvest bringing striking autumn models. Redfern showcases a mix of smooth and rough fabrics in black and green, with bold braid trims and jet buckles. Also featured are brown plaid cheviot garments with suede vests and velvet hat accents, plus French tailor gowns emphasizing simplicity with distinct green touches.
An illustrated feature describes a luxe amethyst cloth indoor costume trimmed with dark brown mink fur and elaborate amethyst elk braid. It notes new felt hats in gray, green, beige, brown, navy, and black, plus intricate pattern guidance for French dress skirts and bodices.
A fashion piece explains skirt fitting with accurate figure models, sewing the top to the belt, and trying the skirt before finishing. It highlights autumn tailor gowns shown in New York with beige homespun and gray Bedford cord ensembles featuring passementerie, velvet trims, and elaborate bodices.
A fragmentary tale shows a pastor preaching about salt and a four year old boy named Albert who tastes salt from a lamp in the kitchen. He misunderstands the lesson and jokes that the salt is good though it lacks faith and meaning, reflecting childlike mischief and confusion.
The article profiles Florence Marryat daughter of Captain Marryat and her firm belief in ghosts and spiritualism. It recounts seances in London and New York, her claimed spirit communications including her father not appearing, and her claim that mediums reveal past present and future events. It notes her dramatic experiences and skepticism of skeptics, and references her book and public demonstrations.
A Boston Herald writer notes Oscar Wilde’s versatility and broad achievement including a novel, a play, essays, poetry, journalism, and editing. He ranks with Lang Stevenson Jerome and Henley as influential English writers of the day.
Charles Theodore Murray profiles S Newman a studious New York artist on Broadway who studied in Munich Berlin and Paris. He details challenges for women in art including discrimination by teachers rooms and dealers and notes how public tastes favor crayons over oils and how social networks aid career advancement.
Captain Lee died suddenly in Philadelphia after serving as a military instructor in Korea four years. He commanded Corean troops with two American officers and once ordered the King and Cabinet off their parade ground, nearly provoking a revolt among the troops. The corean government valued his strict leadership and skill.
Lord Rayleigh reported in London that he photographed a soap bubble in the instant of breaking, recording the iridescent film vanishing in about one three hundredth of a second. He hailed photography as a powerful tool unlocking nature's secrets.
The St Louis sole-Democrat warns readers to cook oysters well as tricking may pass from infected meat into water and then into oysters. It explains oysters feed by filtering water and may ingest harmful germs, stressing caution and thorough cooking to avoid poisoning.
A column on women’s exchanges highlighting novelty as a key to fundraising. It cites Syrian and English confections, jack Horner pies, baby bottle cozies, and goat skin rug lining. It mixes fashion, home crafts, and social anecdotes to urge productive, salable novelties.
In a St Louis Globe Democrat interview, Republican Governor candidate J Sloat Fassett recalls a nyc trip during which three men discuss his career in mock Western fashion. He notes he denied Manitoba lumber fraud charges while playing along with the banter aboard a sleeper car.
A St Louis Globe Democrat discussion notes that gold is not the only valuable metal. It cites beryllium and vanadium as pricier by weight, and iridium as worth more than double gold. It mentions platinum’s changing price relative to gold.
A historical ad-like piece denounces quinine and cinchona based remedies for malaria. It promotes Pe ru na and Manalin from the Peruna Medicine Company of Columbus Ohio as a curative sequence, advising patients to seek liver and bowel restoration before continuing Pe ru na until cure, and to request a complete malaria treatise.
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