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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1892
Page
4
A fashion column from New York discusses stylish tea gowns, tea corners, and room furnishings. It notes light weight brocaded gowns with Watteau backs, short gauntlet gloves, and leather trimmed walking hats. The piece mentions visiting costumes like mando petasy with gold galloon and embroidered shirts with torn collars, plus chic screens and refined room setups.
A garbled excerpt discusses spout the peck tm boa fashion and mentions a Russian made of old glass Gognes worn over a dreamily sedition. It references the Prince of Wales and an ostrich tip arrangement, with unclear surrounding context and names.
The text discusses London handling of tea cargoes from Liverpool Glasgow Hull and Dublin. It mentions a hydrate used for quinsy and a method to make bricks from coal tar by long boiling. It notes the value of even temperature for health and quotes a private journal excerpt about doing good now.
An eclectic Philistine of items includes summer living tips urging simple routines and lazy days. It mixes consumer notes on German city beer and family allowances with scattered statistics on Vancouver port receipts and incomplete mentions of literacy, taverns, and weapon specs.
A garbled passage mentions Frederick Gebnarde and Wanamaker ties, with references to General Palmer and Admiral Walker. It hints at policy values, fresco painting interest, Albany interiors, and a claim that a prominent Navy sailor thinks New York is preferable, noting a high reputation in the Navy.
A wild sketches of summer dress and accessories features the latest June French fashions. Descriptions center on dresses, skirts, jackets, hats, and parasols, with notes on color, trimming, and the vogue for green, brown, and blue straw hats. The piece also hints at social promenades and mass fashion influences in New York society.
Science notes advances in chemical refrigerants from chloride of ethyl and ammonia applications to improve medical and industrial processes. It highlights moon motion as a time standard, new food preservation tannin processes, wood hardening for rail use, and European warfare research with large propellant tests. It also mentions soil drilling and water management efforts.
Fragmented OCR text lists numerous towns, streets, and individuals across a wide region. The jumbled lines mention Flemington Hranen Allentown Mauch Chunk and several other locales with scattered person names and titles, creating a chaotic, hard-to-parse notice card.
The fragmentary text provides unclear references to orders, reserve funds, and individuals but lacks coherent facts, dates, or locations. Notable terms include Gad Pellows' Wall, West Soodead Vimcerr, and Chief Justice EthEm, leaving the item as an indecipherable notation without verifiable events.
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