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Newspaper
Rock Valley Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1928
Page
12
An article notes a surge in lingerie and velvet fashion with black lace trims and printed velvets. It highlights novelty in gowns, chemises, negligees, and eight lace-draped gowns with varied colors from browns to black and white accents.
The 1860 Democratic splits at Charleston and Baltimore pitted northern Douglas loyalists against proslavery southern factions, provoking mass walkouts and 67 ballots before adjournment. Lincoln’s 1860 surge, aided by Chicago Wigwam tactics, broke the party and aided Lincoln’s eventual victory.
A fragment describes a pocket sundial once housed at the Old Court House in Hampton Court England where Christopher Wren lived. The hinged device has a movable pointer and a four-womman compass on the top end. On the back are homes of several towns in various countries numbered for location. To use it one reads the town number from the back, sets the dial, and turns to face north.
A Count Lemuel Bolles recounts Paris battlefield tales to a New York reporter including a surgeon at a banquet who corrected a headquarters error about a one armed soldier. The piece also juggles snippets about Go-getters, a Willerton life study, and a humorous literary mix involving an unnamed Browning volume marked Vol. IV.
A Washington dinner quote from Bishop Bristol reflects aging, contrasting mellowing and hardness. An elderly couple discusses long life and possible loss, while a Palm Beach fashion gathering features witty remarks about dancers and a car joke.
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