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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1894
Page
3
A era of fashion notes and social commentary surveys women turning to storytelling as a livelihood. A young Englishwoman allegedly earns a living by touring country houses as a guest storyteller, while debates compare it to Hardy’s fiction and praise original, engaging tales over recited ones.
A French household writer notes Parthian women are ahead of Americans in ornament use. The piece discusses curtains dyed with gum arabic and saffron, hairpins, gold pins for various hair shades, and jewelry trends. It contrasts artistically cultivated taste with American crude styles, praising Parthian sophistication.
The piece contrasts showy moral posing with quiet, steadfast virtue. It notes fashion’s surface ripple over life and mentions a women’s sketch featuring a rose colored skirt, hagel brown taffeta gown, steel and gold bead embroidery, and a boa with sand snakes from Asia, North America, Africa, and Europe.
A column argues plain dress offends shop clerks and reduces attention from sales staff, while fancier outfits win better service. It cites the burden of polite shopping and urges natural taste balanced against practical frustration, referencing a nickel gray moire costume with tulle details.
The fragment suggests cobras in Bavaria during the middle Miocene and a large viper in Switzerland in later times. It also mentions Japanese jugglers who are deft smokers and, from their mouth tobacco smoke, form readable letters before a curtain.
A gloomed group of travelers along a damp June night on a Pullman from Atlanta is soothed by a little girl praying for papa auntie and Annie. The scene shifts toward quiet as the child ends with a blessing and all fall asleep.
Essay notes that keeping youth is a mental art, not reliance on resources. It argues youthfulness comes from a hopeful mindset, flexible persistence, and an active attitude toward life, with caution against frivolity in older age. The piece cites moral contrasts and quotes from periodical prose and comic vignettes to flesh the idea.
The Toledo Commercial reports that Captain Terry and Professor C. W. Oldrevie have demonstrated water walking feats. Terry walked the Thames from Barnes to Mortlake in near four miles an hour in 1659 and hoped to cross the Dover Calais channel. Oldrevie has walked dangerous waters in Europe and the United States, including Niagara rapids and a Boston harbor trial, using cedar floats with collapsible paddles and a duck foot like surface.
A Minneapolis Journal item describes a set of small stamps used to pay postage on newspapers and periodicals. Stamps range from 1 cent to 60 cents in various colors, with sizes about three quarters of an inch by an inch and a quarter. They are affixed in sheets, canceled, and sent quarterly to Washington for records. stamps are not sold to the public.
The Swedish clover Trifolium hybridum spread from Sweden to America over a decade or two. Linnius named it a hybrid, noting its abundance and fertility. It arrived in Montreal then widespread, fronting Mount Desert Island with mottled white and red flowers and a sweet odor loved by ladies for bouquet use. From Philadelphia Ledger via Meehan.
A St. Louis man on a Canadian voyage declares against petticoat government while a stern spectacled woman escorts him from the smoking car. Other excerpts note curry varieties in India and a humorous farewell scene as Lord Charles departs with his regiment.
A brief list shows Victor and other Michigan pine shingle products from White Pine and White Cedar, Michigan white and Norway pine lumber and bill timber. Tioga County dry hemline stock boards, Elk Leno dry hemline joists and studding appear in the catalog.
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