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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1899
Page
6
A long irregular clipping describes window displays of artificial flowers and hat trimmings, then fashion notes on winter gowns using velvets and purples. It shifts through insurance schemes in England, a tale of an Indian plains encounter, a new meat process illustration, a dying man’s last words, and a widow’s composed remark.
The text recalls shoe buckles once defining footwear status in historical fashion. It notes that early on the buckle attracted attention more than the shoe, with emphasis on costliness over size. This fragment hints at social display through adornment and evolving footwear prestige.
The piece describes elaborate evening gowns adorned with black and colored artificial flowers, violets, and feathered accents, paired with pearl jewelry and lace. It notes the appeal of black tulips and velvet ribbons, plus a rose and butterflies at the bodice. It also recounts 1720 fashion with wigs, laced coats, and large buckles, the shift to shoe ribbons amid sumptuary concerns, and royalty influencing trends.
Kansas City Journal recaps a tale from a Ninth Cavalry trooper J W Echols stationed at Ft Apache Ariz recounting how a Mogul Indian girl saved his life and earned a beaded necklace. The piece blends travel gossip with a curious lab-made metalworking anecdote from a camp incident.
George Washington faced death with quiet resolve asking his wife for his wills and noting the debt all must pay. As night fell he grew weak and declared he was dying, telling the doctor not to trouble himself and to let him go quietly by the fireside with Mrs. Washington nearby.
A late Horace Mann argued that saving one boy in a reformatory would justify the cost and effort. After the ceremony a gentleman challenged him privately, asking if his claim would apply if it were his own boy. Mann responded that it would not.
Edythe warns that the Tranavaal war will raise diamond prices. Beatrice laments the hardship for poor girls seeking engagements amid the controversy.
A brief report notes Malay Ton was exactly targeted in an unnamed incident. It highlights that Malay is spoken by over forty million people and discusses claims about language simplicity due to a lost Do grammar, per local commentary.
Treasury bureau data show tropical and subtropical product imports into the United States for ten months reach 280 million dollars, averaging over a million daily and signaling strong market growth. Sugar coffee and fibers lead the flow, with East Indies and Hawaiian sugar dominate and Cuba Porto Rico Philippines figures noted.
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler argues in the Atlantic that language and literature should guide youth to align with historical life, shaping the living soul through practical, contingent reasoning. He cites Chinese mandarins as examples of keen practical logicians and denounces reliance on formal syllogisms as self deception among those who pretend to regulate themselves by rigid logic.
Giovanni Segantini the renowned landscape painter recently died. He worked on a grand panorama of the Alps for the Paris exhibition. Born in 1858 at Arco Tyrol his early life was marked by hardship and a wandering youth.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Quainn and DeFonte debating women’s wit and perceived menace as one mentions a wife asking if a bay mare is involved. The garbled text hints at social tension and possible miscommunication within a city setting.
A list of patent filings from Northwestern inventors includes Robert Prellman Wilmot Minn for an I pipe wrench Frederick W Filakker Wheat on Minn animal trap James J Kim ball Mountain Tron Minn hold er John T Morris Minneapolis Minn automatic tank valve Emil A Nelson Hallock Minn photographic background carrier Gustav A Peterson and A Olson Florence Minn artificial bait Mahlon H Winkle Oakes MN acetylene gas apparatus John Wester Triumph Minn sack holder Merwin Lothrop Johnson Patent Attorneys 11 B19 Pioneer Press Bidx Paud Mad Been There Before Mrs Gillian Now Mrs Wykoff We really must say good bye Dear while you are putting your overcoat on I want to tell Mrs Wykoff a secret Mr Gillian All right.
An ad-writtent tale claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally due to inflammation of the ear mucus and Eustachian tube. It offers one hundred dollars for a catarrh deafness cure via Hall's Catarrh Cure. Also notes a famed ancient item in the British Museum, the throne of Queen Hatshepsut.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease for uncomfortable cold damp feet with a 35 cent price and free sample, urging purchase at druggists and shoe stores. A bachelor quips a wife is a good thing to have around the house to blame mishaps on, while a woman pleads guilty in a separate note.
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