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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1892
Page
1
The ad repeats that Wew Dress Goods offer the season’s pleasing assortment with the largest stock of popular suitings. It boasts praised fabrics, high quality, and low price, featuring Figured Henriettas, polka spots, leaf patterns, stripes, and silk wool serges. It claims peerless Primertary Brain goods at competitive costs.
In dress trimmings we present a vast array of changeable silks for trimmings and silk waists. New pieces arrive by express including fancy silks, black and colored silk gimps, ribbon fringe, jet passementerie, and buttons. Also new trimming velvets in matching shades and plush fabrics for craft and dress purposes. Large variety of pink, cream, old rose, sapphire, heliotrope, serpent, old gold, and cardinal tones.
The store promotes children's knit underwear in natural gray Jersey Rib Union Suits at 50c per suit and Jersey Waists for 3 to 12 years at 25c. It touts a full line of Winter Cloaks, urging early selection to avoid delays and enjoy ready supplies for the coming cold days.
The text presents a dreamlike scene of ruined splendor with shattered colors and golden tiles, describing desolate fields that yield only amaranth and grain. A speaker, possibly Les Hamilton in the Academy, laments crumbling gates of pearl and a brown hue over a once radiant world, implying a decay of paradise into a stark, rooted landscape.
A narrator risks marriage to two cousins Amy and Dolly after a Fatima reading predicts one will die. Threatened by a bloodstained fate, he confesses to widow Mrs. Girdlestone, proposes after a misdirected crisis, and marries within a month despite modest fortunes, reflecting on the perils of fortune telling.
The article examines marital money habits, noting how women manage allowances, lend to husbands, hide bills, and cache funds. It highlights precise bookkeeping by wives, strategic bill manipulation, and hidden stashes, with examples of caches and covert borrowing within marriage. It also touches on natural silver formation and cloud heights in brief, unrelated sections.
A Georgia tale exposes a gambler named Mitchall who wore a rite bone from a dead woman's index finger as a luck charm. Detectives traced the missing bone to Mrs Almand's grave, stirred community fear, and led to Mitchall's arrest for grave robbery. The case highlights local beliefs among southern African Americans and a grisly vigilante mood.
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