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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1887
Page
9
Holiday goods have arrived at N Greenland’s with immense beauty and low prices. The stock is described as more elegant than ever, offering an endless variety. Everyone is invited to view the goods and sales assistance is offered without obligation.
A self described tattooing professor details thirty years in the trade. He recalls high earnings from March through October and patrons from all walks, including many women. He describes wartime needle work for identification, later capitalizing on dime museums, then warns that tattooed ladies have fallen out of favor as the public tires of faked stories.
A New York Evening Sun quote describes a figure artist who mentiones Annie Grace of Philadelphia earning $50 a week in exhibitions, marrying a man worth at least $100,000. Little Marie and two other protégées reportedly wed well, with figures from $60,000 to higher. It notes six weeks to two months to complete a figure and costs from $250 to $300, with single designs from $1 to $25.
In 1881 a hunter recalls crossing west of the Big Horn River and discovering six Sioux braves in a deserted tepee by a canyon. The corpsed faces, war paint, and smallpox marks create a stark memory of a peaceful camp transformed into a silent gathering of the dead.
A Globe-Democrat column argues police should not treat unconscious street victims as drunks. It urges hospital transport over jail confinement, noting many possible causes of unconsciousness and fatalities during heat waves.
H Thaxton the tax collector of Butta county Ga holds a copper souvenir of the late Confederacy. The piece is copper cent sized with a Confederate flag surrounded by Our flag and the date 1803. The reverse bears If any one attempt to tear it down shoot him on the spot Dixie.
Across the Atlantic two show items emerge. In London a pack of trained wolves performs tricks similar to trained dogs, delighting young audiences at the event. In Paris the Winter circus also features cats performing similar stunts, drawing attention from spectators.
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