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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1894
Page
7
Special Boston correspondence outlines clever gift ideas for Christmas focusing on useful fashionable items. It describes an embroidered tobacco pouch, a green upholstered hassock, a gold satin matchsafe, a buttonhook box, and a red chamois medicine chest, with step by step sewing details and materials. These crafting projects blend utility and elegance for gifting.
Instructions describe making a medicine case from two linen pieces with four pockets for three ounce drug bottles. Sew red silk braiding edges, attach one inch red elastic to form bottle pockets, paint label words court plaster lint powder on three pockets, outline in gold, leave one pocket blank, decorate the exterior with silk braid strings.
Special correspondence recounts a Western poker tale from Eureka Nevada. A tall gawky man with long fingers sits at a high-stakes game, wins big with outlasting miners, cleans out a bank, and claims a full house while taunting rivals. The Mississippi river steamboat gambler later boasts of profits from miners.
Kate Field's Washington details the vice president's Capitol room and adjacent spaces. The square room near the senate lobby features an ecru carpet, a wood burning fireplace, and a large sofa. A small safe stores electoral votes under guard until counting by the House. A Rembrandt Peale portrait of Washington and relics from former presidents line the walls.
A humorous mock guide extols rain walking as charming exercise. The narrator imitates a Cornish squire’s attire and argues rain walking prevents colds, promotes vigor, and delivers a wild, joyous experience despite wet conditions.
For sale at all druggists the Bovinine product from The Bovinine Co of New York.
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