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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1894
Page
2
Special correspondence from New York notes the season’s dress reform. Modesty replaces low cuts, with gowns in pale blues and crepe de chine featuring gathered ruffles and blue surah belts. Long mousquetaire gloves, antique style earrings, and refined hairdos define the updated ballroom look spoken of by Olive Harris.
A Chicago Herald note recounts ludicrous telegraph errors as operators misread messages. Examples include a wife’s trunk becoming think, weather becoming how's mother, and delayed Washington to Chicago correspondence piling up like a lawsuit. These tales highlight miscommunication from 1893 era telegraphs.
An excerpt explains the athlete’s second wind as the full use of both lungs during running and training. A Pittsburgh Dispatch note quotes a man who built a doll house in a stable room and later could not move it through the doorway, forcing it to be broken up for removal.
The Ethan Allen sword, preserved in the National Museum in Washington, is a 27 inch slightly curved blade with a horn or bone handle about 7 inches long. Silver mounts, worn gold, a silver dog head end, and a silver chain from hilt to guard describe its ornate construction. The leathern scabbard bears engravings including Ethan Allen, He Brasher Maker N York, and Martin Vosburg 1773.
A tale from the Detroit Free Press recalls a lonely bachelor who asked for a couple of handkerchiefs hemmed. A gentlewoman sewed them for company, the pair later marrying the hemmer. Their son, Montgomery Sears, became a millionaire whose marble block marks the fortune built in Boston.
A column recounts Lord Russell's shy forays as a youth, including a dinner toast on Ireland a Nation where a former associate helped steady him. It also quotes future engine talk and a jokey anecdote about a large firm with missing cashiers and bookkeepers.
A witty exchange in London Answers where a rival, mistaken for an usher, asks for a programme while the second swell thanks him and notes he grabbed one from the other fellow. The scene captures pretense and social cues in theater culture.
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