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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1894
Page
6
Special correspondence from New York outlines modern hair trends embracing natural hair, center or side parts, Langtry bangs, and Roman-inspired braids, with cautions about heat. It also reviews a blue and green fil a fil walking dress with iridescent steel buttons and a plaited center, plus Russian satin fabrics for summer capes and two tone effects.
A New York barber story portrays greed in the trade as owners push for all profits, with workers facing low salaries and commissions. The tale contrasts a barber’s confession with insights into shop politics and influence costs for prime chairs. A Detroit veteran recalls a rearward retreat tale about courage, where a stubborn soldier refused to hide and earned a sergeant’s chevrons for his brave service.
Elizabeth Flanagan, wife of an Irish Revolutionary soldier, later sutler and hotelier at Four Corners Westchester in 1779, gave American and French officers a nightly “bracer” after card games. The drink supposedly inspired the term cocktail, described by the Chicago Herald as making drinkers feel as fresh as a cock's tail.
The Chicago Record notes germanium at 1125 dollars an ounce as the costliest metal after gallium, with rhodium at 112.50, ruthenium 90, iridium 287.50, osmium 26, and palladium 824. A Indianapolis Journal joke has a prisoner quipping about plagiarism after a visitor asks his crime.
The Boston Transcript notes a shift from 26 signatories with three writing their names and 28 making their mark. Now every baron can write, but few succeed in making their mark, reflecting a change in the signatory process.
Geoffrey Drage reports to a royal labor commission detailing extensive begging networks in Russia. Villages like Shonyaliki and Soudogda organize beggar artels, using cripped and deaf impostors, selling loot at fairs. Kalouni oversee groups, sometimes drugging or maiming children to increase profits, with weekly earners from five to ten rubies and some totaling up to a thousand rubies.
An International Society of Anthropologists of London report concludes English and American citizens are tallest among races. The English professional class averages 5 feet 9.14 inches, Americans near that level, with British and English speaking cousins close in total. European male average sits around 5 feet 6 inches. Austrians Portuguese and Spaniards below.
A Shreveport Times item praises actress Miss Lillian Lewis for dining with eight diamond rings while eating broiled chicken. Five diamonds adorn her left hand and three on the right as she deftly handle the meal, described as an astonishing display in a local dining room.
A brief reader letter in the Detroit Free Press questions stage kisses as fake, arguing they are merely what is painted and staged rather than genuine affection.
A reader commends the excellent food and notes using it with very gratifying results in several wasting diseases, expressing assurance and satisfaction with the product.
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