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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1893
Page
2
Special correspondence from New York June 15 presents fashion guidance on making elegant outfits from simple summer fabrics. It highlights fichu collars, empire belts, lace trims, and versatile additions like liberty scarfs, blouses, boleros, and skirt outfits, with practical tips and humorous language.
Special correspondence details Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Tigua lasso experts, describing mounted police, lariat skills, and horse training. Notable feats include hind-foot lassos at 50 feet, use of a 75 to 100 foot lariat, and bolo-style restraints. Also notes craft of lariat rope from beef hide and police duties like stock control. A second item recalls a grocery store tale about a wife using a loaned dollar and husbands’ finances, highlighting family allowance and trust issues.
Kenny Meadows, a social welcoming artist, is famed for constant wit and quotes. A studio joke about fresco palettes sparks a jest on ochres and medi ocre. He differentiates between painting and telling, praising the latter as worth more in value.
A St. Louis Glebe-Democrat excerpt argues patience as a natural gift, comparing artists and craftsmen across races. It praises medieval English armor work and Indian war costumes, notes African and American Indigenous handiwork, and highlights southern Black fishermen as marvels of delicate handwork born of supreme patience.
The New York Sun reports over a million Germans live in chief American cities with New York and Brooklyn hosting large populations. Germans outnumber Irish in cities including New York, Chicago, Brooklyn, St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, New Orleans, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Milwaukee, while Boston and Washington have Irish majorities.
The New York World urges Mrs. Mary Anderson Navarro to publish early reminiscences. It suggests recounting Dr. Hamilton Griffin's St. Louis change and broad ticket scattering to fill the house, plus first New York critic opinions. The piece frames these as glimpses of her early pluck, not her ultimate triumph.
At a Virginia Bar Association banquet a judge finally obtained a bottle after slow wine delivery. He boasted that his strong right arm secured the champagne by feudal tenure. A fellow lawyer quipped they would soon hold it in free on common soakaga.
A pair of conversers in a Chicago Tribune piece discuss the grim economics of writing and publishing. A writer-turned-publisher claims seven hundred fifty dollars for three months work, while another narrator boasts thirty five dollars yearly from light fiction and puff pieces for patent medicines.
A classroom exchange centers on a student asking why they can’t sit after recalling a prior question about earning a million. The student explains they told the teacher in arithmetic that only a few made a million, triggering the insistence to remain standing.
A Brooklyn Life fragment shows a vendor named Dr. Cureton offering cure bottles for 50 cents, while Mrs. Wayback dismisses the new remedy, citing past deaths and preferring traditional herbs and ale. The exchange contrasts old and new medical cures in a local scene.
A dialogue from Chicago Record and Truth shows a doctor urging rest for a serious patient, who cites government work status, and a contestant named Mr Perte laments losses versus Mrs Perte who attributes wins to following her advice about betting on a jockey with a pink jacket and old gold sleeves.
A Scottish clergyman asks who is the deed in a house dispute while a man replies they are just settling that point. The text includes stray lines and garbled phrases from what appears to be an old miscellany or periodical clipping with partial quotes and interrupted sentences.
In a clipped excerpt from Harper's Bazar Mollie reveals that a glove stretcher was used in an effort to coax a smile from a man who remains unimpressed. The exchange hints at domestic impatience and small domestic comic tension.
A witty exchange at a boarding house remarks that the new landlady seems to be living off the place, prompting a boarder to quip that she is indeed living, but the tone notes this is a humorous local joke rather than a serious report.
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