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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1893
Page
2
New York dispatch notes the season favors loose dresses and storelike bands with Bishop sleeves. The trend emphasizes inexpensive materials and duped fashions for misses aged fifteen, promising dainty tulles and practical yet stylish outfits for spring.
Styles described include four yard gowns with puffed proportions, buckramlike shoulders, yokes, watteau back, and removable garnet velvet trims for washing. Gowns feature pale yellow green cotton chalice backs, pink crepon fronts, and tunable trims, suitable for morning or tea wear in washable summer fabrics. Also noted are heliotrope cashmere gowns with faille, gold and velvet details, and two dainty spring designs in stone gray mousseline de laine and tan cashmere with moss green velvet accents.
An Omana letter explains cholera science in plain terms. It describes bacteria as single cell organisms that multiply rapidly, invade the bowels, and produce ptomaine poisons that damage tissue. Cleanliness and safe drinking water are emphasized as key to preventing outbreaks.
London omnibuses now run on electric lighting with a battery tucked in a wooden box beneath a seat. The system supplies the current for illumination as the city adopts this new power source.
A vignette from the Arkansaw Traveler depicts Sawtal kissing his wife as she tries to sleep. She awakens, scolds him gently, and returns to rest, while the narrator notes her husbandly ideal has faded in waste places.
A Lake Superior captain recalls a passenger who bet on dangerous feats aboard the Y Windis between Cleveland and Marquette. When a wheel repair pause near Saginaw Bay led the man to gamble on survival, he fell overboard. A rival offered $50 to rescue him, but the man vanished, never surfacing, leaving the captain and hotel clerk to ponder why he valued death or riches more than life.
A Buffalo News quotation recounts a wife asking for a doctor named Smoothman after her feet are blamed for coldness. The doctor explains their small size cannot hold blood, prompting the wife to keep him as her physician. The Cincinnati Tribune notes a young Black girl Badge trying to drive calves on a hot day, wishing her brother Willie would help, while noting Willie’s defiant streak.
The dialogue shows a doctor doubting a patient’s symptoms while noting time spent both at home and in an office inside a skyscraper. The doctor implies danger in high living, reflecting a tense Chicago News Record tone.
A tough waiter jokes that his mug is memorable as a polite customer pays his check. The exchange ends with the man strolling toward the cashier, leaving a wary yet amused air in the room.
A collage of cartoon gags and quips from early humor pages. Jests about dancing, candy on the floor, cold rooms, barbershop chatter, and social foibles unfold through brief dialogue and captions. Notable lines reference dancing missteps, fashion judgments, and health jokes.
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