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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1899
Page
4
A description notes widths and textures like striped and flowered taffeta satin foulard albatross summer silks and grenadine and silk canvas for reproducing the elegant overdress. The piece emphasizes cachet and versatile colorings and styles for similar results.
A leading opera star flaunts real diamonds while revealing to a rival that her gems are French imitations cheap by one fifth. London firms now mass produce near perfect imitations including forty carat rubies, threatening real stone markets and profits around 1850000 annually.
A magazine-style guide asserts daily facial and body massage strengthens facial muscles, improves skin texture and contour, and attributes East Asian smooth skin to regular massage. It urges women to learn muscle locations and persist with kneading and rubbing for lasting benefits.
A simple board stained and varnished serves as a cupboard to hang cups with brass screws. Shelves above can hold saucers or be attached to the board. Small cups cream pitchers and teapots can hang from underside screws for a decorative display. A dedicated board and shelves enhances a cup and saucer collection.
A DIY tip advises enlarging the hole, moistening plaster edges, and filling with plaster to secure a screw in plaster. Insert the screw while soft, allow to harden, then the screw should grip firmly.
The article surveys notable rings from royal weddings and ceremonies across Europe. It mentions Mary Tudor and the Dauphin of France, Wolsey’s ring, the Gunning and Hamilton curtain ring, Irish peasant practice, Greek wedding rites, the Essex ring tale, Mary Stuart and Darnley, and the sapphire ring dropped from a palace window. It notes rings as tokens, portraits, and pledges.
Describes an upper arm tattoo featuring a surrounding blossom and foliage motif with a cross trimming below it. The trim may be velvet silk or satin, tied at the center outside the arm, fastened by a costly jeweled slide or buckle.
Fashion notes discuss evolving shirt waists with sailor blouse styles, white embroidery collars, gingham fabrics, and front sailor vests. Innovations include high band collars with decorative collar studs, pearl accents, and the Lady Algy taffeta tie. The piece notes a shift away from masculine neckwear toward refined, feminine finishing touches.
The article highlights a modish spring coat with lawn cloth, white taffeta, and embroidered flowers. It features a short basque and spade front, a blue and white satin lining, and a blue straw toque with white roses. It also profiles Fannie Brandt Lee and her rise to political prominence as Colorado's Speaker, noting her wit, leadership, and family life.
A comic tale opens with Corporal Hardtack arriving in New York City and ordering an extravagant, never ending feast at Delmonico’s. The scene shifts to chaos as the waiter faints under the impossible list of dishes and drinks before the corporal abruptly wakes up, ending the chapter.
The article recalls animals with strange resentments toward people and things. A dog in Oxford hated postmen after provocation and forced deliveries at a neighboring house. Another dog refused letters after being bitten. A west England hotel dog dislikes soldiers yet favors policemen. A terrier fears siphons after a soda-water bath, explaining its aversion.
A San Francisco cat washes windows for a Chinese firm and is praised as temple lineage and exceptionally clean. In New Jersey, a Point Pleasant cat rode a train to New York, then back, clocking over 150 miles before returns home, admired by a kind brakeman.
A low tech rabbit trap uses a half inch board frame fitted to a six inch hole in a dry goods box. A pivoted inner box with heavier outer end tips when a rabbit enters, releasing the animal into a larger box. The trap resets automatically and can have two entrances with camouflage of leaves or snow.
A simple party game idea where children create animal pictures on cardboard, cut them into equal pieces, and guests assemble them from envelopes. Each guest receives a named envelope and tries to reassemble an animal within a set time, then the envelopes are swapped and the activity repeats with a limit of about one hour.
A problem asks a person to lift fifteen matches from sixteen placed on a table using a specific edge-crossing arrangement. The solution involves balancing seven matches crosswise on a single base, seven more leaning opposite, and finally lifting the initial base match to raise all matches from the surface.
The piece cites former New York fish commissioner Eugene G. Blackford, praised as a world authority on fish. He asserts that fish sleep while suspended in water with eyes open, remaining still for long periods, with barely perceptible gill movement. He notes fishes do not close their eyes due to lack of necessity.
A visitor compliments Tommy’s bright eyes and suggests sleep. The boy, five, explains he is sent to bed every night at a certain hour not for health but so his mother can mend his clothes. The exchange captures a cheeky child’s view of chores behind routine.
Two players start with fifty points each in a sponge game. A stay-up keeps the sponge in play until one drops it, causing a point loss. the loser has the lower score when a ce is reached. Louis Wain links a cat’s behavior to its mistress temperament, but the idea seems dubious.
A Detroit lawyer recalls a Western tale where Scott and Bills rivaled marksmen in a Missouri village. Bills defied a subpoena, the court threatened arrest, and the judge adjourned while demanding an apology to Bills, as a gunfight raffle loomed at the town’s edge.
Harrisburg April 25 Governor Stone appointed Colonel Matthew Stanley Quay to fill the United States senate seat after the legislature adjourned without a decision. The piece notes insurgent Republicans led by Flinn and Martin, Magee, and the party’s disarray, while praising loyal Republicans who backed Quay to end the stalemate. The decisive ballot tallies show Quay with 93 votes on the final ballot and 96 with paired votes, while insurgents totaled 70 with one absentee.
The 1898 fiscal year marked a peak in U S exports totaling 1 210 291 310 dollars while imports fell to 616 049 654 dollars The export surplus reached 394 242 259 dollars with agricultural products making up 70 93 of exports and rising 25 percent from 1897 Farm exports abroad far exceeded agricultural imports by 544 216 146 dollars, more than double the prior year.
In Ottawa on April 26 Mr. Davis moved a resolution to remove the coal oil duty. The minister of finance said the government cannot consider the issue apart from the budget and would not specify budget plans. The debate adjourned after the motion.
Ottawa April 26 The summary report of the geological survey for 1898 shows an increase of about 7 million dollars in Canada’s mineral production value from 1897, boosted by gold mining development especially in the Yukon.
Olive Homans, actress famed for her portrayal of Little Lord Fauntleroy in the Burnett dramatization, died at her Hyde Park home. She was about 20 years old.
Money on call at 3 percent. Prime mercantile paper at 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 percent. Sterling exchange shows actual bankers' bills at 4.87 for demand and for 60 days. Posted rates 4.85 to 4.88. Commercial bills 4.84. Silver certificates 61 61 1/2 cents. Bar silver 60 1/2 cents. Mexican dollars 47 cents.
The market lists prices across grains and products including FLOUR patents at 3.75 to 4.10 and winter straights 3.55 to 3.75, BUCKWHEAT 2.05, CORNMEAL 2.00 to 2.15, RYE FLOUR 3.00 to 3.40, No. 2 rye 67 cents fob afloat, WHEAT No. 2 red 81 cents fob afloat, CORN 43 cents fob afloat, OATS 32 to 38 cents, PORK family 10.50 to 11.00, BUTTER 12 to 18 cents various varieties, EGGS 4 to 11 cents.
Buffalo market notes list wheat varieties with prices, corn yellow varieties at 40 cents, oats at 33 to 33 1 3 cents, rye at 4 cents, and flour prices for spring wheat patent flour between 4.25 and 4.40 dollars per barrel, with lower grades and family flour listed, plus cheese at 12 1 2 to 18 cents and light skim milk prices.
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