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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1896
Page
6
A hungry tramp enters a house, shares breakfast, and is tested by the mistress who debates charity and dignity. After a tense exchange invoking Christian love, she gives a dollar and invites future meals, while the tramp urges universal brotherhood and departs. Her husband skips church, moved by the encounter to reconsider charity.
A Paris volume will publish the first dictionary pairing slang with good French terms, aiding writers. Meade Pierce, sister of Longfellow, remains in Portland as a famed Sunday-school teacher with many devoted former students. Clara Barton is noted as the first woman with an official U.S. government role, starting at the patent office around age 24 and later engaging in civil war philanthropy. Heber M. Wells, Utah’s first governor, born in Salt Lake City, educated at the University of Utah, and once Salt Lake mayoral candidate, now State Bank of Utah cashier. The piece also mentions the prince and princess of Wales’ homes, Lady Eastlake’s racy letters, and Miss Alcott’s rowing rebuke to profanity, plus Gladstone’s influence on English fiction readers.
A collage of quips and light satire from Detroit to Harlem Life, including a traveler’s business misread as a vacation, a boisterous gas meter scare in a late night scare, a snow shovel marriage joke, and a hard working loafer paradox. The snippets showcase witty exchanges and social banter across periodicals.
Reports reveal a new application for human hair beyond fishing tackle. In the past year hair has been packed between plating on certain war vessels, serving as a flexible backing to metal and aiding docking procedures.
A digest of kitchen tips from The Ladies' Companion and Liverpool Mercury covers preparing a simple six egg omelet with butter, salt, and pepper. stuffing dates and prunes with blanched almonds. making a raisin broth with butter and corn starch. and a method to sweeten lard by reusing old frying fat with potatoes and a delicate clarifying process.
Inter Ocean reports on rising shirt waist costs and fashions as women with money seek luxury pieces. Prices range from 5.50 to 15 dollars for silk and linen waists featuring French collars, cuffs, and Parisian gross linen fabrics.
Special New York correspondence notes a spring fashion surge with Lenten to Easter costumes in black gray and fawn. Dressmakers unveil a dizzying array from Lyons brocade to book muslin at 23 cents a yard, with slim sleeves and flaring skirts. Norfolk waists return, plaits and box-pleats feature on tweed and mohair suits, moss-green satin waists with net spangles highlight a season of elegance and balance.
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