28 May 1885
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Newspaper
Western Sentinel
Location
Winston, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1885
Page
1
Geo R Lyn n announces a store in Winston North Carolina featuring arriving dry goods including dress goods ginghams linens and lawn fabrics plus gloves shawls and ladies and gents wear at low prices. Local dignitaries are listed in association with the advertisement and a request for continued patronage is made to readers.
The Sentinel reports on the burial of Robert Emmet Odlum the Brooklyn Bridge jumper and highlights the Treasury girl workers at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. It describes their hardships devotion and a dramatic tale of a journalist husband and his loyal wife amid social scorn and poverty.
May 27 to 29 in Petersburg features Carl Zerrahn directing a 200-voice chorus with major regional music groups, a 27 to 30 instrument orchestra, and stars like Mme Teresa Careno and Mrs Ealine Osgood. Rail rates cut, locals host delegates, and a new arts and industries magazine prospectus arrives.
In a satirical piece by Edward Payson Mall the Log Town Lyceum scene is mocked as a rural debating club on a Saturday night. The narrator lampoons antebellum institutions and mocks eloquence as the log schoolhouse older era yields to modern reading clubs and electric entertainments. The mock proceedings include a spoofed debate on Lafayetter versus Washington ending in a comical call to possum-hunting. The piece blends Southern iconography with sharp satire of postbellum culture and a closing note advertises hides and fur prices.
From the New York World the dimensions show the statue will rise twenty one feet above Trinity Church spire and twenty three feet above the Brooklyn Bridge towers. Also includes notes on colored communities and local civil notices from Shelby and Marion Arkansas with fortunes and civic efforts.
A prominent circle plans a ladies club in New York with membership capped at 150 and fees around 25 dollars, proposing Fifth Avenue rooms with a library, reading room, and restaurant if funded. Fashion notes describe extravagant bonnets, oversized sunshades, and varied materials from velvet to gauze, with safety pins hidden in garments to protect wash day.
A satirical garden column from Reidsville North Carolina mixes domestic frustration and social commentary. The writer rants about Adam Cain’s hen disrupting seed planting and contrasts civic virtues with everyday errands, closing with a note from Cincinnati about imminent Democratic reform.
Rurraarne Br at TRADE PALACE Gray Block Winston North Carolina offers an embracing display of the choicest selections as listed in the trade catalog.
Rare fabrics and rich colorings displayed as the season's leading goods in the state. The stock promises the largest and most select assortment, with prices unmatched south of New York. Headquarter sales offer unique items, copied by many but equalled by none.
A local advertisement lists silks and cloths including silks in new shades and colorings, black silks from 50 cents to 3 dollars a yard, summer silks and silken blends from 50 cents upward, inviting shoppers to view the handsome fabric line.
WIITE GOODS are the prettiest that have ever been shown embracing India Linens Linen Lawns Persian Lawns India Divinity Vine Stripes Alsian Numnsooks Fig ured Swiss and Embroideries and Laces for trimming same White and colored Embro deried Robes from 3 50 and upwards A choice line of All Over Embroideries Laces Flounces and more Handkerchiefs in endless variety Standsome designs in Parasols Fans Sollers Philadelphia Shoes Suppers for ladies and children All late and nobby styles of flats Neckwear Gloves Hosiery Handkerchiefs Shirts Underwear Hats and Bonnets latest Paris novelties.
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