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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1894
Page
12
A fragmented feature explores fashion and adornment trends among women, detailing decorative yet practical items for daily wear. It describes watches, gloves, crepe fabrics, and decorative accessories, with dialogue about style and social perception as women prepare for social engagements.
A fragmented 19th century column surveys fashion, vaccination tales, and social reform. It discusses dress reform resolutions by women, divorce policy ideas, and the role of homemakers, paired with light anecdotes about health, vaccination, and domestic etiquette.
A fragment of home advice lists practical tips for housekeeping and cooking. It mentions door fixes with a drop of oil, washing tights, icing upkeep, carpet choice to enlarge rooms, breath fresheners before meals, and cautious trunk purchases. It also suggests small culinary remedies like rosemary for hair growth, and a milk based tonic with spices for stomach comfort.
This article offers summer soup methods using vegetables rice stock and varied broths. It details recipes including rice carrot turnip celery soup and a stock-based lamb bone and veal bone soups with optional additions like okra and tomato-free milk soups. It also describes Mi-Careme mid-Lent soup using flounder filets lettuce beets and a flavored puree for vibrant color and quick service.
An old Bidehwond's Magazine tale purports a young woman, Marion Langlais, hides as a maid to visit the Tennyson family. Her duties, mishaps, and the poet's close scrutiny unfold as she navigates gowns, wigs, and social deception in a 19th century setup.
A fashion column surveys summer fabrics and styles, urging cooldressing through dotted Swiss, bedford cord, and striped cottons. It notes price points, warns against silk gingham mixups, and describes gowns with lace, embroidery, and chiffon trims while offering tips to keep temper and comfort in hot weather.
A ragbag of social notes and theater gossip from London appears in this fragment. It mentions a hungry tramp who is fed by a kind housekeeper and rewarded with a cigarette box, plus reflections by Charrington and Achurch on Ibsen’s influence. Other items note seasonal stockings, Elsie Irving’s stage plans, and potential revivals of Cymbeline and Fantasma in Britain.
New York June 23. Bank President Van Norden’s daughter joins the Salvation Army in a tale of amateur nursing and women of wealth aiding the sick. The piece traces Florence Nightingale era heroes to modern nurses, recalls Miss McLean’s eye injury, and notes society daughters like Lady Alexander Leveson Gower and Miss Luly Wilcox. It covers social conflicts, hospital wards, and moral duties while hinting at crime and police views.
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