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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1896
Page
3
A 13 year old Tasmanian girl underwent grafting and was tattooed with friends names on patches of skin. She recovered and expressed gratitude by defacing herself with colored marks, a lifelong alteration noted in the report.
An article recounts a California case of a young woman severely burned on most of her body. Surgeons performed skin grafts from donors, with antiseptic technique, to cover open areas. After weeks she recovered, showing gratitude to helpers, and tattooing was later applied to grafts by an Indian woman, creating a decorated, tattooed skin memorial.
Pearl Eytinge renounces the stage to crusade against morphine and other drugs. She plans winter lectures titled The Devil's Right Hand, sharing her own recovery and urging scientific, heredity-based reform to save others from addiction.
A winter portrait exhibit at the Academy of Design in New York will showcase an exceptional group of miniatures. Notable private collections, including the late Mrs Hicks-Lord, join works from society figures and a Chicago heiress. The model’s face reflects many types from flirtatious to aristocratic, as she poses for various society subjects and dramatic recreations.
A fragmentary narrative voice describes a quarrel with Aunt Benny and Witch named Julie while musing on beauty in miniatures. It then shifts to an artist’s secret tale of miniature painting and models and ends with a tense personal exchange about marriage.
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