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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1891
Page
2
The London Ladies A club for women aged twenty to forty vows not to marry. Members pay 840 annually and face a 8500 fine if they wed later. The club holds principal papers but bans novels, wears a black costume, and splits funds into recreations charities and club house building.
Brown fur will be used for small garments like pelerines cape collars with stole fronts boas muffs and edgings to wraps. Gray Persian lambkin sets with otter or seal trimmings appeal to youth. Dark grizzly bear furs make capes with astrakhan yokes and collars. Astrakhan sleeves on sealskin coats are popular in Chicago.
The New York Herald notes Mrs Hicks-Lord wears genuine jewels while many women store costly collections in banks. Her diamond studded fan with fifteen raised folds, a world unmatched, plus a diamond and pearl bouquet holder and a white point d Alencon fan on her Chatelaine, dazzle peers.
The article highlights several successful women inventors including Mrs. Catharine Green designer of an improved cotton gin and Miss Maggie Knight with a complex bag making machine. It also tells of Louise de Beaulieu in Paris who woke workers for the market and earned public notice after years of poverty and heroism in wartime, now licensed to sell matches.
Rhoda Broughton resides in a quaint Oxford house with a walled garden and many dogs. She began writing after reading Elizabeth Whackeray and, at twenty two, drafted her first plot. Her subsequent success came with Not wisely but too well, published by her uncle Sheridan Le Fanu.
The piece describes cone shaped white onyx hat pins, gold wire bracelets with diamonds, silver photo frames, peaches shaped Emery bags with silver tops, and a slim diamond ring. It praises Blucher shoes for all, seal or otter furs for elegance, and soft camel hair gowns with black velvet trim. It notes large hats limited to small girls and offers a veil plait tip for tidier wear.
A fragment from a frieze quoted in the St. Louis Republic speaks lines in Greek letters about beauty and fame. The verse notes that naught of her survives but beauty and naught of me survives but fame, linking fame and beauty to an isle of happy souls.
The article previews festivals in Spain celebrating four hundred years since discovery of America including an event titled American History of Madrid showcasing aboriginal cultures. It also notes scholarly comparisons of word counts in The New Testament and classical works, mentions Dr. Lumholtz’s cave discoveries near Apache territory, midwestern farming yields in Cass County, a petition to Congress for arbitration at the 1895 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition, and various weather and economic notes including a possible gold find near Kansas City and Denmark’s pauper pension reforms.
The late Alfred C. Hobbs demonstrated elite lock picking by defeating bank safes in Stamford and New York, London and England challenging Bramah’s 200 Guinea prize, and opening Brown Shipley vaults. His feats spurred lock makers to improve security.
Caspan W Whitney explains a lawn game named Tema with a wood canvas screen, 18 inch hole, bag net behind, and balls tossed with a crook wand. Goals include pot balls to reach a stage then a zoned ball to win, noted as a modified Japanese polo without horses.
In Brunswick Maine a citizen breaking ice for ice water found a brown substance in the ice block. Closer inspection revealed a toad that, after appearing lifeless, suddenly moved and hopped away.
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