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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1894
Page
2
Fashion notes describe long opera cloaks with trains, fur trims, embroidery, and new blouse waists in bright rose tones. Turbans, lace veils, and colorful gowns dominate winter style. A Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette piece introduces private secretaries to wealthy women as a new, demanding occupation.
The piece contrasts inexpensive successful gowns with costly ultra ornate designs. It notes graceful color harmony versus color clashes and overlarge silhouettes, and observes a decline in grotesque street fashions. It mentions velvet cloaks with gold embroidery and iridescent silks studded with imitation gems, highlighting dramatic capes and layered linings.
Sandalwood fans from China feature intricate tiny insect motifs carved into the surfaces. The unusual ornate pieces are made on lacquered wood or metal sticks and are described as light and delicate.
Regency style gossip notes fashion week as modistes and society ladies prep for winter events. An opera cloak in white cloth with two tone sarah lining and Thibet fur trim offers a simple elegant silhouette. A taffeta glace silk evening dress features jet bands and Robespierre points with puffed sleeves and a full flounce.
Boston's hydraulic elevator operator at the YWCA on Berkeley Street, active for over five years, finally seized an opening to switch careers. She pursued convalescent nursing, attending classes after work and studying in the elevator car. After finishing, she became a nurse. Women also staff the laundry and the night watch at the association building.
A collage of humorous vignettes and comic exchanges from late 19th century papers. Jests about mistaken budgets of jokers, punning misadventures in discipline, lovers and engagements, clever wordplay, and a slow moving collector named Willie Wibbies.
A vivid description of a cotton hacienda in Mexico with fortified walls studded by broken glass and guarded by soldiers. The estate operates as a self contained state with laborers, barracks, chapels, and homes, ruled by an administrator seen as the family patriarch guiding disputes and earning broad respect.
Miss Alzada Lotz of Bent County Colorado has filed her homestead entry and paid the $200 fee. The Colorado Springs Bulletin describes her as twenty three with true Western grit, having carried mail for six months over thirty miles of sparsely settled country, and notes her intelligence and striking appearance.
Visitors at the world exhibition admired diverse fans from Liberia to Japan. Native designs included goat skin Lucy fans from Liberia and reed Corean models, with water resistant colors and distinctive handles. A Verds Martin painting valued at $500 and an ostrich plume fan set in tortoise shell drew attention in the German and women’s buildings.
The piece describes Bangkok society with night turning into day for the wealthy including the King, late meetings and four o’clock retirements. It notes a semi European theatre, outdoor native performances, debt bondage as a feared fate, prohibition on drunkards testifying, and Buddhist priests in yellow robes offering easy temples for youths.
fragmented report recounts King Khama in a colonial South African context. It mentions a monogamous upbringing, a father influenced by brandy and ivory trading, and Khama’s resistance to patronizing illegal liquor and ivory trades. The text is garbled but centers on royal figures, colonial commerce, and moral conflict.
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