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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1893
Page
7
A New York Herald report notes young society ladies plan Easter weddings and will craft their own lace and underwear by hand. They seek to display talent through needlework, knitting, and handmade silk socks as gifts, challenging notions of womans role and leisure.
The piece notes a London Milliner’s Mother Goose bonnet with high narrow crown, stiff feathers and bow, in cream with pale green and lavender ribbons. It compares the look to Petrarch’s Laura gown, and mentions Mrs Langtry’s first marriage as context.
The New York Commercial Advertiser laments the incoming dress style that widens shoulders and creates an odd silhouette, calling it preposterous and deforming for women. The piece argues this trend clashes with tasteful ideals and natural body lines.
The article describes dainty work-aprons made from white China silk with embroidered pockets and drawstrings, enabling a portable handbag when worn. It then surveys mourning fashion across cultures, noting preferred colors, borders, and how rules shift with era and region.
The article surveys English women’s dress in terms of class cues, noting duchess gowns reappear in lower circles and shop girls and barmaids set a distinct style. It highlights fashion trends from lace knitting to trims, hats, and fabrics, with notes on Russian coats, veiling, jewelry, and fabrics for weddings and evening wear.
The article surveys women’s dress trends emphasizing velvet and lace in dark tones, gold galloon embroidery, various braids, plush millinery for children, and strict plainness for church wear. It notes elaborate skirts, necklines, coats like straight sack styles, and rich fabrics including Napoleon blue cloth, directoire influences, and velvet gowns with ornate waists and empire sleeves.
Richard E. Hill recalls a Black Hills era incident in Cheyenne where a big bully known as Pocahontas Smith tormented a green Hoosier. After forcing a dangerous dancing duel with pistol fire, the confrontation ended with the bully paying 320 gold pieces and leaving town aboard a mule.
The Chicago News Record notes electricity paired with natural gas will reduce servant needs in large homes. Masters can light fires and warm rooms with a bedhead button, while cooks are alerted by electric signals so meals are ready upon arrival, creating comfortable morning routines.
A brief exchange notes a busy scene with a first livery horse and a comment about taking couples out. The second line recalls a prior evening where a person helped a couple and paused, unnoticed for about half an hour, as reported by the New York Herald.
A Chicago Herald writer argues America was named after the Amerrique Indians of Nicaragua rather than Amerigo Vespucci. The piece traces Amerrique's antiquity, Columbus voyages, and Vespucci's dubious claims while noting gold findings and the spread of the name through Europe.
A Horticultural Times note explains a northeast Asia and Scotland abundant fungus known as the bhy blown mushroom. It is dried by hanging, eaten as a bolus, and induces a one day intoxication similar to spirits, with delayed onset and effects of cheerfulness, activity, and talkativeness that can endanger women and politicians.
The fur trade increasingly uses tails from animals such as ermine, squirrel, martens and musquash. Ermine tails are often substituted by black fur from other sources like Astrakhan lamb paws. Squirrel tails number in the millions yearly, with martens tails also prized for their beauty. Musquash tails and skins offer a low priced durable fur, outlasting dyed rabbit skins in wear.
The Mail and Express notes Corsican vendetta customs where families seek revenge for deaths or injuries across generations. The practice fuels bloodshed and social ostracism, with vengeance persisting until rival kin are exterminated or a new cycle begins.
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