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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1893
Page
2
The piece notes the Baltimore Women's College will require caps and gowns with an Oxford cap and discusses wear timings. It surveys fashion changes including gowns, jackets, veils, sleeves, and Cape trends, plus health and teaching conditions affecting women in education.
A collage of moral aphorisms on sin trust and virtue drawn as a sermon fragment. It blends sayings about prayer preachers beggars judgment and personal integrity with notes on how belief shapes action and character. The piece uses religious imagery to urge inner reform and steadfastness under trial.
A writer recalls a faded, broken empress who once courted an emperor and declared war, seen recently with a cane as she travels between England and Paris. Queen Victoria remains her friend amid isolation, per the New York World.
Masai women wear coils of brass and iron wire as earrings necklaces collars and armlets weighing forty to sixty pounds. Wealthier women display more jewelry while those with less adornment wear lighter pieces. They are tall gaunt and swift and act as tribe purveyors allowed to pass freely even in war times per Demo rest's Magazine.
The Philadelphia Times notes a season where girls and wealthy women wear numerous pins and adornments on bonnets and bodices. Irish diamonds, pearls, and colored stones in gold and silver create dazzling displays, with motifs of birds bees katydids and moths. Gas and electric light reveal rainbow highlights from brilliants and mash of stones, while imitation jewels gain popularity for safety.
A historical essay laments modern infidelity to needlework as nerves and utilitarian spirit shift women's energies. It contrasts grandmothers at work with today’s restless pace, noting the decline of fancy crafts and the rise of practical, communal sewing like Dorcas societies.
Advice on crafting own trimmings to save money for gowns. Tips cover jet beads fringe belts with muslin support, silk lining, and fastening beads individually. Embroidered velvet yokes and sleeves refresh old gowns with emerald or jet bead accents and gilt sequins for zouave jackets.
Fashion notes describe smock dresses in gray shades with capes and pointed collars. Dark greens and bright reds are popular with ribbon sashes. Flowers replace feathers on bonnets, and brocaded India silk tops indoor blouse waists. Bonnets stay small, Empire sleeves persist, and children’s first dresses show little change.
The Bloomington Pantagraph reports a Detroit inventor’s thumbprint ticket system to curb scalpers. Purchasers stamp a thumb in a three inch space on the ticket which is then folded to hide the imprint. On return, conductors expose the imprint and require a second stamp for verification.
The Buffalo News religion editor questions the Mizpah monument and its inscription in engagement rings. He notes the warning sense of watchfulness between absent lovers and wonders if the phrase reflects wiser insight than users realize.
An assortment of old ads promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents per bottle, Cheney and Co endorsements, and testimonials. Additional lines tout tea remedies Garfield Tea and Browning Bros products, plus references to post offices and real estate.
The Jarrah wood of western Australia is described as almost indestructible, resisting decay and insects. It is claimed ships built from it require no coppering to prevent shipworm damage.
The Baker company asserts their cocoa preparations are free from chemicals and have served the public for over a century as the standard of parity and excellence. Walter Baker & Co uphold a stance against chemically treated cocoa while noting growing consumer demand validates their policy.
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