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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1894
Page
6
The article notes Australia has more churches per capita than any other nation. It also discusses how the rise of Sunday newspapers and more paper bound books disrupted the circulation of the once popular flash weekly story papers.
The New York Advertiser predicts battles of the future driven by electricity A motor devised to operate a gatling gun eliminates labor from the gunner The entire battery could be placed before the enemy while gunners stay behind cover and activate fire by a button
The St. Louis Republic notes the Third cavalry logged 18,000 miles last year mainly on the western border. G troop reportedly covered 85 miles in a single day, the army’s longest single day march in 1893. The prior year 78 miles came from the same company during the Garza campaign in southern Texas.
The arid regions of New Mexico and Arizona show strong fertility where irrigation spreads mountain detritus, creating rich soils. Vineyards along the Rio Grande produce high quality grapes and, with proper methods, fine wines. Higher slopes bear apples peaches nectarines and plums noted for beauty and flavor.
The Cosmopolitan Magazine offers 500 dollars for a year long experiment or suggestion illuminating gravitation. Newspapers note it as an inexpensive, minds-on puzzle akin to the falling apple, inviting mechanics to explore how gravity draws needles with simple magnets. The offer promises a cash award for a successful insight.
The column surveys fashion trends including satin striped challces, dotted Swiss, and Chinese silks for dresses. Louis XIV hat height. bold jewelry colors like cherry red and green. accordion plaits and Mary Stuart sleeves. heavy skin gloves with pearl buttons. new swivel silks and watered silks with pink rose motifs. Louis XV revival gowns with brocaded moires. schoolgirls in dark silk dresses. silhouettes broadening with oversized collars and sleeves. cashmere and crepon fabrics. varied skirt shapes including straight and circle skirts. bright frocks like scarlet cashmere edited with narrow black ribbon.
A morning cape becomes a signature feature in the toilette of many fashionable city dwellers. The garment, noted for its drape and utility, signals chic practicality as urban style evolves.
Dr Weir Mitchell argues American girls should not start schooling until seventeen to avoid nervous overstrain. He warns that eight to nine years of intense study risks lifelong unhappiness and early death, urging regular temperament checks and reduced workloads. The claim, cited from McClure's Magazine, links overwork to domestic distress and ill health.
A dainty child's gown of French gingham or dimity features embroidery in contrast, a wide collar, and full sleeves gathered into cuffs, creating a charming design.
A dress described with a pale blue and plum velvet frock featuring turreted lower edges bound in plum velvet and a blue silk under-ruffle. The design emphasizes decorative turrets and rich color contrast in a period style.
The Chicago Herald notes that French women typically receive solid business training in common schools. As wives they assist or manage their husbands businesses, serving as clerks in small shops and as equal partners in larger enterprises.
The article notes lace types such as Duchesse, Venetian and Honiton used over velvet for theater toques and capotes. Lace forms include medallions, stars, squares or wing shapes with Chantilly in black over white velvet. Gray velvet shades toward silvery white with yellow feathers roses and black lace with jet and gold thread, shown in toque shapes.
The piece describes young women in black silk who manage all details of mourning for deaths. They arrange rooms and tables, schedule relief, handle recreation, and oversee purchases of gloves scarves and veils. They travel by cab or train to oversee out of town orders and assume full charge locally when needed.
A Detroit Free Press observation argues country women age faster due to monotony. It urges organized gatherings beyond church circles to provide noble ideas and fresh thoughts, citing Emerson and Ruskin as potential doorway to renewed life.
Semi low bodice with balcon sleeves and circular puffing in figured silk. Embroidered with gold and rainbow threads on the stimacher and sailor collar. Double fluted basque plain and bordered with tinsel galon.
One of London's largest mourning houses employs a unique staff made up of daughters of clergymen. The article notes this distinctive clerical lineage as a defining feature of the firm and hints at its prominence in the city.
English women are gradually absorbing the window dressing trade once dominated by men. London decorators benefit from electric light now used widely in upscale homes. A ducal dinner display featured maidenhair ferns lilac cattelayas and purple orchids on a long gilded basket with a lilac sash and trailing ribbons. The table boasted an old black oak surface veiled by lace and an electric chandelier tapped by six circuits.
The eight day mahogany clock made by John Fisher in 1781 for Yorktown is on display at the East End Library Temple. The clock with Masonic symbols stands eight feet high and still keeps time despite occasional striking errors. Its phases of the moon and calendar dials remain accurate, drawing interest from Grand Lodge and local residents.
A fragment from a Washington Post piece accuses Hon. David T. Little of Boston? No, Ifines, of organizing a lavish meal to protest imported course dinners. It claims he invited Confederate allies to a pork and turkey feast, then planned further political campaigning around the event. The text is garbled and unclear on exact locations and dates.
A farmer notes wildcat hides bought in San Ar' show legs thickly briared with thorns and briars. He ponders whether animals suffer pain and if anatomists can answer why the legs are so densely covered.
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