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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1903
Page
3
The article describes autumn styles for girls and misses, centering on a Russian blouse with a separate skirt and versatile use for outfits. It details a box plaited frock for little girls, fabric choices like serge or light-weight wool, trim with braid, and practical sewing notes while noting auxiliary home tips on cleaning and household upkeep.
A lingerie import showcases a trend of leaving a tiny blank space in Madras embroidery to be filled later with the owner's monogram. The chemise features a low round neck, square scallops, and trailing vines forming an imperial wreath for initials. A night dress repeats the monogram motif with heart shapes over the left breast. A corset cover includes alternating yarn lace inserts.
In the article from La Mode artistique, gowns are described with mauve mousseline de soie and lace, featuring flounces edged with bottle rubie, and a large espe collar. A second gown in changeable blue bill boasts three deep ounces with lace inserts, a lace blouse, and a draped blue silk girdle.
A fashion blurb notes the pelering and scarf worn low on the shoulder as fashionable. It highlights a close fitting yoke extending to the under-arm seam, over sleeve tops, and creating a long shoulder line, with plaited bobbin yokes mounted on bodices and used in new shirtwaists.
The 1860 girl remains popular in 1903 pictorials with low shoulder yokes and cape effects. Tailors favor that shoulder style as the sleeve returns to the natural sequence, using very thin materials for the full under sleeve.
A fragmented set of kitchen and cleaning tips advises sprinkling salt on shelves for odor control and using hot soda water for washing, followed by turpentine. It suggests a kitchen stool for comfort while washing dishes, waterproofing boots with mutton suet and bees wax, and cleaning Japanese trays with a sponge and tepid water then drying and polishing.
Eton jackets cut stylishly on the new tracks with tip about avoiding gay buttons to stay current. Mauve crepe de chine dresses charm, while modistes embrace tucks and long waisted bodices with very short skirts for children. Tussore praised as economical. multiface street suits suit winter. Velvet violet toques, mauve buckskin shoes, and mauve silk stockings finish the look for evening wear.
An ornate parasol, described as chiffon with a yellow silk foundation, hidden by chiffon frills and a large yellow chiffon rose. Ve shaped floupes hang from the edge, creating a charming irregular frame around the face of the wearer, a fashionable accessory for Washington Era aesthetics.
A popular mohair bathing suit features a skirt laid in plaits and a high neck with elbow sleeves. The blouse carries white braid trimming. Bandana handkerchief protects hair. Four and a half yards of 45 inch material required for the suit.
A novel contraption by Charles B Courtney trains crews on land as a rowing machine. The device resembles a boat oar handle connected to a pulley strap and wound spring that powers a rolling seat, letting a user simulate a boat stroke. Claire Courtney, the inventor’s nephew, reportedly covers a mile in ten minutes with little effort.
Mrs Thyrza Beckwith Gray of Oswego New York celebrated her 101st birthday with a family gathering at her Tallman Street home. She remains in good health and strong with age though sight dim. A famed cook she enjoys baking mince pies and recalls War of 1812 memories.
An amusement manager bought a large orchestrion for a dancing pavilion but most tunes proved to be heavy church pieces. Only one lively number remains usable, forcing dancers to improvise until new music arrives from across the water.
In Raynham Massachusetts a quail nest was run over by a mower near Mr Robinsons home. The eggs were scattered but intact and were gathered and placed in a bantam hens nest. The hen now incubates the eggs as if they were her own offspring.
A curious freak of vegetable growth was found in the cellar of R. H. Peck in Morrisville Vii A blackberry root extending from the gat intock invaded the m of remaining a hes with leaves reaching fifteen feet in length.
In Portland Maine a colored woman arrested for pension frauds paraded a long chain of names Ruth Matilda Love Divine Seymour Terry Belle Caroline Finney. She claims to be the widow of a man named Blount.
In a 1.887 square mile area of cotton manufacturing England, 6 percent of the world’s cotton manufacture is concentrated. The text highlights the density of industry within a tiny region and its global share.
A New York Times report notes rulers in Europe rely heavily on secret telegraph codes for private and official messages. It cites Emperor Trasdia spending $20,000 yearly, Emperor William $15,000, and King Edward and Queen Alexandra of England using telegraphs constantly, with 1902 expenditures between $31,000 and $12,000.
Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters are at risk as cliff erosion accelerates. The lighthouse cliff has suffered multiple collapses since 1898, with estimates of chalk losses around 85,000 tons and 89,000 tons in earlier years. The narrowing distance to the edge raised the need for a safer lighthouse site.
A mysterious shellfish called plana in the Mediterranean spins viscid silk to attach itself to rocks. In Sicily the silk is woven into a handsome fabric. The creature guides filaments to proper places, reattaching if cut. Harvested at low tide, processed with soap and water, yielding about three ounces of fine thread per pound of coarse filament.
A carpet recently given by Mozzaffer ed Din Shah of Persia to Queen Wilhelmina is now on display at the ethnographic museum in Rotterdam. The carpet bears Persian inscriptions naming the Shah and the year Hedjira 1820, covers sixty six square yards, and contains 250,000 stitches per square yard.
Mr Hill greets Misa Dale and asks about the race. Dale praises the event and says she has not seen the Shamrock yet but has watched the Reliance closely and can identify her by the distinctive liquid smokestack.
A pig is kept in every state in Persia to aid the health of the horses, with the polke believed to benefit equine health and welfare across regions.
Philadelphia sees about 29,000 births each year and around 7,50 children under five years old per year, reflecting long term demographic levels. Data emphasizes birth counts and under five population as vital indicators for city planning.
British MP Thomas Shaw recounts conversations with two Selkirk elders Thomas Suearmouth and Johnstone about Sir Walter Scott. Johnstone recalls Scott’s sheriff status and how poachers faced harsh measures, contrasting Scott’s revered public image with local friction.
The Philadelphia Record reports a London chemist Helbing discovery that 90 to 95 percent of petroleum can be held in a solid medium. The solidified product burns quietly with a stable flame, does not run, and leaves little ash. Demonstrations show extinguish and relight with minimal vapors, and boiling in water causes no dispersion.
A rough sea poem debates vessels and sailors with brash language, then shifts to a library anecdote about a reader demanding a book titled Wait a Minute. A librarian’s ignorance and a misnamed title Yarry Thou Till IT Come from the Philadelphia Ledger are noted as the day unfolds.
The speaker of the House of Commons receives an annual gift from the master of the buckhounds, a buck and doe offered from the royal preserves. This longstanding custom has no recorded origin.
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