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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1909
Page
3
An article urges preserving table cheer to aid digestion. It cites quarrels at meals as a cause of indigestion and advises smiling, entertaining talk, and avoiding nagging. A reforming mother model improves health and appetite, showing humor and calm foster better digestion and longer life.
An era pattern piece describes making quaint humpty cushions from two canvas cushions covered with brocade, filled with shavings or feathers, and tied with a ribbon band. It also covers fabric footwear trends with colorful crayonetted cloth shorts, linen and canvas summer white shoes, suede options, and a black velvet line for formal outfits.
The readable lines describe garment items called Lace Overrobes and Lave aid net overrobes for wearing over straight washed gear. The rest is garbled and yields no clear facts about event dates people or organizations.
Fashion notes predict all graduation attire this year will favor princess shapes across grammar and high schools and colleges. Materials include lawn lace and needlework for modest wear, with silk gauze, crepe de chine, chiffon, silk cashmere, and the new thin silk ottoman popular. The trend favors all silk and silk wool blends, with crepe cloth offering a gauzy, practical option for gowns.
An empire girdle trims plain frocks with black silk or satin. It rises under the arms and crosses the bust with soft satin folds on a fitted foundation. Two sash ends, uneven in length, finish with deep silk fringe and may feature embroidery or beads. A jeweled buckle is worn at the left shoulder for a bold finish.
Hand painted belts are among the latest accessories for girls tub frocks. Belts use black or white moira ribbon, wide yarlong widths, and decorative blossoms including apple, pansies, violets, roses, or forget-me-nots. Ends hemmed over whalebone brace and fastened with a matching belt pin or flower pins. Plain beltings in many colors fastened with gold or silver buckles or pins.
Report from Madison recalls how President Van Hise daughters Janet and Hilda polished Ambassador Bryce's boots during his June visit to the University of Wisconsin. The playful incident sparked laughter at breakfast as Bryce explained he kept the original boots as mementos, while the family enjoyed a lighthearted hospitality moment.
London’s Westminster Bridge hosts George Crocker, a 60 year old "parliamentary astronomer royal," who has offered penny peeks through his telescope for over fifteen years. Notable visitors include Sir Robert Ball, John Burns, Lord Rosebery, Balfour, and other MPs and nobles who stop by after or during their walks.
Inland towboats grow to massive size with the largest western river steamer built almost entirely of steel. It tows coal on the Ohio and Mississippi, using barges that hold 12,000 bushels, and its capacity would cover a city block. Despite new ideas, builders retain the traditional stern wheel design due to river conditions, after exhaustive tests show this old type outperforms others.
A fragment recalls a tale of a poor farmer robbed of wit by a green coast pirate. Yulush notes a curious sting in the narrative, hinting at a deeper moral or satire within the old story. The line suggests a rural figure overwhelmed by a clever marauder.
The piece recalls Jean Louis Rudolph Agassiz born in Motiers Switzerland in 1807 and his rise after moving to America in 1846 to Harvard. It highlights his lasting ties with Motiers, his enduring search for a permanent natural science school, and a 1873 endowment by John Anderson that founded an island research facility on Penthese. It notes his death in 1873, his friendship with Longfellow, and a public birthday tribute.
The article recounts the life of Paul, from Saul to Paul, highlighting his conversion at Damascus, his writings to Thessalonica, Corinth, Galatia, Romans, and his letters from Ephesus, Philippi, and Rome. It notes his 20 years of travel, suffering, and impact on Christian conscience, and ends with his legacy through later reformers.
A critical portrait of Saul of Tarsus born in Tarsus Cilicia describing hisJewish Pharisee background his intolerance and bigotry his persecution of early Christians and the shift after the Damascus encounter, framing him as a rigid legalist opposed to Jesus teaching.
The Rogoslofs are a trio of volcanic islets in the southern Bering Sea, about 37 miles northwest of Unalaska. Castle Rock has been known since 1796, Fire Island since 1883, and Perry Island emerged around 1906 near the San Francisco earthquake.
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