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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
7
A fashion feature describes prom clothing including white satin tunics, pink silk belts, and elaborate lace berths inspired by Anne d Attriche. It notes brocade, silk satin, and velvet bows, with guidance on lace use to update past dresses. It also discusses the Louis XV coat, decolletage, and evening wear distinctions, plus care tips for eyes and cooking notes.
The article surveys couture trends with fur use increasing in coats and gowns, petunia shades, royal red, cerise, black velvet, chinchilla, and zibeline hats. It notes white cloth with black trim, varied trimmings, and the la jupe ajustee silhouette. Velvet and feutre veils lead accessories, while sheer lace collars frame shoulder lines. Also covered is piano technique stressing up and down finger actions for singing tone.
A garbled text lists French cooking terms like Mey and Bouchee with vague English notes. It mentions brochettes and farcle, then references a satire about mayors and a rough recipe for a pastry or pie using eggs milk sugar and a two crust bake.
Mrs J F Roberts, Kansas City, Kansas, County President of W C T U, lauds Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She shares personal benefits and testimonials from women eased by the remedy, noting free advice from Lydia Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts and promising the reader grave confidence in the product.
A Western farming analysis argues that on eighty acres the average gross is near $10 per acre per year, and rising land values make efficiency vital. It calls for better cultivation, seeds, stock, crop rotation, clover, poultry, silo use, and fertilizers, noting the flaw is valuing success by area skinned rather than by crop quality and yield per acre.
An advertisement promotes Krause's Cold Cure Capsales with two or three doses daily to aid restful sleep and bowel movement, priced at 25 cents and sold by Cline Pharmacy. It also describes Apples on the Half Shell a baked apple dish using bread rounds, butter, sugar, and sliced apples baked twenty minutes serves with cream.
An eye witness recounts a tornado that traveled from Texas across Indian Territory in May 1596. A ball of glow and debris lifted houses, tore fence wires, and scorched ground while the observer and others rode the storm’s path. Frost on soils suggests fall plowing for better work with tough refractory soils.
Food Change to Poison claims putrefying food harms intestines but Dr King’s New Life Pills expel poisons gently and cure constipation bilousness sick headache fevers and liver kidney and bowel troubles at 25 cents from W H McKee. Also ad asks for holiday liquors to L A Rosenheim and cites Grain-O success stories from Le Roy New York and a political note praising William McKinley in Ohio.
The Natal Advertiser from Durban is cited for a quaint historic record noting a chestnut tree felled in Ohio in the 1870s. It mentions collateral backstory including fence rails shingles and wood cords, underscoring the tale's sizable scale and archival charm.
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