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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1902
Page
6
The long loose coat remains a prominent garment in fashion pages. Described in black velvet with white satin and crane trim, it features wide flowing sleeves and a front reaching to the foxtop with a long back.
The piece highlights luxurious fur use for hats and coats, matching toques and velvet outfits, with chrysanthemum trims and lace sleeves for gowns. It notes ermine, tweeds, and covert coatings as stylish, and describes a seamfree bolero design with bell sleeves and a pretty fur hat. Also mentions toques trimmed with violets and coordinated dress pieces. A simple half cup butter cake recipe and nut ice glaze are provided.
A Good Housekeeping style guide explains beef roast choices and cutting tips. It compares porterhouse, tenderloin, rib, shoulder, and round roasts, warns against poor fat and grisly sections, and advises on trimming bones and rolling for best eating.
A sample page describes Natary Grening dancing shoes and evening slippers with black velvet, gold tinseled cloth, and jet beading. Features include a secure instep strap, smart toe, and beaded adornments for dancing. Embellishments vary mainly in instep treatment and beading, with options designed to match dresses.
Debutantes showcase new fashion details with fitted bodices and high square necks, gowns tied in soft satin, and lace trimmed splashes. Black velvet ribbons, panne millinery, and removable fur linings with lace frills define the season’s up to date coiffures and accessories.
Mrs Sophie Binns of Fruitvale Bal narrates recovery from ovarian congestion and inflammation after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for eighteen months. She credits improved health and vanished pains with the remedy and urges other women to try it. A $5000 forfeiture note appears asserting genuineness.
The text surveys a mix of topics including peat bogs planted with celery in California, a rare frog curiosity, a court case about unfair competition, and a New World smattering of financial notes. It mentions cement curbs in Milwaukee, British bonds, Central American annexation talks, and a proposed mayoral era crackdown on nonworking men.
White cloth costumes appear at afternoon receptions with Irish crochet lace and antique embroidery as elegant accents. Night wear features black lace with colored or white lace inlays and stockings with lace tops. Velvet neckbands and long graceful gloves complete the refined season look for up to date women.
Facts from France describe Theatre Francaise as three acres and the world's largest. A parachute manufacturer hires canvassers to parade the streets on brigades. A moving sidewalk concept is proposed on five main Paris streets covering six miles. French balloonists wear embroidered anchor badge with wings. Paris funds detectives with $13,500 yearly.
A national plan to erect sixteen statues to preserve public memory of notable figures including Garibaldi Baudelaire Pasteur Gounod Balzac Spuller De Musset Jules Simon Verlaine General Dumas Alexandre Dumas fils Garnier Daudet and Hugo is backed by twelve detectives hired for the project Farisia oversees the effort as the government assumes the toast.
Wool ashes and bone dust make good fertilizers for strawberries. Quince shoots are limited. hellotropes can be grown in winter with frequent watering. Prune grapes only in thawed ground. avoid handling in frost. Wood ash best around young peach trees. after two years apply ground bone. Remove eggs from apple tree limbs in open winter weather to prevent tent caterpillar batch.
A fragment from the Atchison Globe critiques how people misjudge youth and vanity, noting age and appearance shape judgment. It ties to broader themes of reputation, restraint, and the social gaze in decaled pictorials and newspaper accounts.
A Society of Arts special committee report shows sheepskin used in bookbinding often sold as Levant morocco hard grain morocco calfskin croco dile or alligator leathers. Microscopic analysis finds the base material is sheep skin stamped to imitate genuine grains. Binders and librarians frequently believed they were purchasing authentic leather from London Globe.
In a curious exchange a mother asks for help as a baby falls ill. A caller offers to fetch a doctor, but the mother declines, requesting an interpreter instead. The scene hints at a language barrier complicating medical response.
A Boston Transcript excerpt mocks an astrologer in downtown who predicts wealth for tips. One character jokes about paying a thousand to become a millionaire, illustrating a satirical take on fortune telling and scams.
A humorous reminiscence from AL Quan, detailing a young man’s five day vacation at a seashore resort. He boasts of wealth, pays for a parlor room, shawlage, and tips, then faces rising costs, broken plans, and a ruined claim to high society as he returns broke and humbled.
A compact collage of quips and verse references from classics like Brooklyn Eagle and Life and Town Topics. It mentions a direcci ple of Andrew Car hogie, jokes about wages and recognition, a mast change, a sofa moved for mistletoe, and a note on Grasse France hosting many perfume factories distilling floral essences.
Cold Gare remedy can be taken during daily duties and relieves a severe cold in 24 hours. Price 2c, sold by Cline's Pharmacy. Also mentions New Jersey retaining appointive treasurer position versus elective.
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