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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1899
Page
7
The piece discusses costly fashion changes and the shift toward untrimmed yet popular silhouettes. It notes braided designs to appliqué on skirts and bodices, with patterns sold from five dollars to seventy five dollars per set, and estimates gowns available for around twenty dollars plus stylish garnitures. Helen Grey-Fage.
Fashion notes celebrate lace trimmed gowns shown for Thanksgiving. Patterns feature wide insertion laces set into bodices and skirts with deep rows, purple cloth and taffeta linings, and belts with lace detailing.
Ancient ad copy urges women with fertility issues to seek Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanativa Wash. The testimonial claims a cured case of nine years of marriage ending in a daughter and promotes writing to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn MA for free advice. It emphasizes backache, discharges, and irregular menses as signs of womb degeneration and warns of neglecting warnings.
The article discusses an alternative tunic construction using two materials, showing how a Garker fabric forms the base under a tunic and is outlined with braid. It describes a grey aluminum framed gown and a bolero outlined with black thread, illustrating innovations in fabric and trimming. It also notes growing aluminum use in lithography and printing, with lighter sheets replacing heavy stones for rotary presses.
Middletown Ohio inventor Jerris P Sulth claims a new electric railroad could revolutionize transit. The plan uses single iron pillars and a traction rail with a guard, placing tracks 2 1/2 feet high. Experts say the system could move trains at 200 mph with 14% pounds coal per horse power hour and cost one cent per mile. A Cincinnati to Chicago line is rumored as a future possibility.
The 24 year old medical student Lyon and his 34 year old widow aunt Agnes Crawford married after she cared for him following a fall from a train near Bellevue. They are on a wedding tour and will return to Cleveland for his continued studies.
Baltimore & Ohio plans new service stripes to honor long serving employees. Vice President Underwood will issue orders for five year gala stripes and two year silver stripes, with conductors brakesmen and bagger badges to distinguish those familiar with the service.
The readable lines discuss Argentina and its continental geography, mentioning central regions and distant oceans. The text blends foreign terms and fragmented phrases, yielding no clear event or identifiable subjects to summarize as a distinct news item.
Darrell family leaves Ohio for Minnesota frontier seeking a new home. Two boys Harold and Frank Darrell befriend Indian youths near a lake. Harold tricks them by releasing ponies, triggering a revenge ducking ordeal that ends with Harold being punished by the Sioux boys. The incident leads Harold to abandon tricks on frontier neighbors.
Store promotes deep discounts on dress goods and fabrics with low profit margins. Highlights include MW novelty fabrics, 350 colorways, 36 inch all wool checks, 1.50 tailor checks, 33¢ novelty mixtures, 35¢ plaids, 2 inch all wool plaids, silk and wool plaid options, 35¢, 2 inch all wool storm serge at 35¢, and ready to use unbleached muslin sheets and pillowcases priced around 37¢ each. Also advertises 1,000 sample pieces and branded linens from Hinckes.
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