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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1899
Page
7
Paris fashion shows feature a velvet and braid ensemble with a smooth surfaced fabric, heavy Benta weight trim, and a yoke bodice design. A French model wears a velvet dress with bands of velvet and braid, a bolero trimmed bodice, and an accompanying velvet toque with a white plume.
A fashion note details ultra stylish jackets for misses with satin, lace, and beads, featuring velvet bodices and braid belts. It highlights satin handsomeness, reversals, and silver trim, with Turkish slippers on sale and popular white and silver designs in the Dretti collection.
The description portrays a gown in dark maraca Italian broadcloth with a tunic over crison taffeta base, edge bands in black silk and gilt, narrow black satin bands, and vest in maroon silk. Embroidered lapels, cross-stitch trim, and kalin bands accent the design, finished with maroon velvet bar and plumes. Helen Grey-Page.
A soft toned bodice, titled the Gismonda, features gismonda-pink tulle vest, satin sleeves and belt, and a lace epaulet. The design showcases a tight fit with a unique neckline of folded ends and a small midketeer bow.
Fragmented OCR reads uncertain lines about meat and food vendors in Philadelphia. Mentions chops meats, kitchen goods, and coins with garbled terms. Unable to extract clear events, dates, or organizations from the excerpt.
Mrs Mapor Dascock of Grand Rapids Michigan reports ovarian trouble resolved by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says prior symptoms included back pain headaches fatigue and sleep loss. After use she claims relief of monthly pain improved appearance and color and invites others to write for advice.
Cassier's Magazine highlights a major transmission plant by the Southern California Power Company. It carries 10,000 horsepower at 38,000 volts along 83 miles from the powerouse near the San Bernardino mountains to Los Angeles. Water rights and irrigation ditches shape the system, with tunnels and open flumes aiding the route. The static head is calculated from elevations 3,422 and 2,670 feet, yielding a head of about 1,000 feet on the wheels.
The Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Fife are noted as keen fisherwomen in Scotland. Louise, Marchioness of Innse, often joined canoes with native guides, once dispatching three large fish to Balmoral. The Duchess of Fife reportedly landed the most fish in a day on the Dee by a fisher woman. The Prince of Wales formerly owned Birkhall but sold it in 1585 and visits Scotland yearly, keeping company with the Duke and Duchess of Fife.
A foreign journal describes Paris shoplifting by women at the Marche and Louvre. It notes regular allowances for theft in debtor creditor circles, high daily totals, and continual raids by female thieves who wear long pockets and fashion, using elbow motion and fringe to snatch coins and items.
The instructions describe cutting nine inch cloth squares into five triangles and removing three inch squares from the eight angle corner. Dark and light triangles are joined along hypotenuses to form a block half, the other half mirrored by color, with four small dark triangles filling spaces between. The blocks are joined by aligning long sides and inserting three inch squares into matching spaces on adjacent blocks.
Queen Victoria manages her household with hands on menus dictated daily by the clerk of the kitchen. Windsor houses a large staff including two yeomen, assistants, apprentices, kitchen chairs, and specialty units like greenroom and confectionery. The system mirrors a major London business, reducing waste and tightening finances to maintain Europe’s grandest establishment on a modest royal income.
The article outlines saving various fats for cooking, noting pork fat as valuable lard for frying while fatty mixtures from mutton, lamb, or beet fat vary in usefulness. It advises separating fats by coarseness, using half gallon jars, and storing fat with raw potato slices to preserve freshness for future cooking.
In this Ohio Farmer excerpt George W. Brown describes a winter storage method for apples. Farmers mound apples in a ventilated wooden box, cover with straw and earth, and add successive cold weather coverings to protect fruit from frost. A board cover prevents compaction and makes use easier, with inexpensive two bushel crates made from plastering lath and ends.
Soil and location influence fruit appearance and quality while root and crown balance aid tree growth. Regular planting of apple and peach trees ensures farm supplies. walnuts can be highly profitable, yield about 360 pounds per tree in some years, selling around a cent per pound. Cider quality varies with fruit type, windfalls and green apples produce less sugar.
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