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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1899
Page
7
In a Paris style brief Helen Greyx Page describes early Quinn show toilettes featuring glinter and glow tones. Gowns favor three to five colors, matching hats and wraps, with royal purple skirts and pale helotrope and Versace green details. Hats, bows, and embroidered collars complete the ensembles during the fashion notes.
A fashion note on Veronese green with yellow tinge, styled for headgear and matching stocks. Describes small autumn hats with upturned fronts, brown ribbons, seal brown plumes, and Veronese ribbon trims. Also notes matching stock with loops and raffled ribbons, priced with imitation stones on some pins. Helen Orfy-Page.
A newspaper note recounts Mrs. Pinkham’s warning that most ill health in women stems from derangements of the feminine organs and urges seeking her advice and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It details a case of a Fort Meyer, Virginia woman whose heart trouble and other symptoms improved after following Pinkham's treatment.
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat report describes an electric cautery or fleshing knife that rapidly and safely removes wool from sheep skins without harming wool or hide. A trained worker can skin eight to twelve per hour, with current costs under a penny per hour, reducing lime or chemical treatments and lowering overall processing expenses for fellmongers.
A historic Martin Luther engagement ring, long an heirloom in the Sigrid line, was found in Sonderhordland Norway by peasant woman Sigrid Hansen Alm. A German museum seeks ownership via officials in Stockholm, promising payment, while Norwegian papers recount the ring’s description including a red pearl and engravings. Consul Jens Gran noted the match to the ring in question and efforts to acquire it continue.
Lincoln gains a patent-right case, engages a city architect as partner, and trains witnesses with cross examination that impresses the court. He systematically travels to major cities to try patent cases, earning a growing reputation and steady retention.
The Pall Mall Magazine details balloon manufacture using goldbeater skin. Thousands of membrane sheets are cleaned soaked in glycerin and water then layered on boards to form a four layer core, with nets and additional skins added for strength. Linseed oil varnish and occasional bichromate solution finalise the indissoluble fabric.
On a traveled road the soluble excrement from horses and animals is washed into roadside ditches. It accumulates in depressions forming rich soil, valuable as fertilizer. Plowing the roadside distributes this soil over adjoining fields.
A detailed build guide for a two-wheeled garden cart from Ohio Farmer describes a compact sturdy design. It covers axle and handle attachment, frame construction from 2 by 4s, a three to four foot wide platform, removable sideboards, bolted joints, and a hook and staple securing system.
This excerpt shows a farmer using meadow bogging to create a cranberry patch on a wet meadow, detailing costs around 300 dollars per acre, flood-fall practices, and the market demand for cranberries. It also offers practical advice on economy with fallen apples, hog feeding with fruit, and green crops for orchards including spring plowing and rye cover crops to prevent soil depletion.
Dr Nathan Wood recounts a Vassar trustees tale showing women's business skill. Ellen H Richards of MIT proposed a detailed sewer plan that solved a long standing problem at the college.
The article contrasts today’s realistic horse depictions with older idealized art and credits the camera for accuracy. It then recounts a lazy English porter who, when challenged for faster action, tells a train-seeker to put the two shillings and sixpence in his pocket.
Ernest Austen of the British Museum disputes the idea that malaria is solely from bites. He notes limited mosquito truth from a Maltese boy sample and suggests mosquito elimination as a remedy. He cites bird diseases in India and urges readers to send mosquito specimens to aid investigation.
The productive area of the Klondike gold field covers from 1,000 to 1,300 square miles.
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