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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1908
Page
8
A vintage illustrated guide describes making decorative conefits from ribbon scraps for gift and vacation tasks. It outlines a pin cushion from four ribbon strips, a square silk sack with a ribbon bottom stuffed with cotton, and a simple bag for soiled handkerchiefs with embroidered winged edges.
The piece describes a new blue named Edison amid autumn shades and navy and peacock contrasts. It notes the color’s dull but practical appeal, its popularity with women, and its versatility for year round wear and multiple occasions. The discussion compares it to other blues and mentions the influence of the Edison name.
Home made face and hand towels are softer and easier to sew, delighting young helpers with simple hem stitching. For best use and spare rooms, add fine crochet or torchen lace. Use a yard and a quarter of towel for shrinking huckaback, overcast fringes to prevent unraveling, and linen thread for hems and drawn thread work.
The era favors embroidery and soutache braid, more than last season. Braid decorates net or embroidery, used in designs. Simplicity governs day suits while dressy toilets for day or evening remain richly decorated. Careful dress trimming is urged to fit purpose.
A description of German sandwiches using chopped beef or chicken or cheese placed between buttered thin bread slices. A layer of finely chopped pickles tops the filling. The sandwich is cut into strips no more than a half inch wide and as long as the slice, sometimes served on crisp lettuce paves.
A decorative magazine holder doubles as room ornament. It guides a wooden base with firm feet, a silk upper, and a wadding layer for softness. Embroidery features pale pink poppies, brown festoons, gray blue flowers, and green leaves with golden gimp edging.
The article contrasts Directoire and English street suit accessories with the French model. It notes linen collars and stiff ties suit the English boxy coat, while the French style calls for a high lace collar or chiffon stock, soft chin lines, wrist ruffles, and white handwoven or hand embroidered fronts.
The sheath girdle is a modern flat tubular belt woven from mercerized thread. It uses about 1% yards of ribbon, arranged around the waist and tied with a short end overhanging a longer left side. It features solid colors or colored stripes with white, fringed ends, and knotted tips.
A dated note urges women to avoid ill fitted corsets claiming a fifty dollar corset poorly worn is as useless as worn harness. It stresses that true figure shaping comes from proper corsetry rather than economy tricks.
In New York City a rare clash unfolds as Gunda the elephant and Sitting Bull the buffalo battle at the Bronx park zoo. Gunda pokes through wire with her trunk to grab hay, Sitting Bull charges the fence and is repelled. Keepers intervene, halting the fight before any injuries occur.
Elwood Indiana 18 year old Gwendolyn Washburn narrowly escaped drowning in White river after a turtle grabbed her toe while she and companions swam to beat the heat. A rescuer dragged her to shore where she rode with the girl and the turtle stew plan backfired.
The reader advisory column invites questions to William A Radford on building topics. He highlights loggia roof adaptations, airy summer parlors, and living-room additions. Advice covers hangings seats, cushions, and cushions on a suspension wire mattress seat with a hardwood frame.
An article extols a compact 23 by 35 foot house with three bedrooms, one bath, and abundant closets. Downstairs extends the kitchen to avoid enlarging the main footprint, plus a large pantry and loggia ideal for a sun parlor. It notes modern touches, strategic layout with side entry, and emphasizes living room space and affordability with adaptable materials. Includes a poem by Nixon Waterman titled The Foster Mother.
William Summers a foreman in the La Crosse Wisconsin switching yards stripped to a small cloth and pond lilies to retrieve flowers behind moving train cars. He had no boat and wore torn fabric as a makeshift wrap. Mosquitoes bit him as witnesses mistook him for a maniac before he explained.
Benjamin Robinson found a copperhead coiled in a pair of trousers hanging on a closet nail at his home in New Albany Indiana. He shook the trousers sending the 30 inch snake to the floor where it was quickly clubbed to death.
A brave hen defended her chicks in Figeac France when a rattlesnake ten feet long struck at the flock. The mother hen charged, pecking at the serpent and driving it away, nearly taking its head as it lunged to strike.
Richard Neumann advertises as a marriage witness with listed prices for different attire and appearances. Prices range from two to five taels, advance payment required, and witness must be invited to the ceremony.
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