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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1905
Page
2
The column praises white pique fabrics for house wear and morning gowns with several design notes. It describes a four gore pattern with a beam front and graduated bands, a short jacket, and heavy insertion lace. A white pique suit features a skirt and short jacket with black silk edging and yellow embroidery accents, plus black silk underlayers for contrast.
A compact recipe instructs to pare core and stew two pounds of apples with sugar and Yemen peel until soft. Layer sponge cake slices in a pie dish, add apple mixture, more cake, then a pint of thick custard. Beat egg white stiff and fold over custard, brown lightly in oven, serve with a pie collar. The dessert can be served hot or cold.
A historical description details a wool walking costume with a skirt made from blog breadihain fabric and inverted platte edges. The half-fitted jacket features a material yoke with fronts turned back, a turnover collar, and white embroidered piqué cuffs and collar.
A garbled note discusses wash materials described as attractive and diaphanous, praising their appeal to signere-tud manufacturers. The fragment mentions Ba Baus and a special favorite, with unclear references and numerous misspellings.
A delicate white dress features a tight banana yellow overlay over a banana yellow slip. The bodice has a surplice front with two embroidered patlate rofies and insertion bands from neck to bust. Elbow sleeves and waist are trimmed with matching embroidery and a deep bonnet ribbon in yellow and green shades completes the look.
A charming morning gown design shown in the sketch features soft fabrics like chintz chalice al batters flannelette or dimity. It falls in clinging folds with black velvet trim on the yoke collar and cuffs. A Dutch round neck and three quarter sleeves may be used.
The article details fashionable trims and fabrics for the coming season. It highlights pink mousseline de sole with puffed ruffles, a Louis XV inspired embroidery, pink velvet ribbon knots, and lace coats. It notes Irish lace, valenciennes, and white cotton embroidery as popular trims for frocks and woolens. The piece emphasizes English embroidery’s effectiveness on woolen fabrics.
Meat and Potato Pie recipe details cut tie meat into small pieces remove fat and cook with stock or pot liquor. Sliced eschalots fry dark then mix with meat add salt pepper. Roll potatoes with butter milk and yolk, spread as crust cover meat bake until brown. Cut diamond pattern and serve.
A fragmented recipe describes making banana pudding with three bananas and a buttered dish. It calls for a batter of half a pint of water, some unclear ingredients, butter on top, baked until golden. The directions are garbled but suggest serving hot after baking.
An invention for a command tool type that marks angles on raw wood for carpentry. The blade resembles a standard hand saw but adds five straight back lines to indicate angles like 4 1b de gre 30 and 60 degrees with marked ratios per foot. This reduces the need for a separate miter and expands the tool’s use without substantial added cost.
An eastern railroad test after ten years of paints shows painted paper protects smooth steel surfaces in station areas for at least eight months under severe conditions. The process coats steel with a single sticky layer, lays paraffined paper over, then paints in any color. Holes for rivet heads are kept through, capped with paraffined covers. Cost is slightly higher than plain painting, but application occurs in one scaffold setup, promising durable results rather than paint peeling off.
Aged research reports that aluminum traps mercury vapor, proving a delicate method to analyze atmospheric mercury and prevent poisoning. Dr Tarugi demonstrates complete adsorption even in diluted air at ambient temperature, with a respirator design forcing air through finely pulverized aluminum before inhalation.
A reader outlines a rough plan to build a home for not more than 1800 dollars. Provisions detail an 18 inch thick stone ceffer and foundation walls, six cords of stone, eleven yards of sand, five bushels of lime, a 19 by 20 foot cellar floor of concrete, three barrels of Portland cement and 3.5 yards of gravel. Ground and upper floor plans depend on material and labor cost.
The article shows two truss forms for a 40 ft span and heavy loads. Fig 1 details cutting a plot and building with 8x8 inch timber, 1% inch rod in center, and a 40 inch tongue drop in each outside stringer. Fig 2 describes an alternate truss with nut and washer fittings and a center rod.
Instructions describe augmenting roofing on very flat roofs using gravel coal tar and felt paper. Recommend matched lumber base, tar paper lapped 90 up under each layer, nailed down, then three plies. Apply hot coal tar, embed with gravel, and brush evenly. Tar procured from hardware stores.
Portland cements are used almost exclusively for molding building blocks because of their rapid setting qualities and superior strength. The note questions whether natural rock cement could answer as an alternative for hollow blocks.
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