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Newspaper
Bedford Weekly Mail
Location
Bedford, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1912
Page
5
Mary Dean discusses adapting the panier fashion for slim graceful women, noting summer trends toward modest puffing and practical overdresses. She highlights age and figure suitability, mourning wear potential, and using remnants for underslips with suggestions for materials and accessories to create elegant matronly outfits.
The pannier grows softly in favor and suits chiffon or tulle. Footwear favors magpie black and white accents, with shoe laces matching. Shops offer green feather pumps and other colored feathers along with silken hosiery in many hues.
The article notes a revival of lace along with shot taffetas embroidered muslins and china sash ribbons as designers revive early Victorian gowns. Lace, real or muslin bordered, is highlighted as the ideal finish for fichus and gowns in this revival mood.
The sultan of Morocco, recently seen leaving Fez for Rabat, is noted as a poet and philosopher writer. His best known poem has been translated into Spanish by Senor Ricardo Baetsa and expresses disenchantment with life, memories of a simple camel driver past, and a hope to regain independence from foreign rule.
The fire department expects arrests soon to dismantle the arson trust a New York underworld group accused of inciting fires to defraud insurance. The gang allegedly caused over 1 million dollars in losses in five years and operates by striking deals with residents who insure belongings and share proceeds.
In San Rafael California Dr. W. H. Dudley, a respected citizen, fled a swarm after leaving sunbleached underclothes on the lawn. Bees inside the garments provoked a wild sprint around his home until he outran the insects.
A passer-by discovered a week-old baby boy crying inside a traveling bag at the corner of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue before daybreak. Builder John McAfee of Corona, Long Island, happened by and, upon hearing the infant, opened the grip and rescued the child from the forgotten bag.
Milledgeville Ga for the second time in recent months the aged train robber known as Old Bill Minor escaped from the state convict farm after freeing his shackles and leaving with a fellow prisoner.
William McMillan of West 16th street was suddenly unable to speak after returning from visiting friends. He remained mute for hours, fearing a bullet wound in the neck may have caused the affliction, and sought medical help.
Elmer E Smith petitioned for an absolute divorce in Lawrence circuit court alleging cruel and inhuman treatment and abandonment by Rachael Smith whom he married in January 1888. He states she left him June 6 1910 and asks for proper relief.
The Chicago Indianapolis Louisville Railway will relocate its freight house away from the house track to create more platform space. A slight legal change is cited. The platform will be widened and carpenters will repair the passenger side platform at the local station serving points south and the Bedford Bloomfield branch.
William Moorman and his son escaped serious injury while loading hay when a lightning bolt struck the wagon near their home in Hamilton township Jackson county. The bolt killed their best horse and stunned another, while a third horse nearby fled unharmed after the strike.
In Pekin street signs, shopkeepers display poetic titles such as Store of Heaven sent Luck and The Nine Felicities Prolonged. The Honest Pen Store of Li suggests rival honesty, while others like Foun ain of Beauty and Heavenly Embroidery decorate coal and oil outlets. The Thrice Righteous label hints at opium shop irony.
Early text mocks a laundryman poet unable to craft verse and notes irritation at a neighbor who mows at 6 a m. The fragment reflects light satire on industry and daily noise in Illinois.
A New York judge places annual value on a wife's companionship at 200 dollars. The remark implies the judge's marital status. A scientist claims the alphabet is 9000 years old, noting many have not studied it. An American woman who jilted an English nobleman appears to prefer marriage over wealth.
Miss Hester Ross of Ross Spur receives a Carnegie medal and money for delaying runaway freight cars near Noxapater. Telegraph operator Mary Monday at Louisville and a local operator aided the warning. Ross, in night clothes, dashed to the depot and swung a lantern to halt No. 72, saving many lives as the cars rolled past.
A new unloading device in Germany uses a strong flat car with a turntable that can swing a full quarter turn and tilt 30 to 45 degrees. Cables move one car at a time onto the turntable, which then dumps the load and returns to discharge the empty car onto a second set of rails. The system aims to process six to eight cars per hour. Brunette seeks divorce as she complains her husband sleep raves about Blondie.
A severe Sunday rainstorm drenched the city with brick streets turned to rivers and many streets flooded. Foot crossing was infeasible until waters subsided and numerous cellars in the business district were flooded.
Engineers from fifty Eastern railroads testified before an arbitration board about the hazards of high speed runs and sought higher wages. Oscar S. Straus led questions as engineers described 70 to 75 mph operations, long shifts, and the risk of signal misreads. Dean Wood cited a 148 mile Syracuse Albany run in 162 minutes with 151 signals. He earned about 186 dollars monthly and warned buckling of freight as a major danger.
A clipped note suggests that contemporary women’s fashions are presented as more modest than bathing suits, implying designers used modesty as a contrast. The remark underscores fashion trends that emphasize coverage as a statement against swimwear.
Thirty five masked men dressed as women seized J. W. Bowman from Policeman Baker after tying the officer to a fence and escorting Bowman to a park where he was beaten with a rubber hose. Bowman had been arrested on a wife beating charge and was later taken toward his home by a justice and Officer Baker until Bowman was released.
Oroville California reports John Rich, newly elected poundmaster, schemes to profit from the city pound. He plans 50 cents per dag from the city, skinning animals for hides, crushing meat for oil claimed to cure consumption, using flesh for chicken feed, bones for fertilizer, and leaving nothing but the bark.
George Browns of Watchogue Staten Island reports hail stones weighing up to six ounces and one piece as large as a baseball, striking his roof during a hail event.
The right hand of Abner Shender an employee of the Blue Hole stone mill was severely burned Monday afternoon when a steam pipe burst. The burns were deep and will keep him from duty for some time.
Mrs B E Hansen and children from Bedford visited Mrs Hansen’s mother Mrs H C Duncan on West Kirkwood Avenue. Miss Margaret Lemon and Miss Pearl Fish from Bedford stayed with Mr and Mrs Homer Carpenter on North Morton Street. Mrs Allen and Mrs Charles Berrick from Bedford visited Miss Billa Kee on Hast 6th Street. Frances Durrenberger returned to Bedford after a city visit. Arland E Olmstead of Bedford visited Cornelius McKinley. Edith Allen returned from Bedford visiting home folks. Mrs W C Southern and children visited Mrs Oscar Maddox in Bedford.
The Bloomington Star questions claims that local men “make good” by landing high profile jobs. It notes one man accepted a railroad position with the Pennsylvania railway company, later found to be a flagman at a street crossing. Another Bloomington man worked at Metropolitan Life in Chicago, actually serving as a window washer on an 18 story building.
A wild chase in Laurel Maryland pits a posse armed with guns lassoes and pitchforks against a feral cat. After thirty shots fail to stop it the animal drowns in a nearby river.
In 1862 at Maxwell's ranch on the Cimarron River New Mexico Kit Carson deflected praise from a regular army officer noting his fame for making Indians run. Carson responded that often they ran after him, reflecting his modest, self deprecating view of his impact on the West.
The five year old daughter of Dan Mahoney was seriously cut by broken glass when she stumbled and fell at the Athletic park north of the city Sunday afternoon. She was brought to the city for medical attention.
W. J. Sheffier, Indianapolis News local agent, was severely cut when he fell from a bicycle Sunday afternoon at Athletic baseball park north of the city. He landed among broken glass, requiring medical help but he is able to be out today.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hackney, elderly resident, fell on steps at her son Nicholas Hackney’s Breckenridge road home Wednesday around 5 p.m. The left hip fracture was reduced by Dr. Morrill Simpson and she remains in serious condition.
Charles Owen came back from Chicago where his wife underwent an appendicitis operation at St. Luke's Hospital and is now improving.
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