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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1898
Page
6
A Paris hint signals a revival of shawls and a shift at the dinner table as women favor white maslin gowns over silk. The article notes trends in dress and domestic fashion, highlighting fabric choices and seasonal styles.
The speaker bids a gentle Eden wind to bring rural scents and music to a shaded grotto. They call the wandering spirit a fair comrade of the rosy day and name a poetic figure Caristine, forming a lyrical meditation on nature love and idealized paradise.
A note on inventive gingham frock construction describes time consuming trims and elaborate details. Gowns feature ribbon velvet silk or mousseline desoie, over silk slips for informal wear and small society events. Rose shaded vandykes embroidered with rose and black, paired with an accordion silk blouse and rose ribbon accessories.
The article notes summer wear tastes shifting to taffeta silk skirts and lace trimmed petticoats as warmth rises. White muslin lingerie grows in popularity with decorative flounces and lace inserts, and the latest style features ribbons tied through flounce headings with ends fluttering in the breeze.
The properly decked dinner table is a source of pride and satisfaction. The feast and culinary art are central, reflecting care and skill in meal preparation and presentation.
The article surveys dainty table accessories highlighting trends in linen, china, and silver. It notes expanding patterns like marguerite and jonquil with borderless and intricate openwork designs, hemmed round tablecloths, hemstitched Louis XVI motifs, and openwork borders rising from the hem.
Illustration shows an Italian straw hat trimmed with a wreath of white roses and foliage, ending at the sides and continuing behind. The tall crown features black velvet ribbons with a bow, and an upright white rose cluster sits in the middle. Hat attributed to Maison Nouvelle New York Herald.
A revival in lace fashion appears everywhere with old lace shawls in white and blue used over colored linings. Lace gowns grow in popularity, Irish lace used in full gowns and trims. A lace gown features a black Chantilly skirt over satin with a demi train, black chiffon ruching, and a black velvet bodice and stock.
The text notes the machine shop and planing mill around the corner are merely running right turns due to revived business activity. It mentions affection for Wagner and questions location of a band, indicating mixed local chatter about arts and industry.
A brief quip records Hampsley’s three years of effort to win a public office ending with him having secured the position. The exchange notes surprise at his current inactivity and implies his finances were buoyed by winning the office.
A fragment notes a preacher from Iowa involved with fifteen different girls. The quip imagines whether the scandal stems from rings with varying stones, framed as a joke about the preacher’s entanglements.
The Rocky Mountain Husbandman argues hard times and low prices spurred joint efforts to improve herds. It predicts a shift from large to small flocks, with 40 cattle or a dozen milk cows profitable, better breeding, and rising bank balances as owners focus on quality and efficient management.
At the University of California agricultural department an effort to cross Merino rams with Persian ewes seeks a breed with heavy fine wool and good mulesing traits. The project has run three years with no final results yet. success would benefit the sheep industry, though prepotency will require long selection.
A Texas Stock and Farm Journal note advises starting lamb feed as soon as lambs will eat. Ewes should have adequate feed to suckle and good pasture. Provide half a pint daily of corn meal bran and cotton seed meal per lamb, kept separate from ewes, to promote vigorous growth and earlier market readiness.
The passage discusses the superior finish and quality of horses and fleeces promising high market prices. It notes an advantage in weigh and fleece quality, and cites recent sales of half bred French Coach geldings in the East Buffalo market at 400 to 500 dollars each.
A newspaper quotation notes that a tradesman’s life is two thirds as long or strenuous as a farmer’s, implying differences in labor, livelihood, and daily toil between the two occupations.
An eyewitness recalls a foreign society parade in New York where guards fired on rioters. A terrified man used a stovepipe hole to hide, prompting sharp shame from the observer. Similar scenes followed in foresenburg and South Africa, where disguise and desertion marked cowardice.
The list includes Peter Authier Jefferson S D device for holding logs Dennis Butler Custer S D railway spike design Ole Wigtil Canby Minn wrench Hermann G Dittbenner Minneapolis Minn cushion stop for niggar bars Harry De Wallace St Paul Minn score counter Owen Byrnes Granite Butte Mont sampling machine John M Montgomery Butte Mont ore granulator and pulverizer Elijah G Nutting Faribault Minn truck Geo G Bieber Phillipsburg Mont bicycle Merwin Lothrop Johnson Patent Attorneys 910 Pioneer Press Building St Paul
The Boston Transcript recalls Wesley giving $200000 to the poor despite a meager salary and starting English charities. He launched small-loan schemes aiding the poor and helped a cobbler grow into a 150000 dollar yearly business. He promoted medical dispensaries and urged Wilberforce to end slavery. Whitfield, a slaveholder, bequeathed slaves to Lady Huntington.
A mother cautions Frankie about candy harming teeth while he aims to prove the point through a kid’s science-like experiment. The scene blends domestic humor with a child’s curiosity and a dentist’s warning about dental health.
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