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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1902
Page
4
Paris fashion notes emphasize applique trimming over plain tailoring with fur and velvet motifs. Velvet grapes and fringe stock boas highlight the season, while lavender blue and green shades, black velvet ribbons, and ermine furs shape dramatic reception gowns and hats.
An anecdote recalls a man who sought a letter, waited months, and learned the post office letter carrier had hoped for news. He finally learned the long awaited note was not about a message but a loan request from Pittsburg turned away, leaving him disappointed.
The White House favors open fireplaces in most rooms with coal shuttles supplying the fires. President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt use the libraries heavily, and fires glow year round. Concurrent items include a judge’s ruling on marriage finance, Jokai’s court case, and real estate notes on Inverary castle and Tiree island in Scotland.
The speaker recalls visiting Chicago and marvels at its growth since the 1860s. He describes riding a train load of hogs to a slaughterhouse and watching them killed, loaded onto trucks, and raised to an elevated road, with vivid but crude details.
In Danville area mines on Christmas day three serious cutting scrapes occurred. Westville man Charles Pilsiner was badly injured by Edwards a Kentucky arrival. Charles Jackson was shot and cut at Fairmount by Cook. Frank Davis received two knife wounds at Missionfield during a mêlée. Two minor affrays at Kelleyville and Himrod left others injured.
The boy Herbert Rush age 13 son of Brockport postmaster was accidentally shot during Christmas celebrations when a playmate pointed a revolver believed to be loaded with blanks at him. In the same incident Walter Atwell was struck in the eye by a Roman candle and may lose sight of the eye. De Witt Clinton House Dies at 74 in Kansas City. House, an early traveling salesman and founder of a steam bakery in Illinois, served in the Sixth Minnesota in the Civil War and survived the Birch Coulee siege before later life in Kansas City.
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