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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
7
Instructional note by H. J. Dunton on grading undulating ground to prevent washing. It details setting accurate grade with a spirit level, spacing embankments, and constructing them with a steel-shod scrape. Guidelines cover line placement, water flow, soil preparation, and maintenance for effective hillside protection. The piece ends with a caution on fruit production and plant vitality.
A New England culinary revival centers on the codfish dinner. The dish uses a whole dun cod prepared with skin on, boiled gently for hours, served with egg sauce and vegetables like beets carrots onions and potatoes. Fried salt pork accompanies the fish. leftovers become fishballs. scraps may include pork. N. Y. Tribune.
The piece describes dress trends with lace bodices on white silk gowns, decorative bands of black taffeta, and cream skirts. It notes materials like muslin organdie and point d esprit for gowns, Alpine coarse straw hats, Chantilly motifs on white fabrics, pale blue and pink lawn waists, tatting edges, feathered toques, and a new sheer mousseline train seen in England.
The article notes 109000 loco motives worldwide and a boom in railroad expansion with over 100 lines projected from 20 to 250 miles. It cites Commendatore Lodio's finding that foreign visitors to Italy spend 306000000 francs yearly. It mentions Zurich funiculars and a court ruling on ads in season tickets aboard French and Western railways.
A collage of old-time vignettes notes Gen Toward’s likely West Point pull, Admiral Schley’s cigar box ballot trick, Whig candidates Bell and Everett, a Holland “Doctor Cureall” pill figure, a joke about a wife torn by frame color, and Tehuelches of Patagonia as towering people.
Veterans bound for the 33rd G A R Encampment in Philadelphia select a historic rail route via the Big Four and Chesapeake and Ohio. The plan includes direct links through Indianapolis and Cincinnati to Huntington then the Alleghenies to Staunton and Washington, with three rate options and a Chicago contact for full details.
A humorous Chicago Evening News item notes Mrs Stubb-John arriving at an odd hour after the club held a Dewey toast. The exchange with Mr Stubb references a long night and a playful comparison to Admiral Dewey.
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot Base powder for the feet. It eases tight or new shoes and soothes swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores 25c Trial package free by mail Allen 8 Olmsted Le Roy N Y.
A Cincinnati hotel guest quips the ice water is dirty while a Chicago Evening News bellboy jokes the porter forgot to wash it. The humorous exchange captures a moment of hotel life and slang from the era.
A reader thanks Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from fatigue back pain and menstrual suffering after using two to four bottles. The letter touts the product as a cure and urges others to seek Mrs. Pinkham's free health advice in Lynn, Massachusetts.
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