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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1909
Page
3
Practical guide notes attractive lightweight frock patterns for six year olds using white and tinted fabrics. Discusses materials such as fine cottons, lawn, swiss, and linen with embroidery, trims, and the princess effect. Also covers durable winter versions with high necks and long sleeves for school wear.
Architectural note describes water and mortar effects creating color variation and a mottled look in Wa Radford houses. The piece outlines a compact 34 by 23 foot house with a living room bay window, dining room, kitchen, and second floor with three bedrooms. It emphasizes economical maintenance, no painting, and an integrated living space.
The veteran merchant John Arbuckle gains attention as his engineers salvage the hull of the Nero after a reef strike near Narragansett Bay. Though wreckers failed, air compression kept water out and floated the vessel to Newport for repairs. The Yankee, another famed salvage, preceded this success.
A thrift craft guide describes making a combing jacket from huckaback fabric for engagements or birthdays. It covers cutting a neck opening, scalloped edges, padding and buttoning with crochet or bone buttons, edge finishes in lace or ribbon, and a two inch border of cross stitch or darning in rich color.
A small girl’s coat is outlined as a loose fitting box coat in white brilliantine. It is double breasted with a rolling collar, turnback cuffs, and mannish pockets. Side seams are slit, edges are hemmed with flat silk braid, creating a practical yet charming garment.
The fashionable hair arrangement with a center parting and wide sides and back is called the Recamier. Small curls dropping from the back and pinned into the hair grow more in fashion each week.
White batiste blouse features groups of fine tucks at the top and on sleeves. Alternating wide tucks, with guipure on the yoke and cuffs, and long sleeves encircled by tucks.
Irish crochet lace can be laundered easily at home by washing with soap and water, rinsing, and drying in thin cold starch with a drop of blueing. Iron on a blanket on a table, then shape petals and balls with fingers. Large pieces like coats or waists can be cleaned at home using these steps.
New cotton fabrics imitate foulard motifs for country wear. Dresses feature a skirt and bodice connected by a wide belt and embroidered white muslin accessories, creating a plainly made yet charmingly fresh look.
A nearsighted man learns how big modern spectacles really are as an optician shows frames ranging from medium to enormous. Hunters, billiard players and golfers buy the largest sizes for practical purposes and the buyer ends up with a pair labeled modern.
A mass escape at Vilma prison ends in multiple deaths and injuries. Four prisoners assault a warder, seize keys and weapons, and free others. They kill warders, clash with police, and flee toward woods while a cordon surrounds the area. One convict fatally wounds himself. one escapes, another dies in pursuit.
A clipped joke from the Loulaville Courier Journal shows a country editor dismissing a humorist and recalling a failed sales pitch for a cash register. The exchange highlights small town newspaper culture and editor wit.
London whispers link Miss Margaretta Drexel to Prince Christopher of Greece after a grand Drexel ball attended by over 600 guests. Miss Drexel, famed for resisting romantic advances, reportedly entertained the prince and cousin Miss Anita Stewart at supper. The Drexels plan a New York return in October after Marienbad.
J G Talbot M P longtime Oxford university representative and holder of the title father of the house plans to run again at the upcoming general election. Since 1868 he has served West Kent and later the university seat, focusing on religious and educational issues as an ecclesiastical commissioner and privy councillor.
Mrs. Mary Lawrence Keene wife of Foxhall R. Keene a New York society leader and polo player has been granted a divorce. Judge Watts Parker issued the decree on July 3 in Lexington Kentucky with proceedings kept secret. The case relied on depositions from Allan and Duncan and George Shanklin.
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