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Newspaper
Elkhart Daily Review
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
3
A detailed natural history note on beavers describing their dams and lodges, dietary habits, how they fell trees, cache storage of food, winter activity, and possible migration when food or weather threaten. It highlights their neat, dry homes, communal cutting of timber, and puzzling method of sinking stored sticks.
The article assures readers they will be told the best lumber type and exact quantity needed for a project so no waste occurs. This efficiency means money saved for the reader as the lumber works up without surplus.
An official warns of trouble if a wife ignores orders about selecting the Gowers. Mr. H. Peck replies that persistence begs the question of why not persist. Judge admonishes to be ready to answer for a single talent entrusted and not worry about others.
For sale is the residence of the late W. H. Mano at No 114 South Second Street with about eighty feet frontage On Second Street Possession readily available Inquire of James H H State Attorney for W H Mann Lumber Co.
Parisian color schemes show bands suggesting the tunic as practical for walking skirts, with front dips and side rises giving forward movement. Black and brown blends require an artist to avoid sartorial blunders. A boned inside waist belt supports princess gowns for secure drape. A morning costume in dark blue serge features satin accents and satin covered buttons to enhance the single-piece look.
Fads and fancies describe home made buttons with initials in cross or bullion, turquoise and coral pins replacing rhinestones, and long bar pins. A plum silk voile dress with a net sleeve trimmed in soutache loops shows a silk covered button in each loop, plus oversized hats and a chic princess frock as a girl's best dress. Judic Chollet.
A dialogue notes how people use vegetable and fruit metaphors for women. A coworker adds the tongue as a powerful image, calling it a scarlet runner, highlighting reductive language in descriptions of women.
Weary Walker quotes a plan to commit death by own action at sea and jokes about leaping from the bow, while Limpy Lannigan questions the condition, in a blustery exchange cited by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A fashion note describes washable velveteens for tea gowns with bias facings and side skirts to cling to feet. It highlights velveteen fabrics with East Indian designs on dark backgrounds and a white ground with palm leaves, plus evening wraps in pink, wistaria, cedar brown, and jade green suitable for draped skirts and jumper frocks.
Fashion notes describe green linings gaining favor over cream satin in coats while brown and fawn shades suit blondes. Three cornered silk hats with quills appear on younger women and veils give way to hair nets and lowered hats. A princess frock with back and front paneling and a new girdle define this season’s look.
Professor Alexander Graham Bell explained that his invention of the telephone grew from efforts to teach the deaf to speak. He described using a dead man’s ear as a model and modeling vibrations with steel over an electric magnet to create a device that could hear and understand speech.
A London warehouse owner says cocoanut shells serve as fuel selling about 50 000 bags yearly. He buys shells from stall keepers and oil extractors and resells at fourpence a bag. Poor customers mix shells with slack coal and some hotels use shells for quick ignition fire starters.
A London Graphic quote from a merchant captain recalls rats damaging cargo, noting £5000 losses from cocoons carried to Gongkong. The lawsuit was dropped due to faulty packing. He describes rat guards, fumigation, and ongoing rat patrols at ports like Liverpool, with rats always remaining a problem.
A dramatic critic asks where the new star was discovered and answers in a laundry, noting she can’t forget her old calling and is mangling the part. Fortune warns that light reveals virtues and vices in all objects.
Explorers describe a rare phenomenon called snowball showers. Large areas in north London received dense, compact snowballs the size of a hen's eye during a March 1859 night. Observers doubted the reports until the unusual storm produced masses of these solid snowballs with no clear cause beyond possible electrical effects.
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