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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1901
Page
11
A stitched collage of quips and dialogues from Chicago Tribune and Chicago Post style humor. Includes jokes about labor sentiment, public response to disputes, and wry exchanges between characters. Diverse captions echo old newspaper humor with brief scenes andsnapshots.
The report covers reforms in Prussia granting women clerical roles, mentions the German Emperor appointing Princess Margaret of Hesse as honorary colonel, and notes Irish art needlework efforts by the Countess of Mayo with Lady Campbell of Garsonlt hosting an exhibition. It also remarks on census delays and names variations of Lady Curzon, Queen Victoria’s daughter, and compares reign lengths of royal figures including Empress Frederick.
Wash shirt waists stay in fashion through fall as many silk gowns showcase numerous buttons. Antique green bronze finishes dominate belt buckles and ornamentations. Light weight flannels without linings offer comfort in cold weather with wider undersleeves and bishop sleeves standard for certain fabrics.
Lace will be an important feature of white trimming of winter gowns and variggies are being held for this purpose from fine spider web to saucer, renaissance and china. Albatross now comes in stripes in all colors and makes up prettily, in shirt waists for full wear. velvet accents complete the look.
The excerpt cites figures on color blindness by gender, weight comparisons for materials, wool consumption over time, crime class breakdowns, hospital death rates by bed capacity, and seasonal mortality patterns in London, France, Germany, England, and Holland, noting autumn and spring health trends and monthly death counts.
Army officers in Germany pay no dog tax. The French army lost 17 000 men from enterie in the Crimea. The Swiss Rifle union has now 4 000 sections with 120 000 members. Three thousand troops were recently sent to help inhabitants subdue a forest fire in Sweden. Three hundred thousand African war medals will probably be distributed. These will require 75 000 yards of ribbon. Every nation has its own formula for gunpowder. English is 75 percent of saltpetre, 15 charcoal, 10 sulphur, German 75 saltpetre, 11 charcoal, and 14 sulphur. Austrians use 2 pounds of saltpetre to 17 of coal and 11 sulphur. Swedish has only 9 pounds of sulphur in 100 pounds. Whats Your Face Worth? Sometimes a fortune, but never, if you have a sallow completion, a jaun aiced look, moth patches and plotches on the skin all signs of Liver Trouble. But Dr. Kingn New Life Pills I give Clear Skin, Rony Cheeks, Rich Complexion. Only 25¢ at Williams & Anderaups drug Flore. Go to Nancolus's to get your plumb ing done.
Various travel offers and railway advertising copy. Includes Nickel Plate Road round trip fares, vestibuled sleeping car services, price ranges from 35 cents to 81.00, endorsements of agents, growing miscellany of local trades ads, a medical testimonial, and notices for postal service exams and material from Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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