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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1898
Page
4
A practical guide to affordable fashion featuring a school frock for a young girl and a bride’s concert wardrobe for fall and winter. The piece stresses budget friendly sewing patterns and simple fabrics to help households stretch resources.
A lyric verse by Clifton Bingham from London Mall extols youth and love as life’s first joys. It contrasts bright early days with aging sorrow, asserting love remains the enduring gift beside us when others fade.
A bride to be shows seven sets of fine batiste lingerie for each day of the week with a trunk arranged in seven labeled trays. Each tray holds seven garments and a matching silken sachet blanket for every day. The wardrobe includes wide beading and numerous puffed bows.
A description of liberty silk trims and a novelty fabric mousseline glace. Guidance on using these textiles for full fronts, yokes, guimpes, and guimpes with turquoise or cream tones. Suggests enlivening gray taffeta outfits with these fabrics and pairing ruchings of chiffon, Liberty silk or satin for tasteful decoration.
A guide urges women to wear house gowns for the evening meal to save money and protect street gowns. Encourages the English habit of brightening a single gown with air and a few cheap touches, noting house gowns are cheaper and can be home sewn. A suggested model in light blue muslin features a low neck and sleeves with black embroidered edging and a decorative yoke.
Textile trends highlight navy serge school frocks for stormy weather and comfortable gowns for children. Descriptions emphasize plain waists, lace, ribbon trims, and a navy blue striped belt. Liberty satin and Liberty silk emerge in popular evening wear with varied widths and bold color options.
Light blue ribbon adds a trim to the waist creating a subtle decorative touch. The snippet highlights a fashion detail emphasizing color pairing and styling simplicity.
Mohair and silk braid scrols lead to varied trims for skirts and waists. Wavy scroll patterns, rose and pineapple motifs on mousseline de soie, three widths, and crocheted patterns with right and left effects. Narrow clover leaf edging complements wider braids for coordinated trimmings.
The season emphasizes smooth finished fabrics and plain goods with slender elongated silhouettes and prominent princess styles. Street dresses skim the floor while dress gowns show a four inch sweep. Colors run from browns with bronze tones to blues on lavender or fish tones, with black outfits fashionable but accented by colored linings or bodices unless for mourning.
Recipe notes describe removing lobster from shell and dicing two lobsters. Melt butter, cook lobster, then mix beaten egg yolks with milk to form custard. Season with salt pepper lemon juice and sherry, combine and stir before serving.
A practical guide detailing effective methods for managing dairy and poultry work on farms. It offers actionable hints on using live stock well, handling care routines, housing, feeding, and optimizing production for better farm results.
R A Pearson explains how bacteria enter dairies through impure water milk used cans and dust and outlines preventive steps. Clean and disinfect the entire factory including whey tanks drains and utensils. keep surroundings dry drain pools refit floors replace decayed boards and use steam or carbolic acid solutions carefully. if external source suspected locate and stamp out outbreak to protect whole district.
Bulletin notes emergence of sore mouth or sore foot disease in several Indiana localities, first appearing in 1891 92. Disease affects cattle and sometimes horses, not contagious, symptoms include inability to eat swollen tongue and lips and foul mouth odor. Treatment advised includes astrin gen wash tannic acid borax glycerine and gruel diet.
A veterinarian identifies black tongue as one form of anthrax, citing A. W. Bilting of p. y. M. as the authority. The remark appears in a discussion on diagnosis and forms of the disease.
John I Draper argues in Country Gentleman that meat feeding can boost egg records but warns against scraps from rendering plants. He favors fresh green cut bone as the safest, most nutritious meat source, noting bugs and worms are natural, while scraps risk disease and insufficient nutrients.
Utah experiment station tests show skim milk with grain yields better hog growth and efficiency than milk or grain alone. Milk and grain combinations reduce days to 100 pounds gain and improve health, with optimal skim to grain ratios around two to three to one. Early gains favor skim milk grain rations. pure milk causes slow growth and health issues.
A Mountaineer piece argues Americans suffer from dyspepsia due to improper eating and worry. It promotes Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a cure, citing Mr Earnest Snider of Pembira North Dakota who recovered after using six boxes. The pills are praised as a remedy for blood and nerve diseases including paralysis and locomotor ataxia.
Gossiping man recalls Mr Meckton once a singer whose career faded after a wife’s presence. A ventriloquy of old bass solo lines, “Let All Obey,” illustrates a tale of public embarrassment. The Washington Star and Chicago News snippets showcase quips on talkativeness in marriage.
A promoter touts a plan to aid the public with a new gas made from air and sunshine, claiming it aligns with sound money. An alderman from the steelth ward responds cautiously, preferring a platform that makes as little noise as possible.
A Washington Star excerpt captures a domestic exchange where Mrs Meck ton denounces overbearing authority, comparing it to an Asiatic potentate. Her husband questions if the phrase refers to the emperor of China, prompting a sharp, genteel retort on authority within a family.
A humorous exchange contrasts a man married a year with a man married twenty five years. The newer husband recalls his wife sending kisses in letters while the longer married man notes only a brief peck goodbye as he leaves for work, from the Indianapolis Journal.
Chicago Tribune quotes as a grand affair, with spectators boasting it was the greatest event the city ever pulled off. One observer claims to have missed the parade while tending to rain coat orders, highlighting busy city life during the spectacle.
Willie Washington asks what makes a literary classic and answers that true works gain appreciation long after they are written. He notes having produced many pieces that will not be published for years, reflecting on patience and lasting value in literature.
An advertisement claims catarrh is constitutional and cannot be cured by local applications. It asserts catarrh affects the blood and mucous surfaces and that Hall's Catarrh Cure works internally.
Juxtapositions of playful chatter and a mock teething remedy ad litter newspaper clippings. The dialogue passages feature asides about hair shade, mistaken identity, and social embarrassment joined with an advertisement for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claiming to ease teething pain and wind colic in infants.
A newspaper quip notes the rising trend of wedding cinematography. The Indianapolis Journal mocks courtship filming but acknowledges its growing acceptance as a modern custom.
An Indian speaker challenges perceived civilization while contrasting habits with a Western lifestyle. The dialogue presents a contemptuous exchange about alcohol use, societal influence, and perceived superiority, reflecting racially charged commentary in a Washington Star excerpt.
Public debate over keeping the Philippines aside health wisdom is clear yet, a universal support exists for using Hostet ter's Stomach Bitters as both a preventive and cure for malarial fevers and stomach disorders.
Maud and Irene discuss a mysterious Mr Stint or Stiint last night. Irene questions his identity and facial hair, while Maud jokes about a long dark mustache or its near equivalent as a nose.
Last week patents were issued to Northwestern inventors including Lars M and A G Anderson Moorhead Minn for a sled James H Bird and G J Carroll Mankato Minn for a clutch sprocket Richard H Cullum St Paul Minn for a gasometer Mary A Etsell Minneapolis Minn for a hat box John G Gun Vailson Cyrus Minn for a fence gate Ole Hl Hanson Litchfield Minn for a combined anvil vise and drill Sarah IF Hardy Minneapolis Minn for a buttonhole opener John Mueller Lisbon NC for a hay fork Albert St Penprase Duluth Minn for a staturator Victor Rieke Franklin Minn for a stump burner and insect exterminator Louis O Sunde Northwood ND for a corn planter William H Becker Cando ND for a badge design Merwin Lothrop Johnson Patent Attorneys 910 Pioneer Press Building St Paul
A Washington Star quotation contrasts a bicycle officer's vigilance with the need to keep eyes open to avoid arresting people for scavenging. The exchange underlines the constant alertness expected of patrols and the humorous tone of the source.
Speech fragment quotes Meandering Mike debating equalization schemes and preferring to receive his share as a cash deposit, joking about directing funds to a brewery instead. The dialogue contrasts wealth distribution with personal financial ease in a humorous, dialect-rich exchange.
A condemned murderer, facing the black cap, declared I seem to be the sinner sure of all eyes before the trap was sprung. The graphic execution scene ends with the condemned going to his doom as described by the Chicago Tribune.
A short reflective aphorism notes that true renown rests not on constant self-promotion but on steady, measured use of public attention. It suggests restraint defines enduring esteem and resilience in a leader or celebrity.
A fragmented excerpt shows Senge arguing that suffering from scarce food is acceptable, while Mrs Whitestripes faces neighborly rebuke for praising such hardship. The dialogue hints at social judgment, endurance, and a reference to Antisthenes about observing enemies.
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