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Newspaper
Eureka Sentinel
Location
Eureka, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
3
How to create the Castle bob coiffure popular with young girls by drawing hair back from the forehead and tying it with a black velvet ribbon to cover the neck and ears. A cluster curl style uses a wire foundation covered with net for symmetry, placed high or low, with curls arranged at the top and nape.
A recipe for cream toast with thin crispy slices steamed to tenderness then buttered and topped with a white sauce. It uses milk, butter, and flour beaten in a double boiler, seasoned with salt and pepper, served very hot in a soup plate.
Fashion notes highlight military themed decorations for wraps and tailored suits. Metal tassels cords and ball fringes will trim collars pockets and shoulders while braiding and epaulets show oriental influence. Opalescent and jet trims rise with black and colored soutache braided embroidery gains.
A lightweight maire with irregular water design dominates allk ceat and frock costumes but not widely used, mingling with other materials. Taffeta tops, semi tailored styles echoing 1880s, with ornate trimming, while exaggerated frissiness looms over the season. Clever dressmakers and women will avoid these trends.
Article notes bungalow dresses and aprons for summer living. Describes adjustable bungalow apron enabling quick wear when maid absent, with side buttons, wide sleeves, flaring skirts, contrasting collars and cuffs. Garments shown in striped seerstcker, figured perenie, ginghams, or dark blue and white fabrics, often with matching cups.
A suit season promises supremacy for upscale suits in the fashion world. Heightened by Paris leadership loss, Tallormade suits return as the preferred travel and shopping attire. Frilly waists, smart boots, and a chic hat define the look, with tan drab colors and blue green brown tones and tweed wool blends. Taffeta guils reveal frilly black brown and blue modes, all rooted in quaint style for modish charm.
In Petrograd a revolutionary committee meeting dispersed as a spy was uncovered by Ivan Demizoff. He arranged a police trap that failed, leading to a daring night rescue. Four conspirators were freed by a masked rescue team, with two fleeing to America, one to Germany, and one vanished.
Across America Protestant bodies push minister and widow orphan pension funds totaling about 50 million dollars, with experts predicting 15 million more needed. Leaders in California announce reform of funding. Methodists seek 15 million, Presbyterians Baptists Episcopalians about 10 million each, others 2 million. A San Francisco pension congress promotes retiring aging ministers to refresh stagnant fields. In other news, Edward A. Webb's will bequeaths 400,000 for four Presbyterian boards from a 650,000 estate, plus 125,000 for his widow Luella Webb and home valued at 40,000, with remainder to the estate.
A party game assigns numbers to players and hides a ring on one finger and hand. By a series of arithmetic steps the observer is led to a four digit code 8131 that identifies the wearer by person, hand, finger, and joint, here person 3, right hand, finger 3, joint 1.
Arrangements near completion for a Boy Scouts of America camp in the Ozark foothills of Oklahoma. Forty five acres gifted for the camp to accommodate about 400 boys, with estimated expenditure near 2000 dollars. Two week session aims to draw boys from Muskogee Tulsa and Oklahoma City. The Oklahoma scout field has produced notable leaders of the movement.
A description outlines a table game called fishing for fingers. Players sit around a table while one is the fisherman armed with a short stick and a twine loop anchored to a Joop. The loop lands on the table center, players place a fingertip inside the loop, then the fisherman pulls the line and players must withdraw fingers quickly to avoid being caught. Each successful catch scores a point, and the total for a game is decided beforehand. Each player takes a turn as fisherman.
Fragmentary lines evoke a river scene with imagery of wild flowers along the bank and a boat gliding with wind and tide. The verse offers a riddle-like answer about growing, rowing, owing, and wing, suggesting a motif of movement and escape.
The Central Law Journal recounts Theophilus Harrington famed for seeking justice over strict technicality. In a farm dispute he forged a seal with a wafer and a three cornered paper, declaring the deed valid and promising no one would be cheated in court.
In a quirky Statesman item, a once celebrated inventor is described as having declined, with a witty aside about excuses failing to sway his wife. The piece frames his past success against current struggles in a light, humorous tone.
A quip from the Richmond Times Dispatch notes that He Miss Oldgirl plans marriage but cannot find a man willing to aid in carrying out the implied threat. The exchange showcases a wry take on romantic resolve and social expectations.
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