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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1905
Page
3
This fashion note previews autumn styles with multi color appliques and light gold accents, aluminum embroidery, and rose, royal blue, myrtle and purple shades. It notes white serge novelties, Empire line silhouettes, and bold browns in horsehair hats.
The piece offers practical how tos on fabric care and simple dressmaking. It describes making excellent chocolate from water, cleaning and mending rugs, refreshing a black chip hat with ink and gum, and using wax to prevent white fabrics from yellowing. It also covers hemming flounces with Valenciennes lace, cutting circular ruffles from handkerchief linen, washing ribbons, and a green rajah silk gown with matching hat and accessories.
The article outlines new collar and bow trends to enhance blouse appearance. It describes turnover canvas linen collars with embroidered spots, rosette knots, plaited ribbon ends, and rainbow ribbon accents. Bodice accents include hem-stitched borders and buttonhole piercings shaped to reveal ribbon beneath.
A fashion note describes goodoir outfits with pale blue hats matching many looks. Shirtwaist dresses in dotted swiss and lawn stay cool and affordable. Traveling bags accompany traveling suits, while light wash flannels feature colored or white embroidered polka dots. Tiny three cornered hats for babies sport three rosettes of ribbon.
A traveling gown features a rose-pink Sicilienne shade with fiopen front coat bodice, a removable waistcoat in pique, a cape collar, elbow-length lace sleeves, and a rose-red velvet ribbon accent. The plain skirt shows a shaped velvet applique above the hem with shirring for fit.
In hot weather a dress isn’t complete without an outside wrap matching the outfit. Even a linen shirt-waist frock gains a third garment, a jaunty linen coat, worn with it to stay stylish while thermometers reach 94.
Eolienne remains a usable coat material this season while yolle loses favor except for certain coat and skirt costumes. The silkiness suits loose flowing coats. a taffeta coat can be a better buy. A new kerchief ruffle for a white petticoat with transparent skirts is highly desirable, with many handkerchiefs cut and used to form it.
The article notes reds in vogue including tomato, geranium, gardenia, and camellia shades. It highlights geranium red as especially common and cerise as the top gown color. The piece emphasizes broad use of these reds across clothing and accessories.
Soak cocoanut macaroons in peach syrup until soft then layer with whipped peach cream. Beat egg whites to stiff peaks with sugar and peach syrup, fold in sweet cream, and assemble in a deep dish with soaked macaroons. Top with shredded cocoanut.
A late French design linen gown for traveling wear features a loose lace trimmed jacket with matching edging on sleeves and a stitched skirt. Also described is a Paris summer blouse in sheer lawn with embroidery and an optional high collar for warm day wear.
The piece notes foreign royalties often look poorly in civil dress, praising Spain's king for a superb tailor made civil outfit. It recalls czar and Prince George of Greece in India, contrasting brilliant uniforms with shabby morning dress at a garden party. The tone mocks ill fitting attire among royals and officials.
A Philadelphia lawyer recounts a curious party line incident. His wife suspected a neighbor of listening, but a church test revealed all three neighbors heard nothing. She identified the culprit, yet blamed the natural curiosity of all women for the mishap.
A Bombay native student’s essay on the horse extols the noble animal while noting faults and uses from bridled control to load bearing. The text shifts to verses on Earth’s map and a Navy anecdote from the New York Times describing a British bluejacket likening himself to a mule under a hay load in Gibraltar.
A venerable clergyman recalled attending a meeting where a man rose to say he intended to speak, claiming his wife had prevented him from speaking in public. He stated that after her death he would speak freely, and soon everyone in the audience mourned the wife and a personal friend.
Edmond Selous notes doves bill during nesting and that the passage of food became obsolete, suggesting human kissing may have originated similarly. He describes stock doves bowing during combat as a courtship display, a behavior that intertwines courting and fighting in birds.
Alonzo Murphy of Pochuck Pennsylvania captured a snapping turtle whose carcass his wife cooked into soup. The family cat ate part of the meat and eggs, died, then eleven baby turtles hatched from the stomach and killed the cat as they clawed their way free.
An elephant named Jumbo visited the stock exchange led by Salvationist Smith to solicit subscriptions for the army's self denial fund. The stunt drew attention and resulted in generous donations amid the bulls and bears and other market sights reported by the New York Herald.
In Burma an English artist learns that love is expressed by a man sitting at a fixed distance from his beloved and watching her. If she glances or smiles by day three, he proceeds to ask for marriage discussions with the parents.
A Amateur Sportsman correspondent argues trout hear little, sensing danger only through earth and water vibrations, so quiet humans can converse near them. The other item describes the bolo flower of Mindanao, said to be the largest in the world with a nearly yard-wide bloom and weights up to twenty two pounds, growing atop a high pinnacle about two thousand feet above sea level.
A Massachusetts man lives in a tree summer home. claim cites a world’s largest plant, purportedly a peaweed species reaching 300 feet. The dried stems are used as ropes by South Sea islanders, though details remain unverified.
Chinese doctors rely on pulse examination and touch to assess heart and organ health. They often greet patients with a lengthy arm and wrist check, then issue prescriptions on paper. Treatments are prepared by a native chemist and served hot as herb decoctions with tea and raisin palate cleansing in a tearoom setting.
Henry Norman surveys the Caucasus from ancient myth to modern struggle, tracing Georgia from Alexander the Great and Justinian through Tamara and Genghis Khan to Russian rule. He notes repeated invasions, divides within Georgia, and Shamyl’s sixteen year revolt ending with surrender at Gunib in 1859.
A 716 pound giant leatherback turtle, likely the largest on record in the U S, was received from Blocksland by G M Long Co of New London. It died after landing but will be sketched for records and possibly exhibited. The specimen, Dermochelus corlacia, measures 6 feet long from snout to tail and 7 feet across flippers, underscoring the leatherback as an ancient reptile family.
Richard N. Hall argues Rhodesia holds hundreds of ruins most not fully explored with Great Zimbabwe as a premier site. The Zimbabwe temple shows geometry and astronomy use and advanced defense works. Ancient gold mining produces an estimated $375,000,000 in precious metals.
The Huntsville Herald notes a remarkable bee story told by Bill Heflin about a vast swarm he supposedly witnessed during the Civil War. Heflin and Squire O Bryan discuss bees and swarming while recalling his claim of a two mile wide by twenty mile long cloud bursting from a cliff hole.
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