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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
3
Glove styles, fabrics, and a New French Blouse feature in this seasonable fashion spread. Recipes include cauliflower soup and a rhubarb wine. notes on sleeves and dressmaker work reflect the era’s styling.
The piece surveys summer style with green gloves and lemon yellow silk elbow gloves, airy white linens, and embroidered home made waists. It notes changes in hat shapes from saucer hats to broad flat crowns, and describes several ensembles with belts, plumes, and decorative trimmings.
A young girl models a garden hat she handmade from a palm-leaf fan. The crown is scooped from the fan’s end and shirred with pale blue cheesecloth. A brim is edged with plaited ruffles and matching fleecy material, with long chin-tied streamers completing the quaint, picturesque look.
Water is suggested as milk substitute for lighter cake batters and as a fix for stiff table linens. Microscopic checks of meat are used to claim purity in milk. A home lemonade substitute is given using leaf sugar water, citric acid, and lemon essence.
The spring fashion edict bans wrist puff sleeves while 2 blouse sleeve pouched at the waist remain seen around the world. Some wearers defy the rule, continuing to flaunt pouched sleeves despite the new silhouette trend.
The left costume features grena dine or voile fabric with a plaited shoulder bolero edged in taffeta, a white linen waistcoat with embroidered collar, taffeta knot and girdle, and batiste chemisette. Full sleeves end in batiste lace frills, while the skirt shows plaits and taffeta bands. The second costume uses embroidered linen with braid, a front crossing bolero, a braid embroidered blouse, silk girdle, and elbow frills of the material with batiste lace trim.
In a Chicago Record Herald item, Mrs Ponsonby and Mrs Dallington preside over a long fashion chat. They discuss dressmakers, gowns, hats, wraps, corsets, and feminine apparel as the men comment on shirts, trousers, vests, and ties from Creighley Mansell Morgenheim.
A clergyman fond of hot pickles keeps a bottle on travels. At a restaurant a stranger asks for the pickles and, after the minister passes them, the Yank gasps for breath. The man teases the minister about preaching hell fire, and the minister replies he does. The Yankee notes the minister carries samples.
An old anecdote recalls Rev P B Wilcox in Maine directing a couple toward matrimony after the man, a multiple widower, hesitates and the bride joining hands proves reluctant. A London auto firm recruits eight cyclists with red flags to warn drivers, aiming to dodge police speed traps.
An Omaha News summary reflects on the high price of polar exploration with estimates that over 400 lives 200 ships and 100 million dollars have been spent. It argues that if the pole is ever reached the entire Arctic region would have been bought at above market value.
A California inventor reports successful trial of transporting fruits and vegetables in a vacuum. The claim notes preserved freshness and reduced spoilage, highlighting potential for extended shelf life and new logistics for growers.
In her memoirs, Sarah Bernhardt recounts nearly fainting at the Paris Conservatory final, missing honors for tragedy and winning only second prize for comedy as Marie Lloyd claimed the top prize and later became a music hall star. Bernhardt describes Lloyd’s triumphal reception and her own shock as tall, gleeful rivals crowded the stage.
A Washington Post humorous anecdote tells of a literary man with seven children at his country house. While the father ducked the 2 year old at a creek, a neighbor intervened, threatening legal action. The author notes the neighbor remained skeptical, remarking you already have six others.
An old editorial verse mocks preachers and professors who claim virtue lies in wealth while condemning toil and money worship. It contrasts the humble laborer and seamstress with the rich man who enjoys cars and ease, noting the persistent lure of cash. The piece ends acknowledging a River in Chicago.
Clyde Fitch laments that French wit cannot transplant well here due to subtleness delicacy and wickedness. He cites a French joke about two clubmen where the punch line reveals irony as the pretty governess kisses the wife.
An editor recalls meeting Wilde in London at the opening night of his comedy The Important of Being Earnest. A group dines at Carton and discusses epigrams. Wilde, described as the foremost lying epigramist, gives a sly definition: an epigram is a commonplace phrase couched so artfully that only clever people will grasp its meaning.
A Kansas City businessman entered a West Side drugstore on a Sunday morning. He tossed a dime on the showcase and asked for two nickels. The clerk teased about a slot machine, but the man explained he planned to spell out a plan.
An investigation shows bees possess a sense of direction enabling them to return to their hives from distant, unfamiliar locations. A bee-keeper tested this by attaching tiny messages to bees and releasing them across a desert, delivering the notes homeward with remarkable speed, as reported in St. Nicholas.
A Scottish expedition in the Antarctic observed penguin life from hatch to adulthood. Chicks hatch in August amid darkness and cold, depend on adult feet for warmth, and are culled by stronger birds. Colonies form under ruthless leadership as parents search for crustaceans and some perish. Penguins weigh up to eighty pounds and reach four feet, with bright neck patches. Young take three years to mature, displaying less brilliant plumage. They walk, then glide on their bellies to escape danger, track ice-field movements for migration, steal stones for nests, and show instinctive behaviors..Sleeping posture resembles a sled, and penguins seek shelter with only the beak tip peeking from the wing.
A writer in the China Mall reports unrest in eastern Guangdong resembling the 1900 Boxer upheaval. A bearded woman claims to be a fairy guiding followers with magic to foretell events and promise immunity from harm. Hundreds join, looting rice stores while bandits grow, and fear drives elites to flee. Suspected impersonation by a man in disguise is noted along with contagion across counties.
A Sketch outlines Japanese wrestling as a test of strength not science. Bouts allow grasping any body part to force a fall, with toes or fingers enabling ground contact outside the ring. Referee with fan enters, challengers pair off, and early starts or calls of Mati Mati signal readiness.
Captain Charles York of the Eva Mildred shores a 75 swordfish catch from the southeast Georges. Edward Estes wrestles a swordfish, driving its weapon through the dory bottom to capsize the boat before reclaiming the lure and later slaying the fish. A sword fragment kept as a trophy by the crew.
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