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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1905
Page
3
A fashion features summer fabrics and adornments for sunbonnets, aprons, gowns, and lingerie. Describes dimities, chambray, gingham, ribbons, and embroidery, plus examples of all embroidery gowns, sheer silken fabrics, and pale blue peau de cygne ensembles. Includes tips on Hamburg steak and practical sewing ideas with lace yokes and trims.
Pastel tinted shirtwaists approved for coat suits but not with white linen or serge skirts. White serge returns to favor with summer wardrobes. Shirtwaist must be transparent for day wear. measure lengths to fit figure. no droop at elbow sleeves. sleeves full but not bagging. wim tucks done by hand.
The text outlines fashion details with puffed skirts, flared designs, deep girdles, numerous buckles, rose quillings, small sleeves, flat parasol adornments, and rising princess effects. Leghorn hats reappear, flounced boleros reach the hips, draped bodices are gouged, mousquetaire lingerie sleeves appear, and jaunty coat-tails top blouses.
Practical advice on keeping palms healthy by sponging with a milk and water mix. Guidance on removing jar top residue with boiling soda water and weekly flushing of all pipes and drains with copper solution to remove odors and sediment.
Des Moines tale recalls Ed Butcher the Iowa racehorseman who fell ill and spoke with a minister about salvation. Butcher wagers five dollars he can beat the minister to heaven by flying, asking if wings appear in the afterlife. The minister departs in despair as Butcher recovers and returns to racing.
The New York Sun argues that the term gentleman has no legal standing in America and cannot be earned by wealth or status. It says real gentlemanliness is not tied to accident of birth or material condition and that if anyone lacks it, it is their own fault.
The excerpt recalls young Schiller’s torment by a Swiss tutor Kuplig from Grisons. Later, in The Robbers, he rails against Kuplig and the Grisons, declaring that genius and a fit climate breed scamps. Later editions omit this jab, likely due to protests from Grisons residents.
A writer argues that red-haired individuals influenced revolutions and reform movements. He cites figures such as Mohammed, King David, Louis XIV, Cleopatra, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince Charles, Lucrezia Borgia, and Queen Elizabeth to illustrate the perceived link between red hair and distinctive character.
A visitor to Scotland attends a kirk service on the Sabbath. He grows drowsy and nearly asleep after the sermon begins. An elderly observer whispers a rebuke urging patience, saying, Give the man a chance. If he’s not worth listening to, then go to sleep later.
A Guernsey Wyoming Gazette item describes gossip as a hummingbird with eagle wings and a foghorn voice heard from Dan to Beersheba. It claims gossip has caused more trouble than myriad plagues and disasters, framing it as a warlike force prompting a final reckoning.
A quaint tale recounts Lord Bacon observing fishers and their nets. He offers a price, the catch is small, and he quips that it would have been better to take his offer. The moral phrase, Hope is a good breakfast but a poor supper, follows.
Fragmentary lyric strain from the Atlanta Constitution quotes a dying heart and a wish to rest. It evokes love, faith, and loss as the speaker pleads to depart with a beloved, while death and dawns fade into memory.
Inventors in New Zealand propose egg carriers made from wire bent into cup shapes and attached to wooden battens. The design, like a pasteboard crate, distributes eggs without contact with rigid surfaces, enhancing durability and reuse.
A Chicago Tribune note discusses how intoxication reveals hidden fixations and eccentricities in men. It cites a westward fiction belief about a South Sea tribe, revealed only while drunk, and contrasts sober ignorance with drunk obsession. Other quirks include compulsive telegrams, excessive shaving, and complaints about companions’ attire.
In Lyons, inventor M. Garchey demonstrates a new paving material he calls ceramo crystal. He melts all glass into a hard, durable surface able to withstand heavy traffic, claiming cost savings and near indestructibility versus existing European and American building materials.
The purse, described as the money spinner, is crafted in gold mesh in a spider web pattern with a large jeweled spider at its center. The holder’s hand shows a smart stede glove from the period, finished with a black and white silk bracelet.
An angler returns to the hotel with a dead swallow and claims he hooked it on a back cast. Fellow fishermen recount similar tales, and the prankster forces each to confirm the story by admitting the truth.
A London watchmaker displays a clock in his shop window shaped like a fan with numbered leaves. The leaves begin to open at 6 a.m. and progressively unfold until 6 p.m. when fully open. The fan then closes and will repeat the same opening pattern each day.
A poetic meditation on the Handicraftsman as a model of honest, skilled work. The piece contrasts serene, dignified craft with a society ruled by greed, praising the craftsman’s inward sight, steady toil, and the value of doing work that is its own reward. It laments a corrupted age where integrity in labor is scarce.
News of the labor world covers the Chicago Typographical union delaying eight hour day to 1906, resolutions by middle state printers opposing the same, new officers in insulator unions, expulsions in Peoria Labor League, and a toll of strikes ending. Also noted are profits shares to American Smelting workers, the Woman's Trade Union League, pension rules in Boston pavers, and a court ruling limiting union discipline of nonmembers.
A rubber film glove has been devised for surgeons. It is put on by immersing hands in a weak solution of gutta percha in heptane or acetone. The film seals skin surfaces with an impervious pellicle that blocks pus or secretions while preserving touch and skin pliability.
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