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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1905
Page
3
A fashion notes page describes gowns in white seloth with embroidered yokes and black velvet trim, and discusses new sleeve shapes replacing earlier puffed sleeves. It highlights dressing sacques, embroidery on gowns, and a faux Turtle Soup recipe interwoven with style tips and fabric suggestions.
The article describes summer fashion details such as lace toques, Valenciennes imitations, directoire and redingote coats, and white chemisette necklines. It also offers a rice pie recipe with butter and cheese, plus cleaning tips for nickel and plush goods and outdoor sports sweaters with V-necklines and caps featuring eye openings.
The article notes a colonial house with elegant tall candlesticks integrated into the dining room gallery railings. It also gives tiny practical tips such as substituting brushing for washing vulcanite and horn combs and using cotton to remove dandruff from the teeth.
A black taffeta blouse features shirred bottom with a frill, a silk fin, velvet edge accents, and venetian lace plastron. The stole ends have small frills and buttons, while the standing collar and shoulder lace add refined detailing. Full sleeves are shirred at the cuffs with lace and fabric frills.
A lace gown accessory, Tambour scarf, covers the head after mantilla fusion and falls almost to the gown’s foot. Double lace frills edge the border, framing the face for opera and theatergoers who wish to stay hatless yet warm.
This item lists cooking times for potatoes baked steamed boiled and pared with notes on achieving well softened texture. It then describes ribbon trims gold and silver gauze ribbons and wired sashes used in fashion to decorate outfits and accessories like hoebros cuffs and short sleeves.
A creditor demands 300 guineas from Charles James Fox but Fox explains the money pays a debt of honor, including 800 guineas lost to Sheridan. He then frees the creditor with the recovered sum, noting Sheridan must wait. The piece then shifts to Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle’s biography and Henry Loomis Nelson’s commentary.
A fragment from a Philadelphia record and Buffalo Commercial recount a ministerial anecdote about Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher humorously addresses a clergyman’s sleep-in-church problem, noting his rule to wake the minister if a sleeper stirs in the pew.
Melinda Templeton confronts a neighbor over his fierce dog Ludwig. After a social clash and a failed courtship by Paul Learey, the couple reconcile as Ludwig helps Melinda by defending her from unwanted attention and the pair bond through adversity. Leonard Pottar and Melinda’s engagement follow as the garden drama ends.
The poem mocks William Bullion the self made millionaire as he learns refined manners. It contrasts his wealth with pretensions as he grows accustomed to napkins forks and formal wear while servants in the hall obey the topcoat ritual. The parlor scene shows both pride and awkwardness in high society.
A Montreal Herald note describes a remarkable Pacific tree used for towels, glue, cloth, tinder, bread, and building. The tree rises to a three story height with branches bearing breadlike fruit. Glue oozes from the trunk, leaves yield towels, inner bark yields coarse cloth, dried blossoms serve as tinder, and wood is sought for construction.
A historic note recalls a lavish seventy course feast in Pekin described to British merchants, listing delicacies such as birds nest soup shark fins and solea of pigeons feet. The article also tells of a Scottish bank official who received 100 pounds in a romantic gesture after twenty years, having once returned £100 misdelivered in Ireland.
A hidden furnace beneath a flagstone at Logie House near Dundee reveals cremated remains and suspected undisclosed crimes connected to the Black Lady of Logie and the Laird's past.
A bloodhound searched for two missing workmen at Medomsley Colliery near Newcastle on Tyne after a master shipper vanished a week earlier. The dog traced tunnels for five hours but was misled by prior searchers, ending the effort.
In Nuernberg Germany a man was fined 6.25 dollars for calling a telephone girl a sheenshend. In Vienna a man faced an 8 dollar fine for calling a telephone girl a Chinese.
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