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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1905
Page
2
A collection of fashion and culinary notes on elegant vienna biscuits and coats. Describes a butter flour sugar dough with egg yolk and milk, buttered baking, chocolate centers, and jelly. plus tea jackets, girdles from ribbons, towel warnings, black satin trends, coffee glaze icing, net robes, silk blouses, onion cooking tips, and afternoon gowns with lace and buttons.
Three little chicks with diamond eyes stand on a gold bar in a novel brooch design. Maidenhair fern, lily of the valley, and snowdrop pieces exhibit delicate enamel work and drop pearls. Pearl tassel necklaces and festoon pendants rise in fashion while waist belts merge with bodice drapery. Guidance on washing linens advocates thorough rinsing and careful wringing with alkali-free soaps.
The millinery scene shows a fresh blue straw color rivaling ultramarine with soft thick straw shapes trimmed by foliage wreaths. The popular French or American sailor brim is upturned at the edge, adorned with roses ranging from old pink to magenta, amid matching blue grace silk. Red accents and white chip bands complete the chic display as chip hats in Serres blue gain note.
The passage catalogues millinery notes with imagery of green hats, Coque de roche heraldry, Dolly Varden sleeves, eight inch cuffs, opalescent gauze and paillettes. A dead rose motif appears in headgear clusters while a final neck fur fragment rounds out the description.
The novelty short capes by Parisian modistes, designed to match coat and skirt ensembles or princess robes, are not often worn here though Parisians favor them. They provide necessary warmth without altering color schemes or silhouette, making a subtle fashion statement.
Freshly boiled water is essential and should not be boiled twice. When the steam erupts from the kettle, scald the teapot, add one generous teaspoon per person plus one for the pot, place the pot in warmth, draw the tea for five and a half minutes, then stir and let it settle for half a minute.
The gown on the left features soft cloth with matching trim along the skirt and jacket. The jacket has a basque back, bolero front, and a shawl collar of light embroidered silk. A second gown uses cashmere with a corsage and belt details, dotted tulle inserts, puffed sleeves, and lace ruffles.
A Madrid report describes Prudencio a 28 year old troglodyte captured near Fuenterrabia after fleeing a customs hunt. Once a farmhand in San Sebastian he fled two years ago due to unemployment and survival in a forest. He lives in a moss bed, with bones and primitive tools, eating raw meat and surviving on acorns nuts and birds eggs.
The New Style of Presents Made at English Weddings features gold cats mounted as brooches for five young bridesmaids. The child recipients wore Vandyke style white satin dresses with red shoes and lace headpieces, while many attendees included scarlet and blue-clad Guards' school children. A tiny bridesmaid nearly disappeared under the bridal train as it swept along.
The Bath lumber magnate Milton G. Shaw ignored penmanship. Foreman Hiram Chadbourne of Harmony misread a Bath letter and, after hiring men, traveled to Greenville. He bought rum, met Shaw at the Lake House, and learned the message was a joke about a summons he never sent.
Hartford Times cites about 30,000 enlisted in the navy and desolate desertion rate averaging 3,000 yearly. Six hundred from Rear Admiral Evans' squadron disappeared on a Pensacola port call. With new ships, a 20,000-man force would still lose over 8,000 annually if desertion persists, signaling systemic naval service issues.
Figures from the bureau of vital statistics reveal New York City birth patterns with Fifth Avenue recording the lowest numbers and less than ten births in the wealthiest stretch. The East Side near Division Street shows the highest birth rate, contrasting sharply with the Fifth Avenue area.
After years of silence France resumes gold production by starting the first gold mill in its history at the La Susette antimony mine near Laval in December 1904. A ten-stamp mill operates steadily.
The King of Siam approves a loan totaling 6 million dollars to fund railway and port construction and related infrastructure projects across the kingdom. The act earmarks funds for developing transport links and expanding the imperial network.
An American mining engineer describes Mexican oral storytelling as central in camps and villages where illiteracy is high. He notes that many tales echo Boccaccio plots adapted into Aztec settings, linking Mexican folklore to European fabliaux and ancient sources via priests and itinerant tellers.
A burglar using skeleton keys enters a home at 3 a.m. and encounters a sharp warning from a startled female resident. He fumbles, trips over furniture, and escapes down the stairs, terrified by her threats and accusations. The intruder, described as a family man, flees after enduring a dramatic verbal tirade.
At a Five O Clock club dinner Congressman John Allen of Mississippi drew laughter with a story swap about his unlikely nickname Private John Allen, as Senator Tom Carter recalled a past exchange with Col. John R. Fellows from Dixieland. The Bit of humor highlighted military service myths and friendly jabs among old soldiers.
A Washington Post review surveys historic generals and tactics, praising aggressive leadership. It notes Soult Cumberland Daun and Kouropatkin as capable yet often unlucky commanders, discusses classical examples from Peter the Great, Kutusoff, Hannibal, and Napoleon, and highlights Stonewall Jackson and Forrest as emblematic advocates of the aggressive approach.
A fragmentary tale recounts a night of nerves and eerie sounds near a graveyard. Two men, Joe Simpson and the narrator, glimpse a white apparition while denying belief in ghosts. An Army officer comments on telephones shaping modern warfare and the odd warning about surprising ghosts with a loud hello.
Alfred Fernando of New York designs a two wheel windmill with sails inclined to rotate oppositely. The units rise as wind grows, adjusting sail angle to keep power from increasing with wind speed. Bevel gears and universal joint connect shafts, balancing weights, and a vane plane deflects wind to modify force.
A tame crow owned by Sher brook Howard of Bath Maine shows notable intelligence. It wakes him by crowing at his bedroom window each morning but does not go near the window again during the day. When hungry it squawks until fed, refuses to fly away, and remains within a quarter mile of its home, resisting a bid from neighboring crows to join them.
The thirty Japanese people are noted for using seaweed as food. They gather it with long poles and spread it on the beach to dry, a common practice described in the segment.
An April 1 prank in Portland Maine involved filling sand peeps with tea instead of sand and sealing them tightly to prevent access. The hoax exploited a drought like scarcity and sold the contraband drinks at high prices, embarrassing local bar keeps of the prior month.
On Ascension Island in the Atlantic the Admiralty governs with a captain. There is no private land, so no rents or taxes. Flocks and herds are public property and meat is rationed. Vegetables grown on farms are likewise shared.
Harold Foss of Island Pond has taken the teachers examination and passed with a general score of 79 percent. Foss is reported to be 1344 years old, a remarkable but unverified detail from the local note.
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