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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1905
Page
3
A feature on new ladies slippers with an opera shape and a modified Louis Quinze heel. The pair showcased sport a dull purple velvet look with a quilted hellotrope silk turnover and pink rose bud embroidery, finished with a hellotrope ribbon bow atop the toe.
The Newark Advertiser urges young girls to avoid pillow use to prevent round shoulders and to cultivate erect carriage. It prescribes daily chest and shoulder exercises, posture checks while standing in a doorway, and keeping the neck against the collar to promote proper alignment and future fitness.
The Atchison Globe notes a remark where a wife tells her husband, you are as foolish as to monkey with a chafing dish, reflecting the era’s domestic banter as the man reads or dozes in his chair.
The article surveys fashion details for ladies in a season, noting oversized or small hats, shoulder emphasis on bodices, puffed skirts with lace and embroidery, slashed turbans, and long redingotes. It highlights square military sleeves, demand for coats and rainwear, and jackets with flawless fit, along with hat embellishments like wreaths and roses. Velvet and cloth ensembles are discussed for versatility into fall.
The Kansas City Times recounts how Mayor Warner, testing a new Babcock extinguisher, climbed to a roof during a blaze at Missouri avenue and Delaware street. A sudden smoke burst knocked him backward into a cistern twenty feet below, yet he survived unhurt while the Babcock was wrecked.
A poetic sketch of a man valued for kindness and honor over creed. He stays loyal to friends through life’s trials, with discreet generosity and quick excuses, yet generous to women and slow to anger. Despite flaws, he remains fundamentally upright and faithful.
A shy child Harold refuses to answer questions from the hostess until pressured. His father jokes the boy will not spill family secrets, but Harold finally reveals the alarmingly informal morning address his father uses for the mother, calling her Marfa and telling her to wake and make the fire.
Richard Lydekker asks the British Museum for pedigreed horse skulls citing a discovery of a facial gland pit in an Indian horse skull that resembles primitive three toed hipparians. He notes a similar feature in racehorse Stockwell and Bend Or and in an Arab horse, but not in ordinary English or continental horse skulls or in European drift and turbary specimens.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item recounts a classroom exchange about Puritan punishments. Students identify ducking-stool for scolds, stocks for vagabonds, and pillory for doctors, illustrating the era’s public discipline and the misperceived roles of professionals.
A party of Americans discovering Teayo the lost capital of the Otomites in Mexico found sacrificial towers, underground passages, and hieroglyphs. They photographed ruins, studied tombs of emperors, and noted Otomite art surpassing Aztecs while Mexican officials plan archeological exploration.
An elderly woman confronts Tired Tiffins believing he carries liquor. He denies the charge, insisting he has no bottle. The exchange highlights Tiffin’s reputation for sharing booze whenever needed.
A humorous sketch from Harper's Weekly describes an ignorant Ohio man who amasses a fortune and builds a lavish mansion. His wife echoes muddled remarks about a mix of the ironic and the cathartic while abroad in Europe. She faux pas at Cairo’s Eden Place hotel, mistaking terms and miscalling Egyptians superior yet harsh in comparison to humorously bungled expressions.
A Kansas City Journal report explains posters require a ton of flour and twenty barrels of water to make 1000 gallons of paste weekly. Four wagonloads cover fifteen miles of billboard. fifteen workers refresh posters each week. Wednesday is the busy posting day. Paste is made from 100 pounds of flour per batch with hot water, kept hot in large boxes on wagons, and bills torn off with crowbars and sold for fuel. Workers earn up to three dollars a day, with expert poster laborers commanding high wages.
The Springfield News Leader describes a massive sycamore along the Little Beech near Mitchel Bottom in Washington County. The tree has sheltered fishermen, housed two horses, a cowshed, and over two dozen hogs in winters, with a spring at its foot and a twelve foot rail can be slid inside it.
President Roosevelt is described as a remarkable rapid reader whose ability to absorb written material astonishes even close associates. He reportedly read a congressman's papers in minutes while continuing the conversation, returning them with all valuable information extracted.
A renowned sportsman hosts an annual dinner at his London residence inviting male friends including cricketers footballers and jockeys. Guests dress in their usual sports costumes creating a curious spectacle at the table.
A humorous exchange features Finnegan resting on his ax and Fesnery arguing that cutting a tree is pointless without chopping it up again, a playful dialect scene illustrating rustic wit and practical joke.
A Detroit Tribune humor item notes a quip about attending a seance. The speaker claims contact with spirits, jokingly mentioning spirits of wine as the punchline. The exchange showcases playful banter and wordplay on supernatural chatter.
An inventor in Paris, M. Crabbe, has created a fester paper aiding travelers to endure winter travel by automobile. At Doornkloof in the Witwatersrand gold field a bore hole exceeds a mile in depth. A London court cites lack of mental exercise as a cause of rural English laborers' brain softening. Cremation remains slow in England after 1894 court rulings on executor rights. The North Silver in New York Harbor hosts the world’s largest electrical sign, costing $8 to operate five hours daily. Desert air has few bacteria, aiding rheumatics and kidney disease patients. tesults from a German physician. Kite photography by Emile Wenz yields useful geologic maps from 650-foot heights. Hertz waves span 150 feet between peaks. Marconi’s Atlantic telegraph waves exceed 600 feet, travel at light speed, and are vastly longer than the light wave itself.
An anecdote from the New York Globe describes the King of Sweden in a Wellsbaden hotel smoking room where a loud republican argued, and a quiet stranger, smiling, asserts strong reasons for monarchy, starting with the claim that he is king of Sweden.
A Country Life in America essay by Herbert K. Job warns that the elegant egret, prized for aigrette plumes in millinery, faces extinction due to fashion. It notes 1908 plume values at $23 per ounce, equating to twice gold weight, and calls for constant guarding to protect remaining rookries from hunters.
An absentminded professor was seen walking with one foot on the gutter and the other on the pavement. A pupil greeted him and he replied that he had been feeling fine until the last ten minutes when he realized he was limping.
Berlin leads a shift in thinking on royal alliances and the fitness of marriages. The text notes early marriages faced reproach in ordinary life, and even in high circles the union of immature youths is increasingly viewed as calamitous.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt notes last year's crop gains feeding railroad expansion and a steel revival. It claims United States Steel plans a wage increase worth $0,000,000 annually to 00,000 workers, while an English watchmaker completes four tiny water-formed shirt studs.
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