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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
4
A description from New York City highlights a blouse featuring differing sleeves in front and back views. The front uses sleeves of the main material while the back presents a contrasting sleeve treatment, showcasing a versatile fashion concept.
New broadcloths for winter include a black and dull gray stripe pattern described as an odd yet likely popular choice. The note highlights its soft weave and expected consumer appeal.
Corded materials gain favor in textiles with silk satin and wool blends shown. The trend highlights corded weaves featuring combinations of silk and wool and includes corded fabrics beyond traditional silk and satin.
The piece describes a slender fashionable skirt featuring circular side and back portions with a narrow front gore. It highlights graceful folds over the hips, invisible back closure, and use of buttons and simulated buttonholes. Catawba colored broadcloth with silk button coverings is suggested.
Soft silks and wools create an attractive season blouse using tucked chemisette lace and matching lace. Crepe meteore in peacock shades with gold silver banding, a fitted lining yoke, shirted sleeves, and a draped lower edge over a foundation girdle. Medium size requires seven yards.
The article notes fashion returning to high heels as a bold trend. It highlights styles, appearances, and the renewed interest in elevated footwear.
Plumage hats are principally in dark natural pheasant shades. The description notes the common color range and material influence on style.
Colored handkerchiefs gain popularity as a fashion accessory with increasing daily adoption. The trend highlights brighter colors and coordinated outfits, reflecting evolving style choices.
A fashion note introduces a hat style named run about reflecting a trend that links hat design to precise measurements. The term suggests hats tailored to individual head dimensions and measurements.
The hatpin is reported as markedly longer than before, stretching from one side of the crown to the opposite edge, suggesting a notable change in hatpin design or fashion.
Furriers showcase long coats crafted from reindeer skin. The garments are described as handsome and smart with brocade linings in a fawn shade.
Describes a transition from flat uncurled plumes to bushy curled plumage with blade shaped clusters replaced by handsome colored plumes.
The piece highlights a trend toward white satin sailor hats with elaborate indoor costumes. It describes wide satin sailors trimmed with morning glories paired with one piece frocks in wistaria violet and amethyst, signaling a growing fashion preference.
The royal ribbed stockings known as corduroy stockings return in two toned stripes. They are available in spun silk and silk blends. Not cheap, but the spun silk version is very heavy and long lasting.
Advice on wearing white collars and cuffs with dark gowns. Button them to avoid daily adjustments and launder after each wear to stay fresh and dainty.
Girls display one inch wide travats of loosely crocheted silk knotted at the front. Short ends are fringed with silk balls gold fringe or bead tassels. Some elaborate pieces use gold and silver ribbon with colored stones.
The best corset models now lace in the front for flat back lines and a straight front. They are long, running past the hip so no thick line or roll shows through the skirt, offering substantial torso freedom.
For Guimpes a colored filet net replaces lace and mesh with a stamped new style. The fabric resembles the flower net used in summer frocks years ago, but the mesh is thicker and more open, giving the item distinctiveness.
Describes marabou capes used for elaborate indoor affairs and evening occasions. Notes soft fluffy texture with ostrich tips for hat trimming and wide ruffs. Capes are satin lined and fastened in front with a large satin bow.
The turnover collar and stiff tailored tie remain popular despite efforts to replace them. New temptations include colored satin stocks resembling early crush collars, made in soft Liberty satin in any shade, with tight bowed foundations and fine mousseline desoie pleating at edges.
Fragmentary ad copy notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Woolford's Sanitary Lotion, and a medical claim about curing wind colic. Mentions punitive church absence in England and a dated reference to patent medicines. Limited readable names and vague figures.
A roundup of women’s affairs spans suffrage support in New York and Princeton, estate values for Mrs. Astor, Emma C Weis’s burglar scare rekindling a marriage, Margaret Illington’s retirement, Il lington’s stage collapse, joseph Twin and Wahoo Winne bago’s elopement, Cowper letters revealing a death by own action pact, Annie Peck’s Mount Hunscaran medal, a Chicago art-forfeiture suit, Mrs Gardner’s smuggled works, and Carrie Nation’s anti liquor protests in Britain.
Labor topics include St Louis hat makers organizing, the Iron Molders’ Union planning a 1909 fiftieth anniversary, the Trades Unionist moving from receivership, German engine drivers honored for ten years’ safety, and a Boston steam engineering course for members. Philadelphia hosts a large Federal Council of Churches gathering, St Paul barbers raise monthly dues, Glasgow provides three meals daily to unemployed children, Bakers and Confectioners International grows to 182 locals with 2898 new joins, union labels questioned by printers’ union policy, and rescue stations created in Britain and Scotland for mining emergencies.
Swarthmore College alters its charter to become non sectarian, expanding inclusivity. A broad set of reforms accompanies the change as institutions ponder governance and community standards.
The Well Informed world seeks a safe pleasant liquid laxative. The California Fig Syrup Co. offers Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a known value remedy. Buy the genuine product from California Fig Syrup Co. only. price fifty cents per bottle.
President Penna has sent to Congress in Rio de Janeiro the Governor of Sao Paulo Province request for a Federal guarantee on a coffee valorization loan up to 75,000,000. The President supports the guarantee to curb disordered selling of coffee held in Sao Paulo.
Medical discussion grows over using whiskey with Toris Compound and Syrup Sarsaparilla for rheumatism. The formula prescribes one half pint whiskey with one ounce each of Toris Compound and Syrup Sarsaparilla, taken before meals and at bedtime. Toris Compound is from Globe Pharmaceutical Co Chicago. other ingredients available from druggists.
Charles Burmeister, an undertaker in Chicago, was killed when a revolver hanging on a telephone receiver fell and discharged after he answered a call. No foul play suspected. accident under investigation.
David Price of Corydon Iowa recounts a recovery from stage kidney trouble and weakness after seven years of good health following a week of using Dean's Kidney Pills. He notes strong back pain vanished and he could walk without a cane. Sold by all dealers at 50c a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Cambridge Ohio house owned by Seymour Phillips burned to the ground while the parents were away. Two children, Georgia four and Jessie two, were cremated in the blaze. Local authorities reported no adults inside at the time of the fire.
A detainee was moved from Pougkeepsie to White Plains Jail in a transfer between facilities.
Mrs Louis Beck of San Antonio Texas reports a painful six month battle with eczema on her baby. After doctors failed to help she used Cutiura Remedies and within two months the face was clear. The child is now two and eczema has not returned.
On August 20 a woman near Williamsburg Virginia gave birth to a boy and sixteen days later a second healthy boy was born.
New York City records a population rise totaling 149,900 in the current year, reflecting continued urban growth. The figure increases the city’s estimated residents and underscores ongoing demographic shifts in the metropolitan area.
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