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Newspaper
Glenwood Opinion
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
1
A Glenwood Opinion piece from Iowa describes Japanese tactics in Formosa, portraying headhunting tribes as ferocious enemies and detailing a supposed method of electrical barbed wire fences to deter and kill insurgents. The piece reflects sensational war reportage rather than factual balance.
Dispatches say Mme Breshkovskaya, 70, a leading aristocratic convert to terrorist propaganda, has been jailed in St Petersburg for distributing terrorist literature. She had been sent to Siberia in the early 1870s but escaped, and the experience hardened her revolutionary stance. Like revolutionary France, it is the women who sustain the rebellion.
Princess Louise of Orleans married Prince Charles of Bourbon in England with King and Queen of Spain present and about 46 royal attendees. She is the youngest daughter of the late Comte de Paris, who with his brother and uncle served on Gen. McClellan’s staff in the Civil War. The count’s war history has been translated into English. their family never stirred the national imagination as Lafayette did with American troops.
Apples move from Portland, Oregon to Vladivostok, Russia across the Pacific at 7.50 dollars per bushel. The process proves that a perishable American product can endure long sea trips and yield high profits, encouraging broader export efforts and opportunities for other goods.
The fleet ships travel with 26 pianos and pianolas from private subscription to entertain officers and men, with at least one instrument per ship and some ships having two. A chemical health check finds bologna and liverwurst safe, frankfurters dubious due to borax or sulphite. Ninety-nine percent of crew on Trinidad shores behaved, and King Leopold displays Congo artifacts in New York.
The latest millinery craze showcases lavish feather decorations from paradise and goura plumes to ostrich and coque feathers. Designers embrace wings, plumes, pompons, fountains, and quills, with bold colors and natural contours, while a few rare varieties and marabout boas become coveted luxury trims.
A vintage fashion piece urges women to adopt the new willowy back by walking and exercising to slim the waist. It notes corsets loosening as even previously stout women seek the straight upright silhouette, with floor exercises targeting abdomen and back muscles to create the sharp waist curve.
Instructions discuss cutting collars on straight grain with the curved edge matching, dropping the collar backward to fit, bending steels at the waist for bodices, placing bias under a straight piece to prevent stretch, and tucking notches to reduce collar wrinkles when stitching.
An eastern physical culture teacher trains girls in posture, walking, and dress handling. She explains focus on back training, gliding carriage, proper train management, and poised elbow use to prepare bridesmaids and wedding guests.
The article extols silk-faced poplin as ideal for shirt waists offering neat plaiting and versatile styling from plain tailored to lace or velvet garniture. White poplin at about 50 cents a yard launders like linen and irons while dry with a cashmere look. color options exist but white leads for shirts.
A New Millinery fad features hats with velvet brims and silk crowns trimmed with cog feathers. Another popular style covers a wire frame with pink taffeta ruchings, placed closely to resemble feathers, trimmed with a velvet bow and buckle, described as very becoming.
A terse how to for improving nail shape through cuticle care. Soak fingers in hot water five minutes each night, press back the cuticle with an orange wood stick to lengthen the nails, then rub in cold cream to prevent dryness.
A Denver woman, Mrs A Gregory of 2355 Lawrence St, writes that after years of female troubles and an unsuccessful operation Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health. The note promotes the remedy for backache, bearing down pains, and irregularities and invites others to seek advice from Lydia Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
A fragmented line hints at a theme of balancing spending and saving. The piece contrasts the behavior of spending versus saving, urging consideration of how much is squandered versus maintained for future needs. It reads as a reflective prompt rather than a complete narrative.
A snapshot of varied highlights including Emperor Joseph of Austria audiences, Oran Perry compiling Mexican War troop movements, Miss Theresa S Haley studying women and child labor in the US, H G Wells and Conan Doyle writing feats, the marquis of Ailsa’s rare flowers at Culzean Castle, and Lord Curzon’s precise memory and governance in India.
Italian cavalry regiments rely on carrier pigeons to transmit information during maneuvers. Young officers undergo training at the Pigneral college to learn pigeon training for military use.
A brief reflective excerpt describes walking aboard to escape grief. It paints a cool air, tall hills rising to heaven, quiet forest glades like a churchyard, and dew washing fever from the forehead. The speaker resolves unhappiness through this communion with nature.
In a Harper’s Weekly tone, a visitor thanks Mrs Backley for relief from toothache after visiting Prof Wiggin’s dental parlors. A Canterbury archbishop and clergy adjourn for luncheon when a canon quips about brides and appetites, and John Burns MP’s library is described as filling three small rooms from his boyhood book-collecting self-sacrifice.
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