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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
10
A modest gown described in blue green checked wool features a plaited bodice oversleeves and blue velvet yoke cuffs and bands. The neckline uses heavy cream lace with soutache braiding and gold buttons for a dash of color. The same design can be recreated in plaid silk with alternate materials.
A fashion critic warns fur coats drain money, urging yearly remodeling and seasonal storage to prevent moth damage. She notes many women grow tired after two seasons, prefer plain tailored coats, and tend to speak little about their furs.
The smart girl’s fashion includes a dozen dress fads with long floor sweeping gowns for winter wear. Gowns feature an empire back and trains from the shoulders, reflecting the season’s dressy yet light style.
The article describes the latest walking dresses with very narrow plaits forming plaited skirts. Skirts are cut tight at the hip and plaits point away from the front, presenting a sleek, fashionable silhouette for walking outfits.
The girl of the season borrows a London trend by transforming a summer straw hat into winter wear with an ostrich feather. She carries the look from season to season, adapting her hat to match her winter gown in minutes.
A black satin winter hat features a double brim band and soft crown folds. The front is trimmed with two large smoke gray crape pompons and long ostrich plumes drape over the sides. Design credited to the fashion magazine Dress.
A historical ham curing method instructs using three and a half pounds of salt three pounds of saltpeter and two pounds of brown sugar per ten hams. Hams are rubbed with the mixture packed in a box or barrel for three weeks then placed in a brine wash two weeks. After soaking they are lightly salted dried and smoked until brown.
Common winter cattle disease known as barn itch or winter itch is ringworm. It spreads via airborne spores in stables. Suggested remedies include hog lard mixed with crude carbolic acid rubbed on affected skin, or crust removal with soap and water followed by acetic acid, sulphur ointment, tincture of iodine or mercurial ointment daily. Clean the stable and whitewash to destroy spores.
Veterinary surgeon C D Smead prescribes a worming mix of sugar and salt with tobacco dust for horses. For 1 to 2 year olds use a dessert spoonful in feed. for adults a heaping tablespoonful twice daily for one month, per National Stockman.
Farmers Advocate outlines a home remedy for horse and colt scours using equal parts tincture of opium gentian fluid extract and iron muriate with ginger. Dosages vary by age, with gradual reduction as stools firm, noting risk from sudden withdrawal.
The Western Poultry Journal notes that green cut bone substitutes for grain in fowl diets. Feeding one ounce of green cut bone daily can replace one and a half ounces of grain, reducing grain costs by half while maintaining nutrition.
Farm Journal advises airing the barn daily by opening all doors while stock is exercised and stables cleaned. Dispel fumes and dust by exchanging old air with new, without exposing animals to drafts.
A home remedy suggests giving a daily split dose of one half ounce powdered char coal one half ounce ground ginger and one ounce bicarbonate or soda fed twice daily to correct accumulation in the horse. Materials available at any first class drug store with the druggist mixing and dividing into portions.
The text advises not to throw stable manure under stable eaves in winter. If kept until spring it should be moved to the shed to be packed by cattle to exclude air. It is better to spread it over the sod to prepare soil for something valuable next year.
Farm Journal notes alfalfa hay is high in protein and cannot form a complete ration alone. It recommends balancing with corn fodder ensilage wheat or oat straw or roots to provide carbohydrates and prevent protein waste.
Farmers Advocate warns against placing hens near horses noting hens start fires and horses are threatened if chickens roost near stalls. Avoid keeping hens in proximity to stables to prevent fire hazards and animal distress.
The article recalls postal weighing costs and safeguards as the U S weighs mail for six months, notes the third contract section, and reports on Potomac river projects by General Mackenzie with 1906 tonnage and navigation improvements. It also covers Ezra Meeker’s ox team journey to seek a national Oregon trail highway and English artist Alyn Williams seeking a Roosevelt miniature, plus concerns over tipping among Washington servants.
The article proclaims Weston as the greatest pedestrian, noting his current walk to Chicago from Portland, Maine mirrors a 40 year old feat from the early sixties. It praises open air life as a true guardian of youth and frames Mous PSGesiCian as confirming Weston’s enduring walking prowess.
A garbled verse describes a girl in a circle singing about obtaining the key to the garden gate. The circle chants to open the gate and let someone through while the girl feigns sorrow and responds in character.
An aging summary recalls 19th century pedestrian Dan O Leary rivalries and belt matches with a belt awarded by Sir John Astley. It notes long endurance walks, miles covered in hours, and later a dominant win over O Leary. The passage then shifts to a poetic image of a garden gate and a perilous chase among dancers and children.
Miss Hilda Englund, the noted Swedish actress, shared stories at a east side restaurant about her Stockholm apprenticeship under August Lyndberg. She recalled a late actor reprimand and Lyndberg’s dignified line, “Er-er-been on a drunk again,” met with a quick joke.
Congress adds Oklahoma with five representatives and two senators. Four new reps and both senators are Democrats, but Republicans retain a strong overall majority in both chambers. Notable is Charles Carter of Ardmore, a quarter Chickasaw and Cherokee-descended farmer and stockman.
The Washington Star describes snow fox and geese a winter game for indoors or outdoors. Players form a large circle with diametric paths, marks suited to space, and a central seeker chases along the paths as others run.
Scientists explain that insects see a net as a continuous surface due to a faceted eye, causing hesitation and stopping. Birds perceive the mesh clearly and pass through without hesitation, revealing why insects avoid nets despite their small size compared to mesh openings.
Riddles describe a mill wheel that moves then stops a tongue that rises and falls without moving a road that opens and closes like a door with no guess possible until a corset is revealed. The final riddle asks what everyone can divide yet cannot see where it is divided and the answer given is water.
A group activity requires copying the leader’s exact method to hold the stick in the left hand. The test proves skill comes from precise imitation of the leader’s actions. The baton is passed along until someone realizes the left hand grip is essential.
A collection of punny lines and wordplay prompts puzzles about fields trees weights and tales. The excerpt features quips on rye fields the gate Troy weights scruples and tales told by a busy talebearer with grim river imagery.
Riddle answer 123. The puzzle asks to subtract 45 from 45 and keep 45, yielding a numeric play on words rather than arithmetic.
Autumn leaves race and dance under bare trees as Jack Frost nears, bringing cold, gray days. Children wade knee deep in brown heaps while winter’s approach signals freedom fading.
A Nevada papers crew recalls aiding a visitor who paid eight dollars for a newspaper and fled as sheriff deputies chased the escapee Black Bart from the penitentiary. The foreman defends aiding a subscriber against a thief.
Dr. J N McCormack recalls how during the Civil War Colonel Harrison used Bowling Green's Mitchell House as a hospital and promised payment. After the war Mitchell, now well-off, sent the bill to Harrison who sent a check as president, settling the debt.
A note on Mosby and a southern general's reunion remarks contrast Mosby’s troops’ comfort with regulars in trenches. The unnamed general quotes Mosby defense of caring for troops and inflicting enemy damage, claiming higher merit than Napoleon if measures differed. The New York Tribune attribution appears in parenthetical context.
Taft leaves the Hotel Manhattan when a pompous man asks to greet him. Taft responds with a broad smile and a firm handshake, then calls the visitor a good natured little ass as he departs for Oyster Bay.
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