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Newspaper
Greensburg Standard
Location
Greensburg, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
9
A practical college gown design described in blue green checked wool with a plaited bodice and oversleeves. Blue velvet yoke and sleeve bands frame the garment, cream lace neckpiece, and rows of soutache braid with gold buttons. A plaid silk version is also suggested.
Mme. Qui Vive argues fur coats drain funds via yearly remodeling storage and moth protection. She claims coats lose appeal after two seasons, require insurance, and leave women weary of fashion, preferring plain tailored garments.
The smart girl of the season features a dozen dress fads including winter tight gowns for dress occasions and semidress. These gowns have long trains sweeping the floor in one unbroken line from the belt and often from the shoulders as the empire back remains fashionable.
The neatest walking dresses show plaited skirts with very narrow plaits all pointing away from the front. Skirts are designed to fit tightly around the hip line.
A girl borrows a London trend and transforms a summer straw hat into a winter hat by adding an ostrich feather to match her winter gown, showcasing a quick seasonal style update.
A stylish winter hat features black satin with a double brim band and a crown of soft satin folds. The front is trimmed with two large smoke gray crape pompons and long ostrich plumes cascade down the sides. Designed for Dress magazine.
A historical curing method from Henry Clay era noted by National Stock man. For ten hams use three and a half pounds salt one pound saltpeter and two pounds brown sugar. Rub on all sides, chill three weeks, place in brine two weeks, air dry two to three days, then smoke until brown.
The article explains barn itch or winter itch as ringworm in cattle, caused by airborne spores. It recommends mixing hogs lard with crude carbolic acid for rubbing affected areas, or cleansing crusts then applying acetic acid or ointments, and whitewashing the stable to destroy spores.
Veterinary Surgeon C D Smead provides a powder for horse worms. Mix one pound granulated sugar and salt as base, add tobacco dust or fine cut chewing tobacco. Feed to horses by age: one year: heaping teaspoonful. 1-2 years: dessert spoonful. adults: heaping tablespoonful twice daily for a month.
Farmers Advocate advises a home remedy for scours in horses and colts using equal parts tincture opium ginger iron gentian. Dosage varies by age with gradual reduction as stools firm, but warns against abrupt cessation due to danger from sudden adjustment.
The Western Poultry Journal notes that green cut bone provides a cost effective substitute for grain in hen diets. One ounce daily of green cut bone equals one and a half ounces of grain, allowing halving grain rations while maintaining nutrition.
The Farm Journal advises airing the barn daily by opening all doors while stock is out for exercise and stables are cleaned. This flushes fumes and dust without exposing animals to drafts, replacing old air with fresh.
Half ounce powdered char coal and half ounce ground ginger plus one ounce bicarbonate fed twice daily make a good remedy for a horse's colic tendency. These materials are available at any first class drug store. Have the druggist prepare a batch and divide into doses as described.
Do not throw stable manure under the stable eaves in winter. If kept until spring, move it to the shed to pack down and exclude air. Better yet, spread it over the sod to keep it out of the way and prepare the soil for next year.
Farm Journal notes alfalfa hay is high in protein and cannot form a complete ration alone. It recommends combining with corn fodder ensilage wheat straw or oat straw or roots to add carbohydrates and prevent protein waste.
Farmers Advocate cautions that hens near horses risk persistent hen fire. Do not quarter horses near a henhouse or allow chickens to roost by stalls to prevent outbreaks.
Postmaster General Meyer cites 533000 dollars to weigh eight states and 1500000 to weigh the nation, with safeguards against padding. The weighing spans 105 days and covers mail by rail and in cars, while broader audits weigh mail by class and origin. Edward Payson Weston, at ninety, remains famed for longevity and endurance in public walks, tracing a long career from 1860s shows to a 1877 belt match with Dan O’Leary.
The annual report by General Mackenzie details Potomac improvements to June 30 last with total costs of 2 531 764 dollars and 329 934 dollars for maintenance since 1899. It notes navigation limits at Georgetown and a 1906 tonnage of about 907 000 worth 8 609 860 dollars. Ezra Meeker visits the White House after 21 months on the ox team journey to urge a national Oregon trail highway. Alyn Williams visits to seek an ivory miniatura of President Roosevelt. Washington servants face pervasive tipping practices, with over a hundred thousand employed in households and related roles.
The record notes Weston walked 510 miles after 142 hours, then two years later 2,000 miles in 1,000 hours. In the same year he won the Astley belt from Blower Brown by 550 miles in 141 hours 56 minutes. In 1886 he faced O’Leary in a match and defeated him on the track.
In a downtown restaurant a group of women heard Miss Hilda Englund discuss her early acting training in Stockholm under August Lyndberg. She recounts a strict discipline moment when a late actor admitted drinking, Lyndberg noting he had been on a drank again, prompting a witty exchange.
The admission of Oklahoma adds five representatives and two senators to Congress. Four new representatives and both senators are Democrats, but Republicans hold the overall majorities in both houses. Notably, Charles Carter of Ardmore, a quarter Chickasaw and part Cherokee, becomes part of the delegation. He is a prosperous farmer and stockman.
The Garden Gate game uses a ring of players with one in the center. The outer circle sings about opening the gate while the center girl pretends to sob. The ring dances again and tries to break through by forcing a clasped hand to weaken, capturing a player in the process.
In winter holidays children make a large snow circle with six to eight diametric paths. Any number can play as one runner stands center and dashes along the paths to catch others. The game resembles The Spider and the Fly and works with light snowfall or a foot of snow.
A report notes the UE-Warner walk remains within central pathways while avoiding outer circumference areas. The restriction confines movement to established routes.
The text explains that insects avoid nets whose meshes are several times their body size because their compound eyes see the net as a continuous surface, missing the individual meshes. Birds, with different vision, clearly perceive the gaps and fly through without hesitation.
The text presents a sequence of riddles with answers. It mentions a hill mill wheel motion a tongue on a hill road opening and shutting a corset and the riddle what everyone can divide yet no one can see where divided with answer water.
A group game based on mimicking the leader with a wooden stick. Players must hold the stick in the left hand and thump the floor as shown. The test continues until someone imitates the leader precisely, revealing the left-hand rule.
A sequence of light puzzles and quips questions and puns about fields trees dates and morals. The piece plays on wordplay linking rye fields to straight fields Troy weight to scruples talebearers to brick layers and rivermaids to drowning in a humorous old style.
Riddle delivery notes a playful brainteaser. The prompt states take 45 from 45 and leave 45, with the answer given as 123. The wording resembles a light puzzle item for a newspaper brief.
Autumn poems depict rustling leaves racing through the air and piling on sidewalks. Children wade through knee deep heaps as bare branches loom under gray skies. Jack Frost signals winter's approach, and the scene ends with a brisk, restless rush.
Magazine writers discuss Bryan’s charges against New York papers. Robert H. Davis recalls a Carson Appeal scene where a half dressed man bought a paper for eight dollars then rode off. sheriff deputies pursued, but the foreman protected a subscriber. The visitor was Black Bart escaping the penitentiary.
Dr J N McCormack of Bowling Green Kentucky recounts how Colonel Harrison used the Mitchell House as a hospital during the Civil War. He promised payment and later as president sent the owner a check for the owed amount, fulfilling military necessity with personal funds if needed.
A discourse at a Mosby reunion contrasts Mosby’s troops with regular soldiers. The unnamed southern general remarks on war aims, claiming a commander must care for his men and maximize enemy damage. He cites Napoleon in a hypothetical defense of Mosby’s leadership.
Taft bumped into a pompous admirer in the hotel hall. He greeted the stranger with a broad smile and a hearty handshake then turned away, later calling him a good natured little ass to a friend.
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