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Newspaper
Inter Mountain Globe
Location
Hulett, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
4
A collage of notes describes a brigand turned poet and a French bicycle inventor with a street sweeping tricycle. It mentions parroting lovers, baboons liking oysters, railway leadership by rhythm, Swiss guides becoming Canadian, Leipsic theater demolition, coal with free gold, and a child’s Civil War portrayal.
Nien Laurvik notes a surge in outdoor sports in women’s colleges and boarding schools, linking the trend to dress changes. Divided skirts and bloomers emerge with shirt waists and sweaters, promoting freedom of movement and healthier living through tennis and golf alongside stricter regimes, diets, and training.
Newbury News notes pointed parasols with upturned tips to define shade, a modular motor well insert fitting under or over hats, and trimmed ash gowns with taffeta frills. Girdles fasten with a single bow, and lingerie blouser features Marquisettes, volles, veilings, lace and embroidery. A new blouse design slips over the head with a tiny draw string at the neck.
Mrs Sophia Comas of Portland manages Pendleton Roller Mills, one of the Northwest's largest flour operations. She oversees wheat purchases to finished product sales, directs seed time and harvest on connected wheat ranches, and orders vast shipments with authoritative ease. Her leadership followed decades assisting her father, W S Byers, at the mill founded nearly 40 years ago.
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes a broad fad for cloth tops on shoes to match gowns and varnished leather footwear. White cloth tops mimic white stockings, complementing black skirts and attire, a vogue spreading rapidly though some disapprove.
A delightful Litthe modified Roben Pierre collar features a front Alled with tucked batiste and finished by a hemmed cascade of batiste, as described by an ex-house source.
Mrs Georgia Gardner fears mice and rats and keeps an eight foot gopher snake in her apartment. She strokes the snake fondly as one might a pet dog, illustrating her unusual method of rodent control.
Annie Kenney acting reader for English suffragists in Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst absence replies to Mrs Henry Fawcett of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. She declines to curb the militant spirit, stating the government's treachery has aroused it.
A returned traveler recalls how a passport proved crucial when a Paris pawnbroker refused a loan against offered items. With delayed remittance, his passport, linking his Paris hotel and Washington address, finally secured the needed money, transforming an inert document into vital security.
In Mt Vernon, a Plymouth Rock hen owned by W. F. Holman laid a monster egg last week. When opened, the outer shell contained a single smaller shell with a hard shell and no second shell. The two eggs weighed five and a half ounces, with a nine and a half inch circumference and seven and a half inch width. The inner yolk appeared as an eye within the yolk, a rare anomaly noted by local observers.
A New York Times from Oregon recounts Governor West using a parole experiment to show convicts can be trusted. The life term 3615 is sent to the capitol with funds, meets the governor, travels to Portland to study shoe factory needs, and returns to help upgrade state prison shops. The program leads to 60 percent of convicts trusted to work outside prison with no guards.
Fragmentary verse in archaic diction describes Briar Rose and a somber life cycle with references to a undertone of sleep death and a ponderous Sondering Wordeworth. The text blends floral imagery with cryptic lines and elusive personae.
A clipped chat shows a character fretting about summer travel with no clothes. The other suggests wearing old clothes as the theme. One quips about packing seven trunks of the oldest dude in the state, turning the moment comic and odd.
The note discusses a diplomatic budget item tied to a neouraphical poailion in Switzerland. It suggests Switzerland has long avoided a navy, but hints at a potential need for an aerial navy due to changing costs and geopolitical pressures.
Disjointed OCR text shows fragmented talk about a person named Gene and gendered insults, with stray phrases about women and disbelief. The readable portion suggests a poorly legible local note or overheard remark without clear context or complete sentences.
Flowered silks replace chiffons in midsummer fashion as a new era. The fabric, airy and alluring for hot afternoons, echoes Louis XVII revivals and later revolutionary stripes. Satin is favored for lower skirts, providing a stark background to showcase the flowered weave and gossamer weight garments.
A seaside themed birthday party featured shell invitations, clam shell place cards, and decorations with fish nets and boat pennants. The table centerpiece used real beach sand and shells, with shell shaped serving dishes, conch cream sauces, baked potatoes on clam shells, and shell iced cake. children enjoyed a fish pond activity.
From the Christian Science Monitor Lima Peru increased activity marks the Pro Aborigines association as it elevates Peru's Indian population. Responses flow in from the interior where the majority remains purely Indian and welcomes the appeal for cooperation. A northern Peruvian library town near Truzillo expresses enthusiastic alignment with the humanitarian program.
The association seeks to uplift Peru by opening night schools in Indian centers for children and adults, teaching citizenship rights and duties. Dr Modesto Malaga, as delegation, secured a Arequipa supreme court order directing Califoma province to house the association four months yearly in Chivay to protect Indians from predatory elements.
Practical home hacks and quick maintenance tips cover removing paint from glass with hot vinegar brightening lamp burners by boiling in buttermilk and ensuring fish skin rests uppermost when soaking salt fish. Suggestions include cleaning a porcelain tub with spirits of turpentine and preserving cut flowers with saltpeter, plus noting bread buttering technique and lawn seating styles.
The New Haven Journal-Courier notes new napkin holders are unique and replace time iron napkin rings. They clamp onto the napkin with a welded style clip and offer a taming grip.
Entertainment for the king and Sin family featured a motion plotard theater installed inside the royal palace in Bangkok.
A vintage fashion piece discusses separate skirts made from toweling fabrics like cotton ratine, praising their wrinkle resistance and ease of care compared to linen. It notes styles, button choices, belt usage, and the continued appeal of the front fastening and waist-tight belt in hand woven homespun looks.
The piece traces the origin of bogey golf from late 19th century Coventry and Yarmouth clubs. It explains how the imaginary opponent called bogey or the colonel arose to set fixed hole scores, then spread to the Royal and Ancient Club and other courses. The story recounts Dr Thomas Browne, Major Charles Wellman, and Lt. Seely Vidal helping establish the term after a remark by Wellman, and ends with the bogey man becoming a standard part of golf lore.
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