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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1904
Page
2
A fashion survey of walking suits in black and white tartan with plush accents, touting trim lines and practical fall skirts. It notes a short coat silhouette with velvet ribbons, large pockets, and decorative buttons. Then it shifts to wedding fashion with pink and red bridal ensembles, green and white contrasts, lace capes, and high collars shaping a poised, era-appropriate ceremony scene.
A fashion note outlines pale tints challenging white for spring wardrobes. It mentions transparent cottons, Dineapple cloth, fine batistes, and pinks, with outfits like a mauve street gown featuring stitched bands and gold buttons. blouse issues include fewer collars and streamlined day wear.
A fragment from Harper's Bazaar suggests Young Girls can attend dances stylishly with one white and one colored gown by changing trimming and accessories. It highlights water Bertha chiffon and artificial power belts, noting how wire belts and small changes refresh a gown’s look each time.
An old saying from 1904 prediction that roses will lead in hat trimmings appears in this note on millinery. The Dutton rose varieties, in single and double petals, edge brims and crown margins, while small wreaths and large roses both decorate hats. tiny green leaves around the brim enhance the look.
A fragile device purported to keep a 20th century woman's stock and starched collars pristine. It features a round basket line with silk and delicate padding, a sachet powder sprinkle, and a circular pantboard cover used as a tidy holder for pins at the stock collar fronts and backs.
A vintage craft item revived by netting shows a table cover from a tiny piece. A narrow hem with flat lace border, and a simple darned edge inside. Cushions, dollies, piano scarfs, curtains, and portieres feature darned net in Poplar color.
The article describes spring coats in broadcloth and velveteen, featuring long plain saueque style, single breasted, without collar. Details note taw dates, twind corners, and wire brim accessories, with gardens of tiny flowers or ribbon folds. Black chip likely to be worn with all outfits, including wide up-curving brim hats and fine straw enhancements.
A note on sleeve styles for gowns describes thin sleeves differing from the main gown, sometimes full sleeves in crepe or net, or light colored, with chiffon inside for added elegance in ball costumes.
Fashion notes describe unlined waists in dainty chiffon or crepe de chine. Pleated yoke sits over the shoulder with bodices featuring bolero style pleats and a subtle plate chiffon frill hidden behind the edge.
Skirts feature many patterns from smooth hip fits to Victorian full styles. Some designs are pillow soft, others flare wide, with yokes and front panels varying the silhouette. Length and fullness shift with side yokes and intake at the hip line.
A novel pen rack crafted as a toy trough of Vienna colored majolica stands as a small library table piece. At its rear edge two blinking owls with luminous eyes glow, powered by hidden electric bulbs, inside a house lit by electricity.
Shaped and stitched bands create a simple pretty finish for an afternoon salt. They cut to fronts, outline cape of the bolero and the edges of the skirt and flounces.
Some belt pins feature monsters and grotesque heads amid a festive display of Japanese bronzes. The drawing is executed with gold and color outlined in black, reflecting mid era craft.
The former Queen Isabella II of Spain dies in Paris on April 9 influenza with complications. Daughters Infantas Isabella Eulalia and Maria were at her bedside. Isabella II, daughter of Ferdinand VII, born 1830, faced a turbulent reign marked by revolutions and exile before Alfonso XII was later offered the crown in 1874.
Gauthang a high valley site twelve miles from Chumbi and Phari, now houses four companies of the Twenty third and Thirty second Pioneers and serves as temporary headquarters for Gen Younghusband 12 000 feet up in Tibet. The camp sits in a defensible bowl with wood limits, unlikely to move for two months. Reports say three to four thousand Tibetan forces have gathered about forty miles from Phar, raising the possibility of hostilities.
The article notes Andrew Carnegie’s prized autographs collection of crowned heads and famous figures, including letters and signatures. It contrasts this with the fate of the late Dr. Evans of Paris, whose extensive European autograph archive remains unknown. The text also opens with humorous dialogue on powder comparing deathly risks and a quip about face powder.
The text summarizes Jesus sending seventy apostles two by two to preach in villages, detailing their lack of provisions, need for hospitality, and the mission's scope. It notes the harvest is plentiful but laborers few, and emphasizes humility, peace, healing, and prudent response to rejection, with warnings to unrepentant towns and joy in mission success.
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