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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1903
Page
2
A sprawling OCR text mixes political banter and society gossip with notes on arsenic cancer claims, a 800 pound mackerel, banana wars, the New York Times building, and social duties at Newport. It threads anecdotes about William Russell, Andrew Carnegie, and fighting sailors, ending with a flurry of unrelated items.
Summer demand shapes fashionable day wear for travel and seaside use. The outfit features a new sailor style blouse with upstanding collar and varied sleeves, paired with a five gore tucked skirt, possible yoke, in fabrics like linen, pique, crash, mohair, serge, pongee, or white serge or mohair for a chic, travel ready ensemble. A bright tie and belt finish the look.
A fragment describes a brick Venetian wire device with patent folding features. The trimmings are Oriental in character including tiny lanterns and emblems. It presents a realistic reproduction of an Oriental cozy corner for a waxen lady of high degree.
A reaction from the extreme blouse front sets the tone with peculiar aigrets and a fringe made from narrow cloth strips. Bright silkenings under sheer fabrics appear in modish palettes with pale blue accents and black, while oriental embroidery trims a colored pongeon. Plaited boleros suit princease costumes and white gloves with purple embroidered panels. granite cloth and tansols dominate traveling wear and cloak making with an evening pale blue panne dress and silver fringe drawing praise.
A guide on serving vegetables attractively with proper platter sizing and garnish. It also warns that summer humidity ruins natural curls and offers a vintage solution using borax kum arabic camphor and warm water to set the style.
Dolly's Wardrobe and Dolly's fixige are listed among the little daughters' possessions of a well to do fotka family. The latest addition includes a Turkish canopy and various fat Mt fe cushions in the doll's cosy corner.
The text lists various sandwich pairings for salads including brown bread with fab salads cold fish with mayonnaise, lobster or crab salads, chicken salad with nut sandwiches, chopped cress or parsley sandwiches with beef salad, mutton salad with marigold and caper sandwiches, and a dinner salad with cheese and toasted bread. It suggests assembling the sandwiches on a dainty plate after the meat course.
Old fashioned styles return this season with gowns echoing the drooping shoulders and cakelike trimmings of the Victoria era. Muslins and organdies feature large quaint floral prints, including roses and poppies, giving a picturesque old time look suited to tall graceful figures.
A linen skirt for women’s summer wear features heavy white linen with box pleats at the seams and a popular yoke. It includes a simple hem, a slight train, and is paired with a waist of Per.
The article describes college flag embroidery on stockings and fashionable lace trimmings. It notes the latest blouse style for girls with white vest fronts, large collars, and sash belts, plus suggestions for table decorations and home care tips. It also shares a cleaning method for silver ornaments using cream of tartar.
Ice mallets of wood cost 12 cents. Fifteen cents buys a dish scraping knife with a rubber blade. Wooden jelly spoons and egg lifters start at ten cents. A glass lemon reamer is cleaner than the average squeezer. Glass rolling pins at half a dollar look appealing and are used even by those who do not fill them with cracked ice.
The text describes slicing tomatoes into eight pieces arranged on a glass dish and garnishing the edges with large rings of raw white onion. It suggests filling the center with mayonnaise or whipped cream dressing to complete the salad presentation.
The readable lines evoke a poem about valor and memory with references to a battle and the idea of purity and victory. Names and precise context are unclear, but the piece contrasts bright, white imagery with the harshness of war and a simple figure bringing cheer.
A wide ledger of labor activity reports unions numbers in Iowa and the UK, wage disputes in San Francisco, new railway unions and employments bureaus, and threats of nationwide employer coordination. Strikes in Spain and field tests in Chicago show labor unrest and organizational moves across industries.
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