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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1904
Page
3
The article compiles a mosaic of zany observations and quips from various cities. It references battleships, weddings, divorces, a San Francisco man seeking a divorce, and jokes about taste, reform, and public figures. It notes jokes about Boston eccentricity, Lipton, and New York financiers, along with local asides on temper, age, and manners.
A July Woman's Home Companion article outlines a suspender dress design for a 10 year old, featuring a checked linen fabric, hand embroidered collar and cuffs, and a shaped belt. It covers fabrics for play and occasions, sleeve styles, and quantities of material for multiple widths, plus shirtwaist hats and turnover collars as fashionable accents.
The July Delineator article on outing styles notes bathing costumes now use lustrous mohair or silklike fabrics with braid trim and bright bands. Silk or satin pieces are common. colors range from black and dark blue to brown and dark red. Matching bathing shoes and stockings, plus silk caps or cotton bands, complete the practical stylish ensemble.
A description celebrates a white frock for a young girl noting white suits youth. The dotted swiss gown features Val enciennes insertion, deep flounce, bertha waist, and ruched shoulders for a long shoulder line. Figured lawn gown for a 6 year old shows hemmed lace collars cuffs and belt in white.
An article notes Dutch custom of washing china at table for guests and family to preserve tableware, contrasted with revived American practice for homely touch. It also describes new pique and linen collars from English shops with deep dye and stitched eylets for summer fashion.
A home ice cream recipe describes making a coffee cream by scalding one cup of coffee with one and a half cups of sugar, whisked egg yolks, cooling, then adding one pint of cream and vanilla before freezing. Serve with an orange syrup and candied orange peel. The syrup can be bought at Bod Boda fountain.
Peel three cucumbers and slice them half an inch thick then soak in cold salted water for an hour. Dry and fry in hot lard until lightly browned on both sides, seasoned with pepper. Serve hot with toast. a simple, savory cucumber dish.
A discussion of an opaque shade that directs light downward to ease eye strain from electric lighting. Reading lamps or electrobora are offered in various shapes and decorative fringes, marking a shift in living room illumination.
At a recent luncheon, place cards featured conundrums and small pen and ink sketches. One card showed a cake drawing with the riddle Why is the letter like flour The answer is Because you cannot make cake without it.
Strewn with sewing directions for bishop and plain shirt style sleeves. Details cover fabric widths yards and finished edges, plus an old housekeeper tip on saving scorched preserves by quick cold water quench.
A woman crafts a vivid vocabulary to describe her husband’s traits, listing terms from abhorred to tyrannical in a flowing word painting. The piece cites a leaf from an 1810 book, illustrating copious language used to depict marital fault and human temperament.
Maine tale recalls Minnie who rejects a showy solitaire ring preferring a garter buckle with a mate to come later. Conversation notes trends shift from engagement rings to heart pendants and armbands while Jim’s taste favors subtlety over ceremony. A Homesick Consul’s Fourth vignette shows a US table decor order from Central America with flags napkins bonbons crackers and festive favors.
A Philadelphia Press poem by William Wallace Whitelock extols homely women over prettiness and delicacy. The speaker dismisses flawless features and dainty feet, praising instead a sturdy, practical beauty and the virtue of domestic care. The verse defends enduring love and character over surface polish.
A playful claim envisions Uncle Sam's passenger rolling stock forming a solid train stretching 500 miles, illustrating a nationalist or humorous transportation metaphor.
Poem imagining life in wealth versus modest happiness. The speaker asks whether a millionaire’s luxuries would improve comfort, love, and home, concluding that true affection and devotion remain unchanged. The verse notes domestic warmth, shared days, and the limits of wealth to alter love. Colorado Springs Gazette.
Reports from the labor world note 10,000 Commercial Telegraphers’ union members, Colorado labor inquiries, and Pittsburg teachers organizing for higher wages. Tensions rise in Gloversville and Johnstown strikes end, while Joliet steel mills close. The American Smelting and Refining Company plans $100,000 in bonuses for long-time employees as new labor news unfolds.
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