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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1903
Page
3
A Milan velvet hat with burgundy crown and pink mauve ostrich feather trim is paired with mauve crepe de chine, blouse coat, and skirt. Features include a deep cape, optional stole front, varied coat lengths, seven-gyre skirt shaping, and tucks or pleats at the side seam. outfits suggest mixed gray sheviot or English fabrics for versatile costumes.
The article outlines girl n frocks as replicas of adult styles with a unique bertha and plaited front, a circular skirt, and optional laundering friendly details. It suggests fabrics like cotton or wool, include washable bertha options, and offers material ideas such as cashmere and serge. It also notes an apron design for school wear and care tips for ribbons and white silk blouses.
Various domestic hints are offered including butter served on lettuce, washing varnished wood with warm tea water, cleaning a taffeta skirt with water and ammonia, kerosene in starch to prevent sticking, salt when sweeping to deter moths, chocolate lemonade with pulverized chocolate, wrapping cheese in vinegar-dipped cloth, and keeping items in a cool place. The tone resembles practical homemaking guidance from an old newspaper column.
Fall and winter millinery favors an elevated hat silhouette with high crowned styles and smaller turbans. Garniures and ostrich plumes feature in expensive hats with dyed patches showing tonal shifts from Burgundy to pink, Havana to champagne, and violets to blues, creating rich mauve shading.
The article notes embroidery as the prevailing trim on the Gmail Tote. Dresses feature tainty hand work with bands added above hems. Neat footwear complements simple dresses. Cooler belts cuffs and crow stitch detail embroidery canvas. The old reefer coat remains a wood model for girls.
The piece describes seasonal fashion ideas with an adjustable collar on a sweater, black velvet trim, chiffon frocks, blue and red satin bands on a waller hat, and a white bead belt with blue bead accents. The princease gown is predicted as the next model.
Separate waists described in detail with material blends Brown silk and woolen mix, silk yoke multizone, pleated waistline invisibly tucked, gray glace taffeta with linen lace bands, blue silk outlines, white Valenciennes yoke and cuffs, gray silk crocheted buttons linked by silk cords, shoulder tuckings shaped.
A fragmentary verse toned dreamlike reminiscence of farm life. Images of a farmhouse cellar cows dairy garden and distant bells evoke memory and longing. The speaker recalls night wind stars and a pond bullfrog cries, blending rural detail with lyrical nostalgia.
A Philadelphia notice reveals wage reductions from 10 to 20 percent. Across the Lake Superior mines 6000 miners have been discharged. Baltimore and Ohio unions seek reintegration. St Joseph and Grand Island rail lines face wage battles. Other reports cover nine hour days, new headquarters moves, strikes, and pension shifts across Chicago, New York, and Louisville with varied union actions and employer responses.
A historical notice describes a brick two story residence broad enough for a family, with central chimney, ground and upper floor layouts, kitchen dining room pantry and two bedrooms on ground floor, four bedrooms a sewing room and bath on upper floor, ceiling heights nine feet on ground and six on upper, with costs ranging from 604 to 1000 dollars and interior details like burlap hall finish and whitewashing guidance for a poultry house.
A woman from outside Waterville Maine called at Teadlong grocer in Waterville and asked for some sweet cream of tartar saying the last she had got there was torn. The grocer was obliged to cut off.
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