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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1904
Page
3
A jumble of curiosities and opinions fills a late edition page. Topics range from a widow inheriting 750 million to fashion notes, railways, taxes, and odd anecdotes about jewel losses, bandits, and fleas for sale. The piece surveys social quirks, market shifts, and international misadventures with a satirical tone.
Fashion notes describe a white batiste negligee with Valenciennes yoke and lace edging, suitable for silks and wools, with full front and back and wide sleeves. Details include ribbon ties or buttons, fabric quantities for various widths, and possible fur-trimmed accents on short walking suits. A black net gown with heavy lace applique and a blue belt note follows.
A description of a new gown in rose silk with a white taffeta skirt, featuring deep scalloped ruffles, a cream snowdrop bodice, elbow sleeves with rose pink chiffon puff, a high silk lace girdle, and black jet accents. designed to set the season’s fashion tone with refined detailing and a chic silhouette.
The article describes garment details for young girls including garnitures, rosettes, double-face ribbons, bows, and sashes for thin gowns. It notes Guimpes as important, chiffon scarves two and a half yards long for fall hats, and mentions scallopedTower collars and deep berthas on bodices as stylish touches.
Embroidery on gowns shows lavish use of hand work with Persian band effects as new garnitures. Gowned women favor long skirts and basque coats with teddy filling and buttoned fronts. Sleeve styles include regulation coats, leg-o-motion shapes, and gauntlet cuts, often with fullness above the elbow. Tailors craft tie Loula XV vests from decorative geame veatinge for a sharp finish. Lace and tucked net ventes accompany broadcloth dresses.
A New York Tribune description details a large dull green straw hat with a wide brim and small crown worn by a woman at Sherry's. The hat features a dark green velvet band and irregular velvet frogs along the crown and underbrim, with pointed cutouts of varying lengths adding decorative sections to the brim.
Linen embroidered eyelet style garments described with central box design by May Manton. Features plaited and shaped cuffs, back yoke option, and adjustable back closure. For medium size, fabric requirements vary by width from 4 to 6 yards.
This illustrated week shows summer fashion with shirred and tucked garments. A white dimity frock with pink dotted fabric features a shirred yoke, pink silk girdle, shirred skirt, and a pale pink ribbon bow. Also pictured is a design for silk or linen wear with a boxed platte and embroidered lace finish.
Instructions for a milk and egg custard using one quart milk five level tablespoons sugar one saltspoon salt and one teaspoon vanilla. Heat milk beat eggs separate whites and yolks mix sugar with yolks add warm milk gradually return to heat until custard coats spoon. A double boiler recommended. use two pans if unavailable.
The passage reviews elegant summer attire including jackets in vogue, a waist of point d esprit with antique green taffeta coordinating with a velvet trimmed skirt. It notes a lace edged waist with wide sleeves, a bolero with plaits over the shoulders, and specifies material quantities for a medium size.
Instructions for making currant jelly dissolve sugar with currant juice, strain through a sieve, simmer until thick, and seal. Also describes asbestos table coverings, soft flexible and foldable, with linen overlays and leather trimming resurging for hard wearing garments and table accessories.
The article recommends Eau de quinie to stimulate growth and not color hair. Apply on the scalp three times weekly before bed, massaging with fingertip tips, then part and brush. Let hair fall loose when possible to aid growth. Use pure vaseline weekly on the scalp. Do not use curling irons, but roughen slightly with a comb if stiffness is needed, and brush at night.
The article describes neck trimmings formed by combining two widths of material. The wider portion folds into a turnover collar while the narrower portion stays upright as a rich. The turnover appears three times as wide as the other and uses sheer goods such as fine batiste with knife-pint finish.
In this fragment guidance covers reusing leftover liquid after settling, drying potato peels for fire kindling, using abundant peels as wood substitute, storing gasoline in gallon bottles away from living spaces, and cautions about hazardous agents. It also includes culinary notes on lamb stews with curry powder and a curry enhanced toasted meat and potato entree called “ataw” with a humorous tone.
A fragmented lyric piece depicts joy in tea with Polly as a counter to melancholy after conflict. Vivid lines praise calm moments, the comfort of bread and a graceful head shake, and a lover’s gaze that dissolves war’s shadows.
Reports from across the United States detail resumed operations and renewed labor clashes. Canonsburg tinplate and Sharon carpenters end lockouts, Barnum collery miners return to work, Hartford contractors surrender, and unions push strikes while wage disputes and recognition fights unfold in steel, glass, and railroad sectors.
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