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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1907
Page
3
A column discusses women's health linked to mental load and housekeeping. It urges accepting interruptions, planning the week, and resting to preserve dignity and happiness. It cites examples of orderly homes, a 5-year-old's quiet resolve, and notes on notable women and historical trivia.
Miss Gertrude Beeks of Chicago travels to Panama under a commission from Secretary Taft to examine social conditions in the canal zone for the United States government. She has long served the National Civic Federation welfare department and led factory reform efforts at McCormick Harvester.
The most successful U S book canvasser is a Russian woman who arrived a decade ago unable to read English. She now earns about 50000 a year selling special limited editions for a Philadelphia house, sometimes commanding 106600 per sale with 40 percent for herself. She targets wealthy women, arrives in a grand carriage with a footman, and often poses as a Russian countess, with many society women purchasing sets.
A white messaline dress for a graduate features Mechlin lace edging and crossed lace ruffies tied with white baby ribbon rosettes. The skirt shirrs at the hips with two shirred top rows on the flounce and a lace gulmpe matching the trim. The article notes men in Jove are pleased to hear they are never absent from the scene.
The article surveys summer fashion trends with emphasis on trim patterns like Greek keys and ribbon insertions, navy blue with green tones, and tilleul. It highlights hats and jewelry styled hatpins, tortoise shell adornments, and turquoise and diamond encrusted pieces. Underskirts feature elaborate trimmings with peau de suede fabrics and lace. The Algerian bolero fad is described with embroidered squares, passementerie joins, and shoulder front braiding.
Advice promotes eight hours of sleep plus a daytime nap to preserve youth and prevent wrinkles. It recommends opening a window slightly, tepid to cold baths with brisk rubbing, two hours of outdoor activity, and avoiding tight clothing to prevent circulation problems.
The text argues that order is essential to maintaining sanity amid the modern woman's diverse roles from home to community. A disciplined structuring of occupations and pleasures is presented as the surest method to cope with kitchen nursery schoolroom club town and social duties.
A very attractive blouse in India mull features a crosswise tucked yoke overlaid with filet lace braids in an unusual design. Tucks reveal fullness beneath, lace bands accent the waist, elbow sleeves have lace insertions and cuffs, and the collar is decorated to match.
Boise correspondent reports Haywood trial witness Harry Orchard alias Alfred Horsley calmly recites a career of plotted killings and bombings. He claims payment from Western Federation of Miners leaders including Haywood Moyer and Pettibone, with separate feuds and multiple marriages revealed on cross examination.
The article describes milfiiner wings priced at twenty five dollars a pair and notes ostrich plumes of great length and shading as a comparison. It spotlights large colorfully coordinated wings and wide brimmed gaitor hats trimmed with such feathers, worn back to reveal front hair as a season’s successful model.
In England a movement seeks to let wives take their husband’s name while keeping their own, so Miss Mary Cotton could become Mrs. Cotton-Sparks. The change would help preserve a wife’s identity as her father’s daughter, which some fear is lost after marriage.
Telegraphic news reports Blaisdell New York Blaisdell car barn of the Buffalo Lake Erie Traction Company burned with twenty five cars and a loss around 100000. Iron Springs hotel at Manitou Colorado a large summer hotel destroyed by fire with loss about 78000 and the house unopened for the season. Albert Crowell of Henderson North Carolina found dead in a New York hotel room with a bullet in his brain police suspect an assumed name registered.
State superintendent Fassett A. Cotton reports 1907 school enrollment rose to 778,814, up 4,136 from 774,074 in 1906. The roundup lists county totals for Adams to Whitley, with Marion and Lake among the largest districts, and totals for each county across Indiana.
The article recounts the diary based record of 1816 as the coldest year, detailing unusually mild January, late spring frosts, June snowstorms, July ice, and August frost. It notes widespread crop failures, scarce rain, and reliance on fish and game for survival, with Barnet England and Danbury Conn cited in reports.
Jemina Wallis, 25, secured a divorce from her third husband in the Circuit Court. She married at 18, left a cruel first husband, and says her second marriage ended when he was jailed. Wallis testified Frank Wallis beat her and she plans to remarry when the right man comes along.
Charles M. Hill, long a resident at Eastern hospital in Richmond, died recently after years as an inmate. Reportedly the inventor of the self binder, he fell from fame when others patent work surpassed his idea. He reportedly died unsettled over patent issues.
Mrs. William Moline of a Shoals area home was struck by lightning while resting her head on a wire clothesline and died instantly.
Elisha Whitehead aged 40 drowned while fishing from a boat in a creek near Evansville. Leo Gabe aged 10 drowned wading in a creek near Evansville. Abraham Lewis a Morris Minn merchant arrested in Whiting for arson and wife desertion. Tony Miller shot and killed his former wife fleeing Muncie police after barricading in a box car. Miller wounded in the leg as officers returned fire. Day Armstrong found guilty of murder in South Bend with life imprisonment. Oscar Lucas, Owensville farmer, used a roller to destroy army worms and urged others to adopt the remedy.
The Findlay Circuit Court orders Buckeye Pipe Line Company to accept all oil from independents at a fair price. Ohio had alleged 90 cent barrel transport rate as prohibitive. Decision aids Prosecutor David in upcoming case against Standard Oil and Rockefeller interests.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that Edna B. Platt who left her husband in New Haven and remarried in Iowa remains Platt’s wife and is guilty of bigamy, making the children from the second marriage illegitimate. Platt had sued claiming service by Iowa newspaper notice.
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