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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1903
Page
6
Fashion notes discuss veils, from nose-length sheers to bold black and white spots, praised for wind resistance and hair neatness. Long ago handiwork returns in satin petticoats, quilts, and bedcovers, with modern versions like ladybug pins and gold wire brooches. A dark blue corduroy costume with white piping is featured, plus tips for care and a prima donna remedy for hoarseness.
A London inspired trend spreads as a jeweler introduces ladybug ornaments. The bug is described as a fortunate symbol, newly worn as part of jewelry and fashion.
A short herb and fragrance note advises adding a tiny camphor drop to vase water to prolong flower freshness. It suggests placing perfume on pumice stone to scent clothing storage, noting a sizeable piece of black vet- (text cut) enhances aroma in wardrobe areas.
The column surveys Paris fashion trends with notes on lace appliques, fur imitations, plaid skirts, and dyed hair. It also offers a vegetable salad dressing recipe using butter, vinegar, eggs, sugar, salt, mustard, and cream, with steps to prepare in a double boiler.
The dialogue features Bilderdick and Peavick discussing running the Wayback Whooper and trouble fitting top column ads. A pivot to real estate shows cost constraints and a desire for corner lots. The scene includes theater chatter about Mrs Growells and her husband’s supporting role.
A playful exchange frames a scene of readers debating a book and a football player mistaken for an author, as a Christmas boy and parent discuss stories. A matrimonial ad mocks “previous experience not necessary” for an ideal match, hinting at witty social satire.
Ida jokes that love struck at first sight with him. May quips it would be better if he were a medium to have a second sight.
Scene from The Youth of To Day and The Commoner featuring Bright talk about masked balls and a nervous marriage proposal. A visitor notes guarded knowledge while a merchant reveals his son’s fear of discovery in a tense moment.
The article explains how an Arabian coffee maker prepares a fire, roasts select green berries on an iron ladle, mashes them in a mortar, and brews the decoction in a tepid water line. The boiling brew is served in small cups without cream or sugar, reflecting traditional practice.
Fisherman J Brung hauled a five pound striped bass with an oddly elongated head near San Francisco. Brung, an experienced angler, described the fish as a monstrous novelty, noting the creature resembled a bass with a protruding jaw and unusual form. His group declares they have never hooked such a strange denizen before.
A bizarre 6000 foot tall undersea monolith was spotted off Chile with a 240 foot circumference base and a flat summit. Scientists doubt its dry land stability, predicting weathering in years. The fragment also recounts a London editor mixing Bret Harte with Mark Twain and Jon Mulharlan’s supposed return from obscurity in New Orleans after eight years in Arizona.
A fragment describes a waxy palm of the Andes yielding a vegetable wax that climbs to heights near 200 feet. The wood is noted as tough and durable for carpentry. The wax, from pits between trials and fronds, is yellow to grayish white and used for candies.
A Kazan Russia paper recounts a heathen sacrifice in a Chuvash village with villagers giving butter milk salt and meat to priests. On a propitious day the people gathered by a river to pray for rain as a butter smeared swallow is released to carry prayers heavenward. After a feast the priests pushed into the water and sprinkled the crowd, a relic of old ceremonial noted by the London Standard.
An insectivorous fluminant describes an insect called the lantern fly from South America. It has a huge hollow head made of thin papery tissue, painted red and yellow like a toy. It is nocturnal, and its head glows at night, providing a bright light.
An eccentric Frenchman named Chapelain has died at Monhoudou in Sarthe. He was extremely wealthy and built a monumental tomb beside the cemetery. For twenty years he spent hours daily there, often sleeping in the tomb to accustom himself to his future dwelling. He kept his coffin at the house and used it as a bed, with his winding sheet laid on a dining table as a persistent ritual.
The article notes a practice of eating clay on bread as a butter substitute, called stone butter, common in Germany and Sweden and found in markets on the Tallan peninsula, Sardinia, Persia, Nubia, and other tropical countries. It suggests earths have flavor and may replace butter in various foods.
Spitrack notes describe preoven roasting on spits before ovens and claim Yale University president Arthur Hadley joined the faculty tennis team. Hadley played against Yale’s regular squad, losing five matches to three but defeating his younger rival, amid stories of conventi tennis and prayer.
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