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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1906
Page
3
The article describes how a tennis girl dresses for matches with white linen garments, a shirt and hat, and restrained accessories. It notes hat bands and waist belts in colors signaling a masculine relative or club, with subtle ribbons to suit complexion or eye color.
The article discusses ideal tennis attire emphasizing spotless white ensembles for players. It highlights skirts, underskirts, and petticoats, warns against lacey undergarments, and notes hat choices from sailor hats to Panama and linen options. It mentions a Peter Pan waist and a white linen costume with box-pleated skirt and embroidered jacket.
The piece traces fashion from the Peter Pan hat to the Peter Pan blouse and now a full Peter Pan suit for young girls. It highlights the simple shirt waist style with a short plaited or plain skirt, praised for its girlish charm and suitability for country wear and outings.
When packing away winter clothes try dried lavender cloves and other fragrant spices instead of camphor or moth balls. Pleasant odors deter moths as effectively as strong pungent scents. For Fancy Work large sewing bags are made of wide ribbon and two skull embroidery hoops serve as handles.
The New York Zoological Society will ship 15 to 20 buffalo to a grazing area in the Wichita forest reserve in southwestern Oklahoma. A fence, funded by a $15,000 appropriation, will enclose a large semiwild habitat with water, shelter, and breeding space to spare constant feeding. Buffalo at the Bronx zoo are in good condition as others are urged to follow this preservation plan.
A Berlin dispatch to the New York Press reports the crown prince’s newborn grandson born on July 4 may trigger a patriotic gift from American women. Miss Nettie Spencer of the University of Chicago leads a drive to present a commemorative souvenir at the royal christening, highlighting friendship with the Kaiser. An amusing note says wireless operators misinformed the Kaiser he was grandfather to twins.
The famed Indian altar stone on Joseph Horner’s farm near Millsboro Pa was dynamited by Horner after many visitors trampled his wheat. The rock on a hill bore carvings including men animals snakes and a kangaroo noted by archaeologists as a mystery. Horner says he acted on his own land and offered no apology to science.
The Bide-a-Wee society proposes to furnish free straw hats and drinks to all working horses. The writer praises the charity, noting horses endure heat and sun while pulling loads. The piece thanks Bide-a-Wee and similar groups for humane acts, urging human kindness toward horses.
Julian Dupree, a Parisian painter with a Vandyke beard, travels from Egypt to Philadelphia seeking the toast of the town, a young American woman he calls the most beautiful creature in the world. He already drew her portrait in a Tunis cafe and photographed her in a suburb en route to Egypt. If he finds her, he seeks a formal introduction to paint her portrait.
Influential Norwegians push to honor Kieng Peerson with a monument in Ottawa Michigan, where his early colony was founded. Peerson, born 1782, led Norwegians and Quakers to America around 1825, with later colonies in New York, Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. he died in Texas in 1865.
A novel courtship custom from the east end of London prompts men to wear a love button with their fiancée’s photograph from engagement to wedding. The fiancée wears his photo on her breast, and discarding the button signals the engagement’s end.
A verse rail about trust in canned food labeling. The speaker boasts of using tripe and other meats to please the public while urging belief in the label on the can. The poem mocks gossip and emphasizes consumer confidence in product labeling.
A vintage column describes party games and novelties for children. It explains a circle game with an alliterative travel theme, a wheel of fortune with eight fate sentences, the knuckle calendar for months, and a comparison of Greek and English youth running culture, urging regular outdoor running for boys.
A historic description proclaims the pyramid as the largest man built structure. It states a four thousand year age, base 46 feet square, height 449 feet, twenty years for construction, 100000 workers for three months, then another equal crew, stones from Arabia 700 miles away, and an estimated cost of 145 million dollars.
A daisy story from the Pittsburg Press features Buttercup desiring a telephone and Spider promising to build one. He climbs a ladder stem and spins a thread telephone above the daisies, enabling Buttercup to talk to Clover Bloom all summer.
A New York upper west side housewife orders macaroni for dinner and tests her new cook. Her husband, after tasting the dish, questions its quality and the cook reveals the macaroni is from a glue factory or pulp works, prompting a demand to “get the lox.” The article records a humorous domestic mix up with a clue about the pasta package.
The quirky incident describes Choice Papler making straws for mixed drinks. A bhus hand complains and a straw mishap leads to ostrich food remark, yet the cook survives to recount the tale and lives on.
A special dispatch from New York Globe describes Atlantic City, New Jersey, where women play tennis in damp packed sand on a beach court near Chelsea cottage colony. The piece notes extreme fads at the resort, including large amber hatpins worn with various hats and caps as seaside trends evolve.
A Washington correspondent reports shells over three feet in diameter and up to 100 pounds found in a Gunnison Colorado irrigation tunnel. Geologists say the shells, fossils from ancient seas, block the tunnel through the former Colorado desert area near the Great Salt Lake region.
The Japanese Admiral Shinamura offered a fresh war definition during a visit to Australia as reported by the Springfeld Republican. He said peace maneuvers plus the killing achieve results, a view capturing wartime rhetoric and Allied media framing.
The Philadelphia record notes Carrie Moyer of Macungie Virginia is gaining fame as an effective baseball pitcher. A spoof poem mocks reform efforts and praises autocratic authority, portraying a grim humor about women seeking rights and freedom. Chicago News provides a contrasting editorial stance.
An Olio Inventor presents a belt shifter that lets workers change machine speed by a wall bracket lever. A pivoted upper and lower arm with straps encircles the belt and shifts it to the next pulley step, keeping the belt free to move during operation.
Cameos are cut from onyx and sardonyx abundant along the Uruguay river in Brazil. Large portal pieces cost about 13 dollars. The process uses a revolving diamond dust drill, requires great patience, and intaglio carving sinks the figure into the stone. Ancient work remains artistically supreme.
Eighteen months ago iron crates with coal were sunk in a Portsmouth dockyard basin while an equal amount was stored in open air under tarpaulins. Six month sample burns show submarine storage increasing calorific value, while open air storage lowers it. Tropic naval stations show greater heat loss from sun exposure. The Admiralty endorses benefits and orders larger scale tests of submarine storage.
Buffalo physician Dr. BE P Blomer notes yearly rises in insanity correlating with the strawberry season. He cites hospital records showing cases fall as the fruit season ends, and he cannot explain the link though believes a peculiar influence affects nervous individuals during berry tasting.
New materials for paper production are constantly discovered. Pine waste has been turned into usable pulp, and fine paper can be produced from various fibers including vornstalke and rice straw. Trees such as spruce pine aspen birch and cottonwood plus plants like hemp cotton jute and millet offer ample fiber sources, suggesting no imminent paper shortage.
An old time fruit dealer offers simple tests for fresh fruit. He says weight and rind yield test ripeness in watermelons and cantaloupes, Georgia melons are sweetest, and yellowish muskmelons indicate ripeness. Peaches, apples, and the skin provide clues to firmness and defects, with color signaling readiness.
Practical guide on judging ripeness for cherries gooseberries huckleberries blueberries blackberries raspberries and strawberries. It notes color uniformity brightness firmness and absence of specks or mushy texture as indicators of good table fruit and discusses regional variations in appearance and quality.
A buyer and agent spar over a drafty house and a boastful spring floor. The agent pitches a new patent burglar alarm stairway as a free feature while the moor complains of creaking stairs, highlighting quirky real estate banter.
A vintage instruction explains how to handle veils by stretching them across the veil and rolling around a roll of paper to form a solid base. A cone should secure the veil at each end, detailing a simple, practical method for preparing delicate head coverings.
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