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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
2
The article describes New Year holiday revels centered on the cotillon with pretty, affordable favors. It highlights two figures the mirror and the screen, notes period dances and powdered costumes, and suggests fashioning costumes from bygone eras to add charm to the party sfeer. It mentions leaders, flowers, and the social bustle of a festive cotillon.
A society notes column highlights Vienna origin fashion ideas such as a waist chain to suspend long skirts, elaborate handmade buttons, and ornate cardeases with gold and copper mounts. New York opera cloaks feature double rows of varied buttons, while ostrich feather muffs and capes in gradient feathers captivate feminine tastes.
Guidelines for arranging the dinner cover in formal and informal settings. Describes plate placement, utensils order, napkin folds, placings for bread and butter, glassware at the service plate, and seating cards. Emphasizes proper timing of course plates and dessert preparation.
A method to serve leftover roast turkey with a chestnut sauce. Mash chestnut meat, mix with chicken stock lemon juice butter flour, season with salt and pepper, simmer, sieve, reheat with turkey slices, finish with parsley or delicate greens for serving.
A recipe mixes three cupfuls each of chopped nuts and dry breadcrumbs with three cupfuls of milk and nut butter beaten into milk. It adds sage and salt before folding in six beaten eggs. Bake twenty minutes and serve with cranberry jelly and brown gravy.
In a holiday menu note Table Talk urges grape or any fruit sherbet to refresh a heavy feast. Use a simple freezer process with one half pound sugar boiling water cooling, add grape juice lemon juice and half frozen mix, then fold in stiffly beaten egg white with sugar before completing freezing.
Conserva tive trimmings feature vertical and horizontal bands with wool laces embroidery and long Freuel suit ornamentations. Velvet ribbons bloom on gowns with jabot drapery and a belted bodice, while hats showcase plumes fur trims and lace in millinery.
The British House of Commons heard Tim Healy deride Uganda railway spending as irony and charity. Healy mocked aid to Uganda while Ireland faced hardship, portraying government zeal as misplaced, and referenced Kerry Connaught and Irish politics with sharp satire. A final unrelated item notes a Brouley hen laying a quarter pound egg.
Fifteen American fighting cocks shipped from Pennsylvania to Manila aboard the Korea for cockfighting with Filipino roosters. The crate was six by six by two and a half feet, whitewashed and sealed with antiseptic care, carrying birds valued at 25 dollars each. Army officials note four American birds previously earned seven hundred dollars for their owners in Philippine cockfighting, and a new shipment of fifteen more is en route to provide sport for soldiers and locals.
American midwinter decor relies on fir and cedar saplings ten feet high, children’s trees, and enhancements with candies, trinkets, and gifts. Wreaths mistletoe sprays holly and greenery create festooned lighting from chandeliers, with celar or fir twigs forming light ropes above dining tables in festive board style.
Truth and wit are noted as traits while a new novelty appears in cravat racks. These wall mounted racks come in various lengths around eighteen inches with square apertures for ties and brass rings or ribbon loops for hanging.
Major St Williams Wynn commands the Flint and Denbigh hounds to vaccinate all hounds and puppies against distemper. A veterinary surgeon from Broughton Asaph is to perform the inoculations. Many dogs have died from the disease, and this pack is the first in England to be vaccinated, so results will be watched closely.
Prince Heinrich von Prussia, personal representative of Emperor William, praised President Roosevelt at a New York chamber of commerce dinner aboard the Deutschland. He admired the president and the crowd, noting the magnetic influence of his speech and the strong, capable faces among attendees. Meanwhile in Washington End the strike by coal mine workers protests mule welfare, with 300 men walking out at mines Nos. 2 and 3 until the company improves care for the mules and their feeding and watering.
A London Express note says a Prague herald Alois Muller sells forged manuscripts claiming Maria Theresa and Joseph II granted noble patents. Purchasers obtain court patents to legitimize titles. Champagne dress tint described as a delicate golden am ber color used in gowns wraps and negligees, its shimmering effect heightened by veiled filmy masses.
A Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph poem praises the chrysanthemum, noting its bold colors and regal presence at festivals and social events. It declares the autumn flower a royal focal point, outlasting summer fragrance and lighting gatherings with its striking hues and stately posture.
Mrs. C Sands of Massillon Ohio reports nerve tenseness sleeplessness relieved by Dr A W Chase Nerve Pills after using a box bought at B S Craigs drug store 9 South Erie Street. She claims improved sleep nerves strength and general well being.
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