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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
7
The piece discusses autumn style shifts favoring wide skirts and crisp contrasts. It notes lingering stripe usage across fabrics from veiling to serge, with solid piping and skirt bands adding character. French influences bring skimpy skirts, elbow sleeves, and flat collar effects while American coats trend jauntier. Dress to suit the moment and seek the becoming look as trends change gradually.
The article describes elaborate porcelain headed dolls used as coffee warmers and cosies with skirts that cover the pot. Fashioned as historical grand dames like Lucretia Borgia and Marie Antoinette, they mirror period costumes and are crafted from brocade and embroidery for decorative use.
The article describes sailor collars and large turnback cuffs in white mousseline and Swiss fabrics with simple hems. Hemstitching, beading as an alternative, and Paris imports feature gallor collars in embroidered linen, net, lace, and plain white with colored borders.
Glove Daintiness dominates fashion pages as Saxe gloves appear in perfumed pale tones. Long loose gloves capture the craze. though they soil easily and may tangle with rats, they remain widely worn and chic in the hour.
A fragment notes lace and delicate fabrics in contriving their handsome costumes, hinting at a focus on decorative textiles and fashion craftsmanship. The passage highlights the variety of fabrics used to achieve ornate attire.
Purchase extra matting to cut into summer rugs. Finish edges by pulling out straws to depth and tying threads. These lightweight rugs protect floors, resist fuzz, and clean easily.
The Drygoods Economist notes side frills will be a featured prom item in neckwear with two effects. One uses materials suited for tailored coats and one-piece dresses, while the other employs sheer materials and marine laces as embellishment on silk gowns.
Captain A H Waddell extols agriculture and livestock as humanity's backbone. He traces Britain's aristocratic origins in farming, notes landlord and tenant competition, and praises modern American wealth guiding pedigreed stock breeding toward improved farming nationwide.
Three hundred billion bees produced enough honey last year to fill a train of cars from New York to Buffalo. At 10 cents a pound wholesale, the output was worth 25 million dollars. If 700000 beekeepers had matched the bees’ industry, output could have tripled to 75 million dollars. Bees also treated honey antiseptically with formic acid as it was produced to prevent decay and impurities.
Dutch growers rapidly increase potato area and yield per acre aided by drained peat lands and manure. The crop is sprayed for blight, while potato insects pose little trouble to farmers across the Netherlands.
A 21 year old horse suffered contracted heels from poor shoeing and other causes. After initial failures with regular smiths, a veterinarian corrected the issue by leveling the fronts, adding springs to keep heels spread, and tucking leather to protect the sole. Weekly foot oil and tar remedy followed, leading to marked improvement in road work and reliability at up to 12 miles per hour.
An estimate indicates about 5,000,000 range sheep are fattened in the corn belt each season, reflecting wide-scale livestock finishing in the region.
The poem voice vents about extreme heat not from sun or air but from people's gossip and restless search for a cool spot. Narrator compares feelings to a waffle burned and charred by the overheated atmosphere created by others.
A suburbanite questions the value of front seats on trains while a railway official explains that front seats cannot be legally admitted as such since a front seat in one direction becomes a rear seat in the opposite direction, rendering the question moot.
A dialogue notes Spenditt’s fall from wealth after inheriting a fortune last year. A rich man’s vest and an ornate hairdo remark on his current lack of money, citing an over fast automobile, a slow yacht, a high speed horse and a comic opera venture that failed.
The villain laughs cruelly claiming the hero will marry the heroine in the third act, predicting the play’s future twist and sealing the dramatic irony for audiences.
A visitor tells an employer with a large workforce that occasional employee crookedness is expected. The employer confirms and admits an espionage system to catch cheaters. The exchange notes that no matter how fast a man runs, he is eventually caught.
A dialog notes Mrs. Diggem as a highly informed amateur gardener who knows every flower by name yet wears unfashionable gardening attire. The exchange humorously contrasts her horticultural knowledge with outdated dress.
A country girl Virginia arrives in the city to seek work but faces rejection until Billy Locke helps her. He urges caution with a head waiter and promises a future together, planning to marry and provide a home as they dream of a lilac-filled life away from the harsh lunchroom grind.
Comedian Henry 35 Dixey lauds Nijinsky the Russian dancer for his pantomime skill. He asserts Nijinsky can evoke laughter sadness fear and rage without words. On a bet of 50 rubles he mimed to reveal that his younger brother Piotr, born in Moscow, is staying at a boarding house near Warsaw.
Arbuckle tells Spreckels that Havemeyer is a misunderstood patriot while Spreckels retorts Nero played the violin. The exchange highlights caution in public perception and the joke that the world’s shape depends on the answerers.
A ninety year old man once sold the Profile notch for $100 and saw the land become a valuable summer resort. The town recalls the act with humor as we celebrate a Fourth of July tribute in a decorated landau once used for General Grant's tour. The citizen laments no ill, claiming he enjoyed a very good time with that $100.
A popular scientist questions an astronomer's success, noting the latter's habit of gazing through a telescope while neglecting to write articles for magazines. The remark frames a debate on productivity and fame in scientific work.
He prefers being a live rabbit to a dead hen and their long silent moment ends with her reply that he will indeed get his wish.
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