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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
2
The narrator recalls past cooks and wash ladies, naming many women by name and origin. Recalling ruined beefsteaks, bill disputes, and mishaps with dishes. They contrast old familiar faces with new hires and lament ongoing kitchen problems.
The guide advises careful material and style choices for a three piece summer wardrobe a tailored suit a dressy indoor gown and a versatile wrap with coordinated accessories. It emphasizes discretion taste cost becomingness and practical travel readiness with options ranging from kimono wraps to talma inspired shapes in soft silk and marquisette fabrics.
Simple and pretty bodice to wear with a matching skirt. Guipure lace forms the under-sleeves and yoke, with satin edging at center front and across the lace strip. Over-sleeve trimmed similarly, two shoulder tucks, list of materials includes satin and lace.
The article describes a stylish short coat with one piece sleeves in kimono style, worn over a champagne serge gown. It highlights a blue accented banding of white guipure on black taffeta, moire poplin revers, and a jaunty double breasted back, suitable for a summery wardrobe.
White mousseline or Swiss sets feature sailor collars and large turnback cuffs with hemstitched hems. The style mirrors a strong French vogue seen on berthas collars and dressy gowns. Hemstitching remains a favored detail on gowns and accessories.
The article outlines bridal veil trends for young brides including raw edged tulle veils, Juliet caps of orange blossoms, and lace veils with Judy caps. It notes veil lengths vary with height and skirt length, with options for veils covering the face or showing only sides and back. It also suggests cap accents in pearls or crystals and emphasizes adaption to face shape and latest fashion.
A fashion note outlines reviving gold beads with tips to clean tarnish using hot soapsuds or silver polish. It contrasts large newer beads with older, suggests a nine row nine bead design, and advises avoiding skin contact, using beads to brighten dark gowns rather than decollete outfits.
The article describes new nets transformed into breakfast caps for the fashion minded girl. A model features a deep tam o shanter crown with a crinoline band, gold tissue ribbon, lace jabot edges, and pink roses above each ear.
Chicago shoe dealers reject a New York dispatch claiming women's feet are growing larger. They assert Chicago feet remain small and dainty, with more small sizes sold this year. Managers say athletic activity does not change size and mock the NY report as vaudeville-style humor.
Ottawa residents join a new Epidermis Supply organization organized by Henry Latter to provide human skin for grafts. Sixty three members enroll with secret names, and a test graft will be performed on William Thomas the royal navy veteran hospitalized with extensive burns.
A robin pair nesting behind a brake ladder on an empty car stalled a train between Hamilton Ontario and Buffalo. Patrolman Mooney discovered four eggs and, with railroad workers, placed the car on a dead sidetrack to protect the birds until their young hatch and leave.
Five historic elms in Harvard College yard are being uprooted due to damage from elm leaf beetle leopard moth and bark borer. Many trees are nearly a century old with few likely to be saved. 150 red oak saplings will be planted to replace the elms.
The first American egg laying congress will run from November for 12 months in Spokane with free world access. Each state or territory may send two entries of six chickens. aim is to answer cost and efficiency questions and identify best practices. John C. Lee proposes educational focus with diplomas for top producers and a rented tract near Spokane for experimental farming under expert care.
Four Rousseau daughters, Louise Adele Eliza Josephine Victore Alphonsine and Clara Leontine, heirs to 7509.50 if single, must share their mother’s $7509.50 estate. If any marries she forfeits her portion, unless all four wed, keeping equal shares. The youngest sister is forty.
London councilor H P Bird was given a gold watch by fellow councilmen. On returning home he found it missing, but the thief returned the timepiece the next day. Residents speculate if kindness or a connoisseur of presentation watches led to its recovery.
N Moyer Whitaker of Eddystone carried a small box with three mice onto a Marcus Hook to Chester trolley used by American Viscose workers. Women aboard screamed rats causing a mass scramble to the ends of the car while tired workers seized empty seats. The mice escaped during the commotion and the women calmed.
In Los Angeles Judge McCormick rebuked an attorney claiming poker as America’s pastime. He warned against maligning the country and placed a youth on three years probation for a counterfeit check tied to poker losses, requiring avoidance of poker and gambling.
The Empress Eugenie marked her eighty fifth birthday in London. She wed Napoleon III on January 29 1853, the French emperor who died January 9 1873.
A wife teases her husband after a stag party, noting he ate little and drank much. He admits he is hungover and asks how she knew. She answers that his lack of appetite and pronounced thirst reveal his indulgence. The exchange captures comic domestic banter.
A mother soothes her restless child Freddie who confesses a stomach ache kept secret from his father. He fears his father would remove his appendix if he knew. The little tale plays on a child’s sly worry about medical punishment and parental authority.
Blog reports Hoopski has retired from the Democratic nomination race. The source quotes Blogsby asking about a possible failed bid and clarifies that Hoopski is no longer continuing in the contest.
A witty exchange describes fashion with humor as one man notes that full dress often appears emptier, while another questions the paradox. The brief dialogue highlights a concise observation on attire and presentation.
A youthful speaker insists on reaching success with both feet but his uncle retorts to go with both hands. The uncle argues grasping with hands allows holding more, revealing a practical maxim about effort and leverage.
A witty exchange at a dressing table features a man admitting hair dyeing with apology. The other quips that the dyeing began late and that most of it has died of itself.
A dialogue hints at social scrutiny over a marriage where a much younger woman considers marrying an older man. The younger speaker questions gossip while the older partner asserts he does not seem his age, suggesting tension over appearances and compatibility.
The article discusses death as the penalty for sin and the Christian hope of resurrection. It cites Paul’s words on order of resurrection, the Messianic Kingdom’s thousand-year reign, and humanity’s eventual release from death through Christ’s redemptive work and universal restitution.
Statement on cause and effect as a governing rule for humans. The text argues that moral failure stems from the human mind being mortal and finite, leaving no option but to express a corresponding condition. Mason calls the mind under this universal law.
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