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Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 30, 1912

Page

2

Burning Daylight Finds Tranquil Rural Refuge

Elam Harnish known as Burning Daylight circles back from Yukon riches to a quiet canyon homestead. He meets Ferguson, a fan, and tours a shaded clearing with a spring, fruit trees, and irrigation channels, contemplating simpler life away from high finance and fame.

Elam Harnish Alaska Circle City Tivoli Harnish Yukon Hamish Dawson Klondike Dayligh New York San Francisco Dede Mason Ferguson

Where Are You Daylight Sits With Ferguson In Sonoma

Ferguson recounts health decline and exile to Sonoma Valley after failed medical cures and hard work. Daylight contemplates ranch purchase while Dede Mason remains distant as Daylight’s life slows with drinking and public missteps in a San Francisco power game. The sermon reflects on Genesis 3 9 and sin, shame, and redemption.

Yukon San Francisco Ferguson Europe Hawaii Times-Tribune Valley of the Moon Sonoma Valley Hillard Riverside San Jose Hell

Daylight Encounters Stranger While Trekking In Hills

Daylight rents a horse and wanders through valleys and ridges, observing chaparral and sparse farms. A small patched man, sunburned and peroxide blond, signals Daylight and asks him to deliver a letter, then stares with recognition as Daylight answers.

Manzanita Ebouts

Destruction of Rats in East Africa and Java Method

A Scientific American excerpt describes a rat elimination technique using carbon bisulphide poured into a rat hole. After evaporation, air and vapor ignite producing an explosion that fills the hole with poisonous gas, killing rats instantly. Fire hazards and a need for a fire proof chamber to contain the explosion are noted.

East Africa Java Scientific American

Liszt’s Real Influence on Music and Wagner’s Rise

James Huneker argues in Franz Liszt The Real and Legendary that Liszt shaped modern music through improvisation and a fresh European sensibility. He credits Liszt with inspiring Wagner’s development and notes critical hostility toward Liszt in Germany.

Liszt Germany Wagner Franz Liszt James Huneker Scribner's

Silk Coats and Elegant Silk Gowns Shape Summer Fashion

Silk coats remain endlessly popular for smartening old frocks with peplum tails and delicate trims. Burnous and butterfly mantles in bright silks, lace edging, and tiny artificial flowers create a chic, hotel-ready look. The latest coatee showcases shot taffeta and black lace braiding, paired with veiled skirts. undersleeves like Dolly Madison offer a finishing touch. Mary Dean.

Rovers Dolly Madison Mary Dean

Summer morning frock features long black taffeta bow and lace buckle

The smartest note in a summer morning frock is a long neck bow of black taffeta solid passes under an Irish lace front buckle. Celluloid buckles and buckles may secure the necktie ends. The buff linen frock has self color embroideries with a Jeghorn hat trimmed in black wings. White buckskin boots finish the ensemble.

Toilet basket with high curved handle and dimity trim

A prettily designed toilet basket features a boat shape and a tall curved handle. Outer surfaces are draped in fine French dimity with frilled Valenciennes edging, while the interior uses plain dimity with a silk-lined soap pocket and brush compartments.

A Traveling Woman Packs a Trunk Efficiently

A careful traveler describes a space saving trunk packing method. She uses a solid partition for hats a box of medicine on the side filled with sawdust shoes wrapped in linen with pills inside footwear. Six to eight cardboard envelopes hold dresses flat and evenly. Laces veils and gloves in a shallow top tray. Underwear packed around edges.

Fashion Notes on Citron Yellows and Embroidered Touches

A citron yellow adds boldness to gowns and can stand alone or be trimmed with embroidery. Oriental colorings appear in borders and garlands of wreaths and vines appear fashionable. The little taffeta jacket serves as a wrap for lingerie dresses, enhancing the afternoon outfit.

New Velvet Trimming Uses Pearl-Like Buttons

A new trimming note details velvet garments featuring rows of tiny white buttons sewn as pearls from bodice to hem. Panels of white ratine with matching slashed skirts and collars finish waists over velvet, with narrow panels and braided tabs to hold velvet in place.

Result of Observation at Chicago reception

Report notes that attending a reception renews the belief in the survival of the fattest, reflecting social attitudes observed by the Chicago Record-Herald.

Chicago Record-Herald

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