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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1909
Page
3
A guide on making decorative hat pins and matching buttons from linen or canvas. It describes tracing circles, outlining designs, stiffening with embroidery in a frame, and finishing backs with linen circles, plus attaching the top and edges with silk, gold thread and beads.
A vintage sewing note explains making a decorative trimming from cords and bias bands to form a scroll design. It details cording from bias strips, threading a soft cord, and blind stitching to bands. Creating the yoke or collar involves drawing shapes on stiff paper, basting bands, and sewing cords for a continuous scroll.
The latest one piece dresses feature lingerie style collars not Dutch or Priscilla types. New collars are bits of fine embroidery worn along the guimpe line, especially on painted fronts. When deep they resemble a bertha and add dainty appeal to dark frocks.
Fashion notes describe sweaters growing longer with many models reaching near the dress hem while shorter designs stay practical. The trend favors modest coverage and versatile pairing with skirts and dresses.
Beads in profusion described with unprecedented variety. Opaque glass beads lead fashion with long single strands as the most stylish choice today.
In humid weather hair should be shampooed only weekly or replaced by talcum powder. Do not apply powder to roots. create a full pompadour then sprinkle lightly. Leave powder an hour, brush out, and next morning repeat brushing for clean fluffy hair.
Vogue explains hydrogen peroxide can remove perspiration stains from white satin coat sleeve linings with care to avoid the cloth, leaving no rim or odor. The fluid also removes linen collar discoloration without skin irritation.
A cinnamon colored walking costume features a wrapped center front seam on the skirt with three rows of stitching, black button trimmed upper bodice, cord buttonholes, and a fitted jacket with shoulder darts. It includes a silk waistcoat with cord trim, a black crinoline hat with chiffon and pink roses, and lists materials: silk yardage, lining silk, sateen, and about eight dozen buttons.
A lavender salts bottle enhances summer tea trays with a cooling aroma. Use a glass flask with a wide opening, fill with lavender salt cubes, and top with liquid. keep stopper out until serving. An attractive gift option, from simple bottles to silver or iridescent flasks, tied with a ribbon.
A reflective line suggests that believing a heart is broken signals capacity to endure greater emotional impact. The statement frames heartbreak as a test of resilience rather than a final damage.
An 15 inch mulberry wood bust of Shakespeare sold at Sothebys for 2025. The piece attributed to Gerard Johnson and linked to Stratford and the First Folio Droeshout print, valued as a relic with limited artistic merit. It has a detailed provenance tracing to Joan Shakespeare and the Hart family before new ownership.
Madden Persson of the Arlington survived a 26 hour drift on a raft after going overboard to aid shipmates. He signaled the Irene and Mary off Atlantic Hills, was rescued by a boat, and later landed at Beekman Street in New York. He wore only canvas pants and an undershirt but endured the gale and cold.
Philadelphia report says Miss Maria La Ton sails power boat on a treasure hunt. John Donovan of the schooner Independence in Charleston says he met her in South Carolina 13 months ago and she believes Blackbeard buried treasure near a Holisco river delta. She plans to finance a yacht to pursue the claim.
The long standing kiss ban in Baltimore parks is removed allowing couples to embrace openly. Authorities say the change permits public affection in park spaces, sparking reaction from residents and creating a new social scene for locals.
Value painted adds prestige and value whether a house costs a thousand or ten thousand dollars. A well dressed, well painted home yields higher selling and occupying value. National Lead Company offers a free Houseowners' Painting Outfit No. 49 with color schemes, specifications, and a paint adulteration detector instrument.
National Association data claims 7,180 tuberculosis patients die yearly in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Colorado. Half of them are too advanced for any climate to help, and over 60 percent lack funds for basic needs, leaving 4,315 consumptives to starve or rely on charity annually.
Prominent praise for Quaker Oats as a clean pure food suitable for building strength in muscle and brain. Claims from experts and notes on husk and speck removal set Quaker Oats apart from other brands. Also a short grammar quip features Hetty and her uncle discussing proper language usage.
A Youth’s Companion excerpt recalls English election stunts where Lord Bath used a donkey with two panniers bearing a “Vote for Papa” ribbon. Each pannier also bore one of Bath’s daughters, highlighting theatrical politics of the era.
A brief light note about Hill visiting for an evening, contrasting a smoker's habits and suggesting a social routine with Beacon-Is Shadby. The anecdote implies casual home leisure and Hill's behavior when away from home.
A Terre Haute woman reports four years of indigestion ended after adopting Grape-Nuts. Her husband improved similarly. their son now learns well and prefers Grape-Nuts at meals. The ad touts the cereal's nourishing elements and claims genuine letters support its benefits.
The White Steam Car company in Cleveland demonstrated kerosene as fuel on a 2650 mile Glidden Tour from Detroit to Denver to Kansas City. Officials and Pinkerton guards monitored the journey. kerosene proved cheaper, smokeless, and readily available with quick fuel changes possible between kerosene and gasoline.
An exchange shows Alfred feigning heart trouble to gauge a woman's feelings as they dodge direct declarations. She jokes about indigestion while he fumbles toward confessing love before proposing a game of checkers.
The fragment depicts a terse street conversation with a tramp-like speaker asking for food and a passerby reacting. The dialogue references hunger and a potential attempt to catch a worm as sustenance, reflecting a rough urban moment.
A mother invites guests to join a game where Edith and Maude plan a humorous scene by requesting their mother's false hair for a Hamlet and Ophelia tableau. The roomful of company watches as Edith leads the playfully elaborate idea.
A Kansas farmer recalled eavesdropping on the farmers telephone line. He claimed he could hear the click of other receivers but always kept his own line quiet and never caused a click when hanging up. This quip reflects old rural telephone habits cited by the Kansas City Journal.
A witty exchange between a young student and a grouchy bachelor contrasts a question about why pretty women are called peaches with a retort that they are the fruit of mischief. The dialogue hints at social attitudes toward women and flirtation in a humorous, old fashioned style.
A blunt critique argues that New York’s vast population, dense tenements, and foreign quarters hinder detective work after a string of murders. The piece notes easy escapes for killers, dangers of urban anonymity, and suggests European cities have advanced detection, while defense rests on police effort.
The Charleston News and Courier and Baltimore Sun weigh whether chickens are a nuisance. They note garden damage dawn disturbances and spoiled pets, but insist fried chicken solves the problem, ending with the claim never being fried.
In The Delineator a child named Howard aged 20 months older than a baby senses trouble when Elwood, creeping, stays unusually quiet. He calls his mother with anxiety saying he hears Elwood keeping still.
A quote attributed to Adam Clarke asserts that happiness lies in keeping one's energies moving and not allowing stagnation. The remark emphasizes continuous activity as a path to joy and fulfillment.
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