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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1911
Page
2
The article surveys evolving wedding gown styles as modistes develop distinctive dresses using lace, chiffon, and embroidered gauze. It notes chalk white altar fabrics, varied trains, vented back cuts, traveling frocks in novelty wool, and adaptable features like jabot frills and adjustable stocks, with an eye toward late October weddings and affordable summer fabrics for home wear.
The article details elegant satin slippers with Cuban heels and rhinestone buckles, versions finished with chiffon or maline, and white satin bridal slippers with orange blossom tips. It notes lower heels, pointed toes, and the popularity of velvet, suede pumps, and boudoir mules, all featuring decorative buckles.
In the German textile sector the trend favors female labor over male workers. Factories increasingly employ women for weaving and textile tasks, citing efficiency and cost considerations.
Crochet instruction fragment describes starting with 5 chain and a treble in the fifth from hook, adds longer trebles, then sequences of chains and trebles across stitches in the last prior group. The text appears as a pattern snippet with multiple repetitions and no complete sequence or item name.
The text describes crocheting a decorative trim with trebles and chains, including working a treble under each loop with a chain between trebles, then forming a sequence of stitches: double crochet in the same as trebles, seven chain to join, seven chain into the same stitch, nine chain, catch to the middle of the last seven chain, three trebles in the fourth of nine chain, three chain, catch to the middle of the next seven chain, three trebles in the top of the last treble, three chain, and repeating to the required trimming length.
The text gives old fashioned remedies for eye care using boracic acid and benzoin, skin care with cold cream and gloves at night, bruise treatment with hot fomentations and hazel mixture, burn care with dressings of soda and various oils, and cautions against glycerin. These home cures reflect period advice on burns blemishes and inflammation.
Charming Dutch silverware from the land of dykes and windmills suits wedding gifts. Simple pieces please for general use, but odd items like picture frames, jewel boxes, Dutch coffee pots, vases, sugar and cream sets, baskets, carving spoons, grape scissors, table bells and tea cuddles make a decorative and practical collection.
The piece argues tariff policy will soon hinge on Congress and expert testimony. It notes Underwood era bills faced presidential vetoes and questions which experts supplied, while predicting next winter's tariff board will shape recommendations guiding lawmakers. The central claim: Congress bears ultimate responsibility for tax measures, fueled by expert input.
The piece mocks the House effort to abolish sixty five salaried jobs as Spartan economy. It notes Uncle Joe Cannon’s scorn and predicts a larger, less austere House organization once he returns to Washington for the second regular session of the sixty second Congress.
The Des Moines Register and Leader argues the Democratic leadership will struggle as weeks pass to show gains from allowing the president to frame tariff revision. The paper contends the dispute is between careful, intelligent revision aimed at equal protection and industry versus hasty, political schedules built for partisan aims.
The Democrats passed tariff bills to force a Taft veto and now claim fury at his action. They would have been stunned and silent if he had not followed through, having outmaneuvered them in their own game.
The New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin argues the Democratic party risks repeating old attacks on wealth and capital. It says trust busting is outdated and praises Taft’s search for a positive, modern approach beyond mere negative rhetoric.
The War Department praised for greater efficiency and economy under Taft era leadership. The commission on economy and cooperation across branches boosted sea coast defenses, mobile army prep, clothing and equipment, disease treatment, subsistence, signal corps, militia instruction, quartermaster work, and other improved business methods.
The veto of the statehood joint resolution led to a far better measure by Congress. The tariff reduction veto signals a need for careful scientific revision of tariff schedules next session. The new corrupt practices act advances honest government and Canadian reciprocity passed by popular opinion, not by elite agreement.
The Chicago News notes Champ Clark believes Democrats will rebound in 1912 but jokes he should insure his certainty against possible misfortune.
The Department of the Interior under Secretaries Ballinger and Fisher has pursued economies and reforms leading to investigations with satisfactory results. Proceedings now before the government aim to restore thousands of acres of coal lands to the public domain and to expand conservation of national resources.
The president remains a protectionist and will press tariff revisions in the upcoming regular session. He will insist on protection as a beneficent national policy after the tariff board reports, for wool and other schedules. Opposition to protection as robbery under law will meet strong displeasure.
A Chicago arson scheme aimed to burn through a clothing firm, Dreyfus & Co., to collect $28,000 in insurance unfolds. Leopold Dreyfus hires an arson cell led by Jacob to torch the store at 232 South Market, but an unexploded can and swift investigations lead to confessions. Leopold dies by suicide. others vanish.
In a brisk exchange aboard a train a guard is asked for a lofty ship name. The passenger quips about money and a yacht while both sides trade banter. A polite interlude ends with a pipe produced and a grateful remark from a young man.
In a London Opin ion parody, a customer complains about a sale item and asks the waiter to remove eyelets from the upper part. The dialogue mocks shop talk and consumer requests.
A brief exchange between an older man and a lady notes how much the other has changed. The Judge chimes in as the two argue whether change is for better or worse, capturing a social vignette.
A humorous exchange cites a son asking for a half dollar to buy a logarithm table while a friend laments the college should provide his furniture. The brief cartoonish note reflects student life and parental humor.
A witty exchange centers on a girl across the room as a man debates whether she is skinny or slender. The dialogue plays on perception and humor in a social setting.
Osaka Asahi reports Japan's prices more than doubling in twenty years with currency value falling to 43 from 100. A Bank of Japan table shows 1910 price index at 228 while currency value sits at 43, and imported goods rise less than home and export goods. The pace is about 2 percent faster than London and New York, possibly due to expanded money circulation.
The two robbers searched the elderly man’s pockets but found only a dollar watch and minor items. He calmly offered a dime in his right pocket to cover their fare elsewhere and requested his keys, ending the encounter with thanks and a courteous farewell.
A whimsical exchange features A Considerate Bossa with a child asking to lunch. The adult replies that permission is delayed yet offers a task stamping letters to curb hunger. The tone is playful and period specific.
An impatient man questions the car’s speed while the driver urges focus on the fare register, saying the observer should quit watching the scenery. The exchange highlights attention to the bill rather than speed.
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