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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
2
Fashion notes describe melon shaped undersleeves in crepe de chine favored for winter. Lace or jet trimming may decorate the yoke and undersleeve edge. The trend emphasizes a smooth wrist arc and neat arm line, with emphasis on comfort beneath jackets.
The article describes long dress shirts and gowns with flowing skirts, bouffant hems, and serpentine trains. It notes soft muslins and gandies with many ruches and ruffles, no stiffening at the base, and a graceful silhouette favored for garden parties.
The Washington Star notes that fashion urges spending on petticoats and lingerie this year. White and pale lawn pieces with lace and embroidery are favored, while dainty white cambric remains essential for a well turned look.
The article cites Schumann Chopin Gounod Spohr Milton Raleigh Goethe Wordsworth Vardu Sidney Stith and others, noting mothers possessed musical skill literary taste or cultural cultivation. It argues inherited talent shows in offspring and mentions maternal influence on artistry and temperament.
The article discusses ideal body proportions and notes that few women are perfectly balanced in weight and shape. It aims to outline the correct measurements for the head and body to achieve pleasing symmetry.
The text lists height to weight guidelines for women, detailing facial proportion measurements and ideal weights at various heights from five feet to five feet seven inches, including eye spacing and facial length notes. It presents a prescriptive standard with specific pound targets for each height.
The article describes hair adornments of the hour including white pearls with gold standpieces, black niquettés with pearl strands, and circlets of lilies of the valley for half mourning. It notes a trend toward sweet, pretty pieces over stark smartness, with wreaths, sprays of gardenias, and bold single flowers as accent.
Winter fashion notes describe guipure lace in Cluny patterns, silk linings for skirts, embroidered Swiss fabrics, yellow satin belts, and new ragian coats with three-quarter length bodies and velvet capes. White alpaca petticoats, corduroy skirts, and vivid feathered hat decorations complete the season’s style update.
Fragmentary OCR shows disjointed lines about dolls and farewells. The garbled text mentions a doll, a girl, and a “saddest day” with unclear attributions, suggesting a poem or children’s verse segment with torn context and nonsensical phrasing.
This portrait recalls Tom Hughes at fifteen tall and lean with sandy hair and a brisk pace. Known as the “executioner” nickname he earned from appearance, he was never surly, always cheerful, one of the school’s best runners, popular with small boys for kindness, who remembered him in the sixth form before he left to pursue other work.
Stumpy, a handsome rooster with a curling tail and loud crow, taunts three squealing pigs. One pig grabs his tail feathers from a trough edge, yanking them free while Stumpy screams. Mr Melius rescues him as the hens mock the fallen bird.
The three story brick structure at Lexington Kentucky is described as the first railroad station in America with a cornerstone laid seventy years ago. It is noted as a neat, comfortable and commodious building still adequate for its purpose.
James Foley Jr. writes from Bismarck Tribune describing a troubled, repeated pattern of domestic violence and a father’s conflicting love. He recalls a child’s smile triggering fear and guilt, the cycle of abuse, and the strain of protecting a vulnerable family member from harm.
A collage of humorous misprints and clipped quotes from Chicago News Philadelphia Record Yonkers Stzt man Brooklyn Life Lus tige Blaetter and Tribune. The snippets reveal typos odd translations and stray remarks from multiple publications mingling fiction lines and social chatter.
The London Chronicle notes a medieval custom in Drifield where morning and evening bells regulate access to the church. Cleaners may start at bell time to ensure fairness, with a Norman law sanction similar to Channel Islands signals. The ringer was once paid in corn, now often by wage.
The article discusses long bearing crops such as Lima beans cucumbers and tomatoes and raspberries, underwater electric arcs for cutting cables, window lighting with glass and prism effects, metal flow under pressure in coin and jewelry work, a cancer treatment claim, dam construction via hydraulic jet, Mond fuel gas from bituminous slack and its cost and uses, and the recovery of nitresen as sulphate during gas production.
The Providence Journal notes a Charleston hotel and older homes once lacked bathrooms on all floors yet modern bathing facilities have rapidly spread. It observes that private houses with full baths were once rare, especially in smaller towns, while American progress mirrors European trends in the late nineteenth century.
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