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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
8
The Philadelphia Inquirer warns against excessive facial expressions and misusing facial muscles. It criticizes cold cream for not absorbing on cold skin and suggests applying toilet cream when skin is warm followed by rubbing with a brush or palm.
The article outlines a society woman's preparation routine before a major event. A warm perfumed bath follows by massage and manicure. At the dressing table she is whitened and polished, steamed, electrotherapies applied, lipstick and eye styling completed, hair waved and dressed, yielding a final youthful appearance for social conquest.
Lady Curzon leads a list of decorations from King Edward at the durbar while Queen Carmen Silva of Roumania is described as a poet and skilled typewriter. The piece notes various women achievers from the US and Europe, including Mrs. A Lloyd Smith oyster venture, Julia Ward Howe’s milestone, and a female weather observer in York PA. It also mentions a Moravian nun scholar at Prague and a UK marriage drawing social attention, plus reflections on shopping in England and a Finnish woman newspaper publisher in Calumet Michigan forming a women’s stock company.
Northwestern farmers increasingly use steam and horse powered stackers to handle large hay crops. Various designs include mast and boom forks, grapple types on trolley wires, and derrick style stacks with or without base stakes, all feeding into longer deeper hay racks to improve efficiency.
Margaret Deland paints a scene of an aunt guiding children with patience and instruction. The aunt enforces unselfishness and order while supervising play and chores. Her quiet work ends as the brother's wife rests, reflecting on duty and family life with a hint of Herod’s comparison.
The passage discusses women's grace and physicality, noting many struggle with everyday tasks while a few seem naturally agile. It links graceful ability to youthfulness, suggesting Father Time has softened his effects on some women, altering perceptions of age and vanity.
A fashion note outlines latest fabrics drifting in including a metal printed chalice motif. Small flowers, pine cone trims, cart wheel rosettes and voile de laine emerge in hats and gowns. Swiss mohair and vaporin silk gauze add sheer shimmer with soft, clinging drapery for summer wear.
A rough three rope bridge spans the Indus at Rondu in Northern Kashmir. The main lines are brushwood bound ropes with side strands kept apart by forked stakes. Crossing is perilous and has left some travelers sick with terror, though local coolies cross with heavy loads. The bridge is described as one of the worst in the Himalayas.
California produced more value from oranges than from gold in a given period, with oranges at over 18 million dollars and gold at about 17 million dollars, highlighting agriculture as a major economic driver.
The note mixes temperature trivia about Sitka and Omaha with odd asks about butter colour and a plea for clean play in markets. It cites Piso's Cure for Consumption as infallible medicine from Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1900. It also remarks on quarrel tendencies and compares American furnace output to Britain.
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