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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1898
Page
6
A spring bonnet described with satin straw and lace details precedes a surprising note about an underground city named the City of the Salt Mines. It is home to over 1,000 people living beneath the earth with a town hall theatre and church carved from crystal rock salt, lit by electricity.
Monday menu lists breakfast with oatmen sugar milk sausage fried mush coffee luncheon features cold roast beef watercrops french fried potatoes cake tea dinner includes clear soup beef croquettes mashed potatoes peas celery salad crackers cheese chocolate pudding coffee.
The minister asks the sexton to close the front doors and windows as the church air feels chilly while announcing that the collection will be taken up.
A Helio trop e flowered foulard gown attracts notice in a high end shop. The full skirt features deep cream lace points forming a yoke effect. White china silk blouse is finely tucked and edged with lace. Black velvet ribbons outline the bodice and sleeves, matching the accompanying hat.
Grass linen and lawns are back for the summer season with new patterns and colorings. The range includes willow green mauve cherry tones with ribbon trimmings and embroidered effects using silver and gold threads. Descriptions note blouses yokes jackets vests sleeves and collars in stripes open-work and sprays, with Paris model lace silks used for bodices giving a shimmering look.
The menu lists breakfast with oranges hominy sugar and milk boiled eggs muffins coffee. Luncheon features meat and potato, pickles, canned fruit, cookies, tea. Dinner offers carrot soup, boiled leg of mutton, mashed potatoes, lettuce salad, wafers, cheese and Brown Betty pudding with coffee.
The flower lover marks days to sell chosen blooms that will brighten a summer cottage or country home. Advice focuses on selecting varieties suited for a seasonal display and long outdoor durability.
A fragment lists corn colored satin straw and masses of white and purple violets, with mentions of hyacinths, daffodils, tulips, English daisies, lilies, fleur-de-lis, and peonies in pink white and red, painting a lush ornamental scene.
A historic note reports a town forged from salt in Galicia during Austrian Poland era, detailing its foundations, trade, and regional significance. The fragment highlights geographic setting and cultural impact within local industry and heritage.
The piece explains street dress rules featuring a skirt and short coat with a waist or fluffy front, favoring diagonals or reps. Skirts are trimmed with bands of the material, more fashionable than braiding, and even tailor made skirts slightly train in back for a sensible look.
The article notes that wealthy women abroad seek nuns in large cities to sew fine undergarments and bridal clothing. It highlights nunneries producing table linen, sheets, pillow-cases with owner monograms and hand embroidery, praising flawless finish and exclusive design.
The article describes summer lingerie as a key wardrobe element for the smart woman. It highlights a yak of silk petticoats with attached lawn flounces and lace trims, noting dainty silk flounces and refined detailing. A quoted fragment adds a social remark about casual talk of one’s mother.
An Aid to Science notes that the cinematograph has become a valuable tool for scientific investigations, demonstrated by its use in observing eclipses and capturing data for study. The article highlights its role in advancing observations and recording phenomena for analysis.
The article notes petticoat fashion returning with snug waists and longer chemises, and describes a cinema demonstration by Professor Flammarion using a cinematograph to capture a night sky sequence from sunset to moon motion.
A simple decorative napkin fold yields a tulip design suitable for tumblers or claret glasses. Begin with a stiff square napkin, fold in half lengthwise, then fold sides to meet. Swap folds to form a triangle, pleat the lower section, tie to secure, and fan out the edges to imitate a tulip in the sketch.
A pale pink silk party dress features a fine embroidered yoke and a silk sash tied in a large back bow. Children's styles gain prominence with dainty hats of dotted Swiss on wire frames for very young girls and black or white leghorn hats trimmed with wildflower wreaths for ten to twelve year olds.
The Wednesday menu lists breakfast items including bananas oatmeal and pork chops with coffee cake and coffee. Luncheon features meat turnovers rhubarb stewed potatoes jelly cake cocoa. Dinner offers corn soup beef stew baked macaroni potatoes corn salad French dressing wafers cheese and chocolate éclairs with coffee.
March List Lane report shows the annual statement of River Forest treasurer Herman H. Scharenberg detailing liabilities and assets of the funds. The note mentions a dainty three or four year old girl's frock with low neck and short puff sleeves as house attire.
Breakfast includes fruit whole wheat bread milk and sugar poached eggs on toast rolls and coffee. Luncheon features beef hash browned potatoes quince jelly cake and tea. Dinner offers vegetable soup porter house steak broiled mashed potatoes stuffed sweet potatoes corn crackers cheese pickles lemon pie and coffee.
Marie Corelli dramatizes Barabbas for American stage while Maurice Bernhardt stages a new Gabriel based on George Sand. Verdi writes three sacred pieces a Stabat Te Deum and prayer drawn from Dante for two choirs and orchestra. The works may premiere in Paris on Good Friday with Verdi in attendance to supervise rehearsals and conduct.
A fragmentary Daily News item presents a string of admonitions and wry maxims about judgment, effort, and restraint. The lines warn against laziness, unfair accusations, narrow personal standards, and overreaching attempts, reflecting a columnist's casual, aphoristic style.
The Chicago News prints satirical maxims on ambition and success. It notes that a man who fails learns to enjoy later wins while a fat person only needs to shave to lose weight. It mocks aging and mercy in women and ends with advice to seek prominence in a country town.
In a brief note from Pick-Me-Up Belle cites Bertha Spiteurls saying she remains single by choice. The remark prompts playful gossip about whose choice she follows.
The menu lists breakfast with baked apples wheat ena sugar and milk codl ish cakes toast coffee. Luncheon includes fried oysters stewed tomatoes brown bread crackers stewed prunes chocolate. Dinner offers tomato soup planked shad butter sauce spinach with eyes mashed potatoes wafers cheese orange pudding coffee.
Sleeves for evening dresses feature shirings, tucks, cords and lace and are now detachable, allowing the gown to be worn with or without long sleeves. A dainty model showcases a complete sleeve designed for versatility.
SATURDAY breakfast includes oatmeal sugar and milk bacon and eggs fried potatoes tolls coffee luncheon features bread omelet stewed potatoes pickles toast preserves pea dinner offers consommé roast beef mashed potatoes peas asparagus lettuce salad mayonnaise dressing wafers cheese olives strawberry short cake coffee
A silversmith's lament about counterfeit looking silverware is linked to freely sold items in department stores. A button-hook bought at a reputable shop as a holiday gift was involved, illustrating consumer concerns over quality and value during the season.
A fashion rundown describes a white tulle evening gown with four rows of guipure insertion on the skirt and a simple corsage, paired with turquoise satin ribbon straps and blue velvet trim. The piece features an all over blue pattern and a belt, with additional blue accents enhancing the gown’s silhouette. The text also mentions a postcard message, a worn handle, and a curious sand-filled reveal about silver weight.
The cinematograph now records plant growth at varying speeds from slow to fast. A special camera has been developed to document how plants develop over time.
The bicycle dominates life in Norway Sweden and Denmark with households embracing cycling. Copenhagen buzzes with riders day and night and workers such as masons bricklayers carpenters and chimney sweeps use bicycles as a trade tool, riding in work attire with gear.
The article urges housekeepers to replace potatoes with alternatives like hominy, boiled or fried rice, macaroni and spaghetti, Lima beans, and Boston baked beans. It notes hot buttered hominy and crisp bacon as a breakfast option and says potatoes can be avoided even in households that treat them as essential.
An 17th century English act punished by witchcraft laws any woman who lured a man into marriage using scents paints cosmetics false hair iron stays hoops or bolstered outfits. The law declared marriages tainted and void upon conviction reflecting olden times regulations of female appearance.
The article describes a hidden convent of about 1500 ascetics located in the catacombs beneath Kiev's Russian cathedral. They live, worship, and sleep in damp cellars, while briefly walking in surrounding gardens, kept from the world above by miles of subterranean corridors and tomb-like spaces.
In a light exchange Mr. De Stoole deflects a punctuality critique by noting his timeliness in leaving the office each night, prompting Old Moneybags to remark on his routine. The dialogue highlights office humor about daily habits and productivity.
Mrs. Wittes asks about Paris impressions and Mrs. Jaunier notes that three or four year olds speaking French astonished her, calling it perfectly amazing.
A chemist states medicine stains yield quickly to alcohol. For stubborn iodine stains he offers different advice and methods.
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