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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1912
Page
3
The piece explains how feather trims, derived from domestic and wild fowl plumage, create varied designs through bleaching, dyeing, and combining feathers. Makers follow fashion, produce white and black and white pieces, and rely on hats' durability as feather trims withstand wear and cleaning.
A detailed period description outlines a lettuce-green cloth outfit with black velvet braiding, a matching green straw hat trimmed in black velvet, and an os trich feather. The costume emphasizes coordinated color and textural contrast.
Vague OCR snippet discusses blouse fit around shoulders. No clear event or person names. Unable to identify location or date.
Among the season s striking novelties are gowns and tailored costumes in white corduroy cloth or serge. Corduroy suits feature minimal trimming with clever ribbed panels and button use. White cloth outfits show bold black silk braid accents around skirts sleeves collars and reverses.
The article discusses narrow skirts with enough fullness for walking and jackets extending to the hips with longer backs. Rumors abroad suggest longer cutaway fronts, but hip-length jackets remain correct for the year. Velvet is noted for facing details.
In Center Indiana the long closed House of Science sits untouched for decades since the death angel visited the family. James Perry Mugg, who holds 60 acres nearby, tends fields while memories cling to the dust covered home and its former mistress.
The profile recalls Lily Elsie born Elsie Cotton, a noted London actress who married Ian Bullough a Scottish estate owner. Once famed as the stage romance of Britain, she is described as a future society queen with a wedding gown inspired by Empress Josephine.
Topeka Kansas Professor L L Dyche says he has eaten crow and finds it first class eating. He compares young crow flesh to guinea hen and notes its dark but fine textured flavor. He also praises young red tailed hawk as resembling chicken when cooked.
Pinkey, a chocolate colored Chesterfield who runs a Washington bar, hosts reporters and dignitaries on one weekly off night for lodge duties. A lost suit incident reveals he is organizing the colored Hibernians while joking about misplacing a rival waiter’s dress clothes.
Two girls, Virginia Clough and Clairie Feldman of East Eighty sixth Street, locked in Virginia's room to test badness. They practiced swearing, each noting a forbidden word on paper and shouting it. No consequence followed, so they returned to play.
A tender scene shows a three year old boy kissing a girl and the girl rubbing her lips in play. The mother cautions against the kiss while the boy insists she is trying to rub it in.
Mrs. George Bolin of 639 South Delaware street possesses a pair of twelve inch solid glass parlor candlesticks weighing about three pounds each. The heirloom traces to her grandmother Mrs. John B. Crawford Sr of New Albany, settled there in 1829. The candlesticks, valued for their clear crystal form and smooth surfaces, were once highly prized and admired in Crawford family homes.
A physician comments on Shakespeare and patience as a monument. The reader replies that patients lie not on monuments but beneath them, noting the humor in medical work versus literary art.
A brief excerpt from the Sacred Heart Review notes a train departure in two and a half hours. A young lady asks if she can bid friends farewell before leaving. The guard responds with a firm constraint.
A sharp exchange centers on choosing a husband with sorrow and wisdom. One replies that rejecting him ensures a husband who has known sorrow, while another counters that acceptance would soon meet those requirements.
A scientist recalls a tense moment with a man eating lion as the animal stared intently. The exchange turns to a humorous bite about whether the lion was judging him like a pure food label.
A dramatic church scene unfolds as a wife slips a note to the minister during a sermon. The note reads Go home and turn off the gas causing shock from her husband and the minister who reads it with anger and disbelief. The tale closes with moralizing lines about overwork and a series of unrelated ads and asides.
An old saying notes a man must accept that others may differ without calling them fools. It warns that chest tightness signals a cold that could lead to lung disease and urges curing the cold with Hamlin s Wizard Oil before consumption or pneumonia develops.
The exchange features a joke about loyalty to the bride and groom as the judge quizzes a witness about being a friend of the groom. A woman replies she is the bride's mother, not a friend of the groom, sparking light commentary.
A man finds he can wake his wife by talking in his sleep as a curious domestic note. Castoria advertising line urges parents to examine bottles and ensure the signature for infants and children.
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