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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1903
Page
3
A vintage guide notes tatting and other lace crafts regain popularity. It details required tools a bone shuttle and coarse thread, shuttle handling, knot steps, finger positioning, and practice tips, plus a simple edge trimming technique using diagonally threaded stitches.
The article notes a strong focus on neckwear for autumn with a wide range of styles from strictly tailored collars to frilly stocks and capes. It highlights fashion moves from spring and summer carryovers to new fall novelties including lace-like weaves, embroidery, macrame touches, plain bases, and tassels as the dominant new note.
Fashion notes from the Brooklyn Eagle describe tasselled fringe stock designs, macrame trims, broad collars, and Teneriffe work in crepe de chine and silk. Jabot-inspired turnovers, self or contrasting embellishments, and embroidered linen sets join a broad assortment of wash goods. The piece highlights soft scarves, stock sizes from dainty to elaborate, and cites an expected vogue surge in fringe and lace collars for the season.
Kath erine Fisher and Edwin Stanton Ross of Brooklyn wed in Philadelphia. A signed “bill of rights” from the couple grants the wife prerogatives while the document imposes no obligation to obey the husband, witnessed by fourteen.
AFragmentary column mixes cooking notes with quirky science folklore. It gives a scone recipe noting butter flour and hot milk, then shifts to whimsy about rain bringing sea water to clouds, a tip about quieting rattling windows, and a caution about sunlit mirrors clouding mercury glass.
A reprinted New York item details a Portsmouth railroad worker who fed smelts to passengers and salvaged a sixth fish by racing back seven miles to a prior stop. The piece also offers summer complexion tips noting tanning harms, soap avoidance, and cleansing cream use, with short mentions on egg yolk preservation and lemon storage in cold water.
The buckwheat crop in southern states is small yet valued for soil improvement drought resilience and weed control. It benefits corn and cotton rotations, provides fodder and grain, and requires deep plowing and soil preparation plus a high nitrogen phosphate potash fertilizer. The Japanese buckwheat variety is recommended.
The Agricultural Epistolmis notes experiments proving warm, well built shelter lets pigs fatten on far less feed. Proper housing prevents wasteful heat loss and keeps cattle healthier through late fall into winter, reducing risk to calves and lives. More comfort means more flesh and thriving stock.
Advice on feeding hogs using burned corncobs mixed with wood ashes and a touch of salt to regulate their health. The note suggests keeping the mixture where hogs can reach it and cites it as an effective regulator for hog condition.
Practical tips for farmers cover handling cotton seed meal as feed, using suitable machines, feeding animals to boost profits, valuing fruit, installing wells and windmills for irrigation, and storing or marketing surplus poultry. Emphasizes good management during crop failures and learnings from successful farmers.
Eugene E. Lario of Denver says Dean's Kidney Pills cured his backache after long desk work. He endorses the remedy and notes a free trial offer by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y. The pills are sold by druggists for 50 cents per box.
A kaiser grants a life pension to poet Detley von Liller meron while Charles J. Smith of Mount Vernon NH writes a town history and claims ties to Franklin Pierce. Frances Gerard pens a history of King Milan of Servia. Reverend J A Hamilton of Penzance publishes The MS vna Red Box after sending no name.
Local railways in lower Austria will introduce motor carriages for 40 passengers in two classes. Lucius J. Phelps of Stoneham Massachusetts set a new Mount Washington ascent record in 1 hour 46 minutes. Mrs Letitia S Remser of Plainfield New Jersey celebrated her 100th birthday by riding in an automobile. King Edward orders chauffeurs to follow the new speed limit law as a model for his realm.
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, 44, serves as first violin at Munichs opera house this summer while also practicing as a surgeon and attending his clinic. Hermann Zumpe, famed Wagner conductor, has died after earning acclaim at Bayreuth 1870. Prague presents a cycle of Bohemian operas by Smetana Dvorak Fibich Kovarovic Nedbal.
The narrative recalls Dick Deadeye a bold West bandit who ambushed a stagecoach near chaparral country. Travelers obeyed as a fearless robber took a loan from tourists and rumored to have slain many before an old dame reveals his capture. The piece also quotes newspaper blurbs about reflections and a Mexican waterfall tale.
Admiral Dewey attended the Saratoga races in a boxed seat and chatted with farmers. A story from a Chinese paper relayed by an American resident described a Yankee invention a hen nest with a trap door that endlessly reuses eggs, amusing Dewey with its paradoxical mechanism.
A cautious American paper relays a London item about a dog owned by an alleged butcher on Atlantic Avenue breaking his chain and biting the daughter of Herman Jost a cigar maker. The butcher faced a 16 month old assault case on an alleged wife and was pardoned after a partial term.
Fate Texas reports a dramatic reaction to a new kidney disease remedy. Henry Vaughan of Rural Route 3 says he suffered over 18 months before using Dadds Kidney Pills and soon improved, declaring himself cured and symptom free. He urges others with kidney trouble to try it.
A London Tit-Bits quip quotes a sagacious line about knowing nothing as a jesting exchange between a sage and his wife. An advertisement follows for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming to stop coughs and ease colds, priced at 25 cents.
A Detroit Free Press quote notes Briggs-Gilder taking the speaker out in his auton and hints at sharing pleasures and troubles. The item mentions Piso's Cure for Consumption as an advertised remedy with a customer testimonial from Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1900.
A jumble of brief dialogues and notices appears from Philadelphia newspapers including remarks on a museum fire hose incident, a dyeing product claim, a wedding scene, an advert promising cure for habits, and assorted quotations.
Commodore Somerville Nicholson and other prominent figures in 1837 letters praise Peruna as an effective remedy for catarrh. Endorsements from U S Navy, ministers, and former congressmen highlight its proven benefits and urge readers to seek Dr Hartman’s free medical advice if no improvement occurs.
A Boston Transcript exchange captures an embryo artist asking the critic about a painting. The critic cautions that he would not value the piece at twenty for anything, illustrating cautious praise and understatement.
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