10 Sep 1902
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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1902
Page
1
Summer holidays extend into September before autumn gowns. Muslin and silk combine in new flounced afternoon dresses on brunettes. Embroidered muslin with poppy red taffetas creates chic garden party gowns, with pale blue silk lawn outfits featuring lace, plaits, and a deep lace collar for a refined, light look.
The article surveys fall fashion details, noting opalescent veils and Chantilly veils for afternoon wear, plus the rise of hip yokes in skirts. It discusses how hip yokes suit stout figures and also flatter thin figures, with fall fabrics leaning to clingy lace and tafetta inserts for dramatic yoke and bodice effects.
The War Department order may affect the three state schools with regular army instructors but Cedar Falls likely sees no major changes. Trustees and President Seerley historically support drill and see instruction time doubling as beneficial. Maj Olmsted awaits the board’s view while the normal’s military program remains among the best in the country.
Surviving veterans Thomas H. Sypherd and Israel S. Smith recount Ward Lamon assembling 100 men at Willard Hotel to guard Washington in April 1861. James Lane and Cassius Clay led frontier guards protecting the capital as Confederate threats loomed, earning official discharge documents signed by Lincoln and Cameron.
Ray Eisminger a 13 year old boy from Harri son township Mahaska county confessed to twice poisoning the Andersons food using a strychnine bottle kept in their home He denied a desire to kill and said he acted without motive His mind may have become morbid from reading He will be sent to the reform school
Moore Brothers and Felthouse of Mason county found their Chapin warehouse scales overcharged buyers by 10 to 19 bushels per hundred. An expert revealed the cheating, with estimated losses of at least $1,500 in grain never received.
A skilled con artist in Waterloo forged two checks signed by Engineer A. J. Fairbank of the Illinois Central, one for 15 dollars and another for 16.50. He used a boy to cash the 16.50 at J J Knapp's pharmacy and the 15 at Hurst's grocery, with a note from Fairbank requesting payment. Both checks were paid.
Prof H W Wickham of the zoology department returns to the university in Iowa City with the finest beetle collection ever shown in Iowa. He secured the collection through great sacrifice and endured privation in the Death Valley region of California and Nevada. He traversed 2,000 square miles of Sierra Nevada on foot, crossing Kearsarge pass.
Andrew Carnegie who bought the famous library belonging to Lord Acton presents it to John Mosley marking a notable transfer of ownership and benefaction in a historic literary gift.
A poem narrates a speaker’s struggle with waking as an unseen Lady Wake Me Up arrives each morning to rouse the sleeper. The narrator laments the tedious routine and the blank dawn, hoping for a morning when the helper fails to appear. The verse ends with gratitude for the wakefulness the Lady provides.
Elizabeth 14 year old Woodruff Halsey crafts a nine by two foot wagon yacht named the Columbia. He uses salvaged sails poles and a rudder steering from the fore axle and has already sailed with a full crew. He plans a larger Second Columbia with promised materials from his father as the craft proves successful.
A detailed set of DIY wind powered carrier car steps outlines making a toy with cardboard disks wood pieces and a box body. It describes assembling wheels axles a mast a canvas sail yardarm and strings to shuttle a load across a room via a traveling cord and pulley system.
A kitten named Dick causes a kitchen commotion by pulling a beef steak from a window. Two large cats join in the theft, but Dick, sporting a red bow, climbs onto the table and helps drive the thieves away, prompting the cats to drop the steak. The cook enters to find the scene.
Information from forestry commission notes age ranges for several species. Pine reaches 500 and 700 years, silver fir 425, larch 245, aspen 210, ash 200, elder 145, elm 410. The report notes a central oak often rots first. Aschaffenburg, Germany, is cited as an example.
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