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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1902
Page
6
The article describes spring fashion with downy rough goods and pale colors, favors white fabrics and pinks blues and grays, and highlights black cheviot costumes with Indian cashmere trim. It notes Louis XV coats and three cornered hats as still in use, and details Junie Collet and Junie Chollet styles with lace, velvet belts, and chiffon sleeves.
Fashion notes that boleros remain in vogue as leading houses craft spring and summer gowns around this chic trim. Mourning styles modernize to 4 Louis XV shape, using silky black wool blends for depth and grace. A recent gown for a forty year old features dense black silk, crape detailing, and a crape-bordered belt, with a sack bolero silhouette completing the look.
The article surveys auto mobile coats mixing Japanese and Chinese influences with white silk or wool, wide cuffs and long reversible fronts. It notes lace collars, Persian embroidery, black velvet trims, and a fashionable mix of collar styles. An automobile coat storyboard features white covert coating lined in Persian silk.
In a Paris suburb, a wealthy merchant dies and at dusk during his funeral his relatives walk the garden. They remove a pile of stones as lanterns are set aside and search the grounds for the soul, an old Norman custom tied to ensuring the departed’s spirit is not hidden nearby. The practice, once common in Normandy, is now rarely observed.
A prince received his monthly account and saw 1.60 lire for a palace cat. He wrote in the margin that if no rats are in the house, the cat is unnecessary, but if rats exist the cat's charge is superfluous, and he struck out the item.
The Philadelphia Record notes Mrs Bilkins taught herself poker to keep her husband home at night. The joke implies she wins so much of his spending allowance that he cannot afford a drink, highlighting a sharp social quip about domestic gaming.
One word is hidden in each sentence. Bob acknowledged the invitation. He glared at it. He said he had been slighted. He sent back a testy answer.
A scrambled puzzle shows decapitation clues linking to ancient royal German names tied to Queen Victoria. It includes a courtship riddle with missing words for the test lines, presenting verses about love, consent, and social hurdles with archaic phrasing and incomplete lines.
Puzzle clues mix language hints with cryptic style. Across items challenge vocabulary such as places of instruction and learned finals. Clues include short phrases like Spii it and To quote, plus definitions for garment edges and lyric poems.
A riddle filled item mentions center of gravity as key, a capital situation in Venice, and being invaluable in victory while guarded by three companions in vice and three in love. The text shifts to clues about four letters from a train, peculiar bearing, halves of words, vowels, directional letters, and gates with opposing functions, all in a cryptic puzzle tone.
Fragmented item listing puzzling beheadments and word play puzzles tied to puzzle numbers 45 46 47 50 51 62. The text references beheadment tricks Garland Garrick concealed worth square and a Pennsylvan ia Erie puzzle with acrostics. Also notes ancient timber in Egyptian temples using hourglass shaped ties for stone stability.
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