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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1902
Page
6
Cloth costumes feature collars berthas stoles and postilion backs with Irish crochet and clung laces. Bern is named as a favored lace color with deep brown shades gaining style. Black lace and insertion are observed.
The article describes Tulle Evening gowns with intricate trims and cream mousseline outfits, highlighting lace, velvet ribbons, and orchid accents. It also shares a bread-stale freshness tip using a napkin, bag, and oven, and closes with a reflective piece on women’s social position and self-perception from the Philadelphia Ledger.
Advice for cleaning a wooden bread board describes whitening with galt and removing grease with a paste of French ebhalk and water. Apply the paste to spots, let dry, then wash as usual.
A column argues that modern science supports rational beauty culture for women and warns against unscientific beauty practices. It contrasts past vanity with prudent care and notes the origins of punctuation marks, including the interrogation mark and paragraph symbol, from ancient scripts.
The elector of Saxony gifted Luther black cloth and a fashionable sult. Luther wore a suit in the prevailing cut and his pupils followed, making black the distinguishing clerical color. For years the coat cut remained similar to lay fashion until later change.
If mirrors are dull and speckled, mix a paste from whiting and cold tea, apply to the glass with warm tea, dry with a soft cloth, rub paste on the mirror, then polish with tisue paper. Stains and finger marks on a looking glass may be removed by rubbing with a soft cloth dampened with alcohol.
The passage notes that a fried egg left from a meal is unused, yet cold fried or scrambled eggs can be chopped and mixed into minced meat to improve it. It also mentions returning unbroken cold poached eggs to simmering water for garnishes or to mix with salad.
A fragment puzzle asks which celebrated novel and which great writer are depicted by pictures. The clue reads No. 07 Hidden Dry Goods. The speaker notes admiration, a stance against narcotics, a large domestic take, a European songbird, and numeric hints 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 guiding the solution.
A riddle sequence asks to remove different body parts from animals and items to yield new words. Each clue links a removed part to a remaining form described as a familiar object color person or measure, with playful transformations across lines. The list includes bushy examples about a cow’s head a peg eight a bright color and a dozen plus variations.
The text provides partial phrases including references to cotton cloth form, a nodule description, delivery from wrong, a toxics southeast wind in Italy, and a figure opposing someone. The readable fragments suggest a miscellaneous clipping rather than a coherent story.
As we walked by the lake the speaker and I heard waves. The companion longed to be a tar and sail to distant lands to trade wines cotton ore and balm and become a rich merchant.
Fragmentary OCR style hints present a set of cryptic clues and definitions. Entries include wagers, messages, canine terms, beverages, signs of grief, insects, a bishop’s cap, fullness, a strainer, grinding, winged insects, loud noises, and meals.
A playful riddle asks about a dog that barks and stirs trouble, with clues to words and pronouns. It ends with a boast about keeping things moving, preventing stagnation, and a boss’s blunt remark about not running it for fun.
A scrambled OCR page lists multiple puzzle items including Rhombaid, A Well Known Saying, Number Puzzle, Missing Rhymes, Trouble Diagonals, and various coinage like Diamond Pendant and Trangle poses. It presents fragmented clues and misread words, typical of a puzzle column.
A woman counsels care in selecting cotton hangings with no odor as blue dyes can have a strong smell in damp weather. For wall coverings she prefers light blue denim, noting its durability and color harmony with denim fittings and draperies.
A fragment describes a bird that, when deprived of head and tail, becomes a Marian invocation. It notes a riverbank seashore bird growing ardent attachment, and a long slender riverine bird whose name leads to a small cut or blast near fens.
A columnist extols old silk handkerchiefs for polishing wood dusters and treating bed sores. The piece notes a white silk handkerchief folded softly can ease and heal a sore from lying in bed. It also describes an English maid using a silk handkerchief to stroke her mistress’ hair with good results.
A humorous exchange features Miss Miami Brown insisting nature makes little in rain and Mr. Erastus Pinkley musing that many animals resemble possums. The Washington Star captures a comic dialogue highlighting weather and animal comparisons.
The passage notes that every English deliberative body, from national to town councils, uses a ceremonial mace placed on the table at the start of meetings. In some councils a silver candlestick accompanies the mace, with debates and actions tied to these ceremonial objects shaping official proceedings.
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