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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1909
Page
7
The article describes new gown styles using easy effects with round skirts and neat lines. It notes weighty fabrics like heavy linen and serge suit the cut, while detailing with velvet, soutache, and taffeta enhances the look.
A luncheon display featured a silver bowl of pansies as the focal point with smaller pots at each plate. Cards, candle shades, and gift pots used pansy motifs, creating a simple, inexpensive yet charming tablescape.
A new Ottoman fabric named Rays of the Moon is described as especially woven for topcoats. It features heavy ribs with changeable effects and is compared to maire silk as a smart choice for fashionable outerwear.
The article notes new trimming styles called rat tail cords and rat tail braids. The braid is hard and shiny and hard to bend into designs. The rat tail trimming uses silk sewn over heavy cord twisted into catochons and other large patterns.
Ivory and its imitations dominate toilet articles while silver declines. Real ivory is costly so makers offer celluloid in a creamy ivory tone. Eleven pieces cost a little more than a dollar each. many shops offer free monogram engraving on each piece.
A dainty white satin theater bag with gold embroidery is described. The bag measures about seven inches deep and ten inches wide, drawing up to six inches across the side. It uses pale blue satin, white moire sides, and a ribboned embroidered silk lining with a decorative floral wreath.
In Springfield a Behrens measure would let electric railways consolidate and form traffic pacts and approve via stock majority. Jewell seeks to shield supreme and circuit court nominees from primary rules. A Kittleman-led subcommittee weighs rail troops at one cent a mile amid $50,000 extra transport costs.
Two boys David Nelson and Harry Mortson trek seven miles through deep snow to hunt. They encounter a bear and wolf, shoot the wolf, defend against the bear, drag the carcass to camp, skin it, and sell the hide for twenty five dollars, shared between them.
The Ural mountains supply the world with emeralds found in the Ekaterinburg district. Annual emerald rock output runs about 600 000 poods. No quotations are given for emeralds at the Ekaterinburg Exchange as the rock is exported for sale abroad.
Baron de Fleurville and Howard L. Ropes in Dexter Bay invent a kite powered boat that sails in tow of a large four foot kite with American and French flags. The two men test the device on Lake Ontario to Dexter Bay and Black River then return, planning a dawn fishing trip and noting potential uses for leisure or transport while warning to carry oars in calm or changing winds.
The article argues the eye trick in conjuring is a myth and that true magic relies on deliberate, misdirecting actions. It cites St Nicholas and London performer David Devant noting that a conjurer must act with facial expression and voice to illusionize the audience.
A judge recalls a request for seeds of kindness inspired by a Sunday school lesson. A humorous exchange centers on obtaining a package of seeds to plant virtues rather than vegetables.
A Philadelphia Ledger tale narrates Veritas, daughter of a queen, marked on her forehead by a fairy kiss. Initially distressed, she learns happiness comes from inner virtue rather than appearance, growing beloved and content as years pass. The mark gains meaning as she ages and never seeks its removal.
A clipped verse-like snippet ponders accepting an unavoidable issue. The speaker asserts the choice to yield or fight is impossible to avoid, framing the issue as inescapable. The fragment evokes tension between resignation and action in confronting a problem.
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