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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
6
A fashion feature notes the return of large ward robes with frequent outfit changes. It cites American women in London who wore six weeks of varied looks, and predicts simpler, untrimmed suits using homspuns and broadcloths with subtle color touches.
The Eton model features wing sleeves and a yoke cut in one with box plaited fronts and back. It uses a smooth circular skirt that drapes in generous folds, offers variants with or without a center seam, and suits light wools, chiffon taffetas, linens, and black taffeta wraps for separate wear.
Designers weigh new coat lengths from long to hip length with a trend toward fitted cuts. Black returns as a key color with broadcloth and plain fabrics favored while brown fades and checks recede to plain cloths and subtle stripes and plaids.
The accompanying cut shows a fetching sailor blouse with a removable chemisette. White or blue French flannel or linen fabrics will make this blouse attractive and stylish.
A tailor predicts a gay season with bold reds blues and greens for morning dress while another expects duller colors to dominate. The discussion contrasts bright traditional hues with subdued tones for upcoming wardrobes.
White linen blouse features a box plaited front adorned with buttons. It gathers to a flat collar with crossed ends and anchor embroidery, full sleeves with elbow cuffs trimmed in linen and anchored embroidery.
The piece notes early hints of full styles appearing in shops as conservative, tentative changes in color and line. It observes a shift toward severely tailored coats and skirts inspired by Paris, with linen summer styles transitioning to later fall suits and reproductions of late linen models that wouldn’t do up.
Fashionables order late autumn frocks and early winter gowns from Paris and Vienna while patterns for 1906 summer and autumn fabrics are designed and woven. Voiles mohair chiffon taffetas foulards chiffons crepe de chines velvet broadcloths tweeds and shepherds plaids remain in vogue with faithful designs and noticeable quality differences between goods.
A testimonial notes Defiance Starch provides sturdier performance and more value than competitors. It also includes a claim about clear water visibility in Norwegian fiords and endorses Piso's Cure as the best throat and lung medicine, attributed to WM. DO. ENDSLEY of Vanburen, Indiana, dated February 10, 1900.
Excavations at St Martin de Re uncover trenches with skeletons believed to be residents who died defending the town from the English in 1627. Among the remains a spherical iron bomb held a black powder mixture about one third nitre one third carbon and one fifth sulphur with rusted iron oxide making up the rest.
Kansas City readers are promised a night out as a family plans a trip to the comic opera for a big ballet after a prior street sighting. The note references a bear dance and a child’s request dramatized by the father.
The strangest flag under which men fought is described as red on one side and black on the other, tied to the Macedonian insurgents and their struggle.
A Sault Ste. Marie resident Mr C L Smith a painter reports severe pains blamed on lumbago sciatica or rheumatism. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with restoring mobility allowing him to discard canes and regain pain free health. The piece notes a joke about a see more waist.
The article highlights attached ruffles as a fashionable device for women's lingerie. Silk or taffeta options on white petticoats offer coolness and lightness by removing the need for ottoman undergarments. Chiffon taffeta versions are made to order, with multiple matching flounces per petticoat and notable economy.
Instructions advise soaking bent whalebones in hot water for a few hours to restore shape. The tip emphasizes heat softens the material aiding reshaping.
A humorous dialogue from a Kansas City Drovers Telegram features a billy goat lamenting people and comments on pride, while a banco steer questions his habits and the goat asserts he always charges head first.
A brief parcel of dialogue emphasizes gender roles as a couple prepares for marriage. The note then pivots to a rhetorical question about Fourth of July fatalities, followed by a playful nudge to stay patriotic.
"Cuticura saved the life of my mother" Mrs Wa F Davis of Stony Creek Conn reports her daughter Geo C Davis says his mother suffered terrible eczema for years with sores hair whitening and misery. After buying hundreds of dollars in doctors she found relief with two cakes of Cuticura Soap five boxes of Cuticura and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent.
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