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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1903
Page
6
The piece describes new parasols with ivory carved handles that hollow out to contain perfume or toilet water. By pressing a carved ornament the vial top releases scent to moisten a handkerchief or refresh a fainting lady. It also notes rigid fashion details of a gray louisine blouse with cerise liberty trim and passementerie motifs.
A paste made from the yolks of five hard boiled eggs butter salt anchovy sauce curry powder bread crumbs and French dressing. It should be butter soft. Spread between thin buttered bread slices with a lettuce leaf in each sandwich. Trim and cut in the usual manner.
Description from Wiener Mode Album details a blouse in straw colored silk with lace, grape embellishments, and raised white embroidery. Yoke style lace extends along sleeves, with a bordered waistcoat edge, pasase menterie straps, and strass buttons over a straw colored mousseline de soie plastron. Sleeves mirror the trim.
At a Royal Society reception in London H Yale Oldham presented a method to prove Earth's curvature using a camera with a Dallmeyer telephoto lens. He photographed three marks on two Norfolk bridges six miles apart from one end. the middle mark appeared raised above the others, illustrating the curvature.
A Los Angeles Times note extols refined drapery over cheap clutter. It urges minimal furnishings, quality pieces, and harmonious color schemes. The accompanying sketch shows an arched door to a library and a couch with a kazak cover as practical, elegant drapery for a large room.
Needed for a Picnic A woods edge spot by water with humor among guests. A camp fire for roasting corn and potatoes and boiling coffee. Red tablecloth and napkins, wooden ware. Wrapped sandwiches in waxed paper, rye with peppers, brown with cream cheese. Lettuce, dressing, buttered biscuits, deviled eggs. Roast chicken, ice cream bricks, cakes. A sample menu lists sandwiches cold chicken breast veal loaf watercress potato salad stuffed eggs cake coffee ice cream.
A 19th century style health note urges women to walk at least two miles daily to maintain health and beauty. It recommends finishing breakfast, resting for half an hour, then continuing care routines, reflecting period advice on daily self care and fitness.
A recipe instructs mixing six ounces of grated cheese with cornmeal, mace, cayenne, two egg yolks, cream, and butter. Form two paste pieces, fill, seal, egg wash, cut into squares, bake fifteen minutes, and serve hot.
Companion list of roast meats and classic sauces includes roast beef with horseradish, veal with tomato or horseradish, mutton with currant jelly, pork with apple sauce, lamb with mint, turkey with chestnut dressing and cranberry, goose with tart apple sauce, canvasback duck with apple bread and black currant jelly, quail with currant jelly and celery, chicken with bread sauce, plus fried chicken with cream gravy and corn fritters.
The article provides a recipe style guide for making sandwiches with almonds walnuts buttered bread lettuce and dressing. It references a Jon Mars and hints at celery sandwich steps, with chopping and assembling guidance.
Floral muslins and delaines will make summer dresses with dainty Indian muslins featuring white thread embroidery on cream grounds. Bodices with touches of black or emerald green will brighten gowns for garden parties.
A detailed description of a blouse in ecru tusser stik with a plain yoke and sleeve tabs piped in red taffeta. It notes diagonal red and yellow galloon, front box plaits, half opened plaits, and full sleeves with top plaits and deep cuff tabs.
Soak gelatin in water then dissolve in boiling water. Stir in claret juice of half a lemon and sugar to taste. Add a dash of noyeau if available. Set in a border mold, turn out, and fill with pink tinted whipped cream.
Household talks describe dampening clothes with hot water for even drying and faster ironing. A flannel wrapped rolling pin pressed into sleeves aids sleeves and wristbands. Debate arises over cleaning gold decorations on china, with a dealer claiming they withstand unlimited hot water washings when soap is omitted.
The United States battleship Kearsarge arrived at Bar Harbor Maine on July 26 after a 9 day 4 ¼ hour voyage from The Needles to Mount Desert Rock covering about 2900 miles. Captain Hemphill praised the crew noting 13 14 knots average speed and coal capacity for 400 tons, with a possible faster run from Mount Desert Rock to The Needles.
A 21 year old Washington colored youth named James J Mattingly astonishes visitors at the apostolic delegation door by speaking five languages fluently and studying several more He has a zeal for languages and has received help from Cardinal Satolli Cardinal Martinelli and Bishop Rooker though his parents can barely read or write.
The plan envisions a bank bigger than Bank of England, with $100,000,000 capitalization. Government consent is the sole obstacle, but safeguards and precautions will mirror those used by the smallest U.S. bank. The venture aims to rival the world’s top financial institutions.
Dr W T Moore dean emeritus of Missouri Bible College in Columbia has finished a manuscript arguing humanity progresses through eternal cycles. He envisions the spiritual body at resurrection inhabiting uninhabited planets in the Atara group as space and worlds become intelligible from his viewpoint.
In diplomatic circles it is generally conceded that Wheeler may be tapped for the post of New Ambassador to France if General Horace Parker relinquishes the position. The mention appears prominently in recent discussions.
The Lodi hotel at Kearney North Dakota, once a 140 year hostelry favored by Geng Washington and Lafayette, burned. It hosted notable travelers before Monmouth, served as a sporting hub for English and Scotch enthusiasts in quoit and dog racing, and was a cradle for early trapshooting.
Caran d Ache prints four cartoons depicting France and England in a playful treaty satire. The piece parodies mutual forgetfulness of historical battles and sites, urging readers to laugh at diplomatic jests while avoiding harsher topics.
The British parliament signals a shift in South Africa policy as Gen. Botha denounces the current government system and supports direct rule by English officials with a permanent military garrison in Transvaal. Advisory elected Boer councils are abandoned, marking a new phase in colonial governance.
Charles Dumas, a remarkably young poet, has been honored by the Society of Letters in Paris with the Sully-Prudhomme prize, effectively making him poet laureate of France. Critics hail his fiery genius and strong mental balance, signaling him as a rising star presided over by the society’s leader and other officials who bestowed the wreath.
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