This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 30 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1904
Page
6
A fashionable white crepe waist features front stock and cuffs embroidered with clusters of small dark roses and forget me nots in rib bon embroidery. Ribbon effect created by outlining with gold thread and black embroidery dots. Also describes rhubarb dessert layering with bread crumbs butter and sugar baked slowly.
A fashion sketch describes a versatile loose box coat in tan cloth with darker velvet trim and corti celli silk. Features include mandolin sleeves, optional plain sleeves, hidden fly closure, and pockets in the fronts. Material requirements listed for medium size with velvet trim.
The heart shaped corsage sachet in white satin wears around the neck under lingerie. A second option uses two two inch pads with bows on a baby ribbon strip. A Japanese sachet features a silk bag with a doll head and ribbon tied stock fashion. Popular odors include sandalwood and Japanese perfumes.
The text notes very wide sleeves today visually shorten taller figures and urges readers to avoid sleeve extravagance. It advises moderate sleeve width to stay fashionable without making the wearer look overly broad.
A detailed description of a misses house jacket designed for young girls. The sprigged muslin garment features a broad cape collar, fitted back with waist tucks, gathered fronts, and optional sleeve styles. Material estimates given: 3% yards 27 inch, 2% yards 36 inch, or 2% yards 44 inch widths, plus 7% yards embroidery for trim.
Wash and cut rhubarb to nearly fill a three pint pudding dish. Mix in half a grated nutmeg and three cups sugar. Butter the dish.
A historical dietary note argues dates improve school luncheons for children. It explains dates are often unliked unless prepared, recommending washing, pitting, and filling with a salted peanut or almond, then rolling in corn starch or sugar to create a tasty, nourishing snack.
The passage instructs reheating doughnuts or biscuits by wrapping in a paper bag with a few drops of water, sealing and baking in a very hot oven to refresh them. It notes distinguishing new nutmegs by scraping surface for oil and suggests buying mace and nutmeg whole and grinding as needed.
A dainty work bag can be made from a basket base with dainty silk. Choose small flat trays from Japanese shops and sew silk on the inside rim. Line and lightly pad the basket with sachet if desired, then gather the silk at the top to form a neat receptacle for sewing materials.
The article details a pretty, simple corset cover in hempen batiste with embroidery and beaded trim. It notes a box plait center front, narrow waist tucks, and adjustable sizing via bead bands threaded with ribbon.
The article notes a rising Marie Antoinette bodice trend for evening dress with a long pointed waist and full skirt tucked into a skirt band. In white or ivory silk the style is seen as ideal and likely to settle by autumn, with full skirts persisting or enlarging as dies makers stay with the full mode.
Save all old zinc and when chimneys are filled with soot put a quantity on the fire. It will carry all goo out of stovepipes and clean the chimneys. Rose petals make a delightful filling for soft pillows. Save them from faded bouquets or from fresh flowers and dry them. They may be treated as for potpourri or used with their own delicate perfume only. Never put a bed on an alcove, the air is apt to become stagnant there. Have it right in the room and do not push it too close to the wall, then the air that comes in from the window has a chance to circulate around the room.
Mr Wrare invites readers to submit new ideas for farm orchard and garden topics. Contributions will be planted to answer correspondents seeking information on subjects discussed. Address M J Wragg, Waukee Town.
Discussion urges teaching sericulture and horticulture in rural schools. Short agriculture courses fit for winter, with summer schools to train teachers. Emphasizes plant-life work on school grounds to foster interest and steer youth toward farming institutes.
H B Gurler of DeKalb Illinois reported at a farmers institute that removing cows from ensilage and placing them on spring pasture reduces milk by about 20 percent even with good pasture. He notes silos can raise milk output by 20 to 25 percent, effectively feeding as many milk-producing cows as the herd size and at no feed cost.
A straw berry grower lists common pests and diseases for strawberries. White grubs, Strawberry Sawfly, and Leaf Roller threaten patches, with spraying helping control. Rust or Strawberry Leaf Blight can ruin berries. Bordeaux mixture spraying in late summer is advised. The piece also contrasts farm life with city life, noting many youths seek easier city life yet farm success rivals business success.
A collection of quips on beliefs and morals. Satirical lines critique honesty greed and pious pretense. It teases common sayings and social norms with playful odd imagery like a dairy lighthouse and soil pulverization to provoke thought on character and behavior.
The article argues there is no universal rule for growing corn. It emphasizes maximizing soil moisture without hindering growth and preventing weeds via plowing or mulching. Farmers should study their field conditions, compare methods, and apply the approach best suited to their specific soil and needs.
A verse scene depicts a countryside yard as thistles and briers rise in a sunlit pasture. Buttercups glow and dassles bloom white while Brindle Bessie and Gray roam. As afternoons fade the worn path home finds the barn gate.
Save meat scraps for fowls and scald drinking vessels weekly. Ground bone can be fed alone or in soft food. Tobacco stems in nests deter insects. Proper food variety builds strength. guineas aren’t good market fowls. Turn eggs daily to preserve them. use clean earth as absorbent. Whitewash nests to curb vermin. Mark chicks yearly and cull after age three.
The text urges taking picnics and providing women and children with essential recreation and change. It critiques the impractical farmer who denies recreation, noting he enjoys trips to town for socializing while neglecting his family. It argues wiser balance yields more work and well being over a lifetime.
Practical guidance on growing rape as a fast, leafy cover crop. Describes seed appearance, planting on oat wheat or rye stubble, seeding rate of four pounds per acre, weather tolerance, and how stock can graze after plants reach eight to ten inches. Warns about poor seed quality from some suppliers.
The article explains that a high producing dairy cow does not arise by luck. It requires seven years of steady attentive breeding and feeding after birth to reach her best milk production.
A bulletin from the New York experiment station notes the striped cucumber beetle resists many defenses and no perfect remedy exists. It recommends planting squash as trap crops, dusting with green arsenite on half the plants, and spraying cucumbers with Bordeaux while poisoning more squash vines to kill feeding beetles.
The piece argues fruit from the farm boosts health and reduces medical costs, making it a profitable product even when not sold. It urges farmers to ensure fruit is planted if none exists and to expand production if some fruit already grows, stressing health savings and substitution for other goods.
Practical advice on pruning to improve light and air, shaping young trees, and preventing split growth. Recommendations include waiting for rain before applying straw manure, mulching around new plantings, and thinning fruit such as plums. Warns of San Jose scale, ashlike bark, and dirty twigs with yellowish surface liquid. Also advises harrowing to kill weeds and keep grain away from young trees.
The hog by its peculiar makeup requires more shade than other domestic animals. Neglecting shade leads to loss from negligence. Hogs need dense shade and abundant water with access to breezes for cooling.
Farmers believe little bedding is needed in summer, but horses especially need clean bedding as they perspire. Any winter bedding can be used but must be aired each morning, with composted sawdust mixing for soil. Weed bedding is acceptable if seeds are kept from germinating. bed animals as cleanly in summer as in winter for better health.
A comic collage of brief gleanings from famous figures. Norman B. Mack defines bonanza as a hole in the ground owned by a liar. A Boston girl outwits patience with Rome, six days and half an hour. Canon Melville’s rise traced to a pin. An earl’s Lord remember David reply. Lincoln recalls passes to Richmond. George Ade’s The Sha Gun shortens through cuts. Ade quips about actors with nothing to say.
The Defiance Starch Co offers 25 round trip tickets to the St Louis Exposition to five readers in Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri who mail the most Defiance cold water starch trade marks from a 16 ounce package. Entries must arrive at Defiance Starch Co Omaha Nebraska before September in 1904.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.