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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1903
Page
7
A listing from Good Housekeeping notes frocks for children featuring soft white fabrics, wide waist sashes, floating ribbons, and redingote oversleeves in black velvet or similar materials. It mentions black and white as a lasting trend, simple hats for those with limited funds, and a charitable table where some guests shared to cover shortfalls, with forfeits later redeemed for amusement.
The article describes door drapery and overdrape using fifty inch double faced velour in solid colors. It explains hanging with three 4 1 2 inch rings, center ring twelve inches above the door facing, and two rings on the facing, with a five to seven foot wide space for draping.
The text advises cleaning and maintenance steps for kitchen items. Rub stainless or steel discolored range surfaces with vinegar. Grease tins before crake to ensure easy removal. For tin or nickel kettles, use turpentine or paraffin followed by chalk or whitening. Leather under flatiron holders improves heat protection.
The French woman of fashion seeks harmony in costume from stockings to handkerchiefs, now adding jewelry. Summer trends favor long chains of real or imitation stones, with color limited to suit gowns or an unlimited supply of chains. Shoppers at jewelry counters struggle to pair bead chains with fabrics, joking that chains may come before dresses.
At a card party the hostess used beans as tallies with five beans for winners and one for losers. A maid delivered dainty bills of fare listing items like Bandwiches and Almonds with bean counts, revealing a surprising scheme as guests hurried to tally their gains.
Smart walking gloves come in two kid colors. Valenciennes medallions adorn dainty lingerie. Straw trimming highlights new hats. All-over embroidery dresses many blouses. Fans use bright tropical bird plumage. Capes lead into traditional dolman styles. Robe gowns appear in foulards louisines and taf fetas. Black silk stockings feature college flag embroidery. Elderly bonnets become highly elaborate. Novel ornaments include black berries and chestnuts in jet. Velvet bows match gowns in color.
Readers learn quick fixes for shabby curtain rods and chipped china, offering enamel painting, plaster and egg white paste for mending, and cleaning tricks. Ink on wood vanishes with nitre, brass gets oil and polish, and lacquers respond to oil with lint-free buffing. Unlacquered brass cleans with lemon juice or bath brick, then polish with dry brick powder.
A writer notes muff designs for weddings to match parasols with fruit and grass trims or pink chiffon with roses, ideal for bridesmaids. Another idea features a large basket behind the couple, its handle arched over their heads, filled with tiny bouquets to scatter among guests as confetti or silver horseshoes circulate for good luck.
An afternoon dress in tan satin crepe de chine features a lace cap in ecru. A tan parasol displays a brown and green design, while a dark brown hat is trimmed with brown and green leaves.
A description details a popular yellow and black color scheme in new mil linery. It features a black Neapolitan straw hat with pale yellow tulle, a fluted tulle crown, a straw brim, and a wreath of yellow and black roses around the crown. Also includes care tips for discolored piano keys using lemon juice chalk paste and polishing with oil and a soft cloth.
Two elegant gowns are shown a French voile with heavy Bulgarian lace trim a coat and box plaits creating flare in the skirt a liberty silk bodice and bishop sleeve with a volled slit hat a white straw feathered bonnet. The second gown blends champagne nun's veiling with ecru gulpure and medallions a yoke collar trimmed with gulpure a circular strapping skirt and a chiffon toque with rhinestone buckle a velvet bow at the back finishing the look.
The text surveys varied rural topics including feats of strength, scarce labor on cattle ranges with $50 monthly offers, a man planting forty acres of black locust for post timber in Oklahoma, and government data showing mules valued higher than horses by $10.24. It notes entail laws, rapid bird development, Australia’s drought ending rains boosting business, a crow-hunt tally in Illinois, and a dairyman’s view on butter versus beef from cows.
Amith, ten years at the same farm, states that when he serves his employer’s interests as his own, he is invariably well treated. His claim suggests deeper insight than many hired men recognize about loyalty and favorable work conditions.
The harvester machinery trust formed last year has caused price increases and wiped out competition among manufacturers. The price rise on a machine ranges from five to ten dollars.
Land agents report no picnics this year as customers are few and far between and not biting at every offer. Farm land values have stalled, with notable price declines in flat wet areas.
An opinionated fragment argues the strawberry is superior in flavor and adaptability, while criticising Mrs. Rover as an authority on foods. The text links maternal labor to progeny vigor and contrasts harsh working conditions with modern vanity in society.
A reminiscence discusses parsons and fast horses as evidence of worldly ambition rather than divine grace. It ponders the vanished wild pigeons once common fifty years earlier, noting their disappearance 1870 to 1880 and the lack of surviving specimens or records elsewhere.
The late May Montana blizzard caused losses estimated at 5 million dollars to stock interests. The milk supply in New York City is mockingly called a “no cooperative dairy association.” A Tinois farmer married four times and accumulated valuable farmland. Wolves have been killed near St Paul and Minneapolis. A 160 acre farm could yield 2600 yearly from cows, poultry, and hogs. A laborer values his cow, fifty hens, garden, and two pigs near his daily wages. Garden rows and cultivator use ease weed control. Most foreign cheese brands are counterfeit in America, with a few indigenous varieties also absent in Europe.
A compact sampler of farm lore and rural anecdotes argues for literacy in signatures to avoid fraud, notes on prize corn yields of 1889, humane stock care reducing winter losses, and government interest in goats for milk. It highlights practical farming wisdom and the era’s agricultural anecdotes from the countryside.
Take a series of years, and the man who raises stockhorses, cattle, sheep, hogs, poultry will make twice as much from his farm as will the man who raises farm products grain hay and roots to sell. The stock raiser will be constantly adding fertility while the other will impoverish his. This is one of the ten agricultural commandments and should be learned by heart and heeded by all.
A farmer laughs at his hired man when he suggests mowing a pasture seeded with white clover for seed. The man secretly harvests and sells 26 bushels at eight dollars each, proving the hired man may know more than the law allowed.
The farmer should actively support locating manufacturing plants in his town. Close-by consumers benefit farmers by shortening the distribution chain and expanding markets. A large local workforce creates demand for farm products, boosting profits for both producer and plant.
A weekly message encourages farm boys to value education and self improvement. It urges reading, studying, experimenting at home, and hard work to pursue future careers as engineers, merchants, lawyers, or doctors. It warns that smoking, gambling, or drinking harms prospects, while steady, faithful effort builds success from ages fifteen to twenty-five.
The article argues for a middle ground in labor, praising workers who size up tasks and omit needless fuss. It laments wasted effort from uneducated, clumsy methods and urges better training of eye, ear, and hand through mechanical dexterity in youth, noting schooling often overlooks this.
The piece argues farmers should sell crops when ready and not gamble on price spikes. It warns holding nonperishables like wheat and corn rarely pays after costs such as interest taxes and storage. It cites ruined stores from six year old cornered stock and rotting grain as cautionary examples.
A day’s work varies by job from ten hours for unskilled laborers to eight hours for skilled bricklayers to five hours for government clerks and even less for a parson. A housekeeper works about sixteen hours, a farm hand about fourteen, and an engineer on a fast mail train must complete his duties in three hours. The fastest movers push to the front with no hour limits.
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