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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1904
Page
7
In this continuing scene FRANKLIN and Curly face a tense crowd at the Cottage, as a mob seeks to hang a mentally challenged prisoner. A violent confrontation erupts with a Mexican giant resisting capture, culminating in a fatal shot and the sheriff Bill Watson calling for order.
The Cottage Hotel of Diisville once run by a kind widow called Mother Daly faces a world transformed as cowboys die out and new men with silver guns arrive. The Trail grows silent as Ellisville’s old life departs to a distant land, leaving an empty corral and a deserted bar.
A Florida newspaper reporter seeking insight into Senator Hoars lottery bill was dismissed after asking for an explanation. Hoar asked if the reporter understood the bill, and, receiving no clear answer, said no explanation would help. The brief exchange ended the interview.
The Argoanut reports Henry Ward Beecher met a British medium during an English visit. The seance featuring the spirit of his father Dr. Lyman Beecher prompted Beecher to quip that if he deteriorates the first ten years after death as his father did, he would be a stark naked food.
A fashion note describes a May Manton pattern 4672 for a white dress suitable for confirmation or graduation, made in trench organdy with Valenciennes lace frills. It explains the waist shaping, sleeve options, and yardage for a girl aged 14, plus a brief housekeeping aside on odorless onions and a tip for tortoise shell polishing.
A description of a raisin and English walnut sandwich filling. Finely chopped seeded raisins and walnuts are mixed with well beaten egg white, lightly seasoned with vanilla. Figs may substitute raisins but should have no added sugar. Equal fruit and nut portions advised.
The text describes fashionable attire with faded shades, boleros, and tailored finishes. Gowns feature deep cuffs, belts of Japanese satin, and a Dutch neck for warm weather waists. Underwaists, mousseline waists, and velvet skirts appear with ornate hand embroidery and tiny floral satin buttons.
Parisian Hose showcases delicate silken hose decorated with hand painted birds flowers and arabesques with some reaching below the knee. May Manton pattern No 4690 offered by E E Harrison Co for ten cents plus coupon via 65 Plymouth Place Chicago. A smart little coat from Eton jackets with lace trim and silk vest shown as a May Manton pattern also mailed for ten cents.
The article describes the planet as a small spruce bunch of flowers or fruit used as a spring hat ornament. The piquet usually sits to the front left, but some people prefer it on the right. It is an erect piquet resembling a pompon made of flowers rather than feathers.
A new idea in linens features loosely woven fabrics resembling serim. The material appears serim like in color and presents colored flower designs on an ecru background. A pretty linen showcases pure white mesh with pale green intermingling and fern borders.
An 1890s era note offers quick remedies such as using sulphur to smother chimney fires and quicklime to absorb moisture. It also suggests methods to purify air with trays of quicklime, renew lime periodically, and clean mirrors with dampened soft paper and methylated spirit followed by whiting polish. A line about freshly made tea and a pinch appears as a fragment.
A May Manton pattern No 4680 offers an accordion plaited blouse in soft fabrics with a drop yoke and embroidered lace accents. Instructions list yardages for sizes 32 to 40, plus optional tucked or gathered variations and the cost to mail the pattern.
Plain white goods change little from last year with airy fabrics taking prominence for gowns and shirt-waist suits. Buyers can choose dimities, French lawns, Parisian wash chiffons, sik muslin, English nainsook, and embroidered swisses in dotted, striped, or floral patterns reflecting a restrained but evolving style.
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