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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1905
Page
2
A recipe notes Creamy Mint Tablets using sugar water peppermint oil and quick boiling method. Mixed sugar poured into small patty pans yields a creamy white confection. The passage veers into decorative frosting descriptions and fashion imagery with green and black accents.
The season offers a wide range of turbans in red lavender pale blue pink greens and many reds with white breast accents. White wing hats from last season boosted demand this fall as manufacturers expect continued popularity. A notable new wing effect uses owl feathers with two large soft wings springing from a tufted owl head to resemble a breast design.
An exceptional English baked ham method describes soaking the ham, drying, coating with a flour and water paste, wrapping in greased paper, and tying it. Bake in a hot oven, baste with warm drippings, replace burned paper, remove rind, brush with a glaze of sugar and egg, and chill thoroughly. Use a five pound ham for four hours in the oven.
White all over embroidery offers an inexpensive pretty choice for a light jacket to pair with any outfit. The article notes a simple white embroidered jacket with an embroidery flounce, washable and worn over a plain empire dress, featuring a Dresden ribbon sash with broad black satin edge.
A pretty box plaited apron model with shoulder straps stands out for its simple yet stylish design. The front features three box plaits while the back has two, with optional belt since the garment is fitted by underarm seams. It hugs the figure and covers the dress, offering a charming little apron option.
A vintage note on winter millinery highlights contrasting dark and light elements. It mentions a shaded brown hat accented with brown quills and a large cluster of vivid dahlia blossoms for bold, striking color.
A white silk blouse with a lace yoke and large scalloped knots of ribbon decorates the top. Below, the bodice features box plaits and a draped mougseline de sole with prominent knots between the folds. Elbow sleeves are shaped and finished.
The article notes tan and ecru dominating fashion with cafe-au-lait and coffee tints favored by the French. It praises brownish castor shades and burnt bread tones as versatile, economical choices that pair well with other colors, urging readers to choose tan for adaptability.
Young women in typewriting outfits create a innovative ribbon box. Empty reels used for dress ribbons hold a width and color. Dozen reels fit in a bureau box and can be painted white blue or pink to match the case. Wound ribbons last twice as long as carelessly stored ones.
Instructions describe choosing a large bishop sleeve with lengthwise tucks, sewing the seam to above the elbow, trimming about two inches along each side, finishing with an inch of beading and threaded ribbon to create a long back dangler. Crosswise tucks may be added if the sleeve is cut to allow.
The latest three piece costumes feature a new edge treatment on short coats. A lawn ruffle two inches wide with Valenciennes edging is attached to the limp fringe and tacked inside the coat. The frill is washable and resilient, made from good lawn, and stands up to wear and tear better than the lining of simpler coats.
Modieh White Mat showcases soft white felt hats trimmed in gold gauze and mottled wings of white and dead leaf brown. One French identified piece features a brim turning sharply to the right, with light neutral colorings suited to an early date.
Sir James Grant argues alcohol erodes cellular structure and health in a broad plea for temperance. He cites Arctic crews, national costs, and family harm, urging prohibition as education and restraint gain momentum.
A Chicago Evening Post correspondent warns of two natures shaping vice. He cites a drinker who spent 150000 and lives with a "second nature" of habit. The piece argues habit replaces first nature, making sobriety hard and relapse deadly.
An essay warns that intemperance harms health and spreads from generation to generation. It asserts no organ remains unharmed by alcoholic liquor and that a drinking nation develops dyspeptic and nervous troubles, perpetuating physical ills.
A Chicago American column warns that drink destroys self respect, noting how even great men fall, struggle to reform, and slowly lose honesty and principle as hope fades, ending with the graveyard image where drunkards lie.
The British lunacy commission report ranks intemperance as a cause of insanity in 22.7 percent of male admissions and 9.4 percent of female cases. Private patients show 16.7 percent male and 8.6 percent female. paupers 23.6 percent male and 9.6 percent female. It notes brain weakness and alcohol intertwined, with Northumberland, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Glamorgan reporting the highest insanity attributed to alcoholism.
The Lady's Pictorial notes teetotalism is increasingly popular among the fashionable. It contrasts the blue ribbon set with the rising wave of mineral waters at luncheons, suggesting a secret temperance league among smart society.
The German emperor tightens drink limits by hiring chauffeurs as total abstainers both on and off duty. Wages rise due to the discipline. He argues that those guarding human life must keep faculties sharp to respond to emergencies and avoid intoxicants.
Washington November 9. District Attorney Morrison and Assistant Attorney General Pagin, aiding in the Chicago packers case, arrived for a conference with Attorney General Moody. They discuss whether the bureau of corporations actions granted immunity under the anti trust law, not direct promises. Garfield will attend. the legality of immunity rests on the bureau’s conduct.
In Pittsburg on November 9 United States Senator Knox was mistaken for a repeater at a newly adopted precinct after voting. Election watchers pursued him until an acquaintance nearby intervened to prevent an awkward confrontation.
Prince Louis of Battenberg was elected a member at a printers meeting in Baltimore. It emerged during his visit to the News office that he learned the printing art when a young man.
Southampton November 9 Emil Tuchs designer of British postage stamps sailed on the Kron Prinz Wilhelm to execute a number of orders for portraits of prominent Americans. Tuchs is an intimate friend of King Edward.
In Milwaukee on November 9 laymen of the Episcopal diocese chose to support the Rev. John McGraw Foster of Boston as coadjutor to Bishop Nicholson. Foster’s candidacy was endorsed by local church members seeking a successor.
Washington November 9 Consul Lay s life has been threatened by Chinese in Canton after the massacre of American missionaries.
London Nov 9 The Korean emperor vows to kill himself if the Anglo Japanese treaty fails to grant Korea independence. The remark reflects tensions as Korea seeks autonomy amid imperial pressures.
Advices from China report a developing movement aimed at overthrowing the manchu dynasty. The plot centers on a coordinated revolt with several leaders and factions seeking to destabilize the imperial regime.
Pittsburg report says Special Examiner Edward P. Moxey and Receiver John D. Cunningham met with U S District Attorney John W Dundle regarding the bank affairs. Afterward Moxey lamented the failure as one of the worst he has investigated, noting about 700000 to 800000 missing and over 3000 depositors, mostly wage earners with interest accounts, while DOJ vetoed preferred creditor actions.
Washington November 9 General G H Burton inspector general criticises absenteeism of captains from commands and says 155 of 398 companies and troops studied were without captains He suggests supplying soldiers light beer under supervision to reduce desertion and urges a chief of infantry and cavalry plus an artillery expansion
Alfred A. Buck former assistant cashier at Mapleton State Bank pleaded guilty in district court to grand larceny in the first degree. Judge Cray sentenced him to six years and four months in the state prison at Stillwater for embezzling about $17,000. Buck fled to the Isle of Pines, later extradited, claiming he fell victim to blackmail in Chicago.
The seventy foot schooner Abbie broke up in a storm at Onekama lake eighteen miles north of Manistee after twenty four hours of bad seas. Rescued crew members George Cross Lea Lawren John Carey and Richard Rider were saved by the Mantiatee life saving crew as they neared exhaustion. Abbie had departed Beaver Island Monday night bound for Milwaukee with tan bark.
In Litchfield Tl on November 9 Joseph Finnegan, a well known local farmer, died by shooting himself in the right temple. He left a note and had earlier remarked that someone would take him out and kill him.
The state railways strike widens in Austria as of November 9 in Vienna. About 10,000 employees are affected and engineers on all lines in Bohemia have decided to join the action, threatening a general shutdown.
A typhoon wrought devastation in the province of Oshima and adjacent islands. More than two thousand buildings have been destroyed and a steamer has been wrecked. Local authorities report extensive damage across coastal areas and request aid.
A late 19th century report describes an American woman Louisa Webster found murdered in Petersburg during daylight. She was robbed of 500,000 rubles, and investigators have no clew to the murderer.
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