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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1904
Page
2
Features include severe tailor style coats in three-quarter or arm length options. Materials include wood brown cloth with corticell silk bands. design emphasizes long graceful lines, regulation sleeves, and varied yardage for sizes. Also a brief note on rain water beauty lore and face bathing cautions.
A garden party fashion note highlights Dolly Varden hats paired with simple white gowns and Gainsborough hats matched with black tullets. It calls out a white chiffon dress with pale blue ribbon and a Dolly Varden hat of white chiffon and pale pink roses, plus a Gainsborough look featuring a long ostrich plume for an elaborate outfit.
A dated set of household tips describes removing ink stains with sour milk and cleaning delicate china with Ike a hander chief, noting lamping paper bleaching effects and grease stain removal from books using benzine and heat. It also shares a simple sandwich idea using brown bread buttercream cheese with lettuce and tomato.
Practical advice urges daily cleansing for a radiant complexion. It recommends tepid baths with bran and tongue friction, avoid hard water and use softened rain water to keep pores open. The text warns hard water’s lime harms the skin and argues for gentle cleansing routines.
The text describes using bits of various meats to create salads. It suggests mutton salad with mint or capers, chicken salad with celery, and a beef salad with tomatoes cucumbers and celery. emphasizes meat bits as salad ingredients.
Dainty bonbon holders shaped as swans in crepe paper with white bodies and gold bills for white and gold dinners. Bonbons rest in the bird’s back and are wrapped in gold foil. For a pink dinner the same favor uses pink crepe paper and pink tissue, finished with a rose-like twist.
A fashion note suggests trying skeleton collars to solve ruching and ribbon issues. The collar is pinned at the neck with ruching sewn on and a ribbon tied around, preventing weight from pulling the ribbon and delivering a neater, tailored silhouette.
Hemstitched leather sets for collars and cuffs are among late summer fads alongside heavier shirt waists. They come in white black and natural leather color and are worn with a belt to match.
The article previews autumn fashion with ready-made stock items, marabont feather trims, crushed velvet belts, and a rise in veils shaded and embroidered. It notes velvet and velveteen belts as novelties, lists color pairings such as salmon with gray, navy with hyacinth, and coral with brown, and calls long black silk gloves a finishing touch for travel ensembles.
Pretty aprons are in demand and richly practical. This design features white lawn with intricate embroidery on a gathered front and back, a yoke and fancy collar, closes at the center back, sized for a 6 year old with 2 1 2 yards of material and 2 1/2 yards of embroidery.
The article highlights brown blue and mauve as the season's top colors with white still common in summer wear. Pale blue fabrics gain appeal in sheer gowns paired with pale blue chich hats, white lace stoles, and light floral accents. Mauve, favored by royal ladies, inspires elegant ensembles with white accessories.
A skin care recipe using olive oil and rose water beaten into a cream to rub into the skin until absorbed. Apply nightly after washing with warm water and Castile soap, then rub ointment upward. daytime use includes applying chalk after the food. It claims to remove wrinkles prevent chafing and soften skin.
This fashion note praises silk and batiste combos for blouses and gowns. It describes a model pairing white laussine with a lace edged embroidered batiste yoke and cuffs, noting its versatility for outfits and seasons. It lists material needs: about 4 yards of fabric plus 1 yard of yoking, with width specifics for medium size.
A long review list features Olive Latham by B L Voynice from J B Lippincott with praise for Jack Raymond and The Gadfly, plus Russia themed intrigue. Crane & Co and Tas neka publish Normal Institute Physiology by F W Simmonds, Origin Orthography by E J Hoenschel, and A Ladder of Swords by Gilbert Parker with Elizabethan romance and political danger. Other items include Miriam Michelson's A Merry, Merry Zingara in Century, Frenzied Finance in Everybody's Magazine, Life dialogue snippets, plus notes on oranges from Bahia and a San Francisco baby exhibit and new electrograph tech.
A young man and woman stroll under a Western sky where he extols nature. She misreads directions while he contemplates colors and the sinking sun, joking about his near sightedness after his brother broke his glasses.
A frail seventy-five year old man testifies in a North London police court that a young woman promised marriage, received 10 pounds to furnish a home, then married someone else and refused to return the money. The magistrate questions the age gap in astonishment.
A monk dentist in Rome recalls drawing 2,000,644 teeth while Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius IX visited. He says no instruments were used, only fingers, and recounts the Holy Fathers’ smiles and fears of not living up to trust. The verse echoes themes from Ethel Clifford's Songs of Dreams.
William H. Lee of Shobonier Illinois is described as the sole pensioner of the Black Hawk war and possibly the last survivor of the conflict with the Sac and Fox. Born in Cayuga County New York, he moved near Shobonier as a child, joined the front at age 16 in 1832, and later traveled west to California during the 1850 gold rush with two further trips to the Pacific coast.
A Cincinnati man returning from the East prepared for bed aboard a sleeping car when a large Kentuckian loudly ordered the porter to remove a pillow he held near his ear. The man slept with his head on the feather pillow after the two feathers on the tick were added, and no further trouble followed.
A boy named Alexis returns home with clothes full of holes after a game described as playing shop. He explains they opened a grocery and everyone was someone, with Alexis taking the role of the cheese. The scene unfolds as his mother questions the odd costumes and the day ends with a childlike tale of play.
Col. Nate Flaisig, dean of American drummers, represents an English needle-maker firm and has logged about 1.6 million miles on the road. He has crossed the Atlantic 100 times and circled the globe once more in fifty four years with the firm.
A Topeka Kansas officer Mrs Y Bumgardner writes praising Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney trouble backache and headaches. She says after one box the troubles faded and by the second package she was well. Free trial at Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Price 60 cents. The world owes you a living but you owe the world a life.
A shopper urges buyers to demand Defiance Cold Water Starch, noting grocers push 12 oz packages to clear stock. The ad claims Defiance provides a full pound, resists sticking to irons, and contains no harmful chemicals, with price the same as rival brands.
A potpourri of odds and ends including a tip that a raw potato at the bottom of a tobacco jar keeps it moist, and a claim that brick houses outlast granite. Notes on Holland cow bedding with sand, Java death plant perfume, Salvation Army uniforms priced around nine dollars, and a Potsdam rascal story with a piano tuner robbed of cash and teeth.
A testimonial from Missouri and Battle Creek sources praises Grape-Nuts as a cure for nerves stomach pain and sleeplessness after switching from meat to regular food. The speaker reports stronger health and fewer dreams, noting sustained use in breakfast or supper with cream, and references a ten day trial and a booklet titled The Road to Health.
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