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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1905
Page
2
New York Sun reports velvet dresses hold prestige yet remain luxury. Velvet gowns showcase rich colors like dahlia and mulberry, with imported frocks featuring satin trim and lace plastrons. Princesse styles and street gowns gain. velvet skirts stay elaborate with plaiting, embroidery, and inserts, while the long coat hides ornamentation.
Lace remains popular for cloth gowns and lighter fabrics this winter. Network lace is imitated in heavier laces dyed to match cloth shades. White and black gowns gain favor, with lace used more at home than on the street as fashion shifts from the all one color scheme.
Velvet fabrics once royal remain popular among all incomes as velvets shed cotton blends into silk weaves and velveteens gain colorfastness. The fall palette features deep purples plums wines garnets and greens with chiffon velvets expanding pliability and lustre for blouses gloves and garments.
Unusually strong emphasis on felt hats for the early season, with plain felt praised for exceptional softness and velvet-like quality. Beavers and sleek toques in narrow boat shapes or elliptical forms gain attention, often draped with rough felt plaques and minimal outside trimming.
A quaint dancing frock features a decollete bodice in the fashion of 1830 gowns. It is trimmed with shaded ribbons in rose pink and red, has four lace flounces from hem to knee, and a ribbon girdle defining the waist with decorative sash loops at the back.
Two-piece velvet costumes feature either a bolero jacket or a coat that extends about halfway from the waist to the knee. The garment details describe a long fitted gate reaching toward the hip area.
The piece notes that all black dresses, though briefly out of favor, will be extremely smart next winter. It praises the black gown as the most distinguished woman can wear, with jets and new black nets enhancing evening ensembles. Dark colors are highlighted as economical and chic contrasts to light outfits for smart occasions.
Stripes prove difficult to match at every seam while dressmakers face new challenges. Manufacturers respond by making fall fabrics twice as wide, including woolens silk and crepe de chine. Some crepe de chine widths reach seventy inches.
A fawn cloth cloak is praised for versatility covering dress, theater trips, walking and riding, and sea wear. It remains an economical investment as the deep tones fade to creamy hues, offering easy cleaning and potential dyeing and refashioning when worn or soiled.
Empire styles dominate the season with slender silhouettes while fuller figures appear in empire coats. Semi short waisted lines derive from bolero designs in jackets and long coats. bolero like effects show on garments. Ultra high girdles resurface with Louis IV style coat tails pairing with outerwear.
The article argues there will be no reason for a woman not to wear a hackabout tailor suit this autumn. Advanced models offer a wide range of styles, with sleeves that are large at the top and taper to the wrist, ensuring a flattering fit for various figures.
Black trimming is popular on light gowns for a striking contrast. A light pearl gray dress features a wide black trim at the waist in a left design, with black lace bolero fronts and a full vest. Pale pink silk touches adorn neck and sleeves. black on white is noted as effective.
The piece notes how vellings or vells finish small chic hats with delicate lace edgings hand embroidery and chenilla appliques on fine meshes. Simpler white meshes with black dots dominate and are described as exceptionally smart.
Commentary declares that modern smart tailoring requires skirts to hover above the ground by about an inch and a half, deeming any gown for outdoors as unfashionable if it touches the pavement. It reflects parlour talk on dress codes among well dressed women of the day.
Paris shoplifter confessed kleptomania led her to steal pipes. Police found over 2600 pipes in her apartments, many richly colored, none paid for. She kept them at home, claiming irresistible impulse and moral non-responsibility.
A New York Herald description notes a rare Nepaulese hornbill with a remarkable, self-satisfied pose. The bird is serious by nature and seldom survives long in captivity, with only a few of its species in confinement.
Prussian Military Surgeon Dr Uhlenhuth, transferred to Greifswald, developed a forensic method to distinguish human from animal blood. Initially working in Berlin and linked to foot and mouth disease research, he later applied the technique to detect meat sources in foods, including horse meat in sausages, with widespread confirmation by 1901.
The Broderick cap, a German import, was adopted after lengthy dispute including a parliamentary debate and was discarded soon after with losses exceeding half a million dollars. At least one death may be linked to the controversy. The rifles also proved costly with over $1,100,000 wasted on adopting and discarding arms over barrel length questions.
Great Explosive Discovered, Vigorite, the new explosive of Professor Schulz and Engineer Gehre of Switzerland, is a nitrol compound united with saltpeter. It is claimed to have ten times the strength of any other explosive, burns in open air without exploding, and remains uninfluenced by friction, shock, concussion, moisture, or freezing.
Kier Hardy once noted for his Scotch cap abandons shoes for sandals and is said to have inspired several colleagues to try the airy footwear, though they await next summer to follow his example.
General Dan Sickles of New York mourns a fine Blendela spaniel buried in the Sickles lot at New Rochelle cemetery. The dog was kept alive for hours by oxygen but died from pneumonia after an illness.
A reporter details the modern diamond cutting method from rough cube form to a 56 facet polished gem. It explains flaw assessment, diamond-to-diamond cutting, and the polisher’s process using a rotating wheel with diamond dust, oil, and a lock clasp holder.
Robert Crane, an English fisherman on the northeast coast, has earned numerous medals for bravery after rescuing over fifty people from drowning. A campaign to secure a government reward for his service is underway.
Alaska stretches with vast coastlines and rivers. Nome lies hundreds of miles from Honolulu while Cape Prince of Wales marks the edge of American soil near Asia across Behring Strait. The Yukon rivals the Mississippi in water, and seven railways map progress, including the Skagway-Ukon 140 mile link. Canned salmon output tops $10 million as a notable economic note. One sixth of Camp Nome Arctic Brotherhood members are college graduates.
The British war office faces a costly button redesign saga with $25,000 already spent and a year of conferences ahead. Officials held as many as 200 meetings on a button that was deemed unsatisfactory after adoption, signaling high frustration and continued debate.
The speaker scoffs at naming a church figure in headlines and doubts Gotham B can obtain any position at Equitable now. The tone is dismissive and skeptical about public credit or career advancement.
Special correspondence notes the Escorial as Pantheon and royal tomb, built by Phillip II to unite church, monastery, palace, and tomb. Its stern architecture, high altitude, and hostile climate shaped legend and history, with burns of war, decay, and later restoration.
Grafting is rising as a formal field in higher education. Once a fringe pursuit, it now gains respect as a science akin to psychology’s rise. In twenty years it may stand beside astronomy and sculpture, with seminaries for its professors and eminent savants mingling with grafting spirits.
Swiss physician Prof Ludwig Schwell claims to keep weight at a normal standard by a dietary regimen. He prescribes daily intake of fourteen ounces solid food and sixteen ounces of fresh liquid. Breakfast includes two ounces of rolle one cup of coffee or milk and a quarter ounce of butter. Luncheon features two ounces apple eight ounces almonds one tablespoon honey oatmeal one egg and one cup of soup served at the end.
King Alfonso of Spain seeks to unite his sister Princess Teresa with his widowed brother in law despite church rules barring marriages to a deceased wife’s sister. It is believed special permission will be granted in this case.
Fragmentary OCR text suggests a confusing reference to the marquis of Dawnshire and Abe members, with garbled phrases about a brigade, drives, and a roadblock, but readable specifics are lacking.
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