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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1903
Page
6
Fashion favors young girls with dresses echoing adult styles. The featured frock includes a bertha, plaited front opening, and a circular skirt suited to wash fabrics like Cashmere, albatross, and woolen weaves. Bertha detachable for laundering, with piping or braid in contrast.
A quaint three piece apron for girls highlights comfort and simplicity for home and school use. Front and back yokes can be underfaced for strength. shoulder strap attaches by seam or pearl buttons. suitable materials include gingham linen lawn holland and brows holland for daily wear.
A garbled page fragment lists odd household tips and recipe notes showing mis-spellings and broken instructions. It mentions butter on lettuce, varnished wood cleaning with warm water, ammonia mixtures, kerosene, and chocolate lemonade ideas, all jumbled and out of context.
Fragmented OCR text describes amiali mops vodas used to cleanse wine glassware and dirtiness, mentions making dusters by boiling in soapwater. Some recipe hints appear with fried cream cheese and pineapple sandwiches, bread spread with cheese, pineapple sprinkled, then heated.
The piece surveys fashion trends with notes on linen and silk blouses, white silk waists with lace yokes, and eye catching embroidery. It describes changes in shoe shapes from pointed toes to natural forms and highlights new blouse coat and seven gore skirts with cape trims and varied length options.
Dutch colors and velvet trimming decorate the season’s sweater pieces while hats feature coque feathers. Ghiffon remains the key fabric for refined attire and sailor hats show blue and red satin bands. A white bead belt and blue bead flowers accent outfits, with featherbone back seams and chiffon skirts adding structure and elegance.
J W Walls Lebanon Kentucky street superintendent reports severe kidney pain and poor relief from doctors. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills after reading a testimonial and buying a box from Hugh Murrey Drug Co. He says the medicine gave quick lasting relief and offers a free trial by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo New York. price 60 cents.
A period description outlines separate waists with fabrics in silk and wool, matching colors, and a gray grace taffeta piece featuring linen lace bands and bias silk bands. The design includes a silk pelerine yoke stretched to the waist, gathered at the front, with white Valenciennes yoke and wrist ruffles, and gray silk crocheted buttons ornamenting silk cords.
The article notes Alabama Arkansas and South Carolina yield about 1,900,000 bales valued at $50 each, Georgia and Mississippi 1,400,000 bales, and Texas 2,400,000 bales. It adds that over half the cotton is now produced west of the Mississippi, and touches on butter prices and dairy output with references to Argentina and Britain.
Our oldest reader Don Robus tano Siglo de los Siglos of Chiapas renewed his subscription as 112 year old subscriber en route to Europe with his third wife and six children. The note appears in Tabasco Mexico Tageblatt.
A fragmented notice discusses deafness not curable by local applications, noting the Eustachian tube inflammation and the need for a cure. It references pharmaceutical firms Chaney & Co., pills, and antiquities in colonies. The piece also describes rare coins sold at auction, including a $20 British Columbia coin from 1862 and a $10 piece, plus surprising salt formations in a Virginia Nevada region and a strangely pure crystal salt well.
A recent English seastrange tale describes a marine monster attempting to swallow the Glengrant of Fraserburg, lifting the vessel six feet as it passed beneath before retreating after a lone sailor kept calm and struck. The serpent is said to be about 200 feet long with a horselike head and large teeth. Also advertised are cheap passenger rates via the Santa Fe Route to Boston, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Detroit, Atlanta and more, with agent C F Warren in Salt Lake City.
Statement notes nineteen million immigrants entered the United States in the eighty years ending 1900. A reader from Maple Street, Norwich, endorses Piso's Cure for Consumption as life saving three years prior, dated February 17, 1900.
The text argues that crime numbers rise with civilization as new laws create new offenses. It notes that overall violations grow while severe offenses decline, attributing most statutory crime growth to newer lighter offenses rather than more serious crimes.
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