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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1898
Page
3
The speaker honors Susan as a tireless, selfless figure who works day and night for seven children, cares for the family, attends church, and grows grayer but stronger with time. The tribute ends with the signer W. S. Lampton praising her unwavering devotion.
A girl in a seaside town confides her mother plans to marry her off to Percival Sutton. She secretly meets the mysterious, solitary neighbor who reveals a decade old tragedy tied to his first wife, an heiress who went mad. He explains he freed himself from fear through distance and secrecy.
A New York Ledger essay discusses myths about snakes drawing prey and notes observed bird fascination near snakes. It describes snake jaw mechanics, biting patterns, and how snakes sometimes conceal offspring in mouths, with the mother possibly signaling danger to young.
A man confesses a long isolation after his wife's death and a mysterious past while a young womanéas arrival renews hope. He reveals the telegram that solved his riddle and prompts a tender plan to take her home, amid poignant secrecy and emotional restraint.
A British vessel found a derelict bark drifting with no crew aboard except a sick English sailor. He claimed all hands perished in a squall as a huge sea swept the ship, leaving only him alive in his bunk.
The long standing practice in Finland footnotes a yearly public auction where paupers lunatics and the elderly unable to support themselves are placed with families or farmers at the lowest parish bid. Owners discipline and compel work as permitted by local authorities.
Anaconda Montana prepares a public fountain feature featuring a perpendicular jet three inches in diameter and rising 220 feet, a bold showcase aimed at outshining rival cities and drawing visitors.
A new German church was completed in Jerusalem with a construction cost of 200000 dollars. The project involved ongoing religious and cultural significance for local communities and German church authorities.
Advice on improving physique through daily walking while carrying objects, arm development, public hoop rolling for the brave, gradual daily lifting, avoiding strain, and a diet including meat and milk plus backward and side bending exercises.
A detailed description of a versatile blouse waist that can be worn with a low neck and no sleeves or in the depicted style. It uses a fitted lining, removable yoke, full front and back with a blousey effect, and optional sleeve omission. Shown in cream sail cloth with cardinal velvet accents and a matching belt.
A fashion note says the shirt waist yoke is fading as fronts show only a tiny two inch yoke behind neckties. It suggests the yoke added fullness to the chest and that its disappearance makes many women look thinner, marking the past era in reading shop displays.
This piece warns that tight lacing harms digestion and complexion by restricting organs. It decries tiny waists and cites historical waist measurements, noting modern fashion favors at least twenty two inches and ridicules eighteenth and nineteenth century ideals.
The feature describes a returning curly bang style, with soft curls from ear to ear over the forehead. It notes a modification for broad foreheads using a bandeau and deeply fluted irons, creating a tender, plaintive look. It mentions a coiffure called the alle with light powder and softly rolled, waved hair.
A brief description notes a model named Frinize permitted to crop out a portion while her brow is crowned by a half garland of tiny pink and white noisette roses. The remark highlights a delicate floral accessory as part of her styling.
Instructions from Ladies' Home Journal explain dyeing feathers black: wash in boiling water with soda, rinse, dye as for silk, hold by stems, move in water, rinse in cold water, dry between soft cloths, and air warm. If color is too light, repeat dye. Feathers are curled with a hot iron. White feathers are cleaned, rinsed, dried, and curled per the dyed-feather method.
The piece praises vapor baths for skin issues, arguing relief comes only after removing the underlying cause. It explains how clogged ducts hinder impurity removal, and that Turkish baths are costly while home sessions with a sulfur plate can be done cheaply. A tepid bath and rest follow.
A New York Herald quote describes a woman's method to gauge a man's true nature. She proposes meeting at eight in the morning and notes that most men are irritable and unshaven then. If a man tolerates the test, she suggests he may be a good husband, though she has rarely seen one succeed.
The latest shirt waists feature four deep bust tucks and a straight back yoke with a full body. A fitted lining keeps fullness in place and a separate standing collar is provided. Sleeves are one seam with wrist cuffs and designs include foulard gingham batiste or chambray in white with bright lining.
The article notes a yearly novelty in hat making with varied straw weaves and yardage. Open and close weaves appear, including Neapolitan straw that resembles horse hair and blends of black and white. A pale lemon color straw with inside satin finish is among standout styles this year.
Describes straw bow shapes shaded tea roses and veiled yellow tulle in hats. Notes soft colors replacing bright red and scarce purple, with green and blue dominates and blue hat trimmings ranging from navy to turquoise.
The San Francisco Chronicle notes a fashion for tattoos among European women, naming dragon, serpent, griffin designs called tattoographs. It cites the Greek queen’s ankle tattoo and a Parisian’s spider web shoulder tattoo, claiming novelty and allure while doubting American adoption.
Silk vises and long neck scarfs in silk. foulards in satin finish. polka dot foulards and shepherd checks. boys’ blouse suits in striped cotton. silk petticoats with corded ruffles. black taffeta gowns and hat trimmings. net neckties edged with black lace. white taffeta gowns with satin ribbon frills. English chintz draperies with hollyhock patterns. organdies trimmed with black or white lace. quills with jet or steel spangles. leather belts braided in two colors. red white blue sash ribbons. plaid and striped ginghams with Hamburg insertion. silk parasols with lace rows. golf umbrellas with ferrule and leather case. gloves in yellow white and chamois. pique gowns with bright taffeta accents. vests with silk sleeves and brass buttons.
The piece surveys ancient knighthood orders including the Scottish orders linked to St Constantine and James VII. It notes one non noble member, John B. S. Campbell Marquis of Lorne, and compares Scottish orders with other European orders such as St James of the Sword Alcantara Calatrava Dannebrog Christ Seraphim and the Garter.
In Grenoble France the municipality operates a restaurant and kitchen for fifty years. Meals are supplied at cost or delivered to homes. Cooks rival Paris in skill and service is excellent. Dining ranges from bread and soup for three cents to a full course at twelve cents. Marble-floored rooms are available. the operation aims to avoid profit and serves all classes.
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