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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1898
Page
3
The poem evokes a soldier's memory of his sweetheart Anna. As twilight falls the narrator senses her signal from a waving window and imagines her fragrance carried on the wind. Her laughter becomes music like ripples on hills, offering forgetfulness despite a dreary day.
A stranger on Ellis street befriends a reporter then invites him to dinner. The man, Albert le Mour, reveals a morbid obsession with watching people die violent deaths, recounting sights from guillotine to knout. Ten days later a newspaper notes an unprovoked murder attempt on a Post street building where the man then jumps to assault a carpenter.
In a New York scene a man fell from a tree and died before reaching the ground. The lifeless body was taken to the morgue. A card reading Albert Le Mour Pine Street was found in his pocket and authorities call murderous mania the only reasonable explanation.
A Harper's Bazar tale recounts Squire Leathers training his nephew Hezekiah to guard melons. A night test ends in the Squire firing the wrong barrel and learning the boy is loyal, though the father is left humbled and wiser about prudence.
The London Chronicle reports Dr Georg Waltemath of Hamburg advancing a theory that Earth has a second moon of about 440 miles diameter. He cites unscientific sun transit observations from China and Germany that allegedly confirm his prediction of a February transit across the sun.
A London hospital patient amuses by declaring a fifteen to one betting odds against surgery. The surgeon asks fifteen students if they would operate. all refuse. The patient asserts the odds favor him and insists he will not be moved, while the ward bustle continues.
A clipped artifact hints at fashion items and coronation era memorabilia. The fragment mentions a preferred style with a queenly coronation medal and references to clothing such as a shirt waist. The readable text is sparse and non-specific.
Efforts to popularize overskirts meet little success as trimmed skirts remain preferred. The public shows no strong interest and it may take a year or two to make overskirts mainstream. Highly artistic models with marked peculiarities fail to find buyers at any price.
Three dress styles shown with yokes and sleeves described. Style one features a square yoke with embroidery and a puffed two seam sleeve. Style two uses a round yoke with tuck clusters and a bishop sleeve. Style three has a pointed yoke with a gigot sleeve. Fabrics include nain sock embroidery lace batiste organdies chambrays ginghams and percales.
A silver three inch diameter coronation medal shows Queen Wilhelmina on the obverse with the inscription Wilhelmina Koningin der Nederlanden and The crown of Bo Queen is the love of her people across the diameter. The reverse features Peace and the royal palace of Amsterdam in the background.
A published tip describes strapping a shirt waist with a thin belt and small buckle to prevent riding up on the shoulders. The belt is drawn tightly around the outside of the shirt waist and the garment pinned to the belt with two catch pins, saving time and temper and preserving the outfit.
The widow Mme. Michelet is the first woman to celebrate her husband’s centenary. Michelet married her late in life, and he was thirty eight years older. The centenary trend is an age of overproduction with daily commemorations and inclusive bi and tri centenaries. London Lady notes no one is too distinguished or obscure for centenaried status.
A private letter from Ponce describes Miss Hamm as an earnest patriotic woman who serves as chief of staff of nurses and inspector of food and medicines for soldiers. The letter notes women’s dress habits abroad, from calico gowns to lace waists, and comments on fashion among both old and young.
Fragmentary lines describe a passing idea, veils, and a modern girl who summered, suggesting a fleeting, enigmatic mood. The text hints at a unique sensibility, with cryptic phrases like nothing like it was ever and tao veils amid sparse imagery.
The description focuses on veils worn by girls, detailing how a second veil covers from under the lip to below the chin to create a secure fit. It notes the trend of revealing only the mouth and a small portion of the face, highlighting the summer girl’s novel figure and a theory that the design prevents sunburn better than previous methods.
The latest fashion notes describe lorgnettes hung from jeweled brooches at the bodice, miniature spangled gauze fans, silk handkerchief bags, pearl turquoise and coral dog collars for evening wear, and new light jackets in peau de soie and taffeta with iron gray bolero designs. It covers jackets, collars, trims, hats, and specific styling details from the era.
A simple stylish waist adaptable to wash or wool serges. Lining may be rejected for warm weather. Body consists of back front and plastron with center front closure. One seam sleeves slightly full at shoulder and underarm with cuff. Neck collar with turned-over points and optional necktie. Black satin sash ties at back. two yards 44 inch fabric needed for size 12 to 16 years.
The article advises remodeling a woolen gown as a simple fashion move for the season. It notes using two foundation materials and colored accessories may be added. If a black serge gown is cleaned or dyed, the skirt should be shortened to the proper length with careful cutting.
Women workers at the Washington Pension Office form a relief committee to aid arriving soldiers. They run a lunch room in Potomac Hall, Maryland Avenue, providing bread meat coffee and milk daily. Mrs M B Saunders chairs the effort with clerks contributing to a relief fund.
The article describes tailor made gowns with neutral dress tones and bright hats. It notes slender bracelets worn in multiples and a black velvet brilliants band as an armlet. Elaborate neck dress with yards of lace, ribbons, gauze, and muslin trims dominate, with ribbons used as ruching and flouncings. Yellow orange and burnt orange rise in popularity alongside helio trope greens and blues.
Boston whaling bark Swallow under Captain D. B. Cleveland left Boston August 26 for a south Atlantic cruise in search of sea elephants. Off Block Island she headed to New Bedford with a full cargo and had proved unusually successful, gathering about 2000 barrels of oil from sea elephants at Desolation Islands before arriving Cape Town May 1 and returning toward Bedford May 18 for the final leg of a voyage expected to last five years.
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