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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1910
Page
6
Fashion writer ALIA BOTTOMLEY discusses fur accessories as essential to winter outfits. She notes fur with lace or sheer fabrics elevates cloaks, gowns, and hats, and explains fur enhances warm illusion rather than pure warmth.
The piece argues very small waists are obsolete and notes Parisian fashion now tolerates larger waists. It mentions bones corsets from Catherine de Medici era and suggests corset designs should trim hips without restricting digestion, aiming for a straight silhouette without tubelike compressions.
New table mats from SA feature embossed two layer design with upper sed layer. Available in two tones of the same color aimed at up-to-date housekeepers seeking durable, stylish kitchen accessories.
A fragment describes the latest hatpin fashions titled as New Harping. It notes bird head designs with small tufts, feathers and tiny wings. The text appears as a brief fashion note with several garbled terms and numbers.
A guide for creating elegant embroidery substitutes using Paris muslin or handkerchief linen with Kensington or Wallachian stitches. Flowers and foliage can be applied to Brussels net for blouses or gowns, or sewn directly on chiffon with tissue paper underlay for body. Monochrome effects are possible with careful shading avoided.
Hatpin novelties offer boxed sets with six pins of varying lengths and eight mother-of-pearl heads or jewels that screw onto any pin length. A second style features a double pointed hat pin with two screw-on fancy heads for extra security.
Huge cameo brooches from former days are revived for dress trimming. A monster cameo set in gilt with enamel colors becomes a buckle in the girdle, forming a decorative shield at the back while the front remains plain.
A harmless customer flirts with the new cashier at the cigar counter as he hands over payment for a dinner check. She snaps at him about money, joking that money is meant to be spent not saved, and quips about coins with undies.
Charles H Rosenberg from Bavaria arrived on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with lumps on his body that proved to contain cash. The immigration doctor hesitated but learned Rosenberg carried $11,000 in total and planned to buy an apple orchard in Oregon.
A Miss Mattie hosts a guest from the old south and instructs Tillie the maid to deliver fresh water and a bath offer. The guest laughs hard when told Miss Mattie sends her love and suggests washing himself, in a vignette from Lippincott's Magazine.
A humorous exchange from Mack's National Monthly depicts a new resident asking who is the town’s best whitewasher. The colored patriarch praises Ale Hall as a superb whitewasher, yet remains doubtful about whitewashing a chicken house, calling him mighty queer for that job.
A reflective verse on choosing contentment despite misfortune. It considers the constant springs of happiness in human hearts and the sunny gleams of love as years pass. The piece urges optimism and warmth in aging.
The landlady claims the new boarder is a foreign nobleman while others doubt. He has not paid any rent yet, leaving the question of his true identity unresolved.
A short exchange shows Grouchly counting 20 years of avoiding daily cigars, claiming a $2,190 saving. Moxley asks for validation and offers a bite of tobacco, prompting a light, humorous moment.
An audience at a vaudeville show roars for a black-face comedian as Uncle Hiram and a city official discuss the performer’s status. The exchange highlights racial stereotypes and public entertainment attitudes of the era.
The Red Man notes Indians have per capita wealth around 2130 dollars, compared with about 1300 for other Americans. Indian lands hold oil timber and natural resources with vast timber and millions in agricultural value. Ranges support about 600000 sheep and cattle under leases earning over 272000 in revenue, plus feed for over 1.5 million horses cattle sheep and goats. Asphalt deposits are largely on Indian lands.
A bored man orders eggs in a lunchroom using coded slang. The waitress quizzes him as he explains egg variants and a playful exchange unfolds about language shifts in restaurants. The man exits, revealing he’s a seller trying to test the counter staff.
The League of Politeness has been formed in Berlin to inculcate better manners among Berliners. Initiated by Fraulein Cecelile Meyer and inspired by an Italian Rome organization, the group adopts the motto Pro gentilezza and will wear a medal as a talisman against bad temper. Any polite person is eligible for membership.
The Gazette prints an order in council forbidding ordinary interments in the churchyard. The reference recalls Gray’s Elegy and St. Giles Stoke Poges as the poseful spot memorialized in verse.
A mother and her children discuss the children's precocity. John protests that Edith learns quickly because she has brothers to “learn from,” noting the contrast between slow and quick learners among siblings.
In Georgia, the late Governor Allen D. Candler was famed for humor. A Gainesville man recalls how Candler supposedly quit cigars for a pipe at year start and kept the pledge, noting he saved $208 by the switch though asking where the funds went.
The Christian Herald outlines Ramadan as the month exalted by Muslims. Gabriel delivered the Koran in portions, Mohammed retreated to the cave of Hira for prayer, and Abraham Moses and other prophets received revelations. Heaven opens and hell is closed during this month.
A patient recounts two doctors in consultation last night with conflicting advice. One recommends a course while the other suggests another. The result is a deadlock, but they finally advised mixing the two approaches.
A bus climb up Cumberland Gap prompts the rear door to slam repeatedly. Passengers quietly hush as a driver warns not to spook the mare aboard, believing she misreads each door sound as someone alighting and an insult to her spirit.
Sara Bernhardt, arriving in New York Mine, jokes about youth while noting she is a great-grandmother. She dismisses compliments as exaggeration and compares Parisian bustle to crowded boulevards. A nurse in a boulevard accident tale lightens the mood with a humorous crowd scene.
A terse retort centers on a quarrel about insults and value judgments. The conciliatory figure rebukes the man who called another a pig while a vindictive participant defends the crude insult and its perceived worth.
A humorous exchange shows a man named Meekton reflecting that proposing to his wife caused no nerves, yet he would have feared the next ten years if he could foresee them. The vignette captures a wry common sentiment about married life.
Mr Sirius Barker advocates artistic education for his daughter preferring singing over art or literature. He argues that art spoils canvas and paint while literature wastes paper, and that singing only yields a temporary disturbance of the atmosphere.
Mrs Bossim recalls the quake's frightful moment as she and her husband awaken to alarms in their hotel room. He narrates the chaos of a vase hitting him, a chair whirling, books and a framed picture striking them, then the couple's tension over the evening.
A new method for stained glass uses mineral colors fired at high heat to fuse color and glass, creating a pebble like surface. Each panel is molded separately and assembled in a metal frame for multi shade windows.
A reflective slice notes trains in industrial centers with young women loudly chatting, selecting double seats, sharing apples and daguerreotypes. The author contrasts these murmured conversations with sweeter voices and vows to tell the truth, recalling two voices that frightened him by sweetness.
A weekly mocked our foods and a libel suit followed. Testimony showed Geoghegan and Beamis data on Phosphate of Potash in minerals, while Grape-Nuts analyses emphasized potassium and phosphorus. Dr Carey notes potassium phosphate as key to gray brain matter in nerve fluid.
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