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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1903
Page
11
Fragmentary text details a sequence of events around a car incident near Monmouth and a court action. Mentions a trolley, tramps, a river, a set of correlated names, and references to a planned institution in Philadelphia with unclear context. The report is garbled and lacks coherent chronology.
Instructions detail crafting a ribbon rove with pink ribbons, forming a rose center and outer petals, plus a hair bow. Additional notes describe white silk blouse with pink velvet yoke, a taffeta shirt waist with Irish lace medallions, and pearl buttons for a fashionable summer look.
The piece describes a cherry cordial preparation with sugar and whiskey aged in a demijohn, plus fashion tips including gowns and shirtwaist suits. It references fabric trends such as calico return, white India silk frocks, and blue voile gowns with embroidery and lace details.
A historic kitchen note describes cherry bounce a cordial from sour and sweet cherries. It instructs mashing four pounds of each cherry in a wooden dish until thoroughly broken. The recipe continues with steps typical of old sick-room cookery.
The salior base remains the favored choice for young boys with jaunty styling. The piece notes wrist and shoulder plaits, collar options of pointed or square, and trousers shaped with central or side closures. Various fabrics and trims are suggested to decorate the shield and sleeves with emblems.
Stew a quart of green gooseberries with sugar, then cool. Add lemon juice and rind, yolks of five eggs, and two beaten whites. fold in three more whites with powdered sugar and a few drops of lemon juice. Butter a small dish, bake fruit, then pour icing over top and bake ten to fifteen minutes.
Practical dresses in biscuit, yellow and ivory favor black taffeta trimming. The bold contrasts require skilled execution to look right.
The article reviews chic outfits for women and children, noting French Flannel and Butchers Linen fabrics. It highlights elaborate hand embroidery and three showy cuts derived from latent designs, with navy blue navy and white silk channels as new coat effects for afternoon wear.
The New York World surveys diverse disease cures including grape, fruit, milk, and bath therapies. It notes the grape cure in vineyards, milk diets of two to three gallons, bath treatments for burns, many baths worldwide, and the rising night treatment for bacterial illness. It also mentions hypnotics, magnetic healing, Christian Science, the National Health League, and other methods.
The United States moves to preserve cliff and pueblo ruins on the Navajo reservation in northeastern Arizona. Rev. Henry Mason Baum describes Del Muerto canyon with a preserved mummy warrior in feather cloth and a bow. a 25 year old dwarf mummy is noted as the first found in the southwest and linked to tribal wisdom traditions. The New York Times notes the canyon’s massacre history and the wide range of ruins, from single-room to multi-story settlements.
Insects show astonishing power per body weight but precise comparisons are scarce. Experiments by Plateau and De Lacy reveal wing forces decline with increased size, yet on solid ground insects can exert measurable force. The fly can lift a match with its wings, an earwig drags a small chariot, and a flea jumps 200 times its height, suggesting humans have a long road to rival insect strength.
A memo outlines requests for a black mourning stamp but cites Universal Postal Union rules requiring color coding for stamps. It notes the 4 cent purple stamp could be reissued in black with an extra cent, a possibility the department may consider later.
A fragmentary excerpt riffs on telling time and right moments, blending humor and Irish literary allusion. The text parodies mathematicians and fanatics, with stray lines and a doctor character noting a watch misfit in a windy, folkloric setting.
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