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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1904
Page
1
The article notes new fur coat styles for winter with robes and blouse coats, including Louis XV and XVIII fur designs with embroidered cloth or velvet vests. It highlights pony skin and red caracal in short hair, sable alternatives, squirrel skins, bear raccoon and fox neck pieces, and fringe details. It mentions Germany as a production center and outlines trim quantities for various fur pieces.
Velvet costumes gain vogue with broadcloth trimming and elaborate embroideries. Outdoor and informal gowns feature vests and yevers with extensive passementerie and needlework. Clever knitters can personalize velvet outfits, matching buttons to create a distinctive look as old fashion buttons reappear in this season's style.
Styles in New Skirts describe old fashioned models with crinoline influenced folds. The new lightweight princess cut shapes fullness below the hip and into the flare with cords featherbone and drop skirts cited as key devices.
A group of Yoko-collars offers practical fashion updates with transforming effects. No. 1 to No. 6 feature batiste with embroidery, tucking and lace motifs, all variations sharing attached stock collars. To make a girl’s yoke-collar at 18 requires 4% yards of material.
The description details neckwear for dresses with low throat lines featuring a broad white or colored satin band ending in a V at the front. It is decorated with rows of gold seed beads and a central pendant bead, with variations using narrow colored ribbon and beads while keeping a white foundation.
Morning wear includes House jackets with extended yokes over the shoulders, described as tasteful and fashionable. A pink and white dimity model with white lawn uses embroidered dots and finished edges with fancy braid, highlighting decorative, feminine detail.
Soak tapioca in water or pour boiling water over it then boil until transparent. Add salt. Core and prepare apples either whole or quartered, mix with powdered sugar and lemon essence, then bake in buttered dish for 30 minutes. Fill apple centers with sugar and lemon juice, bake until very soft. Serve hot or cold with sugar and cream. A variation uses equal parts apples and quince.
Instructions for mixed pickles list cabbage green tomatoes cucumbers onions peppers and spices to mix salt dry and brine with vinegar then sugar and spices boil and jar. The piece also describes a dark blue gown with a plain yoke paneling green silk girdle and fagoted chiffon detailing with plaited sleeves and green silk cuffs.
A peculiar fashion note describes black taffeta waistbands paired with colored costumes and white trimming. A black rosette accents the corsage, sometimes appearing on the sleeves, and waistbands are always without ends.
Fragmented verse urges tearing away binding chains of past sin and shame. It envisions living in a paradisal state with love and faith, to move where God directs, to breathe, live, and be free.
Noel Thornton pursues Miss Emmeline Calvert across Exmouth and New York revealing a lasting romance. A masquerade in old clothes leads to a proposal as the pair acknowledge their feelings and plan marriage in a tale from the Boston Globe.
A proposal for a universal language by Prof. Plano gains attention. The system resembles Latin but omits inflections tenses moods and genders. It aims to simplify but risks unintended complications for speakers and historians alike.
A Philadelphia breakfast honored John Philip Sousa. Sousa recalled a frontier memory of a European officer who disliked the incessant musical tributes at headquarters. The band once paused only when the man finally swore, prompting the musicians to depart silently, leaving the room in quiet as order resumed.
A saleswoman recounts a busy day handling difficult customers. In the children's department she endures a stubborn shopper who demands a larger size. The next day in ribbons she resists a sarcastic query about shop-worn fabric and answers with a witty retort.
Fragmented verses mix prayerful lines about God keeping watch between lovers and friends with a note on a charity bazar featuring a storyteller titled Fairy Stories Told Here. The piece references a Philadelphia Inquirer report on a children’s fundraiser and the storyteller’s memory and small audience.
Simeon Ford recounts a Pennsylvania Sunday school anecdote about a philanthropic young lady teaching about a miner’s child. A grimed twelve year old questions where Saylor was born, mixing Allentown and Bethlehem with Lehigh Valley railroads in a comic exchange.
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