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Newspaper

Townsend Messenger

Location

Townsend, Montana, United States of America

Date

Nov 02, 1899

Page

3

Costume of Lavender Foulard-Cas and Summer Travelling Attire

The piece describes a lavender foulard and a traveling sleeve costume designed to counterbalance tight skirts with a verticoat novelty. It quotes the poem She Walks in Beauty, praising a serene and noble beauty. It evokes fashion notes and moral overtones of refinement.

Sleeves Dominate Summer Fashion in Early 20th Century Gowns

Fashion column notes sleeves as a major focus in summer attire. Eight imported gowns display varied sleeve styles from apricot satin epaulette to black satin with guipure. Tight skirts reveal the figure, with fashionists lamenting flawed country versions and looming shifts in gown design.

A Petticoat Novelty in Fashionable Skirts

The article describes the latest fashion in silk petticoats and skirts with circular yokes and careful fit around the hips. Coral pink taffeta with black squares, deep circular knee ruffles, chiffon trim, and ribbons dominate, with lace and net plaitings creating delicate elegant decorations.

Salt Bath Remedy for Strengthening Feet

A brief home remedy advises soaking tired feet in a salt bath. Mix about a quart of warm water with one tablespoon of salt in a basin, then soak the feet to aid strength and comfort.

Lavender foulard dress with guipure trim described

An exquisitely styled lavender foulard dress features a black printed design and guipure trimmed corsage. It closes with guipure details at the front, a high guipure bust, two panel skirt drape, knee height guipure insertion band, lavender satin waistband, and guipure cuff details.

Feet Rest and Strengthen with Warm Water Baths

The passage advises washing feet with warm water and soap, then soaking in a salt bath for fifteen to twenty minutes. Regular weekly treatment over several months is said to rest and strengthen feet, with color harmonizing to devices and envelopes dye-stamped to match paper, including regiments and navy contexts.

Navy

Castellane Traveling Gown Captures Smart Traveling Wear

The Countess of Castellane formerly Anna Gould of New York models a chic traveling outfit. It features mignonette-green satin cloth with narrow tucks and stitched folds on the underskirt, a green golf cape with pointed welt stitching, a high liberty satin collar, pale gray sailor hat, and gray castor gloves.

Countess Castellane Anna Gould New York

Summer Stationery Novelties Hit Market Brightly

The market offers high class paper decorated with bow knots fleur-de lis and four leaf clover patterns. This new stock meets steady demand from buyers seeking fresh stationery options.

Sweet Peach Pickles From Our Cooking School

Instructions for makes Sweet Peach Pickles using one pound of fruit half a pound sugar vinegar spices boiled poured over fruit jarged and repeated with sealing after two days.

Classic Lamb Pie and Vintage Salads Menu

A historic recipe menu outlines lamb pie with layered meat tomatoes and breadcrumbs baked twenty minutes. It also offers an orange salad with tarragon chervil brandy and vinegar and a rich cream cheese style dressing for greens. Meat balls use beef pork crackers onion eggs milk and pepper while a cabbage celery salad pairs shredded greens with dressing served in a cabbage bowl.

Graceful Tribute Honors Hugo Grotius at The Hague

Members of the international peace congress decorated Grotius's tomb at Delft with laurel on July 4. The Dutch jurist and founder of international law, born in Holland, died in 1645. Andrew D. White laid a wreath with the inscription from the United States. King Oscar of Sweden sent homage by telegraph.

International Peace Congress Hague Hugo Grotius Grotius Peace Congress Holland Hugo Grotiuus de Groot Rotterdam Lovestein Sweden France Rostock Germany Adam Christ Andrew D. White United States Nieuwe Kirk Delft Oscar

Draw to Decency in Tenements Riis Reflects on Slum Reform

Riis recalls in Atlantic how Seven Dials and Five Points transformed from dangerous slums to working areas with charity parades and decency driven by moral suasion. He notes church-led reforms and the shift from old tenements to double-deckers, outlasting harsher conditions through civic effort.

Seven Dials Jacob A. Riis London New York

Tenement Yard Squalor Sparks Public Health Outcry

The rear tenements, built back-to-back with neighboring structures, occupy cramped yards with only a narrow slit of space between them. Open gaps become garbage receptacles and filth, making the walls’ windows a greater health hazard than absent structures.

The Analine Stamp and a Magazine Misunderstanding

A woman recalls a depot purchase of a magazine and a department store incident where a dealer stamp labeled the item. Accused of theft, she faces disbelief from staff and a floorwalker, who plead, while she refuses guilt. Back home she buys peanuts from the depot news dealer.

Depot News Dealer

Indian aristocrat praised for lineage and tiger hunts

The article describes Maharajah Bhan wa Pal Deo Bahadur Yaduka Chandrabhai as a distinguished Indian noble whose pedigree traces to ancient Yadu kings, predating Caesar in England. At thirty five, he mostly lives in India, pursuing tiger hunting and antiquarian study.

Maharajah Bhanwa Pal Deo Bahadur Yaduka Chandra Bhai Queen Victoria Asia Caesar England

Around the World in a Month Rail Tour Feasible

The Russian minister of roads and communications outlines a plan to complete a world tour in thirty three days using the Trans Siberian line from Bremen to St Petersburg Windivistock then to San Francisco and on to New York by rail and sea The current shortest route from Southampton via Paris Brindisi Yokohama San Francisco and New York requires sixty six days

Bremen St. Petersburg Windivistock San Francisco New York Phineas Fogg Southampton Paris Brindisi Yokohama

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