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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1903
Page
4
The piece surveys winter millinery trends with bright colors and floral touches. It describes felt and velvet hats trimmed with pink rosebuds, quills, scarlet wings, and feather tips, plus fur bands and animal pelts such as sealskin and sable used as crown adornments.
Chestnuts stand out among nuts for food use due to high carbohydrate content and modest fat. European practices include boiling roasting grinding into meal for flat breads, with Italian and Irish traditions highlighting chestnut flour and starch, used as affordable sustenance among the poor. the text notes dextrin and sugar in Italian chestnut flour and references seasonal consumption in autumn and winter.
In a snowbound home the Half-way House and kin face displacement as Hermon Cameron plans a Christmas toboggan ride. A runaway sleigh and a beetling accident reveal a will leaving the house to Prudence Cameron. Amid celebration the wheel of fortune turns, altering fortunes and loyalties at Christmas.
A newspaper feature suggests simple home crafts for Christmas gifts. It explains making a dainty catch-all from three Japanese paper fans, ribbon, and red silk lining, with optional brass rings or year coins on the corners. The piece notes choosing pretty fans and securing the pieces, with wall-hanging or ring options.
Crochet directions explain making size four bedroom slippers with increasing stitches to thirty three rows and a frill, plus elastic top. The piece notes several recipient types who would value the gift, then remarks knitting has become fashionable with sweaters, auto jackets, shawls, and hand coverings for casual wear.
A magazine case for either sex serves as a thoughtful Christmas present. It suggests storing read magazines and locating an old issue, with designs in denim leather linen or silk. Create with heavy cardboard, fabric cover, and either elastic straps or ribbon bows, in tan green or wood brown and green tones.
Fancy turn-over collars and cuffs are highlighted as welcome wardrobe additions for women and girls this winter. The designs shown feature colorful embroidery on white fabric, with the collars suitable for Christmas gifts. The piece notes collars are particularly stylish for the season.
The piece explains that two pretty collars with simple hemstitching or drawn work can be enhanced into collars with a neck band. It notes bargain remnants in those lines allow multiple presents for little cost. It advises matching embroidery silks to the costume color and mentions color pairs like pale blue with forget-me-nots and black French knots with a black and white toilet.
A newspaper snippet describes hat pins storage and an ornamental flower design. The piece details a cup shaped lower section, canvas and velvet petals, a frayed rope center, and a crocheted silk cover. Green silk ribbons adorn the stem with matching leaflets, suggesting a sturdy yet elegant accessory.
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