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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
3
A fashion sketch presents new summer sporting coats in bright colors such as emerald green mustard navy Columbia blue magenta and scarlet. Velour de laine or lightweight polo weave coats feature wide sleeves with deep cuffs and a single belt. Unlined with silk bound seams these coats are graceful, trim, and practical, pairing with white skirts or serge frocks.
Practical instructions show how to make a lawn or muslin cover for a party dress. Measure gown length, cut two widths, shape shoulders and neck, sew, hem bottom, bind top with ribbon, and attach cords with small sachets to keep it neatly stored.
Tulle used as hat trimming grows in favor with draped crowns and sculpted shapes on straw taffeta satin and other hat fabrics. Lace high wired effects add artistic drapings while new floral motifs, ferns moss and tiny pompons create refined hat adornments. Cotton voiles and tulles with small flower motifs plus straw braid lace and embroidery complete stylish summer hats.
Ultra fashionables embrace rich red hues such as ripe currant and wood fire tones. A blue vermilion shade appears, likened to a half ripe plum in nature.
A listing details a new outing hat featuring a black and white checked straw crown and brim finished with satin trim. The design emphasizes a tagal straw style and classic tonal contrast for a refined summer look.
The Philadelphia North article discusses net finishing defects and how the wrong side may reveal rough threads, while suggesting that finishing the wrong side could look as neat as the right side and that edging the net may be possible.
Editor William A. Radford explains the shift toward higher quality in building. Modern materials and Portland cement concrete boost fireproofing, durability, and comfort, making fire resistant homes feasible at roughly 10 to 15 percent above standard frame costs. The featured design uses concrete block foundations, cement plaster upper walls, and slate roofing, illustrating a 24 by 32 foot, three-room first floor plus two bedrooms and bath upstairs home estimated at about 3000 dollars under favorable market conditions.
A Connecticut inventor demonstrates a Handy Clothesline device that reels itself into a box when the outer end is released, leveraging a spring tape mechanism to retract the line. The compact design promises convenient storage and hands free operation.
Nearly 150 newspaper men from southern Illinois attended the annual Southern Illinois Editorial association gathering in Carbondale. They toured Southern Illinois Normal School hosted by Dr. W. H. Shryock at luncheon. State Senator W. D. Perry spoke on The Newspaper and Education. President H. H. Childress presided over a business session. Speakers included G. W. Harper, plus banquet host Mayor J. J. Winters and addresses by W. B. McKinley F. Fitch and Owen Scott.
Judge James C. McBride sentences Alie Brady Ernest Blanchard George Merriwether and Charles W. Wilson to an indeterminate term in Chester penitentiary for a con game on Douglas Flake of Hidalgo. Flake sold stock and took notes that proved worthless. Supreme Court stay granted until appeal is perfected. defendants held by Jasper County sheriff.
The body of Mrs. M. 8. Madden, longtime matron of Joliet women’s prison and a leading reform advocate, arrived from Fort Leavenworth as Joliet flags flew at half staff. Madden died two weeks after resigning and was sister-in-law to Warden McClaughry of Fort Leavenworth.
Chicago will be represented at the national foreign trade convention in Washington on May 27 and 28 by delegations from the Chicago Association of Commerce and the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. The aim is to press for a more aggressive foreign trade policy and to address federal legislation, reciprocity treaties, transportation, and the diplomatic and consular services.
Trustee Thomas Sullivan outlines a route for a grand Chicago area boulevard. Starting at Glencoe golf grounds it would pass Jolet and end at Starved Rock State Park, presented to the Woman's City Club during a tour of the sanitary district commissions.
Frederick Porter of Chicago, chief clerk in the banking building and loan department of the state auditor office, tendered his resignation to State Auditor Brady to become effective June 1. Porter says he is resigning his $5,000 job for personal reasons, but declined to state what they are.
Elgin authorities face renewed pressure to reopen the inquest into the deaths of seven year old Orville Magnus and Carroll A. Lawlor whose mutilated bodies were found with a poison bottle nearby. Charles Radeńz, brother in law of Lawlor, urged the inquiry and called for further investigation.
The Pana township high school board appointed William B. Andrews as principal Harry L. Karnes as commercial instructor Miss Helen Corlay as Latin and history teacher and Miss Margaret Lapham as mathematics teacher.
Fragmentary report notes Cyrus Grove, longtime superintendent in Byephenson county for 12 years, likely to seek the Democratic nomination for state superintendent of schools. No further details available.
Fragmentary lines suggest a man who devalues himself may not be valued by others. A reference to Dr. Ziewes Pellets and phrases about sugar coating imply deception and harm. The text is garbled but centers on perception and misdirection.
A curious wife asks what the letters on her husband's Masonic seal stand for. He replies with a pun about all of them not going down, delivering a lighthearted, humorous exchange in period tone.
The Mischief of St Irving Bachellor at the 108th annual New England society dinner mocks writers with refined viewpoints. It laments the fate of "Unese" as prophets without honor in their own country and notes such writers starve in garrets without funds to travel abroad.
A young groom married into wealth, lacking fortune yet rich in honesty. He could not misstate the marriage vows, reciting aloud the minister’s line about endowment. It may have been a slip, but the jest underscored his pledge to honesty.
Queen Carmen Sylva, now a Royal Society fellow, visited Ireland thirty years ago. On landing at Kings Town she was greeted by Davy Stephens who quipped about her name. She accepted a biography copy and half a sovereign. Stephens joked the queen should be called Carmen Gold.
One hundred years ago negotiations for the definite treaty of peace between France and the allies neared completion. The Peace of Paris was ratified by the powers two days later with King of Prussia and rulers of Russia and Austria taking part in the talks, Lord Castlereagh representing England. The treaty mainly confirmed peace after Napoleon's abdication and restored French frontiers to their 1792 limits, while broader European state questions were set for the Vienna congress to follow.
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