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Newspaper
Wahpeton Times
Location
Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
2
A 1900s fashion note outlines mourning trends moving away from glossy silks to soft supple fabrics. Crepe remains favored as a trimming, black serge enters mourning lists, and dull black outfits gain appeal for both young and old. Cost estimates for a dress around $10 and a simple blouse around $6 are included.
The piece describes fashionable dress elements including a fawn tone dress with embroidered galloon trim, a blouse jacket with epaulettes, veiled with tucked net undersleeves, and a cornflower crinoline hat with ostrich feathers. It outlines materials required for the outfit and suggests a linen lingerie ribbon bag with buttercup embroidery. It also notes a black and white toilette featuring a white casino cloak trimmed with white soutache.
How small leather calendar frames can be repurposed into charming photo holders. Cut amateur and ping-pong photos to fit. a tiny piece of glass or sunglass lens completes the conversion. Useful when many desk calendars accumulate, especially at Christmas.
Ostrien and Agrettes remain bent trimming for fine millinery while Sowers now use either yellow or purple combinations in trim. The purple craze began recently but has faded except for certain purple shades.
A simple project shows how to repurpose a small almost square cigar box into a savings bank. Glue the lid securely, cut a center coin slot, cover with bookbinders paper, and decorate with a picture or painted flowers.
A circulating chatter claims bangs are coming back with odd furbelows and frills. The piece notes women have started wearing bangs again and reflects on how photos from twenty years ago were criticized.
A festive verse celebrating Christmas peace music and family joy. Images of yule logs, waxed tapers, and choir, with hopes for harmony, charity, and a universal Day of Peace. Angels at doors, feasts of love, and a bright season of plenty.
A shopper asks about harmonicas in a music tone shop. The clerk confirms a full line of instruments. The old man, benched for fifteen years, has only one note left and spends days playing all day. He cannot play tunes, having a thousand different sounds but no notes.
In Suburban Life a reader explains placing a small pine tree outside a window as a bird feeder. Suet is hung on trees and chaff scattered in the yard to attract birds, with a seasonal song playing. A purchase discussion follows about a Santa Claus present priced at a quarter.
A Christmas shopping anecdote at a jewelry store warns buyers that rhinestones sold as sunburst pieces can fool some, while advising against misrepresenting cost to a young fiancée. The tale highlights the cunning of modern up to date girls who inspect jewelry and the consequences of deceit.
The text notes that birds such as jays chickadees nuthatches woodpeckers sparrows and warblers are drawn to food placed near a window especially in snow when other fare is scarce. It suggests using a sash curtain to hide the feeder from inside while keeping it visible from outside.
Fragmentary dialogue shows characters debating music, wind, and a plan to avoid new tunes at home until Joseph secures a will leaving everything to a family member. The passage hints at tensions over succession and musical choices without clear resolution.
The readable fragments show garbled text with phrases about motive and objects, including references to plates and an easel. No clear names, places, dates, or events emerge to establish a coherent news item or context.
A fragment argues against cynicism about Santa Claus and Uncle Sam, asserting that many speak harshly to children and deny myths. The piece defends belief and tradition, contrasting skepticism with hopeful imagination.
A garbled dialogue between a real estate agent and a builder hints at a property sale. The wounded phrasing suggests a near-final house listing with uncertainty about completion or pricing in a casual street exchange.
A neighbor recalls an incident where a dealer, angered after a customer left, snapped that the man was rich and proud yet stingy. The tale centers on Uppem who hangs his Christmas presents on his family tree, revealing the peculiar household prank.
A press humorist jokes about a joke being cut from the page, revealing an advertisement on the opposite side. The exchange humorously notes the cut line and the editor’s reaction, showing the quirks of newspaper layout.
A kind woman welcomes a wandering tramp into her kitchen for a plentiful Christmas meal. As they share food he continues his sad account of being an orphan, losing his wife and children, and his shattered business, wandering the earth. She asks how she can brighten his day, and he makes a humble request.
A humorous family scene during Christmas involves Father asking what Freddy enjoys at the tree and Freddy replying about Santa Claus with a wild image of a whisker catching fire and a preacher falling from the top of the tree, creating a chaotic holiday moment.
A fragmentary note about business activity in the Middle West highlights a persistent issue over several weeks. The text is garbled, offering little clear, attributable facts or names to extract a full, coherent summary.
A Lake City Minnesota resident describes kidney trouble causing dizziness nervousness and blurred vision. After taking Dean's Kidney Pills she reports relief and lasting health. The ad notes 50 cents a box and sales through Yester Milburn Co Buffalo NY. An unrelated exchange references self defense and a college testimonial from Hans Overby praising A B C Business College and telegraph courses in North Dakota with addresses in Grand Forks or Fargo.
A playful exchange on dogs and honesty features a line about a watchdog’s bark. The dialogue contrasts trusted canine signals with doubts about faked or dishonest barks heard at the seashore, revealing a lighthearted debate about truthfulness in canine behaviors.
Mrs Lizzle I Sledge of Selma Alabama recounts four year battle with black facial spots and itching. After two physicians diagnosed eczema and failed, Cuticura Remedies cleared every splotch in six months with no symptoms for three years. Local ad copy ends with a stray poet line.
Report by Lothrop and Johnson patent lawyers lists last week patents issued to Northwestern inventors. Entries include Albert J Hughes St Anthony Park en velope Abner Johnson Strandquist animal trap John W Nilsson Mowr N D cultivator Frank A Loweckamp Witaka hay baler Saute S Satro Frost Minn shock oader William F St Clair Owaton ta Minn display stand Robert R Fichenor Feely Minn grain door.
A Vermont justice of the peace recently rendered judgment in an imperial ejectment suit, ordering that the plaintiff have possession of the premises and may recover rent up to the day of judgment.
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