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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
2
Congress wrestled with pending legislation while the global financial scene drew focus. A spate of tragedies and political shifts filled the docket, from gas plant explosions in Michigan to typho malaria deaths in Illinois and high profile diplomatic visits in Moscow.
A Christmas gift feature presents a traveling work box and small sewing accessories. The traveling box fits in a purse or bag with room for scissors thimble emery needles pins tape shuttles and buttons. Ribbon covers a cardboard case forming neat sides for a dainty practical craft item.
The article explores decorative stenciling on wood using various paints and dyes, outlining a project path from simple motifs to more elaborate pieces. It highlights a miniature ribbon pin cushion and a bodkin holder, then details stencil methods on fruit baskets and related color schemes to create colorful, child friendly items.
Insertion and beading along with a ribbon bow at each end forms a Bodkin Holder. A Thread Holder uses two pasteboard hearts with eyelets for ribbon to secure spools. Cover with silk or linen and stitch slits. Use a spool of black silk and black and white cotton for contrast.
A frugal idea suggests giving palm leaf fans fitted with small calendars and thermometers as inexpensive tokens for many friends. Attach the calendar to the fan and place the thermometer on the opposite corner, finish with a corn ribbon bow for a decorative touch.
A brief exchange about lunch timing and impatience with service. One person doubts eating at 11, the other says hunger will arrive by the waiter’s condescension.
A small boy crafts an orris root ring for mother using a gimlet ribbon and affordable orris root. The natural root is ground then threaded into a ring on a ribbon with a bow, hanging in a wardrobe to release a lasting fragrance. Narrated by Margaret Ayer.
Threaded ribbon decorates bed linen, lingerie, table linen and bric-a-brac as well as ordinary apparel and hats. Beading, hemstitching and eyelet embroidery surge in popularity to add the ribbon effect. In crystal vases ribbons mirror the glass shade and are tied with a bow.
In Detroit Mrs. John B. Griffith and Dr. J A Attridge were critically wounded after a shooting at the Roycourt apartments 381 Randolph street. Mrs. Griffith had just returned from Harper hospital and allegedly sought revenge over prior attentions, obtaining a revolver from her bedroom bureau.
Georgetown Ky Cecil chief witness for the prosecution in Caleb Powers Goebel murder trial has disappeared and says he will not return to testify. He claims he waited three weeks at Georgetown then went home for Thanksgiving and will face his own matter in Frankfort in January. Cecil is under indictment for involvement in the Goebel murder plot.
St Louis reports that over 100 employees in auditing engineering and mechanical departments were dismissed in compliance with Vice President Clark orders. More cuts are expected as railroads including Wabash Chicago and Alton Missouri Kansas and Texas Frisco and Mobile and Ohio pursue retrenchment to curb overstaffing.
Statistics from R. G. Dun & Co. list 1,180 U. S. business failures in November with $17,637,011 of defaulted indebtedness. The totals mark a decline of about $10 million from October and a smaller liability than September, while November 1906 saw 885 failures totaling $11,980,782.
Washington reports both houses devoted their session day to reading the president's message with no other business of importance transacted.
Frank H. Warner, former merchant, who killed Esther C. Norling, his former stenographer, and then killed John C. Wilson, was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Foster to twenty years in prison.
The Washington jury returned not guilty verdicts on Tuesday for Annie M. Bradley charged with the murder of ex Senator Arthur M. Brown of Utah. She was discharged from custody.
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