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Newspaper

Weekly Call

Location

Troy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Oct 07, 1899

Page

7

The Latest Gowns Spotlight Princess Style and Redingotes

The article details fashionable gowns and trim, highlighting the princess gown silhouette with fitted backs and flowing skirts, semi princess and underdress models, and rich fabrics like satin faced cloth, mishmere, and silk. It notes strong texture contrasts, decorative chenille embroidery, and the return of redingotes with varied materials and trims, plus bold cape and wrap designs demanding freedom of movement and elegance.

Chenille Carbroidery Vienna

Millinery tips from outdated craft text

A fragmented instruction piece outlines old fashion millinery care. It covers refreshing colored straw hats with tulle, brushing and ammonia cleaning for straw, alcohol sponging for felt hats, ironing shape, beret washing, quilt reshaping over steam, feather repair with glue, ostrich tip dyeing, chiffon repair, flower shaping, and ribbon pleating and rosettes.

Fashionable Hairdressing Trends in Framing Styles

An article describes current hairdressing fashions, noting the shift from pins and buckles to brooches and jeweled accents. It explains plain forrose, evening arrangements, and techniques for twisting, tufting, and securing hair with decorative pins and ornamented openwork elevations.

Santen

Freedom from anxiety through sleep and diet advice

Advice urges ten hours of sleep in twenty four with daytime naps if possible. Emphasizes natural sleep over narcotics, a starch and sugar rich diet including potatoes, milk, fruits, and veg with sugar, plus fish and oysters. Recommends outdoor life, moderate exercise, well ventilated rooms, and gymnasium if a lump or dyspepsia/liver trouble exists.

Proper lifestyle hints and home care guide

An assortment of domestic advice covers exercise for health, prudent wheat trading cautions, and sewing and laundry tips. It discusses gymnasium exercises, walking benefits, and stress management, then moves to note worthy anecdotes on wheat trading losses, fabric embroidery methods, care of kitchen utensils, iron safety, and bicycle fashion affecting women’s apparel and footwear.

Woman Honored as Indiana Exposition Commissioner

Mrs. A. G. Cullop, appointed by Governor Mont, named among five honorary Indiana commissioners for the Paris Exposition in 10. She is noted for executive ability and accomplishments, spent five years abroad including eight to nine months in Paris, and speaks fluent French. Her endorsement comes from Federal judges and national figures, and she is the wife of Hon. W. A. Cullop, a leading Southern Indiana Democrat. Norwegian Bread recipe included with ingredients and directions.

A. G. Cullop Monnt Indiana Paris

City Officials and Local Lodges Listed in Detail

Municipal leaders soldiers and clerks are named with ward and role specifics. Fraternal orders meet monthly at Mason Hall Odd Fellows Hall and Central Hall, listing officers and meeting nights.

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