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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1903
Page
6
Analyzed overview of women’s evening gowns and waists featuring tucked drapes, wide straps, and braiding. Notes on fabrics such as cloth, hopsack, tweed, astrakhan looks, fur trims, and practical tailor made silhouettes. Discusses color usage, contrast, and emphasis on fullness, with cautions against overly bright cheap materials.
The article surveys fur fashions with emphasis on sables and ermine, detailing wearing styles for stoles and fur coats. It notes wider stoles, loose knots over the bust, muff shapes, and three-group paw trims, plus fashionable collars, walking suits, and fur hooded motor coats driving fur trade demand.
Amy Varnum surveys fashion trends in lace and guipure for the new year. Stoles, collars, capes, and trims in lace and Brussels crochet adorn evening gowns and bodices. Silvers, mother of pearl adornments, and ostrich plumes decorate hats, while high crowned hats and clinging skirts trend, with yoke skirts and full plaits gaining footnotes.
The American consul at Nottingham reports American corsets rule English markets and surpass French makes, with Paris pattern makers now sourcing designs from the United States.
An excerpt notes city residents avoid cornmeal bread because commercial cornmeal is overheated by rapid grinding and kiln dried to stay fresh, which ruins flavor. It recommends slow grinding and eating corn within a week in summer or two weeks in winter for best bread.
An old recipe describes blanching half a cup of rice then adding salt a cup and a half of water and a cup of milk, cooking in a double boiler until absorbed and tender. Remove four orange rinds and slice the fruit to serve, while boiling one cup of sugar.
A recipe instructs to mix orange slices with rice and water until a syrup forms. Let cool then arrange orange slices in the center and form a wreath of hot rice around them. Pour the syrup over the dish and serve.
A damaged OCR fragment hints at an old local advertisement item. Readable elements mention an advertisement context, with unclear date or entities. The brief suggests a newspaper notice about a promotional listing or sale without complete details.
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