05 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1905
Page
1
The piece offers clothing care and style guidance for silk stockings and baby garments, plus walking-suit trends. It notes bran-water washing for delicate fabrics, warns against benzine, and suggests extending neckbands and sleeves for growing infants, alongside color-boosting flower treatments and various fashion accessories.
A historic kitchen rubric describes preparing mock turtle soup by scalding a calf s head, simmering with vegetables and water, then adding Spanish sauce, sherry, red pepper, chopped hard boiled eggs, and lemon peel for final serving. The method emphasizes gradual boiling and careful chopping before mixing.
Freshly cleaned or laundered gowns, accessories, and fabrics appeal to refined women. The era favors washable textiles for day wear over fussy pieces. Short skirts and evolving necklines show the season’s move toward simple lines, V-necks, and relaxed bodices in travel and casual attire.
A guide on grooming and fabrics covers skin care with a fine damask towel, hair care with glycerine and rose water, and window cleaning with methylated spirit. It then describes the suspender frock in Alice blue with box plaits, a chic bo lero with white collar, and details on blouse and sleeve trims, plus September gown fabrics.
The blue ribbon goes to the new white and cream French serge coats reaching the skirt hem. They are half loose double breasted trimmed with china silk turnover cuffs and collar with hand embroidered flannel. Pockets with flaps sit at the sides and some designs include double straps across the back of white kid with raw edges.
Neck chains of fine gold links with tiny stones are shown everywhere and praised as dainty. Also on view are larger barbaric pieces featuring turquoise matrices, amethysts or pearls hanging from heavy links.
A fragment discusses upcoming styles including polonaise outfits, Anita ribbon for trimming, and bathing suit fabrics in blue or dark colors. A mention of a French poodle stick pin hints at accessory trends, with observers noting ready-to-wear silhouettes and eye catching textiles.
Pickled cherries are praised as the most delicious relish and unavailable for purchase. Use large tart cherries with stems, pack jars three quarters full, then scald cider vinegar with sugar cloves mace cinnamon. Pour over cherries, seal jars, and store in a cool dark place.
A description of a white pique waist with a plaited top, yoke, and side bands. The center box plait, yoke, and sleeves feature button ornaments and lashed openings over undercut fabric.
The article notes linen tailored coats and skirts as practical if shrunk and well cut, warns cheap linen blends may be distressing after rubbing, and describes exclusive tailors making double breasted reeferlike coats with pearl buttons. Skirts are often tight and plated. plaited styles challenge laundresses, while plain gore designs endure.
A light green silk coat with peach blossom patterns and green chiffon velvet trim suits white lingerie gowns. It features a reupd Mat collar and girdle, two deep tucks, a cream Jacquard frill, and short sleeves in a modish summer style.
Old fabric is revived as white serge returns to favor in new suits. The short coat gains popularity, richly trimmed with braid, illustrating the era’s style emphasis and tailoring detail.
An Arkansas inventor proposes a wire frame plate holder with irregular jaws and rubber friction points to grip hot plates safely. The device allows one handed carrying while keeping contents intact, improving service speed and neatness.
The article traces the evolution of church seating from standing congregations to private pews introduced in Henry VI era. It notes opposition by Sir Thomas More, rise under Elizabeth and Charles I, and wider use after the Restoration, with anecdotes of furnishings, servants delivering wine and refreshments, and the exclusion of the poor by dense box pews. It contrasts continental cathedrals where old standing practice persists.
In 1599 London theaters built their stage in a simple manner. The remark highlights the rudimentary design of the early playhouses and the straightforward construction traditions of that period.
A two year old girl, Josephine Beames of Shelbyville, died at Deaconess Hospital from a peanut shell that lodged between her vocal cords and a shell fragment penetrated a lung. The patient had not recovered from the choking episode when the shell was removed. The incident was confirmed by medical examination.
Boston mariners harpooned a 10 foot stingray off Andros Island in a fierce encounter. The creature lashed the hull with its tail spine risking injuries to the crew before it was subdued and hoisted. Harvard hoped specimen vindicated but weather delayed mounting. The report notes stingray dangers and regional abundance along the gulf coast.
A Montreal Herald report describes a lake near Medye in northeastern Transylvania where thick rock salt beds underlie the area and surface mounds rise over 100 feet. The sun heats the lake water, with temperatures reaching 150 degrees four feet deep after summer sun and 80 degrees in spring. Salt saturation and absorption by the brine explain the heat retention.
In Cambridge, long-standing butter making yields a one pound stick used as a measure. Dairymen form a yard of butter and sell it in shoes as if valuable. Market sellers need no weights as a knife can divide the yard precisely into halves, quarters, or eighths. The ceslower a mever given short meas ure.
Brief note describes early Spanish explorers constructing palisades around their villages to guard against attack.
A Great St Bernard dog tracked a murderer on a snowy Alpine pass. The dog found the victim, pursued the assassin, and severely mauled him, allowing villagers to arrest the killer as the body was later found.
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