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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
7
Vogue notes extreme beauty in russet autumn tones used in gowns and wraps with satin and velvet. Rich golds, yellows, and paler shades blend in self embroidery and trim. A dinner gown for an October bride featured Empire height folds and soft floral corsage with matching lace. Such gowns demand magnificent jewels and suit blondes and brunettes alike.
Fine serge in dark red fabric used for a little girl dress. Bodice long-waisted with fronts crossing right over left, edged by two rows of black and red plaited braid. Vest of white flannel embroidered with red silk shows through. Full skirt joins bodice under a braid-edged band, with two braids at the hem. Materials: three and one half yards of 44 inch fabric, nine yards braid, two yards line.
A dark woolen coat in black and taupe tones features dol manesque lines with olive green velvet trim embroidered in gold and touches of blue. It uses heavy black braid for shaping and has a cardinal lining, though many details are garbled.
Louise D. Mitchell discusses the crisis when a mother faces abdication as her child asserts independence. The piece argues mothers should guide with honor, noting boys retain boyhood longer while girls mature earlier and urging responsible influence toward brothers and young men.
Indiana news recounts Blo Jack Norton a Union Power House steeplejack who descended from a towering smokestack to rescue a nearly frozen sparrow. He sheltered the bird in his coat pocket fed it bread crumbs then resumed work. Norton says he always helps birds when in trouble and never harms them.
From Harpers Weekly, a note on Lady Luck sewing steel curb chains under her husband Sir George Luck’s shoulder straps for Afghan campaigns. The chain protection prevented sword cuts, leading to permanent adoption in the cavalry tunic after his Kandahar expedition.
In a clipped exchange a historic wartime conversation appears, with stylized titles and awkward phrasing suggesting a staged dialogue. The dialogue hints at a caller asking about a distant relative and a titled figure, with interruptions and orations surrounding attendance and legitimacy. The fragment preserves a glimpse into courtly or theatrical speech patterns, reflecting social hierarchies and inquiries into lineage.
The fragment notes Lexi P. Brockway of Anoka Minnesota after five months in hospital being discharged as incurable. It mentions kidney pills and a testimonial about Dean's Kidney Pills, plus other misc items including cough remedies, a joke exchange, and various advertisements from the era.
An advertising blurb extols Defiance Starch for laundry ware, claiming it requires far less thickness than competitors to achieve stiffness, preserving fabric beauty and wear. A ragged miscellany of quotes follows, including a humorous tramp exchange and moral snippets from J. M. Alcott.
A cryptic line suggests clemency cannot rise above applause for a hero in rapid pursuit of resentment. The fragmentary text references Ping and symbols without clear persons or events.
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