14 Jan 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1905
Page
1
Winter fashion leans color with white ensembles offset by bold trims. Paradise plumes in natural or imitator forms emerge as a season favorite alongside seal brown velvet hats with jet buckles. Hunter’s green walking set features embroidered lace panels and delicate seed pearls amid daisies and roses.
A review of winter fashion highlights features from belt buckles and fur caps to opal hair ornaments and dragonfly designs. It notes headpieces, black astrakhan furs, ermine muffs, foliage hats, and decorative buttons as essential items, with emphasis on handmade button sets and practical footgear to match gowns.
A recipe for croquettes uses chopped turkey with leftovers such as bolocua ham or tongue, onion, salt, pepper, and parsley. A thick cream sauce is made with butter flour milk then meat is added and heated. Form into cones, egg, crumb coat, dry, then deep fry and serve with parsley garnish.
Lace borderings and trims are laid flat atop gowns rather than inset. Bonarrow bands or piping of silk or satin frame the lace, giving strength and a fine finish. Many inches are applied in decorative edging.
A historical recipe directs rub inside of chicken with pepper and salt then steam in a kettle until tender. Keep hot while dressing is prepared. Dressings mix gravy, cayenne, salt, flour or cornstarch, cream and optional nutmeg or celery salt for a smooth sauce served over wheat.
A collection of practical remedies and techniques for cleaning grease from fabrics and walls, packing wrinkles, cooking delicate foods, and cleaning leather. It covers grease removal with cornstarch and soap, wallpaper touch ups with blotting paper and heat, and methods to prevent milk curdling in sauces.
A charming box style coat for a twelve year old is cut from dark red friese with a high turned collar. It features a hooded front, belt sleeves that flare at the wrists, and an optional unter sleeve at the elbow for cold weather. Rich red silk hides the monk’s head twist and large burnt pearl buttons provide the only trimmings.
Borax employed intelligently is a great aid to the housekeeper. It can wash delicate fabrics and brighten glass and silver when mixed with water. A few spoonfuls of solution clean brushes and serve as an effective mouth wash.
A brown velvet and fur dress features a gold cloth girdle and golf braid arranged in a scroll pattern along the front. The skirt is accented with a flounce, sleeves gathered below the elbows with a fur cuff, and lace frills above and below.
Instructions describe cleaning old cloth or linoleum by minimal washing and wiping each morning with paraffin soaked cloth, emphasizing careful maintenance and avoidance of excess washing. The fragment mentions paraffin and a firinieht term, suggesting a house housekeeping tip from an older text.
The nitrogen in soil is a key element tied to humus and decaying organic matter. When humus exhausts, nitrogen losses accelerate as gases and soluble forms. Rotating crops and including legumes help maintain humus, preventing nitrogen loss.
A Farm Journal correspondent outlines a November onion planting method with mulch and spring topdressing, notes it may suit seed onions and suggests thick spring mulch for sets. It also explains winter milk cooling by cold water tanks, using ice and snow to preserve quality, and ends with a description of the wood grouse call and breeding behavior from Wallace’s Farmer.
A historical note describes a six by eighteen to twenty by sixteen inch fattening crate at Ontario Agricultural College with three compartments for four to five birds, slat construction, feeding trough along the front, and droppings drainage. It also covers treatment of roup in fowls, including coal oil nostrils, manganate of potash coloring in drinking water, and culling weak flocks to prevent spread.
The article notes surplus male pure blood chickens are mostly good for nothing but sale as breeders, with many not earning more than a dollar in winter. It argues spring sales would yield higher profits, as broilers could fetch about forty cents each. It warns careful selection to avoid keeping birds with defects.
The article argues for strict winter management of poultry. It warns against mixing males with hens during fall and winter, noting fertilized eggs decay faster at low temperatures. It advises separating sexes, reducing flock size before winter, ensuring roost and floor space, and selecting only the best birds for wintering to avoid unprofitable stock.
Officials appointed to inspect eggs pass through a hole of a fixed size and are to reject those that do not meet standard. If eggs were sold by weight in this country with twenty four ounces per dozen, a large difference would arise among breeds as people scramble to secure birds that lay well per weight.
Read from Green's Amateur Fruit Grower the method of heeling in trees for short or long storage. Dig a two foot by three foot trench, lay trees in, cover roots with fine earth, pack firmly, and bend tops to the ground. Keep exposed parts moist and finish with about six inches of soil over all stems.
A Canadian Horticulturist urges positive market views for high grade fruit and explains that over supplies reflect poor fruit quality or distribution. The piece notes that good fruit boosts market consumption and prices, then shifts to dwarf fruit tree techniques and pruning to fit small plots, including bud grafting on strong stock and forms like bushes and pyramids for apples cherries plums and peaches.
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