20 Jan 1906
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1906
Page
1
A detailed fashion description outlines a rich broadcloth suit in deep rose red with velvet embroidery and taffeta trims, featuring a curved ceinture, hip seam, and gigot sleeves. It also describes a white embroidered tulle dancing dress with satin ribbon and Valenciennes lace accents for a young girl.
A narrow strip of velvet and satin in two shades of rose defines a jaunty Louis Seize basquine worn with creamy mousseline and lace. Velvet trims, large velvet buttons, velvet collars, and graduated velvet bands dominate coats and skirts, signaling lasting winter prestige.
The passage describes rainproofed cloths as a top pick for tailor goods. A soft grayish brown shade is highlighted, bound with marrow black velvet on coat and skirt. The coat features a short waist, curved hip line, trimmed with fancy binding and velvet buttons, while the skirt shows a medium width with top pleats and a scalloped flat flounce.
A fragment notes how to keep carrots and turnips for weeks or months by layering in a box of sand. It warns that salad dressing should be added just before serving and mentions cleaning acc and other terms with alcohol before use.
Keep macaroni in an airtight receptacle and phunge into boiling salt water before cooking. Add borax to the water in which the dish towels are washed and it will aid in making them white and soft. Rub the bottom crust of the pie with the white of an egg and it will prevent the juice from soaking into it. Clothes lines and pegs will keep in good condition much longer if they are boiled for ten minutes before using.
School girls adopt a hairstyle introduced by a leading actress. A family photographer from earlier years notes the look, featuring natural waved front hair, a drifting part, two long braids crossing at the back, and circling the head like a fillet.
A survey of winter millinery and dress trends highlights lavish feathered hats in vivid colors, amethyst tones, gun metal mounting, and dyed peacock plumage. New gowns feature two skirts and short waists, while belts of gold braid brighten dark shirtwaists.
The article describes wine colored bengztine gowns with full akiri gathered at the top and edged with wide frills. A corsage forms a bolero trim with gold embroidery, revers fronts open over a lace chemisette, and green crepe de chine dresses feature fitted princess linings and silk embroidery. Velvet bands, rippled velvet collars, and gold or silver buckles accent the ensembles.
In Newark on the Plank road a winter rendezvous for the 400 in animaldom shows monkey couples reuniting after months apart with playful chatter and a lively scene of "spooning" in the cage. Kangaroos in Atlantic City and Baltimore reflect domestic tensions as Mrs Kangaroo confronts her roaming mate before a dramatic reunion ends abruptly.
In Brooklyn Eagle report the Kangaroo family feud sparked a heated discussion that seemed to stall harmony. Mr Healey and assistants intervened to restore peace and keep the peace armed for days until the younger Kangaroos reunited the parents and the household.
A feature from Sunday Magazine describes a clock plant in Borneo with two leaf sizes acting as minute and hour hands. The smaller leaves move about every minute while the larger leaves take roughly one hour for a full cycle, showing a natural timekeeping habit with leaves rising and falling from the stem.
Constable Atkinson recently moved from Wraysbury to Long Crendon with his retriever on night duty. The dog vanished and was found back at its former home the next morning. The direct route spans over fifty miles and the journey took just over seven hours.
A marble monument was erected in Ulverstone cemetery by his daughter Mary to memorialize doctor Thomas Wilson who died in 1897. The monument is topped with a lamp kept burning day and night and gas connections were laid to it at considerable cost.
In Bregenz near Austria two gendarmes watched a young tradesman play a violin over his bride’s fresh grave. He explained the tune honored her memory, and the gendarmes escorted him away. The scene followed a silent vigil beneath the moonlit tombs.
W F Chamberlain a Keene New Hampshire dry goods merchant recalls a special sale day when a flood of drummers pressed his time and patience. He warned a New York German drummer that he would shoot every drummer in ten minutes, then the drummer sold him a bill of goods.
The Demologos later renamed Fulton was the first steam warship built in 1814 by Robert Fulton. Its design featured a central wheel housed between copper boiler and engine, fourteen gun battery with a submarine gun, a massive pump, four rudders, and dual-end propulsion. It served at the Brooklyn navy yard before exploding June 4, 1829, killing twenty six. sailors allegedly opposed to steam blamed the blast.
A black bear was struck and killed by a freight train near Ocala after the animal appeared on the track twice on Dec. 6. The next morning a northbound passenger train found and hauled the 400-pound bear, which the freight engineer had skin cured and kept. St Petersburg residents later ate bear meat.
An Evansville area farm hand shucking corn on Henry D. Posey’s farm two miles above Evansville Indiana finds an ear that resembles a human hand with a thumb and four fingered grain coverings. Posey, a farmer of over forty years, says he never witnessed such an ear before.
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