17 Jun 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1905
Page
1
Paris trends favor checked voile and sheer blouses in light blues purples and beiges for morning frocks with shirtwaist suits and loose boleros. Ribbon trims dominate hats and gowns while Parisienne potatoes and a Mohair suit offer color and fabric notes with details on skirts jackets and accessories.
A new modish bolero style jacket features a straight plain bolero with puffed sleeves and Cavalier cuffs edged in lace. Velvet contrast outlines neck cuffs and girdle, paired with a lace blouse and a nine-gored skirt with an inverted plait back. Suitable in canvas broadcloth serge Sicilian taffeta or linen for spring to late wear.
The summer evening dress favors delicate tints and modest fabrics, avoiding transparency. Lightweight silks with embroidered mull, flowered patterns, and summer fabrics suit semi-low necklines and elbow sleeves. Shoulders should be broad, skirts may be tight and trailing or short with many-gored shapes, reflecting the old-new style.
A young inexperienced homemaker adopts an economical method to reduce dish use. She covers items such as butter milk salad dressing and cheese with white tissue paper secured by a rubber band. The paper is claimed to block odors and keep foods tasting fresh.
A compact home recipe describes frying chicken with a Virginia style. It instructs to joint the chicken, dip pieces in beaten egg, roll in salted cracker dust, and set aside an hour before frying to a golden brown. Fry long enough for a crisp finish.
Enchanting summer mantles resemble coolie jackets with left side buttoning. Fabrics include silks and satins often embroidered with royal peacocks. Long summer gowns show two main styles, empire waists and watteau draping, with watteau gaining novelty but posing fit challenges.
A historic candy method combines one and a half pounds brown sugar eight ounces butter one tea cupful vinegar with water half and half and ten ounces almonds. Scald peel split almonds and spread on two buttered dishes. Boil remaining ingredients twenty minutes. Shake then pour over almonds when candy drops brittle in cold water.
Concerning millinery, new styles appear startling with lilysteen chip hats trimmed by three plumes in varied arrangements. The fragment hints at bold, decorative headpieces capturing attention in recent fashion discussions.
To obtain an old lace look, steep green tea in water using about a tablespoon per quart to create a tea infusion. Boil the lace briefly in water with a pinch of baking soda to lighten the shade to the desired tone. Do not use coffee as it yields an unwanted yellow hue.
A fragmented fashion note details Maure chiffon garments with tucked chiffon, risk point guimpe and heliotrope appliques, a white Parma violet trimmed hat with dotted veil, a yellow plaid outfit with soutache braid, tan collar and cuffs, a tap hat with daisies, a pale blue Rajah silk coat and skirt with braid, and an Irish crochet under blouse with a white hat and bine plumes.
The New York Herald notes Belgium requires beef cattle to wear ear tags at three months old. Officials record mark and sex, breeders track sales, preventing cross border disease spread. The program, though costly, has curbed cattle infections and hopes to wipe out tuberculosis.
Jacob Morin of Dalton Massachusetts, a mechanic, built a boat using only a jackknife. Started last August, finished in April, working evenings after supper and often until midnight. The pine craft measures 40 by 17 by 18 inches, painted red white and blue, with a 12 by 8 inch pilot house, 4.5 inch diameter wheel, a bell atop, two masts, a smoke stack, two searchlights, two small boats and anchors, propeller eight inches.
Charles Baker of Orange county writes from Clay Springs that Major Skinner the lessee and game warden has baited a flock of about forty three wild turkeys into tame behavior. They come in a long line to be fed twice daily and allow close approach, differing in leg length necks and heads from domestic birds. The description notes their metallic plumage and nonprominent leg muscles as observed in Forest and Stream.
In 1810 John Green, a devout stone mason, laid the first stone and, seven years later, finished the church with his own hands. This lone craftsman erected every stone of the world’s only stone church guided by his faith, attracting a steady stream of sightseers and modest interior fittings.
A lucky finder who brings a healthy Cypripedium Fabricanum to England wins a $5,000 prize. The orchid, once widespread from Bhutan to Europe, is nearly extinct with only a few scraps and no flowering plants remaining in England or Paris. A St Albans orchid firm had advertised the reward for years, and the successful finder will receive the prize upon safe arrival of the plant.
In Maryland a plantation tale follows Dan the pointer and Lot the long-legged razorback pig. The pig, bought for the larder, weighs heavily, his head overbalancing his body, prompting a tail weight to aid rooting. The trio Dan Lot and Lot form an unlikely companionship as the owner lets them determine their fate.
The celebrated artist Men vel, recently deceased, was naturally left handed and drew in water colors with his left hand throughout life. He forced himself to use his right hand only for oil painting. A cast of his left hand, made shortly before his death, shows great strength and dexterity.
A New York woman walking in Central Park with a large dog on a leash tries to push a baby carriage but the dog lunges ahead. She ties the dog to the coach, using it as a brake, and now relies on the dog for stopping the coach, amusing park children as the dog team passes.
Adams Transcript from April 30, 1874 notes a wintry Saturday with snow falling day and night to about eight inches in western Massachusetts and heavy snowfall elsewhere, described as among the heaviest of the winter.
The Salvation Army runs England’s largest and most profitable poultry yard led by Gen. Booth. The staff manage over two thousand chickens with 15 340 653 produced last year for army needs and sale. Ninety three of 104 exhibition birds won prizes. sales exceeded four thousand dollars, and expansion is planned.
A. De Armond, mill plant manager at Milltown Georgia, was struck by lightning Friday afternoon. He was on his office porch when the bolt hurled him to the ground. his watch and other metal items melted, and the carbon tore from his pencil. He is recovering.
A trade report notes a Soapy Lake in Nicaragua called the Lake of Nejaps with a strong mix of bicarbonate of potash soda and sulfate of magnesia. It is described as forming a lather when rubbed on grease and used as a half wash with local fame for treating external and internal ailments. Nicaragua exports four demijodos of this water to Guatemala during the year.
A London chapel notice states that next Sunday evening Rev. will deliver his farewell sermon and the choir will sing a thanksgiving anthem specially composed for the occasion. The item notes a formal send off for the clergyman with a seasonally themed musical tribute.
An Italian archaeologist links a nose ornament to Isaac giving Rebekah marriage blessing. Jewish women wore a nose ring with a chain and small hanging bells described as half a shekel weight in the Old Testament. A wedding cake baked for a relative of the groom recalls a marriage forty years prior.
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