25 Mar 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1905
Page
1
Advice on hat placement for prominent features and nose size, selecting brim shapes, and veiling novelties. Describes modest bolero trends, gown decoration ideas, and how to tailor patterns for home dressmakers. Includes the “lady bug” costume with turkey red jacket and sage bonnet option.
A description of how separate waists, including lace and chiffon styles, are showcased in specialty shops. The piece notes the dainty white valet as a dominant third in the three piece salt and contrasts Mogerie waists with others.
Decorative linen now favors table scarfs in Broderie Anglaise and dust protected broom closets. Lemons stay fresh under light airtight glass while window hangings shrink to scant fullness. For grease, hot soda water cleans. a lemon in soaking water sweetens towels. Fresh burns benefit from raw potato poultice. Shirt waists return to masculine, simple cuts with minimal ornament, narrow sleeves, and stiff cuffs.
A brief recipe describes making tart paste with pastry flour lard sugar salt an egg white and cold water. Roll to half inch thick cut with a doughnut cutter bake quickly to avoid toughness. For decorative tops roll thin rounds cut diamonds and crown tarts with jelly filled centers.
A description of spring wear features accessories and fabrics. It notes a colored girdle with a matching hair net for white gowns, braided canvas robe gowns, long lace coats as key pieces, navy blue and dark silk blouses with lace insets, and French printed fabrics in brownish yellow with floral sprigs.
A blue cheviot ten gores walking skirt features narrow blue velvet piping and velvet bands with buttons. Linen gowns show ground clearance with hip fitting. plaited and yoke styles trend. Laundering trims before sewing advised to avoid costly washing damage. Brown silk stockings in self tones remain popular this season.
A Chinaman constructs a wooden bicycle from a drawing of an old bone shaker. The front wheel resembles a discarded rickshaw wheel. The machine features a cheekbone pitchfork as a rear support, two perpendicular wooden seat pieces, no pedals, and a front hub crank operated by the rider.
In Cork city mourners heard a phonograph recital of the decedent’s final Requiem of Absolution after the burial. The cylinder will be kept to mark each anniversary. The late baritone-singing merchant was known for public entertainments in southern Ireland. Also told is a cats’ tale from St James Gazette about a queenly old mother cat dying after guiding her kittens to safety.
Workers uncover blooming high bush blueberry idols buried under ice covered sawdust at a portable mill site in East Hampton Connecticut. The article contrasts lingering idol worship in various lands with Christianity’s reach, noting Ir rawait under the American flag and limited progress in Australia India and other regions.
Wilkesbarre Pa marks the first burning of anthracite coal as Judge Jesse Fell demonstrates in 1808. The old Fell House will be destroyed and remodeled, preserving the room and grate where the experiment occurred while the new building rises. The scene recalls Fell’s careful draught experiment and the initial public demonstrations that sparked a regional coal market.
A male inmate at Uckfield Workhouse in Sussex paints fine views along a main corridor. Subjects include Westminster Bridge, Houses of Parliament, Pevensey Castle, and Devil's Dyke near Brighton.
In Amwell township Pennsylvania a six day sparrow hunt pitting two teams of ten men each ended with 29 099 birds killed. The sparrows were considered pests in the district.
An English inventor proposes using a floating bell cap to catch ducks by the legs as a solution. The article notes urgent trouble in Sunset District sandhills where a cow’s nightly promenades disturb residents and prompts an appeal to Humane Society Secretary Holbrook for aid.
A 19th century golf innovation introduces a concave curved putter face forming part of a sphere to improve striking accuracy. The wooden head features a horn plate and a contage curve with adjustable radius. Multiple curved heads could suit different shots and balance.
A Chicago Chronicle account describes an investigator's ants experiment. Nests held nearly a million workers, all same species yet strangers were expelled. Painted white home ants and red strangers were tested after a drunkening, revealing no password. The sober ants accepted their own and drove out outsiders.
A fragment describes Parisian hairdressers drying clients' hair with an electric fan whose heated wires carry current across the salon. The text ends abruptly, but indicates a device powered by electricity to speed drying.
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