13 May 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1905
Page
1
Fashion notes describe spring wraps for women including blouses boleros Eton coats and long redingotes in silk satin moire and tussar. Emphasis on versatile coats for rain travel and cold weather with ready made or home sewn options.
The article describes a dress accessory with beading and a ribbon tie at the back. It notes a square piece trimmed with ruffles, the Beading and bow, and mentions dark blue pongee fabrics with a plain full skirt and a decorative hemline of lozenge motifs in dull orange taffeta.
The article describes Valenciennes lace blouses for evening wear, edged with a ruffle and assembled from many rows of lace. It notes the need for expert hand stitching, delicate trimming, and satin accents around the neck and waistband. Satin piping and tiny bows finish the waists, with bows hidden in trimmings to resemble butterfly wings.
The method creates soft castile soap by dissolving a cake in water over heat, then bottling as a jelly. It serves as a hands cleaning rub, and can be diluted with water and a pinch of soda for a mild shampoo applied to the head and rinsed.
A culinary note describes a steamed pudding from bread crumbs suet and apples packed tightly in a mold with water for steaming. The second item surveys fashion, favoring an all white linen suit with touches of color, listing porcelain blues French rose and yellows as popular accents for trims and frocks.
A Smithsonian crow named Jack, housed with Prof. Wood for eight years, spoke and mimicked human calls and other birds. Wood believed the crow could reason as well as talk, noting Jack learned phrases and even imitated the hello call over the telephone before dying, likely of old age.
In Eliot Maine a rare arboreal phenomenon shows two young pine trees growing side by side and joining into a single dual organism. Harold Goodwin photographed the scene near Dover New Hampshire noting the trunks are about one foot apart and the union extends seven feet above ground.
Kennett’s miners camp uses an abandoned tunnel as a makeshift jail after the local constable sought funds for a proper calaboose. Lacking funding, he obtained permission from the mining company and supplied the iron door himself, noting the tunnel’s length makes it a secure holding space.
William Soule of South Livermore Maine shipped apples to England via Liverpool merchants. A note from Mrs Lilian Bassett asked for the price in the fruit barrel. The reply showed the barrel sold for 2 45 with Soule earning 68 cents per barrel. The tale suggests transporters and English buyers reaped larger shares.
A historical note explains the horseshoe as luck talisman on doors, with a modern twist to craft a door knocker from the shoe heels and pivot. Also reports on a popular young woman's photo ads, a throwback baggage trunk in Skowhegan marked BxP, and mentions English newspapers noting a growing fleet and a map showing Squadron 150 miles north of England.
A Natal cave 120 by 20 feet yielded flint cores flakes and hammers with grinding stones. Three skeletons lay crushed beneath large stone slabs at 16 feet depth. Bones turned to dust, thousands of scrapers cores and arrowheads found. First grasshopper of the season arrives in Augusta Maine in a corked bottle.
A moa egg, nine inches long and seven inches wide, was found floating in water after earth fell in a dredging claim in a New Zealand mining district. It is the second perfect moa egg ever found, the first unearthed in Kalikoura mountains in the 1860s and sold in England for $500. a hat served as eye cup for scale.
Shanghai Herald notes Gholik-yen, a strong reformer, has sat outside the Palace gate for five days and will continue to do so until required reforms are carried out. The act signals ongoing pressure for political change and governance overhauls.
A playful scene in which a baby Dutch child explores movement aided by a whirligig device. A kitten chases the tall spinning toy as the child steps forward, reflecting gentle domestic amusement.
North Attleboro dispatch reports Preston D. White's brown African goose set a record with trunks of 11.875 inches around the longest circumference and 10 inches around the shortest, weighing 13 ounces. The massive bird, two and a half feet tall and nineteen pounds, began laying in January 1903 and marked its ninety ninth laying.
A Vermont tale recounts W. J. Aldrich finding a watch in Shrewsbury after a month in a lumber road. Despite two months in use by loggers the crystal remained intact and the device ran when wound, suggesting a connection to a murder case.
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