02 Sep 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1905
Page
1
The article surveys summer fashion, praising washable gloves for sun protection and cleanliness, and detailing fabric gloves, mesh, and silk linings. It notes Russian styles, fringed belts, lace and embroidery, and showcases the New French Blouse with crystal silk bodices, cuffs, and appliques. It also covers ruffles, a corn chowder recipe, and a new hat style with a linen cover and pearl buttons.
A neat little shirt waist suit in blue silk features a pleated surplice bodice with fronts set into shoulder seams, bands of silk in groups of tucks, a plain silk-edged collar, crushed silk girdle with a blue enamel buckle, and a walking length skirt with decorative silk tuck strips outlined by stitched bands.
Twelve quarts rhubarb chopped and bruised mixed with ten quarts water and fifteen pounds sugar. Let stand three days stirring. Transfer to a crock, add half ounce gelatine dissolved in wine, stand two months, then strain and bottle. Coloring may be added. Without coloring it becomes white wine.
A quirky fashion observation notes sleeves with bloated waists slipping into styles despite a Spring edict banning wrist puffs and favoring balloon tops. It suggests frugality keeps some wearers from discarding last year’s garments.
The article surveys evolving summer fashion with notes on gloves robes hats and pillow covers. It contrasts garish greens lemon yellows and velvet collars with new Parisian silhouettes like broad flat hats and plumes, and offers practical home craft ideas for cushion covers and denim accents.
A young girl wears a garden hat handmade from a palm-leaf fan. The crown is scooped from the handle area and puffed with pale blue cheesecloth. Bordering the brim, plaited ruffies echo the soft frame, while long streamers drape at the back for a charming, picturesque look.
The column notes water can replace milk in some cakes for lighter texture. It claims eggs and milk are clean, despite imperfect meat tests. It dismisses starching table linen and suggests drying with hot iron. It provides a method to imitate lemonade when lemons are unavailable by boiling two
A linen waist description with a gathered yoke and buttoned sleeves. Then a recipe for Cauliflower Soup using fresh cauliflower, onion, parsley, mace, milk, water, and cornstarch, with a puréed base and whole florets added at the end, finished with butter and lemon.
A girl wears a homemade white waist with wide embroidered scalloped panels forming the back front and cuffs. Four embroidery lengths create fullness with pearl buttons fastened by loops. Sleeves are plain lawn with a colored silk slip visible through scalloped openings and a pale tint showing through the material.
A New York Herald report describes baby towers outside Chinese cities where impoverished parents discard newborn girls by pushing them into towers. Missionaries rescue infants, some becoming native missionaries themselves, as a Chinese maxim promises kindness to those who keep daughters.
Aaron Hoffman, a young farmer, was surprised by a giant rattlesnake in his potato bin. The reptile crawled over his back and across his knee without harming him, leaving him paralyzed with fear and unable to move for a time. The Madras Pioneer notes rattlers are generally non aggressive unless disturbed.
A humorous item from Lebanon New Hampshire notes J Charles Nurse’s bog hoe misadventure. A bog hoe allegedly carried a hay bundle from a tree at night and scattered it in the woods, with a warning to those meeting it to mind their plumbing.
The oldest person on Maine pension rolls is EU Cook of Belfast. A veteran of the Aroostook war, he is nearing 100 and has two sons, veterans of the Civil War, who also draw pensions.
A detective describes criminal insurance as a policy thieves buy to cover legal defense costs if arrested. He cites second-story workers earning about 2500 annually with 1000 coverage and 125 yearly premiums. He mentions Philadelphia New York and St Louis insurers with policies from 100 to 35000 and high premiums. He also notes a Tillinois criminal benefit group paying families $5 weekly during imprisonment.
The federal and Louisiana governments may abandon Breton Island as a prairie fowl reproduction site due to an enormous raccoon population. Wardens estimate 5,000 to 10,900 raccoons on the small island, and about 15,000 prairie hens hatched this year have already been eaten. Trappers and hunters will be sent, but extermination is feared unlikely.
English funeral accounts reveal grind spectacles with pallbearers clad in Francisan habit, a relic of old Catholic times. The vivid description recalls ceremonial pageantry and stark devotion from a distant era.
A Black Lily found in Luzon Philippines is an eight to nine inch flower with a dark bloom and a tainted flesh odor that attracts insects for cross fertilization. It flowers before leaves appear and grows under a foot high, shaded by dense vegetation, challenging the idea of a pure lily and evoking comparisons to a vulture among birds.
A year ago a Mr Legare of St Eustache near Quebec prophesied his death saying his wife need not worry. He then arranged his funeral details while in apparent good health and died suddenly after completing the arrangements.
A Sunapee correspondent rejects recoupment doctrine, urging Bartlett Rowell to omit the 5 20 whistle and city workers to stop singing through streets at midnight and 1 am, arguing working people are sleeping during those hours.
A male giraffe weighing 111 pounds at birth and gaining 100 more pounds now thrives in Berlin’s zoological gardens. An attendant serves as its careful nurse, helping the youngster walk on its wobbly legs, feeding four quarts of milk daily, and sharing tender moments as the animal explores the grounds.
Welcome Riggs finds bulk of an ancient vessel a short distance from shore in Larkin cove Los Angeles. The ship likely a Spanish galleon wrecked after a storm and possibly a pirate vessel from 100 years ago. Riggs plans full excavation seeking hidden treasure while noting the wood remains well preserved.
A torn 1861 election ticket was discovered during courthouse demolition in Lake Village Arkansas. It names Jefferson Davis for president and Alexander H Stephens for vice president with electors Edward Cross David Walker John R Hampton W C Bevins W W Mansfield and congressman Ann Garland. Only Mansfield is reported as survivor among those named.
In Norwalk Connecticut a cat shows a vegetarian taste by preference. The animal often eats sparingly but devours raw string beans in gardens near the home. The cat also eats green peas and asparagus, leaving behind many consumed pods.
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