16 Sep 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1905
Page
1
A New York Post excerpt offers a mint sauce recipe using mint leaves, hot water, and a mint infusion with a gravy roux, seasoned with salt and paprika. It also surveys fashion tips praising short gowns, smart hats, and coordinated accessories with Parisian influence, plus embroidery ideas, lace trends, and a custard recipe with almonds for cold serving.
A report notes simpler stock styles in fashion with neckwear kept modest in height and softer fabrics. Linen trifles including stand-up collars, lace trims, and embroidered pieces offer comfortable options, while pelérines and veils show ribbons that can be pulled to alter designs with labor-saving effects.
Greens in light and dark shades appear in life dresses with lace elbow ruffs and practical pockets. The season highlights long silk traveling coats, revived white serge, and a strong return of plaids, tartans, and varied tan shades, with ribbons enhancing negligees and matinee styles.
Bead Collarette is here a striking novelty sacred to the most exclusive modistes. The beadwork collarette eminently successful and demands utmost discretion so as not to recall the bead work cushions of the past decade.
A description of fashionable summer coats in flower colors paired with flowered muslins. Silk trims match the coat color and range from carp, rose, dull blue, pale blue, to greens and pinks. Matrons prefer deep tones like plums and purples, while some women match outdoor silk coats to gown tones to avoid harsh contrasts.
A vintage instructional snippet advises adding lemon juice to water to improve pastry lightness, storing eggs on the small end for longer keeping, reusing paraffin jars after washing for jelly and jam, using unpainted wire netting to clean irons, and lighting candles from the short ends for easier starting a fire.
Instructions describe combining ten ounces of butter and ten ounces of castor sugar to cream, with additional steps starting to be added. The fragment suggests a baking preparation sequence without completing the method.
A brisk look at 19th century millinery covers the Crinoline and the Coal Scottie Bonnet. It notes a popular ostrich feather trailing past each ear as a distinctive accessory of the era.
A Washington senator George S Turner rose from poverty after miners offered stock as payment for services in a British America lode near Victoria. He later became a millionaire from the Le Roi mine. In Colorado a diver finds placer gold at a Como Lake site, hailed as the richest recent discovery in the West.
A detailed passage explains that rails may appear well laid yet move lengthwise over time. The slow, imperceptible motion accumulates damage as spikes are torn up and bolts sheared. An American engineer’s study offers little illumination on this persistent railway motion toward traffic.
Chelsea characters describe brands by SAE used on Ace china, where marks indicate grade of goods and are valuable to buyers who recognize them. The notes explain how marks revert to indicate quality and provenance, aiding purchasers in identifying authentic pieces.
The passage notes that Druse or poetry with full tales serves as a premier exercise for songs and chest, highlighting its value as a disciplined creative practice.
Report from the sea steamer America Maru describing a large hawk clinging to a half devoured bird on the foremast two hundred miles from land. The second mate captured the weary hawk after three attempts. it now sits in the crew quarters. A smaller hawk, captured during a gale five hundred miles offshore, became a pet among Japanese sailors. The tale raises questions about how wild birds survive at sea and extend long battles. An old hunter recalls boiling a deer heart only to find a buckshot lodged near the point of the heart, revealing a surprising hunting outcome.
The London Chronicle notes wigs were used to intimidate on battlefields and in law courts. the French Revolution ended their era. Before the guillotine, wigs cost 20 to 40 guineas for Egyptian and Assyrian figures, and remained on official heads into the 19th century, even at royal weddings such as the Princess Royal's.
Mrs H L Mower of Green Maine showcases a rare dining room of plate. A wall displays an English chase with sport motifs and a large chrysanthemum platter. Other pieces include an old R H Hall plate, a lakes of Killarney set, and designs of boats, a church spire, and a shepherd boy.
A long time tobacconist near Broadway displays a vast archive of smoking wares from around the world. The shop carries cigars, cigarettes, pipes, and tobacco accessories including long-forgotten brands and unusual mixtures. A notable collection features an array of cigar receptacles accumulated over thirty years in business, alongside devices from flint and tinder to modern electrical gadgets.
A Boston silk grower’s inadvertent release of gypsy moths from France caused a two year pest invasion. An overturned shade and open window allowed moths to escape, leading to widespread tree defoliation and estimated damages of 3 million dollars, plus 750 thousand spent on eradication.
Burgess did not complete the Channel swim and encountered Miss Annette Kellerman, a noted 19 year old Australian swimmer, during the attempt. Heaton failed as well, casting doubt on the crossing.
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