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Newspaper
Abbeville Press And Banner
Location
Abbeville, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1908
Page
3
New York fashion reports praise butterfly strip coats and striped materials as chic for young women. Bead bags, flower dress trims, and embossed skirt borders rise in popularity. Tucked shirt waists with button trims appear as a standout, simple yet up to date, with fronts and backs tucked for a refined silhouette.
The sermon in Brooklyn on casting out evil spirits outlines Swedenborgian views of spiritual inflows shaping thought and feeling, urging discipleship as the path to divine authority over evil. A page of light humor questions women’s schemes and marriage quirks, ending with a New York Journal quip.
A discussion on trimming novel ties and small shirred hands and Thches. It notes chiffon veils with knfeplested rume around edges and suggests using chiffera instead of now. Width typically ranges from two to three inches.
A fragmentary fashion note describes a Napoleonic collar scarf and feathered stole facing a dangerous trial with extreme facings and embroidery. Describes old tapestry textures, striped gongo, hand-embroidered golf, and plain sleeves.
A Presbyterian Record reflection argues that revenge lowers the injured person to the wrongdoer’s level. It praises rising to Christ's standard of love and forgiveness and warns against the tempter Satan who persuades injury for injury.
A devotional reflection on God’s pity reaching all touched by you including childishness. Perfection lies in tenderness toward others and using knowledge to aid the ignorant. True strength shows when power uplifts the weak and raises the fallen as a moral ideal.
A clergy man tours a great mill with foreman and discusses John Atking. The foreman argues John talks of religion instead of weaving, noting he could be a fine weaver if his religio displayed in his hands rather than his youth.
The article traces fabric name origins from velvet to satin and silk. It links velvet to Italian relluto and satin to seta, notes that many textiles derive from places such as Cairo for tussar, Mosul for mustin, Damascus for damask, Cambria for cambria, and Milan for millinery, while silk ties to Seres via Greek naming.
The piece recalls how thirty years earlier faint Martian continents appeared featureless until 1877 when Schiaparelli identified long narrow markings now famed as the canals of Mars. These threads, described as gossamer filaments across the Martian disk, provoke wonder and draw the observer across vast space, highlighted by Lowell in The Canale and Oases of Mars.
An elderly patient recounts severe hemorrhoids bleeding and eczema healed after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and suppositories, claiming dramatic improvement after a month of treatment and ongoing maintenance. The ad-like text includes other medical claims, promotional lines for Catarrh Cure and related products, and generic notices about city school systems and local firms.
A Dubuque News-Tribune note describes Dr Marago of Parte graphing the human voice with a magnifying glass to read voice records. Scientists theorize voice photographs could replace writing and stenography, with microphones replacing letters and electric needles preventing forgery. Conventional type would imitate vowel and consonant sounds for printed matter while telephone talks could bind like contracts.
A vintage ad extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a trusted home remedy for female ailments. It cites testimonials from Mrs I Eliseo in Mayville New York and Mrs W P Boyd in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania, urging sick women to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham and to consider the product for relief from displacements, inflammation, and related pains.
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