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Newspaper
Advance Hustler
Location
Advance, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
7
The Trillium and Hepatica flowers host a free outdoor concert inviting birds. Crows, bragging as ushers, arrive loud and proud, but the show proceeds with colorful birds, butterflies, hummingbirds, thrushes, and sunlit flowers as guests. Mr Sun praises the gathering.
Quote from Girls' Companion on choosing companions and not being bound by circumstance. It argues choice is stronger than environment and that one can select whom to trust and confide in despite unfavorable associations.
The article praises pale pink bridesmaids attire featuring net and lace gowns with pink georgette underskirts. It notes net-top laces, lace medallions, and georgette scarves and bags trim the maid of honor ensemble to enhance the wedding procession.
The article urges American women to face war with courage, conserve resources, and support the Red Cross. It advises reducing waste, preserving food and clothing, aiding rural canning efforts, and making and donating hospital supplies and bandages. It also notes tassels as a fashionable detail in dress and accessories.
The article notes plaid walking boots and golf shoes with knitted socks, highlighting a Scotch brogue golf shoe. It features a kiltie tongue sewn on both sides with fringe, a rawhide strip between inner and outer soles for waterproofing, and outside counters.
A practical solution for mending delicate lace uses plain foot ing as ultra fine netting. The invisible selvage and the ability to buy small pieces instead of a full width by the yard are highlighted advantages.
Compiled miscellany noting New York as the largest city per 1910 census, Sioux travel in single file, Newark window cleaners winning a nine hour day, Oberlin adding 10 000 volumes, Montana proposing eight hour workday for women, car fuel use with more riders, Boston firemen's AFL referendum, Nebraska bird diversity, a water wheel driven tricycle, sausage casing values in Chile 1916, Dutch currency in New York history, ancient mastiff lineage, Kartoffelkrieg potato war, British tongue isolation easing in wartime, and the French language gains of the Allied army in France.
A humorous fragment lists odd aims about a player piano’s home performance and other quirks. It mentions attempts to outtalk a life insurance agent and avoid writing on both sides of paper, ending with a playful constraint about buttons in a white vest.
Popular Science reports New Zealand exported 44 628 gallons of whale oil in 1914 and North Dakota set aside 60 million dollars for public school endowment. It notes 20 ton concrete piles for a new New Zealand wharf, an original method of artificial silk from a Japanese inventor, and meat inspection data showing 2 percent tuberculosis in beef and 9 percent in swine. Spitzbergen specimens show many minerals but no profitable deposits.
A collection of sharp sayings on honesty, pride, and speech. It contrasts clean profit with deception and notes that even clever talkers fail to curb gossip. The lines mix humor with social critique, reflecting dated views on gender and wit.
A period piece argues farming must be treated as a business with systematic costs and profits. It cites high grain prices and strong returns in Western Canada and Alberta through efficient farming, citing examples from Wright Iowa Des Moines Smith Vulcan and Nobleford affidavits. It emphasizes discipline, scale, and patriotic duty in boosting food supply.
An advertisement touts ASTORIA as a harmless Castor Oil substitute for constipation wind colic and diarrhoea. It claims over thirty years of use and notes it contains no opium or narcotics. The text emphasizes the product’s eighty year history, signature by Chas H Fletcher, and warnings against counterfeit imitators.
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