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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1916
Page
8
A new corset cover design accompanies wide skirts and updated bodice lines, featuring a broad upper band and a shoulder strap to conceal undergarments. The piece blends with various dresses, uses affordable lawn or batiste, and pairs with embroidered flouncing and matching beading. Petticoats trend ornate satin tops with chiffon ceilings and furbelows.
A Paris letter to the London Times reviews a man’s collection focusing on practical, stylish silhouettes. It praises short full skirts with varied drapings, tailored basques, and diverse collars while noting restrained, wearable elegance over exaggeration. It also covers care tips for white spats, including washing with warm water and soap and air drying for a smooth finish.
The article highlights white crepe de chine as prettiest and most comfortable for a little girl's chemise sette, with checks in taffeta as dress trims. Button trimming appears on suits and frocks, utility coats mostly cover dresses, silk jersey for outing wear, silk suits with fitted backs, mouse color shading, bold new silks in checks and stripes, blazer jackets with serge skirts for street wear, and evening dresses with short puff sleeves.
A historical takes look at how neatness defined smart dressing in the past versus today. It emphasizes polished shoes, neat hair nets, straight hats, immaculate gloves, proper belts, and a pristine handbag as essentials for a modern, well groomed appearance.
An article argues pruning rooted nursery trees is necessary to prevent injury after digging. It contrasts untrimmed trees with pruned ones, showing root loss, top imbalance, and improved outcomes from pruning, especially for peaches, with figures illustrating root and top changes and a five-branched first season tree.
An agricultural scientist reports on sulphur as a method to control potato scab. Spring applications outperform fall, and soils with no prior crop show greater benefits. Seed treatment with formaldehyde plus soil sulphur beats the two used separately. Broadcasting sulphur after planting is best. Sulphur works better with ammonia sulfate than sodium nitrate and with acid phosphate than steamed bone. muriate outperforms sulphate of potash.
New Jersey observations show peach leaf curl can be controlled with a thorough early spring application of concentrated lime-sulphur before buds swell. Bordeaux mix is also effective if applied early, but lime-sulphur is preferred for preventive control.
A Nebraska State Journal commentary argues US land openings threaten the nation’s free land safety valve and warns that rising land prices and internal settlement pressures will reshape politics and social issues. It notes Canada offers 160 acre free grants and Western Canada lands at low prices, drawing American settlers.
A buyer portrays frustration at selling a house bought last year. They expected an easy sale after an agent rapidly sold it to them, but the current attempt proves problematic and confusing to both parties. The dialogue hints at market tension and misaligned expectations.
An aged advertisement fragment touts a daily fly killer claiming to kill thousands and last all season. It mentions Sapress paid, Hi Ee SOMERS at 450 De Kalb Ave Brooklyn and includes garbled dialogue and medical quackery mentions.
In Columbus Ohio Mrs Banion describes a six year battle with female troubles and nervous weakness. After ten days on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she resumes eating without stomach pain and gains weight from 118 to 127 pounds. Her husband credits the medicine with saving her life. The ad promotes the tonic as a cure for female ailments.
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