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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
6
A guide notes practical advice for sewing machine maintenance and fabric finishing. It covers oiling wheels, sharpening needles, securing spools, using a hatpin for guiding work, and keeping thread clean. It also suggests soap in the machine drawer, tinting leather and lace with a mild dye, and shaping finished work on a toning board.
The page mixes recipes for pork, potato and nut salads with notes on lodge activities. It cites Pork Scallop, Potato and Nut Salad, and Spanish Chicken Soup recipes, then shifts to remarks by Mr. Chancellor on lodge savings, War Savings and bonds. It mentions Pythian lodges, the Eleventh Federal District, and a Savings Society plan.
The article discusses vacation fashion for children, noting the season brings outfits designed for travel and play. It highlights new clothes as a constant certainty, with fabrics like chambray and gingham, and describes a frock with box pleats, long neckband, large buttons, and a white collar as a practical yet stylish travel wear option.
A fragment notes gingham gowns trending for summer with blue silk accents. It highlights a blue silk Incer Funs mockup, white belting with suede eyelets and a blue enamel buckle. Crepe fabrics and reverses show as Paris novelty trends.
What follows extols the value of a dollar that works and offers kitchen tips. It advises wiping dishes with soft paper, keeping good seating, and storing recipes in a convenient card index while promoting frugal, efficient household routines.
In Italian district a crowd of women attacked Dr James E. Smediey after he treated Tony, son of Mel Mary Caniuino, with force feeding. The physician, receiving scalp wounds, was taken home by his wife, a nurse, for recovery. The incident followed a quarrel over the doctor pinching the boy and coercing him to swallow medicine.
A dramatic pursuit in Brewster Station sees two large police dogs assigned to the constabulary chasing escaping prisoners from a farm raid. Warden Moser reports seven inmates escaped from Wingate in two years, with fugitive William Thomas last seen in Brooklyn.
An advertisement urges readers to skip calomel and use Dodson's Liver Tone a gentler liver booster with a money back guarantee. It warns calomel contains mercury, can cause bone necrosis and salivation, and claims many use the product as a safer, effective remedy.
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