Fur Dominates Winter Fashion Fur and Economical Mix
A 1917 McClure's column notes fur dominates winter wear with peltry seen on hats, coats, and wristlets in patchwork styles. It also highlights a shift toward economical mixing of fabrics, with separate blouses and versatile skirts replacing matching sets, plus the peasant blouse reemerging as a practical fashion staple.
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New York
Depyer
Red Cross
McClur
Opyright
Byna Kate
Treating Various Diseases of Swine
The U S Department of Agriculture urges strict quarantine between sick and healthy hogs, thorough cleaning and burning of infected quarters, and burning or burying carcasses. It endorses vaccination to prevent outbreaks, detailed lice and mange control including repeated dipping, and careful use of dips like cresol compounds and petroleum products with proper dipping-vat design and safety.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Beaumont
Agriculture the Mainstay of the Nation
An advertisement extols Western Canada as a farming haven where agriculture drives prosperity. It touts high crop yields, land affordability, and strong demand, urging migration and investment as farmers profit from wheat and oats yields, land prices, and new opportunities. It highlights rail access, roads, schools, and welcoming communities backing a "world's natural bread basket" claim.
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Canada
Western
Western Canada
America
Satin and Georgette Fabrics Fashion Note
Satin is described as lustrous and soft with black satin combined with georgette and chiffon. The piece mentions mousseline velvetier cloth and white satin vellet and white net as fashionable fabrics.
Halo for Satan and the ancient halo symbol
The article argues that halos, now sacred, originated as pagan symbols of power seen on Roman emperors. It notes devils were also depicted with halos before Christianity and suggests the halo was later adopted to bless Satan as the embodiment of wicked power.
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Satan
Devil
Boschee’s German Syrup Ad Claims Fifty One Years Use
An advertisement touts Boschee’s German Syrup as a long standing remedy for coughs bronchitis and lung troubles. It promises relief from nighttime coughing easy morning expectoration and natural healing with bottles priced at 80 and 90 cents.
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Boschee
United States
German Influence In Russia’s Imperial Bloodline
Ex-Czar Nicholas possessed about 64 to 65 percent German ancestry and nearly all Russian empresses of the nineteenth century were German princesses except for the spouse of Alexander III, highlighting deep German ties in the imperial court.
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Russia
Nicholas
Alexander III
Quinine Product and City Fire Department Plans
The notice highlights Laxative Bromo Quinine as safe from nervousness or head ringing due to its tonic laxative effect. It mentions a single Bromo Quinine product and a Groves signature on a box. It also notes the Philadelphia Electric Co plans a $9,000,000 power plant and that St Paul may hire women in its fire department.
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HL W. Groves
We. A
Philadelphia Electric Co
St. Paul
Lst
Air Friction
Madison ,St
Dayton
Ohio
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