Design for a Combination Garment to Meet Fashion Suggestions
A dress-era overview describes a combination underskirt and corset cover to cope with wide skirts and new bodice lines. It notes fastenings that avoid showing undergarments, recommends flouncing, beading, and embroidery, and suggests fabrics such as lawn or batiste for economical corset covers. It also mentions Dolly Varden styles, contrasting color flounces, ruching, and elaborate Petticoats with satin, chiffon veils, furbelows, and ribbons.
Season's Styles by a Man in Paris Letter Note
A Paris Letter to the London Times describes a male designer’s collection emphasizing wearable silhouettes. Short full skirts with varied drapings replace exaggerated hips, while tailor made pieces feature short basques and diverse collars. Boleros, 1860s dolmans, and flowing backs require graceful, young silhouettes to carry them.
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Paris
London Times
Washing Spats Advice for Cleaning White Spats
Washing spats instructs using warm water and good white soap to restore the look of broad lath spats. After washing they should be rinsed and hung to dry, remaining wet for a few hours until they become dry and smooth for wear.
Fashion Hints for Little Girls Wardrobe and Silks
The article recommends white crepe de chine for chemi sets and checks taffeta as trim on plain color dresses. It notes button trims on suits and frocks, long utility coats covering dresses, silk jersey for outerwear, and fitted backs on new silk suits. Mouse color described as soft. New silks appear in large checks and bold stripes. Flannel blazer jackets rise in street wear with serge skirts. Evening dresses feature short puff sleeves.
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Euting
Keeping a Good Stand of Red Clover
Agricultural guidance on red clover and nurse crops from USDA explains when to use or skip a nurse crop, the risks of drought and heat, and the benefits of manure top dressing. It covers soil humus, lime, phosphorus, potash, and rotating two-year limits for clover fields with root-eating insects and diseases.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ Bulletin No. 455
Building a Poultry House Design and Ventilation
The article outlines poultry house types with glass fronts and no muslin, open-front structures, muslin and glass combos, hollow tile options, and roosting closets. It stresses ventilation to control temperature, rain protection, and cost considerations of tile and labor for modern designs.
Hog Feeding Trial Shows Rape Pasture Boost
South Dakota Agricultural College animal husbandry researchers compared hog growth. Pigs fed corn with rape pasture gained 1.28 pounds daily, while pigs fed corn alone gained 1.06 pounds.
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Animal Husbandry Department
South Dakota Agricultural College
Silo Saves Much Feed Cost for Farms Next Fall
A brief note urges planning for silos on farms to save feed costs. It recommends evaluating silos this year and suggests that having one or two silos on every farm last week would have saved wine and sugar costs.
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Fiat
Definition of perfect soil by Ohio State professor
Professor Alfred Vivian of Ohio State University defines a perfect soil as a balance of sand to absorb air and moisture, clay to stay cool and reduce leaching, lime to aid decay of vegetation, and organic matter to retain moisture and support continual chemical processes in good soils.
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Alfred Vivian
Department of Agricultural Chemistry
Ohio State University
Pulling Power of Tractor Described for Buyers
An expert urges buyers to seek drawbar pull and speed, not just rated horsepower. Knowing the engine’s pull in pounds plus speed helps avoid overloading and aids purchase decisions.
Quit Wasting Good Manure Says Farmer Advocate
A farmer urges returning manure to the soil to save humus and avoid costly substitutes. He notes East farms pay $2.50 for condensed plant food per ton of manure without humus, and points to a cow’s annual manure value around $20. He argues against discarding manure or dumping cream into the creek.
Land hunger and western settlement across borders
The Nebraska State Journal warns that Uncle Sam’s opening 4000 acres in the North Platte irrigation district signals the end of free land as a safety valve. It contrasts U S land policy with Canada’s offers of free 160 acre homesteads and low-priced plots, noting higher yields and rising U S land prices, urging potential settlers to consider Western Canada as a viable alternative and to seek information from Canadian government agents.
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The
Nebraska State Journal
Uncle Sam
North Platte
Canada
United States
Iowa
Western
Nebraska
Western Canada
That's Different Kill the Files Now and Prevent Disease
An ad offers a daily fly killer for sale with bold claims of killing thousands. It targets house sellers and mentions a Brooklyn address for H. Somers and a $1 price. The tone resembles a midcentury classified promotional note.
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Express
H. Somers
de Kalb Ave
Brooklyn
Are you Hungary Yes Liam Well come along I Fiji
A humorous overheard exchange is followed by a bizarre medical ad for Dr. Kline's Hollopoy Medicine from the D Kline Company of Red Bank New Jersey. The copy touts fifty years of uninterrupted success and a large trial bottle, with a comic line about a bent pin signaling rising time.
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Hungary
Liam
Fiji
Dr. Kline
D Kline Company
Red Bank
N. J
After Six Years of Suffering in Columbus Ohio
A Columbus woman describes six years of female illness and nervous troubles with stomach pain and weakness. After taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ten days she could eat again and regained weight from 118 to 127 pounds. Her husband says the medicine saved her life and the ad urges others to use it for female ailments.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Re. J. S. Barlow
South 4Th Stlumbus
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