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Newspaper
Anita Record
Location
Anita, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1914
Page
7
The article outlines essential items for a smart society bride including wedding, traveling, afternoon, dinner, and evening gowns, plus wraps and negligees. It endorses light weight serge for traveling costume, white serge for spring outfits, and white crepe or chiffon for elegant gowns with emphasis on simple lines, practicality, and timeless white tones.
Describes brightening a black satin or crepe de chine frock with gold touches on the collar cuffs and sash end. Options include gold lace veiling cloth or gold motifs on the fabric, gold arabesques, braiding, or narrow gold piping to suit the wearer and occasion.
A colorless print describes a dainty summer frock featuring white voile skirt and tunics with a bodice and upper tunic embroidered in white with small blue flowers. Blue pussy willow taffeta trims the collar sash and gash buckle fastener under a decorative buckle.
A new style girdle described by the Philadelphia North American is simple to craft from dull silk or messalines. Create a long bias strip from two color options, braid frogs with loops, and fasten two silk covered buttons at the center. It can also be made in velvet with velvet buttons.
The piece praises buttoned boots with slender long lines and patent leather vamps. It notes the curved heel adds a French flair and aligns with the era’s dancing craze, while stressing that only buttoned, polished boots suit drawing rooms and promenades.
A farm silo design guide details how to size by diameter and feed needs, height relations, location, and foundation options. It covers concrete brick stone and earth foundations, excavation, reinforcement, and concrete mixing methods.
The text describes a garment finishing with hand stitched edges and delicate embroidery. Small net butterflies and bows appear as decorations to complete the collars, highlighting intricate craft in historical fashion.
A home regimen promotes nightly warm baths with liquid ammonia for tonic effect followed by a vinegar rinse and brisk toweling. Next morning use a dry loofah massage and deep breathing with Swedish exercises to finish the routine.
A mannequin in a New York shop wore a tiny sailor hat trimmed in dull blue with a rosette of old rose ribbon. A single streamer hung from the rosette and trailed over the shoulder to below the knee, creating an extremely coquettish effect.
The article urges rapid action against roup in poultry and suggests early euthanasia for severely sick birds. For initial cases it recommends nostril and mouth injections with four percent creolin or carbolic acid solutions, hydrogen peroxide mixed with water, permanganate of potash, and a drop of kerosene per nostril on infected birds.
Farmers warned that Clover and alfalfa alone cannot meet growing pig needs and must be supplemented with protein concentrates. Cow peas beans and field peas offer viable alternative feeds suitable for local cultivation and production.
Professor Hedrich of the New York station at Geneva reports an apple orchard that lay in sod for 24 years and was sold as common farm lard. After years of tillage it now yields ten percent net on a valuation of $1,000 per acre.
The article notes oil meal meat wheat middlings and tankage as economical feeds. It stresses feeding mix selection depends on available farm feeds and their market value to regulate rations and costs.
A farmer muses that cows fail profitability not always by their fault and argues against selling a cow to a butcher unless one can truthfully claim personal effort made her profitable. The remark stresses accountability for cattle profitability and humane consideration in livestock decisions.
Cleaning dairy utensils requires careful washing and thorough scalding to ensure cleanliness. Unclean equipment compromises milk quality and safety.
The note suggests that corn maturing into a good ear crop is believed by many to be better for feeding than varieties that yield heavy forage but few ears. It emphasizes ear-producing quality as a feeding advantage.
Mrs. Aselin of Minneapolis reports relief from monthly pains after two years of illness and multiple doctors. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her strength and ability to work. The ad notes the product is plant based and contains no narcotics and invites inquiries to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. for confidential advice.
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