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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1896
Page
6
Domestic economy notes the skill required to properly rip and remake clothing. It argues tearing, cutting, and leaving threads or pins causes waste and reduces value. It suggests careful removal of stitches, braids, and hooks, with possible wearables after restoration. The piece imagines a sewing service exploiting remaking clothes for income.
Instructions describe making a sponge bag with waterproof sheet material and linen. Cut pieces nine inches by half a yard, stitch edges with liquid india rubber, and transfer the label Sponge Bag. Finish with hems and decorative stitching in flourishing thread.
A thrifty housewife can create colored glass windows from six tied bottles. Break bottles small then shape with a diamond-point glass cutter. Arrange on white glass with transparent cement and mix white cement to imitate lead.Different bottle colors yield olive, amber, sea-green, red and blue when lit by sunlight.
Readable text describes a decorative center piece design using pillow-case linen or heavier fabric. Stitch methods include outline and long and short stitch with Lister rope floss. Color guidance mentions two blue shades Nos 51 and 52 01 in reliew. Outlines to be worked in cutting stitch for effect.
Instructions describe embroidery methods including long and short stitches, stitching from outside to center to form a scroll shape. Choices include drugh work and all-over poilera with edges hemmed and corners finished. Bennett notes this in Western rural context.
The clippings describe a speculative device using a fine spider prod to span the globe, mentioning Jennbeck and Humboldt and a tied arch form. It hints at water weight focus and a test estimate, with garbled phrases about pressure and materials without clear outcomes or dates.
A description of Blue and White bedroom decor in country houses detailing Delft motifs, landscapes, and furniture accents. Discusses wallpaper, lampshades, and color pairings like green white violet, and notes price and aesthetic considerations for light shades and white furnishings.
Instructions describe making decorative bottle wraps from multicolored crepe paper forming a circle three times the bottle height, securing with wire, shaping a frill, and adding a ribbon bow with optional artificial flowers. Includes a note on Princess Sophie Cadogan accompanying the Queen in England and her striking features.
Amid scattered debates ministers across Mainfield and Cleveland weigh bicycle use on Sunday streets. The era’s view splits on speed and propriety with officials in Columbus and Whecheter weighing lane rules and park safety as cyclists seek access to new routes.
An anecdote recalls Baron Rothschild nearly unable to pay an omnibus fare. A driver refuses payment and ridicules the title, offering a million in protest. A friend pays the fare, the driver apologizes, and Rothschild is left with a wary lesson on pride and poverty in transit.
It is a subject of new paper comment in Southern California that cents are beginning to be used there in the stores and in commercial transactions generally. It is only a few years since any coin smaller than a nickel wan a great rarity anywhere west of the Missouri.
A reader from Fuwo River Michigan reports a case of nervous prostration treated with Dr Miles Nervine. The letter, dated February 14 15, describes how prolonged nervous derailment can affect brain and mind and even heart and vital organs, illustrating a dramatic recovery.
Edible tips describe lamb roast preparations and varied serving styles with buttered dishes, wine and tomato or mushroom garnishes. A segment promotes Howl’s Sursaparithe as a spring tonic said to revive exhausted spirits, amid old weathered health claims. A Denver mile record claim is noted as fastest mile ever ridden by a horse and rider combination.
In Timaru New South Wales two women quarrelled over a bucket of water and fought for about fifteen minutes. They grabbed each other’s hair and fell to the ground as bystanders screamed. A man finally intervened with a claw hammer to pry their hands apart, and the weaker woman needed assistance home.
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