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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1911
Page
9
In the Illustrated Milliner Julia Bottomley notes new hat shapes with large flower embellishments on smaller frames. The little helmet frames are covered with flowers and finished with a bow of velvet, combining charm and durability to attract women shoppers.
The article describes hat designs with crowns fully or partly covered in flowers, using blue and white brims, velvet facings, and braided brims. It notes dainty flower shades, standing aigrettes, millinery grasses, and lavish trims. Large hats hide brim and crown with blossoms to avoid heaviness.
Look like the real posies they imitate and scent choices. Old-fashioned garden blossoms and wild flowers are reproduced for decorative use. Simple white frocks with posies at the belt, periwinkles, and blue accents complete summer outfits with coordinated frock details.
A vintage laundry tip suggests sewing buttons to a tape placed across opposite buttonholes on both hems. By sewing the tape to the garment and using safetypins at ends, the tape is removed during washing and reused, protecting buttons in future washes. This method can apply to every button pile and fabric type.
Guidance on infant care advising to place the baby on his right side when putting him to rest in a cradle or perambulator. Suggests that initial soothing should avoid a flat back position, noting comfort after feeding and the possibility of changing position later.
Small flowers intersperse with a few larger blooms in hat designs. The best large hats feature flower covered crowns with the brim only partly shaded by them. Velvet rope or ribbons usually finish these fashion creations.
A guide for making a round Dutch collar and cuffs from lawn or dotted muslin. Frills 3.5 inches for collars and 2 inches for cuffs are edged with a tiny scallop and sewn into plaits or narrow tucks. Finishing allows soft drape or inverted sleeve frill with a lace pin. taper ends for collars.
Fads feature Grepes among fresh cottons with turnback cuffs on elbow sleeves and grays preferred in gloves for dressy wear. The spike incroyable coat appears while striped ribbons adorn morning hats. Gold accents grow in popularity on elegant dresses as ruchings return in fringed, single, and double-pleated forms.
Don’t throw away that waterproof raincoat. Rip it apart and wash it well, then fashion a large household apron for scrubbing and washing. Create a chemistry apron for the daughter, a dusting cap and sleeve protectors, cases for sponges brushes and toilet articles, and a cover to tie over the laundry basket.
A short note suggests a time-saving trick for threading a darning needle. Form a loop of cotton through the needle eye, place the wool end in it, and pull the wool through. The illustration demonstrates the method clearly, making further explanation unnecessary.
Instructions describe making ribbon flowers from chiffon or satin, using an eight fold rosebud technique and winding to form roses. Add green foliage for hair wreaths and small blue forget me nots by tying blue ribbon lengths with a yellow centers. These decorations suit children's hats.
An old showman recalls Samson the elephant causing havoc in Haley Idaho. The beast overturned wagons cage trains and a blacksmith shop wagon loaded with ore. Native armed guards shot at him but failed as Samson was lassoed and subdued by handlers. The owner urged punishment but the animal calmed after a talk with the trainer.
A New York Produce Exchange vault built under Rockefeller wealth stores about 200 million in stocks and bonds. The bomb burly fireproof chamber uses steel rails and multiple locks, with small sheet steel boxes and a card index noting bond maturities and coupon dates.
New York weather bureau data show 1910 as the driest year in the region beside 1895, with total precipitation under 36 inches. Early months hint at a further drop, as January to March run nearly three inches below normal, suggesting rainfall could be about 10 percent below last year.
Representatives of the Mary G. Pinkney estate announce the sale of the extensive old Watts Farm holdings in New York. The property will be offered at public auction in the Vessey street salesrooms, with Joseph F. Day as auctioneer. Abram S. Elkus notes this is a rare, large estate sale in New York and says it is the largest estate ever offered at one time.
Mrs. Peter Carney of 178 North Broad Street owns a canary that speaks five words. An emissary from New York zoological gardens offered $1,000 after determining the bird can say Pretty little Peter and Pretty little birdie. Mrs. Carney refused the high bid, claiming the bird is the only known English-speaking canary of its species.
The London dinner hour is rumored to move earlier as the king and queen favor early dining. Despite claims, dinners at the palace for their majesties have often begun at 8 30, echoing Edward VII, with royal sanction.
At Harrison Virginia state normal school 200 girls skipped Sunday dessert to save 35 dollars for the Red Cross Chinese relief fund. The act turned a routine dinner into a charitable contribution from the campus.
The Aero Club of America plans a bill to make it a misdemeanor to use an aeroplane not owned by the user without owner consent. Law committees will draft legislation similar to recent automobile laws in several states.
A terse, fragmentary passage shows a quick dialogue about birds. He asks if she likes all kinds of birds and she declines, saying she hates a jay. The fragment ends with a curt negative remark and a mispunctuated exchange.
A verse film of red clover blooms with bees and dew, praising nature’s beauty yet lamenting citybound children kept away. The imagery shifts from meadow freshness to urban blunder, urging children to roam fields and taste honeyed blooms before the city shadows swallow them.
A dialog about quips and wordplay unfolds on a desk as a glittering whiskered man offers a riddle about an army officer on furlough and a physical investigator reading Poe to a departed ancestor. The pale slave counters with a pun about an airship and mincemeat as both seek currents. The glittering stranger withdraws, saying the joke cannot be used.
In a tense scene, a young woman presses for a marriage proposal despite Papa’s violent reaction. Percy Fazipp asked permission. Papa kicked him, injuring his foot badly. The couple faces an urgent question of fate and timing.
A fragmented note depicts a patient who, each evening at nine, climbs a vine and proclaims he is ready to leave, likened to a cuckoo figure. The garbled text hints at a mild, surreal observation from a sanitarium setting.
A fair young narrator states she learned the camera walk at school to avoid being photographed in an ungraceful pose. The playful exchange centers on prudence and poise in public sight.
A dialogue unfolds as a poor blind man recalls a woman asking about trading stamps and then saying she would go elsewhere. The scene centers on a terse exchange and the woman’s vague actions toward the man.
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