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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1911
Page
5
A feature urging women with limited budgets to learn sewing to refresh wardrobes for spring. It discusses affordable fabrics, lace layering, and practical dress ideas like a simple silk house dress with varied lace trims, gussets for full busts, and adaptable designs from day wear to a high gown.
A practical note explains making finger plates for scullery larder or cupboard doors to reduce finger marks. It suggests using a linoleum remnant with a tile pattern as an inexpensive, easy substitute to protecting door faces from constant handling.
The article describes creating a decorative plate shaped to fit precisely with neatly trimmed edges. It notes securing the plate with brass headed nails and two fixed finger-plates that are ornamental, durable, and easy to clean with no damp rag.
Gold cords finished with tassels designed to be tied at the base of the collar. Tassels hang in front and the accessory is described as most attractive, suitable with wool or a lace yoke.
Instructions describe mending torn lace curtains using matching net and thick boiled starch. Apply the net, iron with a moderately hot iron so the repair scarcely shows up close. If a tear sits in a pattern a few stitches imitate the work.
Socks for children up to age 12 abandon long stockings in warm weather. Colorful patterns avoid black, with blue and yellow stripes and plaid-friendly plain tops. Practical garter options and inventive folding techniques help keep socks in place and prevent stretching at the tops.
An elderly woman in Pittsfield Mass makes a novel set of false teeth by attaching small white bone buttons to a gold plate using snow thread. The makeshift molars work well, with edges worn to match real teeth and replacements kept on hand for breaks.
The broad ended tie has dominated English fashion for years with haber dashers and manufacturers aiming to prolong its vogue for another year or two. Ties range in price from 35 to 75 cents retail with Irish poplin options at 50 to 75 cents and wholesalers buying at about $2.90 per dozen, selling at $3.40 with a small discount.
In the Isle of Man off England relief is delayed as the house of keys strikes. Manx women including widows have full parliamentary franchise and life estate rights. The islands restricts cigarette sales to youths and caps loan interest at six percent, a centuries old rule. The piece cites progressive Manx laws ahead of England.
O B Thomas of Honolulu notes the Molokai leper colony has not grown in years. He reports some cases misclassified as leprosy have been removed, leaving a smaller confirmed population. The district of Sepaveddie lies behind a high mountain range with its own municipal government, schools, amusements, and daily work.
Before wireless telegraphy, a ship captain acted as doctor using a medicine chest with numbered bottles and instructions. A rheumatism case was treated by tallying doses, as the captain read No. 11 but found 6 and 5 full, summing to 11 doses per day, and he cured the carpenter through arithmetic.
Coburg Oregon a Lane county village of 800 plans to invite Colonel Roosevelt during his state visit to speak to parents of twins and celebrate six pairs of various aged children in its public schools. The effort highlights local pride in a “galaxy of double stars” and community spirit.
Queen Alexandra avoids red meat and tea withdraws from coffee and wine. She favors poultry and game with vegetables and fruit and nuts. Desserts are simple fruit or nuts with salt almonds and walnuts. Toasts replace bread and hot milk replaces beverages while cream tops meals, with moderate exercise sustaining a girlish figure.
A travel sketch notes how Scots gain education beyond schooling. It cites a Gaelic poet farmer paying about $20 ground rent, a youth who horse rides to Aberdeen to enter university, and a Scot who prefers Homer in Greek to translations, trimming social classes and literacy to a single country vignette.
Army and navy engineers face muzzle droop in long guns from self weight and temperature. Wire wound 12 inch by 50 feet droop about four and a half minutes, solid built up about two and a half. Temperature differences cause further bending, affecting projectile wobble up to several hundred yards.
The text argues that radical changes provoke injury to society and that women wearing trousers faced instinctive resentment across ages. It notes fashion cycles where absurd styles trigger collective backlash, suggesting fear and hate drive opposition more than individual opinion.
A Gloucester fisherman argues against the Canadian Reciprocity bill’s fish clause by claiming codfish use sand ballast to sink to deeper waters. He says sand in the stomach indicates scarcity, and that ballast enables cod to swim down when cod are scarce.
A farmer talks of going to Washington to seek benefits from a powerful congressman. He meets Washington and Dick Blank, but the representative cannot deliver and struggles to keep them from getting torpedoed. The tale satirizes unmet political promises from a mild-mannered legislator.
William A Radford explains two practical ways to finish concrete surfaces for blocks and monolithic work. He details face down and face up molds, granite facing, mixing ratios, waterproofing, and curing, plus a warm home design illustrating improved thermal performance. A separate anecdote recalls a farmer and a rookery miscommunication.
A Kerry farmer visits Limerick land seeking a farm but cannot agree on rent with the landlord. The landlord mocks Kerry soil, saying grass grows fast and heifers wander off at night. The Kerry man retorts that parts of his county suffer even greater loss of cattle overnight.
Four strangers share remarks in a country inn highlighting states Virginia Kentucky Ohio and Louisiana. A tall man declares the garden spot of America as Skowhegan Maine prompting the question Where is that and a quip to buy a razor strop.
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