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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1908
Page
8
A home remedy piece argues that home made cooling drinks can beat street bottled summer beverages. It lists Pineapple Lemonade and Currant Water with simple steps using pineapple, lemons, raspberries, currants, sugar, water, and crushed ice. The tone encourages self made chillers over doctor warnings and store bought drinks.
The article describes preparing cool drinks for summer and invalids. Oatmeal water is offered as a nourishing alternative to barley water with oats milk and sugar, strained and chilled. Lemon ginger beer is made by boiling water with lemons ginger and sugar, then cream of tartar, yeast, and overnight cooling for bottling.
The luncheon is described as a lasting American habit, especially among women, breaking daily monotony. It favors casual, unhurried meals, with pick-up dishes and leftovers common. Men care little for mid day fare while women and daughters invest in its variety and economy.
Stiff collars long embroidered are revived with Dresden colored flower nosegays on collar corners. Matches with jabots of embroidered handkerchiefs or white linen butterfly bows complete the dainty look on white linen suits.
Beaded leather belts offered in large quantities, praised as very pretty. The best are soft suede with multicolor glass beads imitating Indian work. Some belts feature beads grouped at the front as a buckle substitute, others show an imitation buckle at both front and back.
Royal fashion notes describe a new necklaceless corsage drapery of fishnet gold threads set with diamonds worn with royal robes by Mrs Cavendish Bentinck and Mrs Edward Ward. Inverted diadems and pointed wheat ear crowns appear, with Queen Alexandra and the Duchess of Rutland among wearers.
The crepe de chine coat remains a favorite while satin enhances a veiling skirt wrap. Unattached chiffon pendants float freely and a Grecian empire look pairs with a long skirt for evening wear. White skirts with colored coats appear in tailor-made suits and the red golf jacket reappears.
Frank Clearing presses Helen Rockwell to marry him despite her warning of his father's disapproval. Helen confronts Frank's father, outlining why marriage is impossible and urging him to separate the couple. The elder Clearing offers protection and backing, while Helen insists on choosing a marriage with dignity and warns against coercion.
A Chicago Record-Herald strip recalls a fortune teller reading a man’s palm. He learns he will live long and that his salary will rise, likely bigger than his wife’s inflation of his income. The gambler’s hope ends with the man leaving satisfied.
An exchange from the Washington Star features a remark about being "gettin' right exclusive" and an answer that the family calls it "Jonesome" as a playful local quip. The dialogue centers on slang and social brag.
A humorous Yonkers Statesman passage riffs on a Chicago minister giving away trading stamps with marriages. Characters debate marriage motives as a guest contemplates hotel stays in Mudhurst-on-the-Hogs, choosing between rain and travel.
A quip involving a drummer asking a Hayfield Eagle House landlord about bed stuffing leads to the landlord boasting of using the best straw in the hull county. The exchange ends with the drummer noting where the straw originated, delivering a light heap of rural humor in a dated Puck manner.
In a wry exchange, a husband jokes about spending his time responding to his wife’s pleas for more money while she is away, reflecting a humorous domestic dynamic reported in the Detroit Free Press.
A preserved Chicago Journal quip on timing and merit notes that every dog may have his day but not all dogs know when. The gag contrasts luck with awareness in a compact, period voice.
A humorous Chicago Daily News cartoon caption exchanges a joke between a speaker and Geraldine over whose dog is modest and knowledgeable, reflecting light newspaper humor of the era.
The tale follows Bliffers recalling a plan to return to his native town to locate his old love Lilian, praised as the "airy fairy" figure. He reveals she now works in a dime museum earning twenty dollars weekly as its champion fat woman.
A short exchange unfolds as a caller intends to thrash a editor but aims his anger at the assistant instead. The assistant refuses, noting the editor is absent, and the caller coolly hands over his coat before declaring his plan to strike.
A brief Chicago Record-Herald item notes a speaker recalling four men who offered to make him independently rich, but who failed to recognize him when he refused to buy stock. The exchange underscores missed chances and warning signs in financial schemes.
A Chicago Daily News item humorously contrasts a wife's wasting disease with a compulsive shopping habit. The piece plays on misheard names and wordplay to critique frugality and consumer excess in domestic life.
A brief, humorous exchange unfolds with a judge and Johnny in a tailor shop setting as Alfie is directed to the left and Johnny asks about the Isle of Man, prompting a clerkly reply about the gent's furnishing department.
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