13 Jan 1887
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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1887
Page
1
A guide for economical dressmaking with all wool fabrics at 50 to 75 cents a yard. Advises choosing single fabrics rather than mixed for new gowns, mixing plaid skirts with plain basques, and using trims like braid. Describes dress structures for good better and best levels, fabrics, basques, jackets, and color pairings for varied occasions.
The article details a sophisticated half-mourning outfit featuring an iron-gray glace silk skirt edged with a thick pinked-out ruche, a lighter gray wool crepon draped over it, a ladder of gray ribbon bows, a crepon bodice with a heliotrope chemisette, and ruche trims with gray velvet accents and small steel buckles.
The article describes lighter capotes than last summer with smaller caps and flat borders over the hair. The capote features light feather clusters, three ribbon loops, and lace in a delicate middle fanchion. The crown shows silk and gold embroidery, tulle accents, and a mix of plain and plaited styling.
A New York letter laments tight kid gloves as vulgar and out of fashion for well-dressed American women, noting Parisian views that such gloves mark provincials or Americans. The writer recalls past tightness that strained thumbs and curled fingers, insisting the style is fading locally.
Novelties describe tan new carreaux stripes forming a diamond pattern. They are fashionable in dull and bright hues and in light or small sizes. Used for full outfits or paired with plain fabrics to coordinate.
Household advice section outlining practical tips for farming, fruit growing, stable management, and domestic tasks. Tips emphasize efficiency, storage, and thrifty practices for daily home economy.
The article argues roads in the West are poor due to misapplied funding and lack of trained road engineers. It compares railroads, railroad engineers, and road work, urging formal training and professional oversight for highways. It also offers practical farm notes on milk strainers, churning, currants, manure value, corn as cattle feed, oats, and horse nutrition with emphasis on proper feeding for speed and conditioning.
The Live Stock Journal advises that pigs can be healthy on succulent grass with exercise, but grass alone delays maturation. Grain should accompany grass to ensure ripening and weight gain. Overreliance on grass can reduce early fattening, so combine grass with a small grain ration for best results. Horse Feed, every good groom known that sound oats.
A reader reports that Paris green or London purple failed to control plant lice and suggests a soap-suds or tobacco-water spray. The method involves dunking infected branches in solution, killing lice with strong soap-suds during washing days, with best results on young trees before growth is hindered.
This excerpt from Gardeners' Monthly discusses pruning practices for dwarf pear trees peaches grapes and berries. It warns against careless pruning and promotes thinning weak branches to improve form and vigor while maintaining fruiting potential.
Henry Stewart outlines the essentials for a successful creamery. Key points include a sufficient dairy supply from many cows, ideally 100 to 1000 cows across up to fifty herds within three miles of the creamery, reliable spring water and ice, proper buildings with water power or steam, an expert honest manager, and a central farm location to serve the supplying dairies.
Advice on humane treatment and proper routines for dairy cows. Emphasizes ample clean food and water, salt access, avoidance of tainted water and feeds, meticulous cleaning of milk vessels, hygienic milking with dry hands, and keeping milk in air clean and free of odors. Warns against sour whey and proximity of hogs to milking areas.
The bulletin stresses immediate strained milk, detached strainers, and good ventilation for dairy rooms. It advises underground air intake, fresh air supply, and vented exhaust. Cream should be removed before souring, churn temperatures 57–60F in summer and 60–64F in winter. Salt quality and quantity, plus strict cleanliness, preserve flavor and body in dairy products.
Instructions describe making a velvet mantel valance with two fabric strips folded and pleated, tied with ribbons, plus painted sprays of pansies carnations and Virginia creeper. Also details a scrap-picture decorated umbrella stand, and a tile and dish craft using black paint, Japanese prints, varnish, and gilding for a decorative lazy Susan-like set.
Practical household tips cover cleaning silver with kerosene and damp cloths, brightening carpets, removing egg stains with salt, oiling tables, treating wood with vinegar, reviving leather chairs, whitening ivory, and making varnish based black for stoves. Advice warns galvanized pails are unsuitable for drinking water and outlines brass cleaning methods for mahogany furniture.
A historical fruit cake recipe lists ingredients including butter sugar flour and spices. It yields two loaves and uses molasses and fruit to taste as key flavorings.
The recipe instructs soaking meat in a brine made from one and a half pounds of salt, half a pound of sugar, and half an ounce of saltpeter per gallon of water. Boil to remove scum, skim, cool, then pour over the meat. The corned meat will be usable in ten days and can be kept for weeks.
Wax beans make a delicious salad. Choose young beans remove strings break into melt long pieces and cook in salt and water. Whale still warm cover with a dressing of oil vinegar salt and pepper. Use oil twice as much as vinegar and follow the old saying for mixing.
A recipe describes making soft gingerbread using one pound sugar and butter creamed together. It adds eggs ginger soda dissolved in water milk or cream and flour to form a soft batter. Bake in a hot oven and serve hot while fresh.
A recipe-style account describes lining a tin with puff pastry, layering oranges and apples with sugar, adding a rice pastry top, and baking until soft. The warm pie is transferred to a china plate and sugared again for serving.
The guide instructs to boil a beef tongue for six hours, skin and keep moist, then assemble sandwiches by buttering bread, layering thin tongue slices with a touch of mustard, and baking crusts away. Finish by folding or damp-toweling until ready to serve.
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