Preparation of Costly Furs
A fur factory cuts skins into narrow irregular strips to be sewn into cloaks. The process lengthens mink and sable skins by matching many pieces, enabling a cloak to appear longer while preserving markings.
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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
7
A fur factory cuts skins into narrow irregular strips to be sewn into cloaks. The process lengthens mink and sable skins by matching many pieces, enabling a cloak to appear longer while preserving markings.
The Atchison Globe contrasts two methods of infant care with old fashioned mothers preferring to pick up and cuddle crying babies while favoring the traditional approach. It notes that new methods train babies to lie content in a crib starting at three weeks and provoke indignation meetings from the older camp.
An advertisement claims Vogeler's Curative Compound treats impoverished blood by creating new tissues and red blood cells. It asserts strength and vitality improvements and promotes sending for a free sample from St Jacobs Oil, Baltimore.
Coventry reader Mary Snoxting of Gosport Street recalls a five week hand injury after a fall. She reports no benefit from initial remedies until using St Jacobs Oil, claiming regained finger movement after one bottle and full function after two.
W. J. Arkell complains that funny events occur outside comic papers. He struggles at a office telephone and jokes that the wires are crossed. He finally realizes the other end stutters, ruining the call in a lighthearted moment.
New York Health Department seized a quantity of cheap baking powder sold at department stores. Chemists found the powder mainly alum and pulverized rock and declared it dangerous to health. Several thousand pounds were destroyed at the offal dock. High quality cream of tartar brands are safer and more economical.
A Baltimore American item recaps a playful tale where a young woman jokes about alphabetical courtships she encountered in the country. She explains rolling eyes and jars following eyes as they reach the letters I and J, concluding she spoke from experience.
An Honest Man's Opinion from Vermont Missouri touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as a remarkable remedy after kidney and liver trouble. A local man, J S Tillery, credits rapid improvement and urges others to try the pills. The page also notes household tips, a quip about poise, and references to various publications and products like Red Cross Ball Blue and Eagle Linen Paper.
Sosci usko County Circuit Court Judge Hiram S. Biggs ruled unconstitutional an act regulating bulk merchandise sales. The decision in the Philip Jaeger case voids creditor privileges limited to stock sale origins in insolvency, affecting wholesale dealers in the Whiting matter.
An attempt to derail a passenger train on the Wa bash road in Jackson township was halted when a freight crew spotted ties on the track a half hour earlier. Robbery motive remains undetermined.
Edward Holder a Richmond area animal trainer mounted his steer Garvin to a bicycle and raced him on a course. The steer covered an eighth mile in eighteen seconds, equating to about a mile in 2 24. The steer is about one year old.
Samuel Abercrombie a leading Rushville merchant shot himself through the head in a case described as despondency over business and temporary insanity.
An advertisement proclaims Hall’s Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh, claiming it treats the illness constitutionally by affecting blood and mucous surfaces. It offers 100 dollars to any case not cured and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, while noting retail price and Hal’s Family Pills.
In this witty exchange from Smart Set, Berenice asks about the brain work, and Hortense explains that Cholly has made his valet step back as he decides for himself which outfits to wear each day. The line hints at independence and vanity in a playful tone.
An advertisement touts Mother Gray a nurse at a New York Children’s Home selling 25 cent powder used to treat colds feverishness headaches stomach trouble teething disorders and worms with ten thousand testimonials. Sample mailed free. Address Allen S Le Roy New York.
A lyrical fragment notes lilacs as tropical and anti puritan blending with lutes and liquid voices. The passage evokes a vowelled tongue and a mood of playful musicality.
An advertisement page promotes Kemp's Balsam and Putnam Face Less Dues cough cures with free samples and 25 50 cent bottles. The copy includes famed quotes from Longfellow and remarks by Wm H Harrison praising Piso's Cure for Consumption and a note from a New York address dated March 25 1901.
Mrs Sophie Binns of Fruitvale Bal asserts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her congestion and inflammation of the ovaries after months of pain and weakness. She credits improved health to the remedy and urges others to use only the product, warning against alternatives.
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