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Newspaper
Benton County Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1906
Page
1
A guide describes hosting a Leather Wedding fourth anniversary party with a dinner and a guessing game for women folk. It suggests green or brown leather accents, leather place cards, a centerpiece with a leather jar, and clever souvenirs symbolizing global locales. Guests rotate a lucky slipper game, then enjoy a lunch-counter style refreshment setup.
A description of a travel themed party plan with invitation timing and the host’s booklet idea. Includes a clever guessing contest where clues lead to dress material names and fabrics, with example Qs like a long haired animal of Peru and a rising billow. Madame Merri signs off.
Newport social pages celebrate a fashion fad as debutantes arrive with mothers, wearing gowns in birthstone colors. Jewelry matches stones like pearls sapphires and diamonds, with gowns white blue pink or turquoise blue and girdles shoes stockings and undergarments toned to the stone. Debuts vary from very long to very short hems as the season progresses.
This simple effective design for table covers side-board cloth and Duchess table covers features cross stitch work. The material should match the foundation to be ornamented and the designs reflect a move away from machine-made patterns. Plate yellow vaseline allegedly aids brow and lash growth and darkens pen tau.
The necker, among the prettiest summer styles, fills a useful part in wardrobes as waists open in back slowly. It pairs with low, pointed, round, and square-necked looks and with cloth jackets. On hot days it bridges neck and jacket gaps, especially with linen coats, and a wise reader will grasp its purpose and use.
A note on the proper way to announce engagements stresses writing personal notes to intimate friends and relatives rather than to casual acquaintances, emphasizing thoughtful, targeted communication. The guidance contrasts intimate circle outreach with broader social greetings, highlighting etiquette.
Beeville Tex inventor B KR Jones promotes a cheap quick hive entrance closure using screen wire strips bent into shallow troughs. Strips fit entrances by half embedded in the hive, teeth bite into wood forming a secure truss, easily removed with a knife end. Jones reports shipping closed bees for long distances without issue.
James A. Rice of Cornell explains how grain components map to a hen’s body and eggs. Balanced rations require proper levels of starch oil gluten and minerals to avoid soft shells, weak chicks, or excess fat, with protein guiding growth and egg quality. Milk given to chicks accelerates growth when offered freely.
The Ohio Farmer emphasizes thorough attention to small details for successful poultry keeping. It contrasts careless housing and water with well planned Coops, nests and litter, urging careful, thoroughly bred flocks, proper feed, clean nests, and proper roosts for profit and pleasure.
An orange box is cut and hinged to the wall to make a self cleaning nest box for poultry. When soiled the box lifts to shed material and vermin, a simple design praised by the Orange Judd Farmer. Also notes a feeding remedy for young chicks with a milk and cornmeal mush to restore appetite.
Advice for poultry keepers on preventing overcrowding during heat. Move and clean coops frequently. Use liberal whitewash with carbolic acid to keep chicks healthy and kill lice and mites.
A short note asserts that green food benefits hens, improving health and comfort and thereby increasing their usefulness. It states a hen can live without green food, but prefers it for better well being and productivity.
A 31 by 60 foot cottage plan includes a tower and gable rooms ideal for a boy’s private space. It emphasizes parental encouragement of artistic decor with sports gear, predicting strong home influence keeps youths from mischief and street life.
Editor HOME W A.RADFORD extolls cheerful housing with open fires and a tower room for children. Emphasizes two windows, roof perch, and open fire as primal comfort. Warns against clutter, notes chimney drafts, ash pits, and the need for forethought in planning affordable, adaptable homes fit for smaller cities and growing populations.
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