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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1913
Page
3
Practical household hacks on opening stubborn tins and jars, cleaning stoves with turpentine and varnish, and preserving cheese freshness with vinegar wrapped in a paper bag. These quick methods promise faster results and better results in daily chores.
Dr Adeline G Boule urges that the kitchen be the refinery, laboratory, and factory of the home with every scrap of food used. Buy staple supplies in bulk to save 15 to 30 percent, and treat domestic work as education and intelligent practice in a well lighted, ventilated, sanitary workshop.
The article notes linen frocks remain popular, often paired with net or embroidery to soften stiffness. It describes styling tips for collars, frilling, and a back-hung belt trend. The lingerie hat, or tin gerie hat, resurfaces yearly with evolving shapes.
A sand pile in the back yard provides endless play value for children. Mixing colored marbles shells and pebbles enhances interest. Children should wear play clothes such as rompers or big short sleeve aprons. Many simple patterns exist for play clothes.
Instruction advises dusting highly polished surfaces with a cloth in both hands to prevent finger marks. It recommends rubbing with one hand while the other fingers avoid marring the shine.
A thrift era guide offers household care for clothing. It suggests using corn meal to fix leaks, turpentine for potting, sponge methods, carbon-copy practice for records, ocher oil in starch to preserve ecru lace, gentle silk care with lukewarm water and ammonia, shade drying, and oxalic acid salt bleach to remove yellowing from white silk or embroidery.
A Chicago Tribune quotation notes that people cannot buy happiness or the traits that make social bonds pleasant. It argues good manners and agreeable dispositions are not owned by any class and not more scarce in one group than another.
An earthen dish of quicklime placed in closets will absorb moisture, act as a disinfectant and also keeps rats and mice away.
The Ohio River moves yearly freight from Western Virginia coal to New Orleans, with steamboats carrying up to 10,000,000 tons annually. It shows river capacity to transport large coal and steel shipments to Cincinnati and beyond, surpassing railway timelines and illustrating river transportation limits.
Fruits unseen by hundreds of millions thrive in temperate zones and especially in Avapalco on the Pacific slope. The region hosts a profusion of indigenous varieties growing spontaneously with little native cultivation. Aside from scattered coconuts and bananas, most fruits grow wild and luxuriant.
The South African custom of printing thanks to medical attendants with death announcements is noted as overly inclusive. The South African Medical Record objects and the medical association seeks to suppress these in Memoriams for kindness but deemed inappropriate. This practice draws criticism from medical circles in London Tit-Bits.
A brief Chicago Record-Herald quip depicts a fly stuck on fly paper as a companion urges departure while the detained insect opts to linger briefly, capturing a light offhand moment.
In a narrated romance a young man Hadley pursues Angela Cathaway after a past act of kindness involving a lemon pie. Their reunion at a Hyattsville house party rekindles their connection as the pie becomes a symbol of fate and memory.
A lively parlor game described for youths where players place two fingers on the table and must lift them when the leader calls out creatures that fly. The aim is to trap others into lifting at the wrong moment, with forfeits for mistakes.
Two wild lambs, the first ever captured, were brought from Triple Divide and taken into Glacier National Park by two rangers with government permission. They transported the lambs using sheltering bush panniers, leaving concern among the mountain’s wild mother sheep. The remaining lamb is expected to be returned to the wild when the government facilitates its reunion with its mother.
A vintage note explains a simple mirror trick to look like a full figure. By positioning beside a wardrobe, half the body is hidden while the other half projects, creating the illusion of a jumping jack as the performer moves limbs.
A fragmented puzzle riddle asks readers to behead words to reveal clues. It references a home, a levee, and parts of a word-play sequence with letters and placements, suggesting a historical word-game from a newspaper page.
Fragmented OCR text presents a riddle fragment about Mother Twitchett with one eye and long tail. The jumbled lines mention a rider like Westula and a reference to ashes and a steal, resembling a puzzle or verse fragment without clear context or full lines.
In parts of Brittany earthen field walls lack gates. A child leads cattle through the opening each morning using docks and beads to guide them. If a girl shepherd watches the opening she may be kept busy all day, with occasional tasks like guarding the baby.
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