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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1918
Page
8
A Chicago News piece argues that war time shortages will spur children to craft their own toys at home. It laments commercial toys as overproduced and urges mothers to support homemade playthings to stimulate imagination and resilience.
Saluskin the Yakima chief, aged about ninety, travels to Olympia to protest state game laws that ban fishing during the closed season despite a prior treaty granting Indians free fishing. He protests, aided by interpreters, after wardens reject adjustments, remarking only Hoh.
Mrs John Baker of Downsville faced a chilling disruption when hot water and a broom failed to free her feet as the pavement froze. Her husband pulled her loose from frozen shoes and they sought warmth indoors.
The piece notes that among Filipinos the flute is never played with the mouth and that nose playing is a spectacle seen rarely. It mentions nose-futistes can handle ordinary music but ragtime proves too fast for them.
The passage paints a vivid scene of spring farming life with fields open to the breeze. Women and girls bustle in yards and gardens while agriculture pours forth work, creating a busy, gossipy, adventurous world in the open season.
The piece urges home canners to standardize products and present attractively packed jars to build reliability. It notes that local markets, proper labeling, separate container sizes, and organized club supervision improve sale prospects. It also discusses pooling surplus for bulk sales and timing orders to meet buyer demands. The honey industry is seen as a future growth area for emergency and normal times.
The article argues beekeeping fails when beekeepers neglect bee needs and delay essential tasks. It emphasizes beekeeping as a careful, studied industry and calls for detailed information dissemination to advance this branch of agriculture.
Girls canning clubs in the United States totalled 14,040,187 containers of fruits and vegetables during 1917. Including organized clubs and home demonstration agents, total canned product is about 850,000,000 quarts valued at roughly $140,000,000, excluding dried and salted home use products.
Factory workers in an Ohio town earned 02 cents an hour in spare time last year. eight hours a day would yield 7.36 dollars, 220.80 monthly, 2,649.60 yearly. They grew vegetables in home gardens for family use, with the plant’s records proving the value of garden work exceeds factory hours. The note urges industrial workers to value time spent gardening as productive.
Guidance on feeding and managing young horses. Colts need ample grain and good roughage to mature into useful work animals. Save grain by feeding idle mature horses instead. Seek economical rations from state experiment stations and Farmers' Bulletin 803 from USDA for feeding and management details.
A frugal gardener can outfit a small plot with an apache hoe rake and line of twine, all under five dollars. Improvised tools include sharpened sticks for drakes a board as a trowel lath for weeding and a bent piece of iron as a heavy weeder, illustrating low cost practicality.
The article describes three refined daytime frocks with embroidery, satin and georgette fabrics, wide belts, and paired with tailored hats. It highlights fabrics like Khaki-kool and silk or satin blends, delicate embroidery, covered buttons, sash-like girdles, and coordinated pumps and silk stockings for a complete summer look.
The article notes spring and summer millinery feature charming styles with a clear move away from freakish shapes. It highlights a preference for attractive trims and a firm adherence to truly beautiful designs.
Wartime economy guidance urges women to limit footwear to three functional pairs. The suggested set includes black kid street shoes, white canvas oxfords, and black kid pumps for dress, with durable, sensible designs and emphasis on care such as shoe trees and alternating wear.
A period column highlights how varying shades within one color create smart millinery. It cites tortoise shell tones and mentions an attractive Milan hat with an upturned side brim in light apple-green wheat, accented by leafy trim along the crown for a leafy straw appearance.
A description notes Colored Leghorns crafting sport hats with contrasting colors. Hats feature bold edge stripes and a motif extending from the crane base to the brim edge, showcasing careful trim and design.
A theological lesson sequence emphasizes Mark 16 and Isaiah 62, detailing Jesus arraigned before Pilate, crowned with thorns, crucified between two thieves, and his burial. It argues the crucifixion proves vicarious atonement, with focus on Jesus shedding blood rather than ethical teaching, and notes key events and reactions surrounding the passion.
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