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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1908
Page
9
The notice praises Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a safe and gentle laxative. It urges purchase from the California Fig Syrup Co and lists druggists, with a price of fifty cents per bottle. The ad also promotes Garfield Tea as a mild cleansing remedy and includes generic proverbs and calls to action.
Miller and Holmes of St. Paul Minnesota advertise daily cash payments for cream with prompt price quotations and tags. The brief notice invites interested suppliers to write for current rates and terms.
An architectural voice recalls Rome’s height limits on tenements and palaces. Julius Augustus banned tall blocks, Nero era reforms widened streets and lowered tenement heights, pushing city spread beyond walls. Early Rome featured low ceilings and shuttered windows, contrasting with modern skyscraper ideas.
A Washington woman credits Postum coffee substitute with a dramatic health turnaround after four years of illness. She stopped coffee, drank Postum per directions, regained energy to do housework and care for two babies, and reports renewed cheerfulness and vitality.
The article outlines school and party outfits for young children, noting Russian blouses for both boys and girls, suspender and guimpes, and strap dresses as versatile pieces. It highlights fabrics such as striped checks, ginghams, lawn and silk slips, with pink and blue as favored colors, and emphasizes bright sashes, ribbons, and lace details for youthful, fashionable looks.
Fashion notes discuss sashes and scarfs as key accent details for spring summer outfits. Sashes appear mainly in simple frocks while elaborate treatments appear in ultradresses. Breilles and fringed finishes decorate day and night wear with monasserine de sole and filet fabrics.
A new spring suit features site serge with a vestead white voile vest lined in taffeta. The elegant combination is described as far more attractive than previous maid styles.
The text discusses exercise balance for fat loss, skin care with glycerin and lemon mixtures, and clothing habits for day and nightwear. It also suggests throat muscle strengthening by puffing cheeks while blowing with lips, reflecting dated, practical wellness advice.
A practical guide describes crafting a smoker’s comfort lute from cardboard. It mentions possible materials such as art serge linen or Roman satin and explains cutting a foundation of cardboard to hold as many pieces as needed for the model.
The piece is 18 inches long and curved deep with a fabric cover and linen or sateen backing. A 22 inch strip forms pockets 3.14 deep, lined for firmness, upper edge finished with cord loops at the pocket divider. Attach by stitching to the foundation, finish edges with cord loops at corners, sew ends with ribbon and bow to suspend the rack.
The text advises taking only a small portion of tooth powder daily to avoid air exposure reducing purity. It warns that if you experience ringing and thumping sounds in the ear, you should see a physician immediately since hearing is delicate and not to be trifled with.
The article describes dressing details focusing on modesty folds used with low and square necks. A corn crepe de chine diner dress featured a pink chiffon fold embroidered with pearls, while another gown showcased a Persian velvet neck fold four inches deep, elaborately embroidered in silk and gold.
The article describes dainty high collar looks in Irish point lace and satin elastic belts that slim the waist by an inch or two. It highlights belts with jet cabochons, a long upright jet buckle, and silk crushed belts with triple shirrings. It notes belts that widen at the back and suit slender figures, with a front steel studded oval buckle.
Hatpin outfits become essential in French wardrobes with boxes of pins arranged like soldiers. Sets include up to 25 pins in bird floral bow veil and other designs. The latest novelty is embroidered flowers giving the look of fresh blossoms on white hats.
In Paris the waistcoat is a cretonne front with plain back and a row of white buttons. Flowered cretonne waistcoats in several styles and colors brighten spring suits. Embroidered waists and taffeta floral vests enhance the pony coat cutaway and eton for women seeking distinctive, seasonable attire.
A Harper's Bazar writer notes lingerie dresses as single piece garments with narrow waist embroidery or insertion. Linen or cloth versions feature stitched or braided waistbands and back toning. These jumper styles, with fancy attached waists and finished belts, promise to be summer favorites.
A recent bag with soft leather and large metal rings shows a novel design favored by exclusive houses. Bead bags in white or black mimic old flower motifs and attract attention with mesh pearl work and intricate bead embroidery.
A tailored spring accessory features suede and glazen leather butterfly ties. Each piece forms four wing segments with perforated ovals to reveal color beneath. Available in color pairs such as dark purple and violet brown and tan dark blue and light myrtle and apple green and two reds, with lighter under pieces.
The article notes cretonne trims on morning and informal afternoon cotton and linen frocks. Designs feature chintz patterns with large and small roses and green leaves on linen borders. Though bold at first glance, such styles may soften as the season progresses.
The method uses two or more long pins driven into press board with a center gap for running the bias. Slide the band under the pins and pull through to turn the edges, then press. This speeds up pressing many yards at once.
The article advises buttonholes on the front of a shirt waist should run straight across. If cut vertically the waist is hard to keep buttoned and lays poorly.
A column extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female troubles and urges sick women to write for advice. Letters from Mrs Barbara Base and Mrs Arthur R House cite relief from alleged severe conditions and avoided operations. The ad presents a thirty year claim of cures for displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities pains and backache.
A fragment describes a trip up, mentioning souvenir postcards of a pigsty and hen house for the summer board trade. It hints at a rural setting and barter or exchange involving local people named Liram. The terse line conveys a memory or inside joke from an Enterprise report.
J F Hennen of Milan Missouri testifies that years of itch and breakouts were resolved by Cuticura Soap Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent after three doctors failed. A leg infection from grippe and pneumonia also healed after three courses of the remedies. May 13 1905 percent likely.
A fragment notes a teacher and a cook named Tommie discuss Home Rule. The item hints at local civic talk with limited readable context and unclear dates or places, focusing on individual roles rather than events.
State of Ohio Toledo City Lucas County chancery records show Frank J Chesney swearing an oath regarding Parker of the Guns of J J Ciugsey Co promising one hundred dollars for each case of cataract not cured by Lu’s Carasted Cong.
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