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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
6
Fashion notes revival of lambrequins in cretonne with varied top drapery and side panels. Discusses straight top plaits, festoon draping, valances, and decorative trims, plus pairing side curtains with matching lam brequins and understated netting for a refined bedroom look.
The belt trend shows tassels and high placement to elongate the silhouette. Morn ing dresses and veiles adopt the semi princess look with bows and guimpe emphasis. The low corsage line grows popular for modesty while enhancing bust appearance.
A historical note describes fabrics including rubberized taffeta and treated chen pongee becoming water and dirt proof. The text touts comfort and wear, noting silks and whites in fashion models though details blur with garbled wording.
Sewing guide describes a light coat using Alpaca or tussere with dust easily shaken off. It features a short waistline, metal clasp, gathered edge cuffs with buttons, Tuscan straw material, lace, and velvet band. Fabric needed listed as five yards forty six inches wide with some cream details.
A home crafted carrier case for church cooks features a sturdy carded board construction and a decorative burnished box style. It uses a wide gold galloon and floral embroidery with ribbons to create a practical wrist sling and a finial holder for prayer hooks.
Artisans display jeweled daggers as decorative hair accessories, larger than old porpolis from forty years ago. Curl daggers feature tortoise shell or carved horn handles with enamel or jeweled hilts, varying from silver with turquoise to gold inlaid with precious stones, suitable for morning to evening wear.
A fragment from a dialogue shows a father urging a child not to accept mediocrity while the child cites a dislike of mediocrity. The text ends with an unclear line.
Dialogue shows Mrs Ball and Mrs Lotte discussing voting for school commissioner. Mrs Lotte reveals she voted for Mer. Abuster but learns he opposes women’s advancement and plans to change her vote at the polls.
A fragmented Punch newspaper snippet lampoons sympathy and loyalty themes with garbled dialogue and mock dialogue lines. The brief satire references misdirected charity and insists on learning to say no with a tongue in cheek tone.
A fragmentary note cites Herlock Schemes claiming few letters are written. The text mocks penmanship and hints at dating letters to 1907, suggesting a mystery around the writer’s identity and timing.
A garbled scene shows a romantic moment as doorbell rings and a puzzled listener seeks to understand the situation. The exchange hints at a budding relationship and social nerves, framed in a stray, incomplete dialogue.
A lyric-minded note from the Houston Post comments on long number strings on car backs and the impracticality of tracing them when someone disrupts travel. It humorously hints at chasing a vehicle to record its many digits miles from town.
An Od Crreuehb quip notes that when a handsome young man buys a girl a decent package of chewing gum his female relatives might call it wastful money.
Sir Oliver Lodge, a scientist and keen golfer, is linked to Sutton Coldfield and Felixstowe clubs. He recalls St Andrews training with Professor Tait who stressed playing golf with morals not muscles. A returning sportsman recounts shooting seventeen ducks in a day, noting the farmer owned them.
A first grade boy brings home perfect polling papers then misses the rind weeks later. The father asks if this is the teacher’s fault. The boy replies that the flaw is not the teacher’s fault but that she moved the boy who sat next to me.
A comic slice shows a card game row with Sir John Mastrope accusing a partner of cheating while the partner retorts. A governess lectures on the spinal cord to schoolchildren and a clergyman quizzes Johnny about seasons. Other vignettes include a real estate ad, Napoleon’s advertising critique, a child seeking glory divine, and a dress query from a southwest tailor.
G W L Nesbitt of Depot Street Marion Kentucky recounts chronic kidney trouble with swelling and near paralysis. After taking Deans Kidney Pills for three months he claims rapid improvement and return to work. Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
The speaker proclaims rebellion after six months under control, mocking the oppressor as a wriggling, nasty thing and declaring empowerment in a sharp, defiant claim.
Mrs Abs V V Albert of Upper Wrenchville Maine testifies that after rheumatic sores covered her husband’s legs he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. Within three weeks the eruptions dried and pain lessened. after three months he was well. July 21 1907.
The notice promotes Allen's Foot-Fare as a cure for hot sweaty feet with callouses and swelling. It directs purchases from all druggists and warns against substitutes, listing a trial package and offering a mail address in Le Bay New York for orders.
A father recalls his ten year old son Tye Childster making a dry humor quip at table. The boy asks why a postage stamp is not a prohibitionist and is told it sticks to its liquor. The exchange reveals ongoing South’s dry discussion and family amusement.
The Houston Post profiles Charles Nicholson Sr who migrated from slavery to Texas in 1855 and built a farm centered on a single prolific pecan tree. The tree produced the largest pecans in America and was noted by the department of agriculture in Washington. Nicholson sold $54 worth from the tree last year and now sells young trees at $1 each as they quickly vanish.
A letter volume recounts relief from headaches stomach issues and heart distress after quitting coffee and switching to Postum Food Coffee. Several readers credit Postum with curing long standing dyspepsia asthma and heart trouble. The testimonial ends with a plug for The Road to Wellville and a note that new letters appear periodically.
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