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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1894
Page
10
A late 19th or early 20th century note describes making simple, scented violet heart sachet cards for Val entine s Day. Instructions cover velvet hearts, violet powder, ribbons, and playful motifs like crooked hairpins and owls, encouraging personal gifts over store cards.
Isabella Proctor offers practical advice on style and homemaking from denims as floor coverings to tapestry screens and lily bulbs. She notes fashion trends, cosmetics, craft ideas, and self care tips while urging tasteful restraint and personal aim as guiding principles.
A column offers tips on grooming and dress from using glycerin in warm water for hair cleansing to avoiding borax and soda for gray hair. It notes fashions like low necklines at the opera, organdies and sateens, winter gowns, and the value of an afternoon tea. It includes a simple chafing dish recipe with veal kidney and onions.
The report cites lectures by De. Bryan at Zionville and Thorntown, Swain at a college presidents meeting in Indianapolis, and a spring term catalogue. It notes Lincoln's birthday services, a music program by the College Glee Club, and a projected reform dropping class distinctions, with students ranked by credits.
Hicks forecasts a volatile March with normal early days, a new moon on the 7th, and a crisis of storms and intense cold from the 7th onward. Severe tropical to temperate storms sweep north, followed by frigid blasts, with a late month shift toward grand storms and general cold. Shelter for animals urged.
Edward W. Bok argues in the March Ladies' Home Journal that sowing wild oats harms a young man, not matures him. He says self-degradation diminishes character, erodes life views, and that true honor from youth remains essential throughout life.
Real estate transfers recorded since last report include Jas F Cossart to Santa 1 C Edington in Nottingham township, John S Pierce to Sarah Pierce in Lancaster township, Louis S Snyder to Worley Smith in Jefferson township for 3000, John H Hoover to John W Feiner with lots 7 and 8 in Elzey's addition Ossian, and Irvin A Porter to John W Feimer in Jefferson township for 3000. Additional transfers include John W Tribolet to Charles Leebrug in Bluffton, James M Hobilit to George Uptergraft in Nottingham township for 8032.00, Jemima A Allspaw to Margaret M Evans in Arnold's west addition Binzfton for 1208, Margaret M Evans to Jemima A Allspaw in Harrison township for 20, Elzey to Ephraim Vall in Jefferson township, John W Vail to W Vall in Southernon township for 3% or 2% and various other notices for Union, Bluffton, and Winterville areas.
The snippet discusses atmospheric electricity at sunset, vapors cooling near the ground, and the atmosphere-earth electrical balance. It also covers tips for keeping cut flowers in low dishes with moss, and other small home notes on items like barley sugar, rope linen testing, renewing bathtubs, and preserving pencil marks.
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