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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1913
Page
16
An article advocates turning routine chores into beauty work. It suggests wearing a cap, varied aprons, and leisurely cleaning to improve posture and muscles. Sweeping allegedly shapes the waist and hips while washing promises back relief, with advice on wearing gloves for dishwashing.
A suburban contributor praises a large looseleaf calendar style notebook indexed by dates. Each day holds notes on events and tasks from social to business, with pages for each date. The system, adapted from scientific management, lets users post or move items as needed.
An advertisement touts Hill's Rheumatic Remedy as a twenty year proven cure for rheumatism and goat rheumatism offering relief within twenty four hours. It guarantees cure with one bottle curing most cases and is available at drug stores or by mail for one dollar per bottle from Hill Medicine at 117 East 24th Street.
Laura Jean Libby notes how business women living alone in four room flats can transform dreary winters by inviting friends for surprise parties. A department store example shows neighbors and colleagues gathering with food, theater plans, and shared courtesy to lift spirits and create social warmth.
Easy and practical suggestions for home dressmaking present two desirable styles for girls ages four to fourteen. Instructions specify material options 36-inch and 54-inch widths for an eight year size and detail pattern layout with perforations, seams, facings, and collar choices. A high neck with standing collar or open neck with round collar is offered along with a satin bow finish.
General laundry in AU offers cuff and shirt cleaning as a specialty with Seaview Avenue location and contact phone 154 3.
Miss Maud Minahan, a New York City student, has been named the prettiest girl at Wellesley College in a notable campus vote. The announcement playfully invites other women’s colleges to challenge for the title, noting her popularity and strong support from friends.
A guide to efficient dishwashing and table clearing in a maidless home. It outlines a practical workflow daily routines for two people or children, including room opening, stacking, washing order from silver to pots, and a rotating schedule to share duties.
A collection of pithy observations and social jests about women, marriage, and manners. The prose wrings humor from gender roles, wealth, and urban life, with caricatures of New York mothers, widows, and model wives, interspersed with domestic tips for food and dress.
Old style household tips cover cleaning, ironing, sewing, and small food ideas. Advice includes cooling red-hot charcoal to improve its use, borax and soda for hairbrush cleaning, tomato sauce with baked beans, apron design, framing embroidery with gilt oval frames, jelly salads, guest room prep with a chest of emergency items, hot cloths kept over a kettle, ironing colored fabrics damp on the wrong side, reheating macaroni and stewed tomatoes, and stain removal with fuller’s earth and vinegar paste.
Dialog from the Chicago Record Herald shows a couple negotiating early marriage terms. They spar over cats, money, hairbrushes, laundry duties, greetings, in laws, and late returns, ending with a witty demand for sharing a cheap candy gift with someone more worthy.
A fragmentary poem about a child yearning for a mountain home contrasts with a late 19th century medical protest advising physicians to caution against extreme dances. The piece cites the American Medical Association warning that modern dances may harm elderly and young alike, urging restraint and moral scrutiny.
In a clipped exchange a wife asks for a budget to buy presents for the children mother and others while Alfred wonders how little is possible. After a pause the total is revealed as 74.251 dollars and cents, with a terse conclusion about their gifts.
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