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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1914
Page
14
A dancer favors grace over beauty in learning movement and balance for stage presence. A fragmented tale follows two field mice who quarrel over a stalk of wheat until a quail reveals the folly of selfishness and leads them to share and find better abundance together.
French Challis Gathry color scheme outlined for a cream frock with pink flowers trimmed in pink satin and lace. Instructions cover foundation pleats, perforations, gores, hems, and placket details, with a stay strip under the skirt and belt finishing options. Includes yardage and sizes for 48 inch challis, blouse fabric, and pattern numbers from The Pictorial.
A serialized advice piece warns young women about secret love affairs and predatory suitors. It argues guardians should protect their daughters, detailing manipulative tactics and the risks of elopement, urging honesty with suitors and family guidance. It includes reader letters seeking guidance on friendship betrayals and romantic entanglements.
A quoted exchange presents guidance on dating manners. An aunt advises that the young man usually offers to help a lady with her coat, but the woman may invite the caller to call. The guidance frames proper roles for asking someone to call and seeking assistance, reflecting era etiquette.
Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association readies a two car campaign to reach Windham and Tolland Counties with open air and hall meetings over two months. Miss Emily Pierson leads mobilization with local leagues and volunteers aiming for ten to twelve active leagues by campaign end.
A collection of home tips on cleaning windows with turpentine, storing silver in dry flour, saving fir needles for pillows, slicing pineapples, drying citrus peels, using beet tops as spinach, salting butter paddles, enriching hamburg steaks, warming knives for cutting, washing windows with cloth then chamois, silk glove care, removing ink with boiling starch, preventing chapped hands, using old catalogs as pads, warming wool yarn, ink stain removal with tallow, sprinkling grated potato to clean carpets, and keeping thread from knots with soap.
A collage of children’s poem snippets and practical home hacks from an old newspaper page. It includes verses like Bye-Bye Baby Bunting, advice on sewing, cleaning tips, kitchen tricks, and notes on household maintenance. References to salt in blueing water, oiling machines, onion peeling, and kerosene cleaning appear alongside fragments about flags and patriots.
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