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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
3
Variety abounds in this season's children's dresses with simple designs emphasizing ease of wear. The coat style frock slips on, buttons down the side, and belted with a soft sash. White eponge or ratine fabrics feature a curved left side opening, rounded skirt notch, long easy sleeves, and optional blue or tan collar and cuffs.
The Dry Goods Economist notes a season of careful handkerchief design with new interpretations of old motifs. One corner idea dominates while one sided designs gain favor. Longfellow initials stay strong, oriental initials return, and simple unadorned letters edge ahead with Armenian lace edges as a dainty detail.
Professor John W. Lloyd outlines warm season constraints for musk melon cultivation. He advises against off-season planting, details regional transplant timing from early May to late May, and explains soil preparation, furrowing, manure placement, hill formation, planting depth, spacing and mulching to ensure germination and growth.
In the Nursery an article praised as highly useful is a short hall tree cut to three or four feet. It serves as convenient storage for long dresses and petticoats kept within easy reach. It also aids air drying of laundry items and can be finished with white enamel paint.
Fashion notes reveal spring trends with tailored shirtwaists in white silk brocades and tailored suits. Sheer negligees require soft slips while new voile and crepe frocks feature embroidered nets and silk girdles. Striped fabrics and gray brown ribbed materials shape street wear with updated bolero details. Young girls wear wide two loop straw hats with ribbons and small bouquet pins. Awning cloths favor green and white for broad color coverage against paints.
The article promotes Canton imported bamboo furniture for bungalows and porches. It highlights sun and rain resistance, hourglass leg design to avoid lawn damage, and attractive shapes. Tea tables, tabourets, and magazine racks suit the set, with Chinese grass rugs noted for dry, sun, and shower resistance.
Advised fabrics include embroidered crashes and printed linens for men’s negligee shorts. White or natural grounds are preferred with neat detached fixtures in bright colors like brick tangerine brown and apple green.
An analysis argues that farm youth stay requires higher earnings, attractive living conditions, and prestige equal to city professions. It contrasts failing dairies with drudgery and poor homes to thriving farms with neat homes, lawns, and comfort, urging improved dairy practices to boost production and incomes. Mr LeRoy Lang, Illinois dairy instructor, will inspect butter packing for a 216000-pound east contract after a strong prior showing.
The note stresses feeding brood mares to ensure foals meet owner expectations. Proper nourishment is essential to keep foals healthy and improve future performance or value, highlighting the link between mare care and foal quality.
Miss Irene Gillicuddy of Millville Mississippi writes about a long time friend who only wants friendship at nineteen with ruby lips and golden hair. She asks if hanging mistletoe would coax him to reveal romantic interest, and the advisor dryly replies there is little hope for him if he needs such aid.
The premier of Servia visits ministers in the Fils ministry building. After starting a 15 minute call at eleven, his watch vanishes. He bursts into the second minister’s office, complains, and learns the thief was unaware the watch had been taken.
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