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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1900
Page
3
The article advises buying durable, affordable table linen and napkins, noting everyday cloths by the yard are practical, four cloths suit a small family, and napkins should match. It covers hems, monograms, lace accents, and avoiding grand figured linens to hide stains. Linen should be prewashed before cutting for best results.
The piece discusses the collar button as a contrivance, tracing its evolution from a stamped disk to a multi-part, stronger item. It also notes a method to clean fine lace and briefly mentions a 5 percent drop in child labor in North Carolina mills over three years.
A clever art student uses ceiling space to store shirt waists. She rigs a curtain pole, screw-eyes, cord, and coat hangers to create a hanging wardrobe above a curtained corner. Dust and flies are drawbacks, but the idea suits rooms with limited closet space and could be used in summer hotels or boarding houses.
A New York Tribune excerpt explains blackheads arise from blocked sebaceous glands and outlines remedies. It recommends thorough washing with hot water and Castile soap, cold cream from almond oil, and steam treatments. It warns against coarse animal fats and stresses cleanliness of sponges and cloths.
The article outlines bedmaking steps including airing rooms on sunny days, opening windows, and stripping beds before breakfast. It stresses airing bedding during damp days, careful sheet adjustment, and tucking techniques to prevent wrinkles and keep sheets in place.
Reports from multiple regions confirm that the buffalo tree hopper injures apples when orchards are allowed to grow weeds. Clean cultivation to keep ground weed free in late summer protects trees. once badly punctured, thorough cultivation helps recovery. Spraying kerosene emulsion is possible but not essential if clean culture is maintained.
A rural New Yorker poem describes boys using tar and ashes to deter crows from a corn field. The group debates scare tactics, tests the taste on a crow, and resolves to plant the field despite the rowdy crow chorus.
Currants thrive in rich moist clay soil not wet, shaded sites yield best results. Plant five by four feet apart. thorough cultivation and liberal feeding, mostly yard manure, promote large fruit. Remove old canes, mulch in hot weather, and monitor insects and diseases with care.
A Chicago Tribune attributed anecdote recalls an Independence Missouri lawyer, J. Brown Hovey, who demanded an audience with a master at once. A frightened servant relayed the message in comical dialect, and the tale ends with a funeral sermon jibe about lengthy preaching. Lane's Family Medicine appears as an advertising insertion claiming daily bowel movement aid and liver kidney relief with prices 25 and 50 cents.
A collection of humorous quips and quick health remedies from a 1900s newspaper page. Snippets reference social circles with Jolie banter, a mock romantic line, and ads for patent medicines like Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and Hall's Catarrh Cure. Peer commentary and old-time humor mix with product pitches.
A compilation of commodity prices across New York Cleveland Buffalo East Liberty Toledo and Cincinnati dated June 19. Wheat grains cattle hogs sheep and dairy values listed with varying grades and cash prices. Prices shown include flour patents at 4.05 to 4.35, No. 2 red wheat around 78 to 86 1/4 cents, corn 41 to 46 cents, oats 29 to 30 cents, and live stock bids for steers calves sheep and lambs across regions.
The Supreme Court in Buffalo under Justice Laughlin issued a permanent injunction with costs and full accounting of sales against Paul B. Hudson the Dr Clark's Foot Powder manufacturer and a Brooklyn retailer. The decision finds the Dr Clark's product an imitation of Foot-Ease infringing the Foot-Ease trademark owned by Allen B. Olmsted of Le Roy New York. A sample will be sent free to readers upon request and further suits against others infringing on the Pool Bate trade mark and common law rights are planned.
A man faced a bull in a field and was tossed after challenging the animal to see who stays. The tale warns that it is never safe to indulge in games of chance when odds are against you.
The Lake Superior region near Marquette Mich is praised as a fine summer retreat via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It notes healthful air, scenery, hotels, and immunity from fever, inviting readers to request a descriptive pamphlet with stamps to Geo. Heafford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. The Indianapolis Journal adds a light anecdote about married life and a mother’s cooking.
Miss Susan Wymar a Richmond school teacher Chicago writes to Dr Huitman praising Peruna stating it brought relief and framed as a blessing. Mrs Margaretha Duuben Ravine City Wisconsin reports feeling well after using Peruna for female complaints during change of life. The ad touts Peruna as unmatched for pelvic catarrh and offers a free book and a 25 cent cough cure.
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