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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1898
Page
9
A guide from Woman and Home describes fashionable china decoration methods with color schemes for plates and tea ware. It emphasizes shading, blending tones, and realistic foliage colors to achieve professional results, citing techniques for narcissus petals and scroll patterns.
Miss Hu King Eng the sole Chinese woman to graduate from an American medical college is named China’s first physician in Li Hung Chang’s private household. A brass cleaning recipe uses oxalic acid in water but warns of poison risks. Lamb roast method parboils with onions for aroma. Kipling grants Olga Nethersole permission to dramatize The Light That Failed.
A simple two curtain arrangement uses thin material to brighten the sewing room window while avoiding heavy darkening and avoiding objectionable shades.
The method uses madras or silk to cut two curtains in lengths with one twice as long as the other. Attach the shorter piece to the pole with a ring, loop it with bright ribbon, then sweep the longer curtain back with a band to form a decorative double scal lop that keeps light in.
Vogue cites a tale from the reign of Hugues Capet where a king grants a dowry and a wedding ring to an aging servant and his partner after a 25 year marriage. The act sparks nationwide enthusiasm and gives birth to the custom of silver weddings celebrated after a quarter century of marriage.
A white silk sash of six yards of ribbon eight inches wide features a separate belt with hook and eye, a doubled bow, edges trimmed with white chiffon, and heavy foundation with interlining. Sashes use black and white ribbons and may include tiny figure patterns.
A Washington Post anecdote humorously recalls a new congressman’s wife who orders visiting cards for every day of the week except Sunday. The Washington Star notes the respect afforded the chaplain in Congress, while a Washington Democrat quips about avoiding troublesome people.
An 1880s advertisement asserts catarrh is constitutional, not local, and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as the remedy that acts on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers $100 to any failure and lists Druggists selling at 75 cents along with Hall's Family Pills as a recommended product.
The New York Journal quotes Sprockets explaining that the B class is not truly amateur and that the masses are the paying crowd at the races. The dialogue frames class distinctions among participants and spectators.
Salzer Seed Co invites readers to enter a 500 prize drawing by sending 10 cents, 1v stamps to La Crosse Wisconsin to receive a free reed seed catalogue and 11 new farm seeds including a 17 inch corn and White Oat variety, plus potatoes at $1.50 a barrel.
A fragment from Indianapolis Journal notes a Connecticut sect baptism story with a warning about Hor there’s Stomach Bitters. It includes brassy quips about age from a New York lawyer, coffee vs Grain-O, and a jokes section from the New York Journal.
An advertisement urges travelers to carry Syrup of Figs to protect kidneys liver and bowels on trips for health and comfort. It promises relief from fevers and headaches and notes 50 cent bottles from druggists. Manufactured by the California Fig Goup Co.
The Monitor of Meaford Ontario chronicles Reuben Petch’s recovery from lifelong paralysis after a total disability payout of 1650. Doctors had deemed him incurable but two years later he reports full mobility with natural skin and no cane. A facsimile check for 1650 from Canadian Mutual Life Association is published as verification.
An assortment of quotes and testimonials fills the page including a salesman’s remark about poker wages and a buyer’s defense of playing for living needs. Advertisements praise Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar for coughs and Pike’s Toothache Drops claiming rapid relief. A Huntington reader cites a three year lung illness cure and Hall Caine’s line on time.
A collection of brief, humorous and бытов phrases from newspapers includes a Dublin dialect joke about Pat facing starvation and a quip on St Jacobs Oil as a cure. It juxtaposes neighborly barbs with promotional lines and suggests readers’ habit of reading church papers.
A string of humorous exchanges and quips from various papers. Notes include a dry goods store request for hose with or without handles and a clerk’s punchline, plus sharp one liners about conversation, mind and spending habits from several newspapers.
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