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Newspaper
Casper Press
Location
Casper, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1909
Page
3
The article notes colorful tub textures and white fabrics dominate children’s clothing, with new names for old textures. It advises washing colored garments with white soap, drying tinted fabrics in shade, and highlights linen pique crash drilling and denim as standard textures for boys while girls wear dainty muslin and Swiss fabrics.
An English reader in the Queen extols black and white jet while exploring a spectrum of colored jet shades. She envisions opaque gems and veiled tones, from laurel greens to clouded ambers, suggesting jet accents for dresses and hats beyond solely evening use.
The piece notes a spring trend of cretonne fabric dominating homes with rose patterns on ceilings, curtains, cushions, and furniture. It muses on decorating moods from cozy boudoirs to covering bed posts, dressers, and writing desks with the delicate fabric.
Simple striped linen blouse described with neat bands, matching buttons, and a contrasting color collar adding a sharp finish.
The piece extols a taffeta backed ribbon velvet as a preferred hat trim. It notes the softer feel and lighter weight compared with satin backed versions, allowing larger crowns and rosettes, and promises exquisite colorings in this thinner quality.
A described cotton crepe fabric from Paris is praised for its suitability in lingerie and frocks. The material is fine and filmy, ideal for embroidery and lace trimming, launders quickly, and dries overnight for apartment living.
A Washington woman, Margaret Wilson Young, signed Theodore Roosevelt's name 80 000 times in 1908 and may do so for Taft in 1909. Appointed special secretary to the president in 1908, she comes from colonial stock, has served in the post office, and is known for her taste in design.
The Hon. Nell Primrose Rosebery, 27, son of Lord Rosebery, becomes London County Council alderman under unusual terms after receiving 760000 from a great aunt on the condition he enter politics. He inherits a Great Stanhope Street mansion, enjoys Rothschild connections, and is praised as a hard worker and skilled speaker with Oxford roots and a sportsman’s record.
Wayne B Wheeler leads the Anti Saloon League drive transforming Ohio county by county toward prohibition. The movement has gained a dry majority in most counties with elections already held. Wheeler joined the league in 1893 and remains its central figure in the effort, reportedly choosing the cause over higher pay.
Beamay A. Knapp of Louisiana assists the U S Department of Agriculture in teaching southern farmers through the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration work how to maximize yield. He shows that drained swamp land prior valued at low prices can be reclaimed and improved, now valued at about twenty dollars per acre, with rapid progress in drainage and cultivation.
The dialogue centers on a tense exchange where characters discuss motion, nerves, and a painting in a duke’s memory. The heiress asks about her father as the Duke mutters about a grin and a painting titled the battle of Bunker Hill.
A short vignette from Delineator shows three year old Jess answering a devout grandmother about prayer and forgiveness, noting she prays to her mother’s knees or the bed. A separate Buccess Magazine anecdote recounts a poor groom presenting 27 copper cents to a minister after the ceremony, promising to send children to Sunday school.
A Northern woman recalls dairy and milk toast as her diet for years due to coffee linked stomach and heart troubles. She quit coffee, tried Postum, followed directions, and soon recovered eating regular foods. She credits Postum with her renewed health and energy enabling her to enjoy meals again.
A reader testimonial from Groesbeck Texas cites relief after using Deans Kidney Pills for back pain dizziness and irregular kidney action. The ad claims gravel stones passed and health improved with 60 cent pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York. The piece blends other rural humor and stray misspellings without clear connecting context.
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