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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1912
Page
7
The piece notes that midsummer hats borrow from Gainsborough and Rembrandt, with new trims for variety. It highlights two black hats with white trimming: a Rembrandt model with a double brim and tilt, plus a wide lace-brimmed hat outlined in white beads and ostrich feather cockade.
The Dry Goods Economist notes a fashion shift toward panter styles but says no alarm. The straight line remains dominant in costumes and corsets with modified styles avoiding hip fullness. Belts will be common yet decorative and worn loosely.
The article explains punch work or punch embroidery. It notes the technique uses an open weave that creates spaces for a needle to pass between threads and carry embroidery material with it.
Advice on elegant sunshade use for women. Notes cover grip, distance from the handle, avoiding warlike handling, not using it as a walking stick, and maintaining a light, slightly angled hold for better appearance.
Footgear for the wealthy shifts to kid materials and vivid colors coordinated with hats and coats. Exquisite hosiery of silk with lace and millinery diamonds or gems bridges to evening gowns. Shoes outlined with jewels become an exquisite resource for full dress wear.
Hair bands remain in fashion using imitation pearls tinsel crystal beads and maline. New stiff brushes of spun glass fail to win favor as women seek more than mere sparkle in an ornament.
A delicate baby carriage afghan is described in strips of handkerchief linen joined by 1.5 inch wide clung lace. The cover is edged with lace, lined with pink or blue silk, and decorated with a large satin bow. It offers protection and is not heating.
An essay argues keeping cows and selling cream or butter benefits soil health by returning fertility via solids in milk and clover rich pastures. It promotes red and alsike clover with orchard grass as top soil improvers, notes hay quality for work stock, and urges reduced grain feeding when clover hay is abundant.
J R M Nulty from Colorado Agricultural College reviews economical concentrates for lamb fattening. He weighs alfalfa as essential roughage with protein and compares corn and barley with legume hays. Peas are strongly recommended with cereals for better gains, especially with timothy hay or corn stover.
Gardeners and truckers use gypsum with wood ash to boost growth of clover peas and early potatoes corn beans and cabbage. Apply two bushels per acre when plants show first leaves. timing and value vary by soil. Test fields and record results to gauge benefits and profitability.
A historic guide lists Cocoa Ice Cream with Raspberry Juice, Steamed Pudding, and French Rice Pudding. It details ingredients for each dessert, including milk, sugar, eggs, cornstarch, butter, cocoa, vanilla, and lemon rind, plus method steps and a lemon sauce.
Simple home hacks for everyday chores like cleaning crockery rubbing spots with salt and lemon juice to reduce paint marks from matches mashing potatoes with hot milk to avoid sogginess making a broom holder from two spools hanging the broom between them using sticky flypaper to deter ants softening frosting with butter and staining floors with linseed oil beeswax and turpentine for a lasting shine
The guide explains holding feathers in the left hand with fibers over the forefinger. A curling knife or blunt tool should slide under fibers from base to tip, creating a curl at least the size of a dime. Caution warns that improper manipulation may twist fibers into corkscrew shapes.
Pick over half a cup split peas soak overnight in cold water drain and add six cups cold water half an onion salt pork or bacon. Boil two to three hours. Sieve blend one tablespoon flour with butter walnut size. Add one cup scalded milk salt pepper and celery salt. Dilute with milk if thick.
Instructions describe inserting common pins into the corks of all marked poison bottles so the pins protrude. The concealed pins prevent picking up a bottle, even in darkness.
A description by W R Beattie of the United States Bureau of Plant Industry details a ventilated window or outside cupboard for storing meats vegetables and other kitchen essentials. Built from slatted blinds the outer box uses two shutter halves with a floor roof and optional shelf, lined with fly screen and topped with tin or roofing paper, and accessed by raising the lower sash.
A vintage recipe instructs halving four lemons remove seeds scoop pulp from two and squeeze the other two. Add sugar and water to the juice, boil, thicken with cornstarch and salt, then stir back in lemon pulp and add orange slices. Chill and serve with cream.
A reader offers tips to prevent water running down the arm while washing walls and ceilings by using a jar rubber on the arm. The note then shares a steam method for puddings and brown bread using a coffee can and a lard pail for unattended cooking in the oven.
A historical, step by step fritter recipe uses cream five eggs with whites, flour, nutmeg, and salt. The batter thickens and is fried in hot lard in small rounds, drained on a napkin and served with jelly sauce.
Grapefruit juice is simmered with sugar to a syrup then folded into stiffly beaten egg whites. The mixture is frozen and served in frappe glasses. Optional garnish includes chopped ginger or mint leaf for each serving.
Instructions on repurposing worn woolen blankets by layering with silkeline and tacking. Do not tie tightly to avoid slipping. Fleeced or cotton blankets can replace cotton wadding in quilts, offering easier handling.
Boil 13 medium potatoes until well done and mash finely. Mix in butter the size of an egg, nutmeg, and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder with enough flour to form a stiff dough. Roll out, let stand ten minutes, then slice and fry.
Cream two cheeses with cream and chopped olives and paprika. This mix forms a delicious spread or filling suitable for crackers or appetizers.
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