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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
2
The article describes cretonne window treatments with lambrequins showing artful colors and lightness. It explains straight top hangings with side panels or panels forming a center feature and festoon drapery, stressing proportional balance and plaited styles.
The article describes curtain styling with cretonne side draperies, deep valances, and indirect fullness through plaits or stitching. It notes simple bedroom drapery options, lace or net undercurtains, ruffled valances with trims, and lambrequin frames for windows or doors, plus applique and stencil work on linen.
Fashion notes describe high belts completed with tassels and long lines in front and sides. Garments like morning dresses and semi princess styles feature belts above the waist and bows below guimace. The trend leans toward lower corsiges for modesty as guimpe waists grow in popularity.
A newspaper note explains mohair fabric now being water and dirt proof, praised for lightness and cooling comfort. It suggests mohair coats are superior for driving, while pongee and silk remain popular for social rainwear.
The pattern uses Alpaca or tussore for a light coat with a high waistband and metal clasp. It features deep cut turned cuffs with Tuscan straw button accents and a velvet-band lace crown. Requires five yards of 46 inch wide material.
A sketch shows a neat Ete ease for carrying a prayer and hymn book. It features satin binding with rye color trim, wide gold galloon, and floral embroidery. Two ribbon ends form a bow to sling the carrier from the wrist, freeing hands for a purse muff or other use.
Jewelers report daggers for hair as social necessities change with the time of day. Designs range from six to ten inches, worn for morning to evening with tortoise shell handles, enamel hilts, and settings that include turquoise and coral. Prices vary from simple silver nibs to gold inlays with precious stones.
A fragment from Fiegende Blaetter presents a father and child exchange about ambition and avoiding mediocrity. The child vows to avoid being last while denying being first, asserting personal drive over status.
A Brooklyn Life sketch shows Mrs Ball questioning Mrs Lotte about voting for school commissioner candidate Husler. Mrs Lotte had voted for Husler but learns he is opposed to advancing women and plans to return to the polls to change her vote.
A Salvation Army scene unfolds with a bully and a boy clinging to a cigarette. The little boy is urged to return a found item, while a scuffle and laughter break out among bystanders, capturing a lively street moment.
A compact proverb urges careful judgment before refusal. It advises choosing to decline only when the commitment is clear and definitive, avoiding casual or reflexive refusals that may undermine trust or opportunity.
A terse remark by Herlock Shelmers critiques a writer who sends few letters yet dates them in April 1907. The exchange weighs penmanship and the habit of recording dates, noting that poor penmen may still produce lengthy correspondence.
A romantic girl asks her fiance to name the ring he wears. He replies with a playful line about it being a new piece, while the doorbell rings signaling a light humorous moment in the story.
A short verse from the Trouston Post hints at a chase involving a car with a long serial-like rear number. It uses playful imagery to evoke pursuing the machine before reaching town.
A quirky remark by an Old Grouch notes that when a young man buys a girl a decent package of chewing, his female relatives are likely to call it laying out money. The line reflects humorous social judgment and slang of the era.
A collection of light vignettes and quips features Sir Oliver Lodge a golfer and club member recounting a moral play on golf. A returning sportsman boasts of shooting ducks while noting the farmer owned them. A first grade pupil misses perfect spelling papers after being moved by a teacher.
A collection of short humorous vignettes and quips from a bygone newspaper page. Cards, a governess, a clergyman, a real estate joke, a grooms fashion inquiry, a go cart plea, and a family scene all appear as quick, playful blurbs featuring witty exchanges and social snapshots.
A Marion Kentucky reader credits Dean's Kidney Pills with curing chronic kidney trouble after three months of use. The testimonial notes swelling, sediment in secretions, and near paralysis, with recovery and return to work. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A sharply combative line declares dominance reversal after months under control. The speaker ridicules a target as a “nasty wriggly thing” and vows a final change in power dynamics.
After years of rheumatism related sores on his legs and failed treatments by three doctors, the husband improved within three weeks of using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. By three months he was quite well, according to a testimonial from Mrs. V. V. Albert of Upper Frenchville Maine dated July 21 1907.
The advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease as a cure for hot sweaty and calloused feet. It claims relief for swollen aching feet and markets the product through Druggists at 25 cents with a trial package offer. Address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
Bobby’s father quips about his ten year old son becoming a joke writer if not squelched. The family discusses temperance and a humorous exchange at table about why a postage stamp is not a prohibitionist.
Charles Nicholson Sr born into slavery in 1855 earned a living in Texas by cultivating pecan trees. One tree yields the largest pecans in America and shipments were sent to the department of agriculture in Washington. Last year he sold $54 from this tree and now offers young trees at $1 each with all gone yesterday.
A reader shares a testimonial claiming coffee caused health issues and that switching to Postum Food Coffee cured her heart, stomach and digestive troubles. She cites relief from asthma and dyspepsia and notes others likewise benefited, urging readers to try Postum.
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