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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
6
The column describes stylish young girls coats in rough linen with bright red turkey cotton trims. It notes empire and tailored designs, military collars, cuff details, pockets, and green linen accents. Also mentions revival of wash net for trims and airy morning shirtwaists using sheer fabric for hot weather.
In a lament for vanished icons of national memory, the piece notes Philadelphia style and reverence for Jefferson Davis Adams Webster Sickles Seward Blaine Lincoln and McKinley as once living symbols. The era’s landmarks give way to modern structures including a theater and office buildings replacing the home of the antebellum Washington club and a pivotal Methodist church.
Melvin I. Haggerty of Harvard University conducts daily five hour sessions in Bronx Park Primate House testing nine Cebus monkeys with a boxed trick laboratory. He aims to determine if monkeys imitate or reason, using food rewards and repeated trials to build data for a doctoral thesis.
A charming pincushion form resembles a miniature tea cosy edged by silk cord. It can be stuffed with Berlin wool or bran and its base stiffened with a silk or velvet covered cardboard strip. Pale yellow daffodils on green satin create a pleasing effect.
The piece notes the revival of torchon lace for brides and debutantes with durable hand made appeal. It laments cheap machine lace but predicts a return of old fashioned home made laces and suggests serpentine braid for ankle length winter petticoats.
The article notes manufacturers test seven dyeing cycles to keep green fabrics from fading under light. Green wallpapers and draperies fade to dull brown or dirty hue quickly, making green costly as renewal is needed each season. The experiment follows seven dye stages to seek lasting hue.
Shops advertise mercerized gingham women’s pajamas in soft colors. Women buy them, not men, as fashion shifts away from nightshirts. Pajamas offer health protection over nightgowns, with wide square trousers, long sleeves, and rolling collars. Elaborate sets feature silk and Oriental embroidery. Traveling ease and comfort are highlighted.
A pretty blue linen tunic dress for a girl features a neck to skirt plait design, plaits stitched to the waist, a square neck with an embroidered band, and embroidery tabs finishing the center box plait and sleeve edges.
The pastel gown gains popularity due to its daytime brightness and subtle evening tint. In bright light it appears white while certain lights reveal a faint violet blue or invisi ble pink. Lighter tones are preferred for a refined look.
A caller accuses a morning editorial of mimicking Macaulay to flatter the editor. The editor brushes off the charge, claiming the caller’s remark is flattering, while the caller clarifies he meant Macaulay, not the editor.
Merritt wrote a book advocating living on 15 cents a day and reportedly tried the method himself before his work began selling, prompting scrutiny of practical proof versus promotion.
Alfred Angus Early claims credit for nominating James Schoolcraft Sherman for vice president. He says he opened the Cannon headquarters box of Sherman buttons and gave away the first one and distributed 20,000 boom buttons in under two days. He notes he pinned most himself and continued regardless of partisanship.
Senor Don Gonzalo de Quesada, Cuban minister, displays the most luxuriant whiskers among diplomats in Washington, drawing attention for his facial hair and distinctive style.
Mrs Mary E H Rouse of Cambridge Massachusetts recalls a severe kidney ailment from a fall five years earlier. She describes constant back and hip pain, disordered kidney secretions, weight loss, and weakness, followed by rapid relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills and says she is now in excellent health. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The article argues nesting site shortages drive swallow populations down. Chimney nests declined as flues replace ledges and farm buildings become less hospitable. Sparrows now claim most remaining prime sites, leaving swallows with few options for nesting.
A Sunday school scene features a student named Johanny answering a teacher’s prompt about Moses. The child claims Moses broke all the commandments at once, delivering a humorous punch line.
A Montreal mother praises Cuticura remedies for her three daughters eczema with itching eruptions and skin folds, saying after repeated washing with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment the conditions cleared. She also notes a plump baby had neck skin folds improved after the same treatment. May 21, 1907.
The coca shrub grows to four meters in Peru and Bolivia with leaves grown in sun and shade. Indians chew coca leaves for stamina, claiming it prevents sleep and fatigue during long work and journeys. It is said to aid digestion and endure forty eight hours of labor. the plant’s life is described as eighty years.
A reader testimonial lauds Postum as mild and palatable with no caffeine. The account contrasts it with coffee’s changing taste and claims relief from gallcolic heaviness headaches and liver issues after switching. The notice invites readers to send in similar letters and notes the brand is Battle Creek, Michigan.
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