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Newspaper
Clearfield Herald
Location
Clearfield, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1913
Page
10
A spring or summer school frock can be sewn from corded linen with buttoned trimming. A girl sixteen would need four and a half yards of thirty six inch wide linen. Color options include pink roseda green light brown cherry red buff and blue.
The article describes mourning watches mounted on jet and gun metal for men, with platinum options and diamond ruby or sapphire accents. It notes narrow gold bands with cut links for wrist wear and mentions fashionable young girl's fans shaped like owls, cats, or puppies as stylish accessories.
It is now common to dress children in linen or cotton year round for sanitary washing. Eponges stay soft and resist wrinkling but lack linen’s crispness. Linen crashes with ratine borders offer variety. Classifications place six to fourteen year olds as girls, thirteen to sixteen as juniors, and fourteen to eighteen as misses. Mothers face affordable choices as bonnets, straw hats, and ribbon trim charm the season.
The piece notes chic women wearing net veils and spotted wire, with skirts clingingly draped. Floral patterns appear on blind wir and new flouncings, accented by lace motifs as Barrow pointed trains indicate the season’s style.
Excerpts from Einar Mikkelsen's Lost in the Arctic describe the first sun after polar night. The moment arrives Feb 10 with a red disk and rose-tinted peaks, provoking exultant shouts and a raven's triumphant cry as observers welcome deliverance from darkness.
St James Gazette recounts historic tipping excesses at noble dinners. Lord Poor balked at dining unless the duke paid the cook, while Lord Taafe and others tried to curb the practice. Sir Timothy Waldegrave sparked the end by offering to the cook who refused gold.
An eastern alienist told the Mental Hygiene society that eliminating worry could cut insanity by 40 percent. Experts agree the diagnosis is simple but the remedy hard. Worry stems from within and from without, with doctors and economists both working to reduce its causes and improve insanity statistics.
Aspinall cites Nelson at English Harbor on the Leeward Islands station and his engagement to Frances Nisbet in Nevis. A fragment of Nelson's love letter to "dearest Fanny" portrays the tension between salt water absence and enduring affection as the voyage stretches on and longing grows.
A description of Kuwait as an Arab border town at the head of the Persian Gulf. The sheik’s palace stands out with one room featuring a Persian rug and a ceiling adorned with chromes of queens and actresses, a bizarre touch noted by the Christian Herald.
A fragment cites King George of Greece noting the boredom of royalty as observers watch his actions. It mentions the king was bald and jokes that his hair vanished from tiredness of standing to please others’ consciences, attributed to the Liverpool Post.
A household baker can craft flaky five minute biscuits for tea. Variations include cheese spritz, cinnamon sugar rounds, and double biscuits with center fillings like tea marmalade or honey. Mini patty pans and bouch ees use the same dough for crusty bite sized treats.
The article notes white ratine fabric crafting chic summer suits with a plain tight skirt and sharply cut coat revealing a sulphur yellow waistcoat. A black velvet waist belt and matching neck bow complete the ensemble as the latest style.
Mothers favor travel baskets designed for babies with wicker frames and sturdy handles. Features include a bottle keeper, temperature tape, food boxes, feeding berth with brushes, cup, funnel, measuring spoon, bib, thermometer, and a kit to keep meals on time.
A compact reflection on making life a habit, avoiding shortsighted focus on past and future. It emphasizes daily discipline, mind control, and the belief that education seeks a disciplined, deliberate working mind. It contrasts American haste with European steadiness.
A queer marriage ceremony described in archaic terms shows Thomas Filshy, a deaf mute, and Ursula Bridget exchanging vows with aSign based service devised by the Bishop of London. The ceremony features symbolic gestures and a final signaled blessing for life together until death.
The Coquette pilot boat off Cape May encounters a capsized schooner with crew trapped inside a rounded hull. A boarding party frees some, but a raid with saws and axes ends in swift disaster as the imprisoned crewman cannot be reached.
Five prisoners aboard the Russell perished as the vessel capsized during a failed rescue. Water rose inside the hull, and a sailor near the hole cried that there were five on board, while rescuers rushed to reach them before the ship sank.
The Thames in London during the twelfth century hosted a rough pastime for youths likened to tilt the bucket. A fixed target on a riverbank tree trunk was struck with a lance while driven along by carts. Hitting the target earned a point and pursuit of glory, while missing risked a tumble into the river, though friends could retrieve the fallen participants.
William Law's Serious Call is cited as the work that converted Samuel Johnson after a visit to Oxford. Johnson praised it as the finest hortatory theology, noting it moved him to earnest religious thinking. The book's influence is affirmed by Wesley, Whitefield, and skeptics like Gibbon and Sir Leslie Stephen.
A puzzle asks how many stones compose the Keswick Druidical Circle in England. Estimates vary from forty eight to other figures with a favored number of thirty eight. Locals claim the circle is haunted by fairies, making an exact census impossible according to the guide.
The passage notes language evolution from Saxon times to Elizabethan days, with mixed foreign borrowings, multiple words for the same concept, and shifting word meanings such as gun. It reflects how words must fit a speaker’s mouth and a craftsman must measure his lordship's mouth.
The London Express records Dr. Johnson defending a pension tied to his literary merit. He quips that condemning the pension for Jacobite leanings is foolish and insists the pension does not alter his principles. He jokes about cursing Hanover and drinking George III’s wine.
The article notes Turkish stamps bear the sultan’s sign manual rather than an image due to a passage against images. It traces the origin to Sultan Murad I who in 1365 signed a treaty with Ragusa by stamping ink from his hand onto the parchment.
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