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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1911
Page
6
A long list of rural guidance covers dairy and pig care, irrigation, feed quality, barn cleanliness, and crop management. Topics include milking and feed safety, hay storage, silo use, breeding, poultry health, weed control, and record keeping for milk and butterfat production.
The article highlights embroidery as a major fashion trend allowing affordable cotton garments to appear expensive. It details satin stitch, Mountmellick work, butterfly and peacock feather motifs, and easy designs for beginners using stem, chain, and buttonhole stitches on muslin blouses and kimonos.
Hemstitched black chiffon collars add versatility to white blouses and light gowns. Styles vary from shallow sailor shapes to bib back with pointed fronts, often layered over white Irish lace or chiffon. Buy by the yard and cut to fit for best results.
The piece describes a tiny hat elastic used around hair to hold it in place. It blends with the hair, forms a small knot, keeps hair from blowing onto the neck and face, and offers a neater look without the bulk of a net. It is easy to apply and suitable for those who cannot wear other devices.
The piece notes that people seek diverse advisers for investment problems much as they consult doctors, lawyers, or ministers for other troubles and receive similar uncertain outcomes. It highlights blind reliance on various professionals when managing money.
Grind one dozen and a half peppers red and yellow and a small head of cabbage finely. Mix with 5 cents’ worth each celery seed and ground mustard and vinegar to reach catsup consistency. This sauce pairs well with meats.
Guidance on hygienic brush and comb upkeep to prevent dust transfer. Recommends weekly cleaning, shaking bristles on a flat surface, rubbing across table edges, avoiding hot water, and using borax solution to cleanse brushes before drying upright to speed water runoff.
A Sunday school lesson on Jeremiah 36 outlines Jeremiah's call to write down warnings, Baruch as scribe, and Jehoiakim's burning of the roll. It notes the king’s suppression, divine intervention, and the continuance of God’s word despite destruction, with references to Baruch, Nebuchadnezzar, and Jeremiah.
Mrs Margaret Henderson of Maiden Massachusetts testifies over twenty years of curing eczema salt rheum ringworm and boils with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. She cites a childhood case and multiple adults and offers to share names of those helped. Free samples and 32 page book available from Cuticura Department 6 L Boston.
A Cleveland Leader excerpt describes TiiHam Spill's daughter playing in mud with a sprayer who runs to her father after he arrives in a car with clean clothes. He scolds her for cleanliness, and that night she prays earnestly asking the Lord to dry clean their street and her shoes for Jesus’ sake.
A Boston Evening Transcript quips that a broker chafes at the dull market as temperatures near 100 degrees, but a friend says the heat is the perfect chance to sell mercury, implying hot trading in a humorous aside.
An older advertisement urges mothers to inspect Castoria bottles for the signature and note it has been in use for over 30 years. It claims Castoria is a safe remedy for infants and children and notes children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
An 19th century classified style ad block touts Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children claiming to break up colds and teething troubles, with price and distributor details. It also promotes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain and wind colic, noting prices and availability, ending with a moral quip about beauty and expense.
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