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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1920
Page
7
The article reviews two seasonable coats and a hat showcasing rich colors and quiet textures. One coat features a plaited back with large covered buttons and a generous cape collar, while the second coats emphasizes originality with wide back folds, full sleeves, and knee-length drapery. The round hat has a duvetine crown, brocaded ribbon, and beaded accents.
September forecasts herald a new chapter in hats with between seasons styles. Milliners favor duvetyn satin and taffeta for fall, pairing rich embroideries with ribbons and ostrich feathers. Four practical hat designs show upturned brims, sailor shapes, and velvet facings in browns, rusts, and pale golds for a versatile autumn palette.
A nostalgic piece presents simple camping foods and bread recipes including Nut Bread Lunch Cake and Doughnuts with detailed ingredient lists and steps. It also suggests assorted sandwich fillings such as minced eggs, sardines, roast veal, curry ham, prunes with walnuts, and cucumber with mayonnaise. The article celebrates home folk and the comforts of home cooking on travels.
A period kitchen guide suggests seasonal desserts and meals. Prune and rhubarb hybrids baked with meringue or crust, canned vegetables for children, spinach carrots celery onion puree, chicken onion soup with peas, Coffee Blanc Mange, flapjacks with a sweet topping, and a tuna gelatin salad with peppers celery parsley.
A three year old girl Betty asks her mother to forgive her for something. She suggests forgiving herself with a nickel, reflecting a childlike misphrase learned from older speech. An advertisement promotes Dead Shot Vermifugo to expel worms with a single dose.
In a Birmingham Age Herald exchange, Mr. Duthwaite admits buying a phonograph while noting neighborhood abundance. He dismisses canned music but plans minor opposition, signaling a local cultural clash over new sound technology.
An early Bayer advertisement touts Bayer tablets of Aspirin as genuine and safe for millions of users and doctors' prescriptions. It urges buyers to accept only unbroken Bayer packages with proper directions for headache toothache and other pains, noting small tins of 12 tablets and larger packages sold by druggists.
A manager asks if the speaker is an expert salesman and can sell anything from an ice pick to a car. He claims to have sold his own car to a passerby, illustrating a bold sales claim from a Boston Transcript excerpt.
A high school girl wrote to her uncle about a new teacher, noting the teacher’s “age lurks near fifty.” The uncle replied, predicting age will not lurk at fifty in 30 years but will be seen in high powered autos and airplanes, saying he, at forty seven, knows. The exchange illustrates knowledge being power and the value of phrasing.
An old newspaper notice promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues claiming many women suffer undiagnosed trouble. It advises testing with a sample and purchasing a bottle while noting equipment aboard a salvage ship and a joke about a law student shifting to a nerve business.
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