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Newspaper
Darlington Herald
Location
Darlington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
7
A Paris fashion authority outlines three gown types straight of line low waist and long, tight bodice with uneven hems. Notes include swinging panels bias cut and scalloped edges, with examples from Madeleine et Madeleine and Lanvin featuring velvet, silk net, and brocade, trimmed by laces and ribbons.
Instructions adapted for a five year old apron from leftover fabric. Includes cutting measurements and folding, neck shaping, bias cut guidance, darting at the shoulder, binding methods, and pressing tips with references to diagrams for sewing accuracy.
An inventor demonstrates sewing tucks on a machine using a tucker, coarse needle, and 20 thread to create guides from needle marks. The method yields quick, even work and halves the time and patience needed compared with hand trimming for children's dresses.
A Paris shop shows new bag designs with a Gothic inspired long brown grosgrain model ending in a tassel. A galalith top imitates ivory and forms a card case-like closure, hung by two cords doubling as a handle, echoing medieval aumonieres. Other pieces feature carved galalith flowers and rose motifs, including a navy silk bag with red sides.
A practical gold weather suit for young boys uses heavy wool jersey fabric. The blouse fits snugly like a sweater and buttons up the front with a cord tie. Separate white collars may be worn. sleeves end in a marrow band cuff and trousers fasten with hidden buttons and loops in the back and large ornamental buttons.
Heavy silk cord belts appear on handsome coats while the winter bride wears her veil longer than June's. Evening wear favors fuchsia though black remains popular. Double breasted jackets and irregular hems mimic skirt lines. Tweed, serge, duveryn, broadcloth top day wear for girls eight to twelve with steel beads and braiding as trim. Pointed folds, narrow ribbons, and knotted brims on hats complete the season’s style.
The United States Department of Agriculture outlines in bulletin No. 979 how to eliminate loose marketing practices in hay. It urges country shippers, terminal market dealers, and consuming dealers to improve grading weighing loading invoicing and record keeping to standardize terms and reduce suspicions between buyers and producers.
A Department of Agriculture survey in Tioga County New York shows about 50 percent of dairy sires are purebred and 20 percent of cows purebreds. The Farm Bureau aims to reduce scrubs, promote purebreds, and run a purebred bull sale to boost farm prosperity.
The USDA recommends a winter ration for flocks fed solely on table scraps. The mash blends three pounds corn meal one pound bran one pound middlings and a half pound meat scrap. Scratch feed adds two pounds cracked corn one pound wheat and one pound oats. If scraps are unavailable feed two pounds of cooked vegetables daily to 30 hens. Bone meal may be added up to five percent if meat scrap is reduced.
The Critic recalls Edgar Saltus at his club as a widower laments the loss of a wife, noting the value of life and the irony of insurance. Culler reports 176,000,000 fish rescued from landlocked waters along the Mississippi, a bureau record amid high river mortality from freshets.
A Chicago Journal item recalls a State street department store hat purchase with three shoppers at a counter. One tall woman admires a brown velvet tricornered hat and quotes Napoleon, prompting a witty exchange about Napoleon crossing the Delaware.
Ice requirements depend on location and handling. The U S Department of Agriculture reports that in the Northern States a half ton of ice per cow suffices with a good ice house and up to 30 percent melt, for cream cooling and delivery three times weekly, with tanks required. For whole milk, about 1 1/2 tons per cow. For an average farm family about five tons.
The farm flock requires more vegetable food in spring than in winter. Feeding beets sprouted oats and other succulent greens boosts egg fertility and chick vigor.
Dr Beverley Robinson writes to the Medical Record to protest current operations on old men noting few have chance of saving and that many procedures merely heighten patient discomfort rather than improve outcomes.
Businessman W P Willis of New York has crossed the Atlantic 180 times in a remarkable travel record. Willis, noted for extensive transatlantic voyages, repeatedly crossed the ocean, underscoring his long career in international commerce and travel.
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