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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1910
Page
10
A dense list of dresses offered in a January clearance sale includes Ottoman satin, messaline, Bengaline, and silk dresses in multiple colors and sizes from petite to women’s. Prices drop from former highs to around 12.50 to 19.75, with selections in blue, black, rose, green, and brown across fabrics such as serge, broadcloth, and jerse y.
Readable items include One Light Blue Cape size 36 with full military collar priced at 11.50 in January Sale. A One Old Rose chiffon cape 54 inches long size 36 originally 529 now 19.50. Also One Light Grey cape trimmed with black jet buttons once 17.50 now 11.50. Several other capes including black satin lined 54 inch capes and wisteria green grey sets priced during the clearance.
Coats offered at deep discounts from former prices of 35 and 25 dollars to 15 dollars for black plush and chiffon broadcloth styles. Sizes run 34 to 46 for women and 14 to 18 for misses. Selection includes 54 inch black plush, 42 inch black plush, and various broadcloth coats in multiple colors and styles.
Clearout of fur sets and coats with January sale pricing across brown and black coney mink and pony skin pieces. Items include fur sets from 5.09 to 66.66, mink sets 33.33 to 75, pony skin coats 19.33 to 50, and XXXNX near seal coats at 33.33 to 40.00, all with guaranteed linings and various lengths.
Clearance sale offers women's black voile skirts in new pleated tunic and tailored styles with silk trims. Sizes vary with regular prices $10 to $10.75, discounted to $7.95. Chiffon Panama skirts in tailored pleated yoke styles priced down from $6.50 and $7.50 to $5.98. One lot of misses skirts in chiffon panama wool taffeta plaited blue black brown marked down from $5 to $3.98.
A newspaper listing details multiple womens suits on January sale with former prices ranging up to 65 dollars and sale prices from 19.50 to 39.09. Items include chiffon broadcloth, imported serge, and three piece Venetian coats in various sizes and colors including navy blue black wisteria and cedar.
Infants and children coats in multiple styles and colors with wide price cuts. Bearskin, cord and broadcloth coats reduced from $2 to $2.50, and higher priced items from $3.98 to $5.95, with many coats now at $5.00 to $7.50 for various sizes and fabrics.
Silk waists at 2.98 new styles open front or back with long sleeves in black blue brown red and white varieties. Net and messaline waist lot 34 to 38 sizes in white and ecru. Regular favorite nets at 3.98 and 1.00 linen tailored waists with laundered collars and cuffs in sizes 34 to 44. January sale pricing highlighted.
A humorous tale notes how Joey the Fiddler causes trouble at a parish picnic and is saved by a quip that he is a Byron authority. The piece ends with a practical home economics tip on frying doughnuts and removing fat for easier digestion.
Advice on luncheon starters and side dishes with clam frappe as a premeal nod. Tips include freezing clam liquor, sugar in beets, a baked beet dish with butter and sugar, mashed French chestnuts as a potato substitute, and duchess potatoes shaped and baked with egg yolk and cream.
The text lists practical remedies from oxalic acid for copper and brass cleaning, a sting care mix using earth and water, ammonia and water for cleaning gold or silver jewelry, and advice on fabrics and surfaces. It notes old red bandanna as a dusting cloth and warns vines climbing wooden walls will cause decay. A bran and water rinse is suggested to polish painted surfaces, with a garbled note about cleaning chamois skin.
The excerpt advises using soapy water and dry towels without rinsing, ensuring towels are completely dry before pressing to prevent mold and skin disease. It also notes that neuralgia may be relieved by applying a cloth soaked in peppermint essence to the painful area and leaving it in place.
Cut out tomato centers and stuff with bread crumbs parsley butter and seasonings. Fry bacon until brown, chop, mix into filling, fill tomatoes, dot with butter and bake slowly. Serves well with fish or game.
A simple bake recipe divides corn into two layers with cracker crumbs and bits of butter between them. The dish is covered with milk and baked for about thirty minutes.
A fragment speaks of vanilla bean kept in a sugar box to impart a delicious flavor to the swear. The note reads like a whimsical or coded culinary aside.
A Popular Mechanics excerpt recalls a railroad official who stresses time discipline as the core training in operations. It notes that in the operating department a clock is the absolute monarch, demanding exactness to the minute and shaping the trainee’s habit for years.
Recipe describes cooking sugar corn syrup and water to thread stage then pouring over beaten egg whites and beating until grainy. Mix in nut meats, grease square pans or loaf mold, cool and cut into squares or slice for serving.
A chef advised soaking dried fruits in warm water with a generous pinch of salt to improve outcomes. The tip was shared to help others apply the technique effectively.
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