Gray Dominates Fashion Color This Season
A New York fashion observer notes gray as the prevailing color in day and evening wear. The trend includes gray hats, gloves, shoes, and capes paired with black or blue accents, with lighter tans and champagne shades appearing. Designers show gray silk crepe dresses with fringe, gray capes, and bold hat brims, while street dresses in serge or satin mingle with mauve and light blue tones. Evening gowns in tulle and dyed lace feature silk nets, chiffon foundations, and dyed laces, with taffeta frocks and lace trims set to lead fashion later in the season.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Jenny
Paris
Longchamps
Spinach How to Clean Cook and Serve Properly
This USDA guide explains washing spinach to remove grit and the methods to blanch then season with butter pepper and eggs. It covers water use salt quantities and timing for tender results and notes the nutritional value and labor involved in preparation.
Canning Asparagus for Emergency Use
Housekeeper stockpiles canned asparagus as ready supply. USDA directions call for fresh tender spears, outer skin scraped, ends trimmed, blanched two minutes, cooled, and packed with tips up in brine in pint jars. Process 60 minutes at under five pounds steam pressure or use hot water bath over three days. Seal, invert to cool, store in dark dry cool place.
That Tired Feeling Often Forecasts Sickness
Warning text claims fatigue signals illness and urges immediate action with 8.8.8 vegetable tonic. It directs readers to obtain 8.S.S. from druggists and to write about conditions to the Chief Medical Advisor in Atlanta Georgia.
Cover Cereals And Flours
Cereal supplies and flour should now be purchased in very small quantities. If they are kept in closed containers they grow musty, and if left open, are attacked by wandering bugs. Cover such supplies with a cloth, and a ventilated cover, and store in a cool place.
Arrange Kitchen Furniture Improves Daily Routine
A woman bought a pedometer and found she saved half a mile daily by repositioning her kitchen table to a more convenient spot, showing small layout changes can boost efficiency in many kitchens.
Sticky Drawers and Doors
Cupboard doors and drawers that stick may be induced to open and close by rubbing soap or soap powder on the surfaces that contact. Soap will also silence squeaking hinges.
Household Tips From an Old Magazine
Add half a cup of chopped nuts to hard sauce. All clothes should be turned Inside out to washing. A pinch of baking powder will hold the omelet from falling. A little grape juice added to lemonade gives it a different turn. Starched clothes should be dried and dampened for ironing at once. A month infested closet should be washed out with turpentine and water. Sliced ham of any age or quality is improved by soaking in milk for an hour. Valuable coats or other apparel should be steam-cleaned before being laid away. Steam-cleaning positively kills moths and eggs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Promises Purity
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant kidney liver and bladder remedy made from vegetable herbs. It claims strict purity in every bottle and offers sample bottles by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY. Mention this paper.
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Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Silmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Caticurn Toilet Trio Talcum Ad Promotes Powder
An antique advertisement touts Cati cura Talecum Powder as a versatile antiseptic cosmetic for face skin baby and dusting use. Presented as part of the Caticurn Toilet Trio alongside soap and ointment, it claims economical convenience and superior fragrance reducing need for other perfumes.
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Caticurn
Snatched as a Brand Dr Mott followed Christian pursuits
Yale News quotes Fr BP A as saying Dr Mott intended to study law but his M Cc A work while a Cornell student led him to Christian pursuits. The New York Tribune carries the quotation about his life direction.
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Dr. Mott
Yale News
Cornell
Fr. BP. A
New York Tribune
You Can Walk In Comfort With Allen's Foot Ease
An old advertisement promises relief for pinching shoes and bunions by shaking Allen's Foot Ease into each shoe. It claims friction reduction reduces soreness and allows wearing shoes one size smaller. It targets ladies, suggesting cooler, less sweaty feet and comfort in hot weather.
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Allen
Self-denial and a joke about medical advice
The dialogue jokes about visiting a doctor for indigestion and being asked to give up something, humorously answered with two dollars. A national bird aside notes the eagle as first and the stork as a close second.
Hard times and a garden plan derail a man
A man tells his wife and neighbors he will not start a garden again due to the effort and losses, stating he could earn more by focusing on his business and will be off gardening for life. He half jokes with partners about the garden and returns home urging his wife to call him for dinner as he races to start the garden to avoid failing crops.
Woman Makes Up Mind Or Face Gets Result
A Florida Times Union quotation notes that a woman takes longer to decide than to prepare, yet usually achieves her aim with either effort. The remark contrasts deliberation with appearance in a wry cultural aside.
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Florida Times- Union
Marooned Sailor Survives Three Years In South Seas
A Connecticut sailor stranded with three companions on a Marquesas island was left behind after mutiny. While the other three died, he survived three years eating fish breadfruit and coconuts. Rescued after long isolation, he had only shells and cups carved from skulls of companions.
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Alexander Selkirk
Juan Fernandez
Defoe
Marquesas
South Seas
United States
Connecticut
Strange Inconsistencies in Ife's Inconsistencies
A mouse fears a man while a man fears a woman and a woman fears a mouse, an old exchange noted for social behavior.
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Ife
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Carter
Ian
Sailor
Postum Cereal Co.,Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
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