Little Touches Add to Clothes and Style
A fashion voice argues that embellishments and trims enrich garments more than the basic cut. It surveys sleeve trends from mandarin to fringe, sash knots, high collars, and the push toward radiant fringe and perforated embroidery. American designers gain note as a potential rival to Paris in dress influence.
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Docullet
Desiners
America
Paris
Fruit Punch and Fruitade Ideas from USDA Guide
The United States Department of Agriculture offers practical fruitade and punch ideas for hot days. Use lemon to acidify blends, mix juices from raspberry, grape, pineapple, orange, peach, and more, dilute with water or soda, and sweeten as sirup. A 40-person fruit punch recipe blends pineapple, raspberry or apple juice with tea, citrus, sugar, and water, then chills before serving with fruit slices and mint.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Experimental Kitchen
United States Departtment of Agriculture
Cleaning furniture with linseed oil turpentine varnish mix
A fragmented line discusses mixing equal parts linseed oil turpentine and varnish to clean furniture. It also mentions Ireland, noting a pollah or similar phrase in passing. The readable content is sparse and non-specific.
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Ireland
Club youngsters to raise best rabbits in Florida
The National Breeders and Fanciers Association of America donated thirty pairs of pure bred rabbits to Florida 4 H members selected by county home demonstration agents. Each recipient will show the gift pair with its litter at the South Florida fair this year, reinforcing efforts to grow the rabbit industry through youth involvement.
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National
Breeders’ and Fanciers’ Association of America
Florida
South Florida
Home Demonstration Agent Distributes Rabbit Breeds
A home demonstration agent provided one pair of rabbits from the first litter for redistribution, creating an endless chain. Donated breeds include New Zealand Reds Belgian Hares Flemish Giants American Blues Silver Fawns and Gray Fawns.
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Zaland
Ways to Serve Vegetables in Meals
Ways to serve vegetables as a separate dish using steaming boiling baking or stewing. If fresh supply is limited use the cooking juice in soups stews or add it to dishes to retain flavor and nutrients.
Houchold Questions on Food Preservation and Care
Small fruits should be preserved whole. Never stir cereals with a spoon as it makes them pasty. Use a plated silver fork. Serve jellied chicken ring on crisp lettuce with center diced pickled beets. Boil sweet potatoes with skins on, then peel and use as desired. A lump of camphor in the china closet prevents tarnish. Very satisfactory underclothes can be made from pongee. Dry pongee garments before ironing.
Heard It Before and Cheaper Now Exchange
A jokester recalls telling a joke at a small gathering and learning later it was heard at a town show. A lawyer mocks a high settlement by noting passionate letters signed Your Sugar Lump while the defendant cites sugar price changes in the humor.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Constitutional Influence
The advertisement argues catarrh is worsened by run down health and that Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures through the blood to reduce inflammation on mucous surfaces. It claims to restore normal conditions and offers circulars free from F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Barrier Cause of Falls at Niagara Gorge
A historic explanation notes that Niagara Falls formed when Ice in ancient times closed the then outlet of Lake Erie. The lake then overflowed along a new path and plunged over a cliff, creating the famous cascade.
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Lee
Niagara Falls
Lake Erie
Cuticura Ad Promotes Skin Improvement Regimen
Watch Cuticura help your skin with a simple daily routine. Apply Cuticura Ointment on rising and retiring, then wash off after five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water. The ad claims it cures poor complexions dandruff itching and red rough hands.
Passing of the Flacre in Paris Shifts to Taxis
Paris abandons the flacre as a street transport, shrinking from about 8,000 to just over 200 by last count. The transition marks a historic move away from these small carriages toward motor taxis in the city.
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Paris
Compulsory Elegance and Rusticators in Dress
The Birmingham Age Herald quotes a humorous exchange on dress codes among farmers and rusticators. A farmer asks if farmers should wear dress coats and patent leather shoes, and others remark on ostentation and obscurity among the wealthy, noting that millionaires can remain obscure and avoid divorce court.
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Countessel
Birmingham Age- Herald
What Is meant by a national sign pa
The text presents a dialogue about currency, quoting a father explaining that a national sign or dollar mark represents money. The fragment suggests a teaching moment on monetary symbols and value between a father and son.
If you are henpecked you need not crow about It
A compact moral note on marriage. The line suggests that henpecked husbands should keep quiet about their troubles, implying marital friction has tempered many a woman's sweet disposition.
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