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Newspaper
English News
Location
English, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1912
Page
7
Practical guide from the Philadelphia North American detailing how women can create a facing for a summer hat. It describes folding tissue to form a pattern, cutting fabric with grain direction, attaching facing around the brim, and finishing with hand stitching for a wrinkle free crown fit.
A set of old fashioned bake day recipes describes plain buns made from dough with egg butter sugar nutmeg and sultanas rolled to shape. German Nut Loaf uses walnuts raisins flour baking powder milk and eggs baked in buttered tins. Chocolate Nut Pudding combines milk breadcrumbs nuts lemon chocolate and cream then bakes and serves with whipped cream.
Measure the bed length and allow three or four widths of material per bed size. Finish with a ruffled flounce waiting or a deep hem. Fourteen inches from the hem border the ruffle stitch bands of figured dimity. Cut bands from a wide striped design in many varieties. These spreads are easily laundered.
Instructions claim adding cold tea to the starch prevents brown holland and linen children's dresses from washing out or fading after laundering. The tip emphasizes maintaining color by using tea with every wash.
A kitchen cloth should have one purpose and be kept clean at all times. A physician described a diphtheria outbreak traced to a dirty dishcloth, showing millions of microbes and stressing thorough washing and sun drying after every use.
The piece notes summer adaptations of winter fashion trends with cotton corduroy and sponge fabrics in light colors. It describes partitions of coats and skirts with parquet panels, decorative loops, and button outlines, plus dresses and collars in cotton eponge and white cambric fabrics. It mentions plumetis embroidery on cambric with scalloped edges finished in buttonhole stitch and lace ruffles.
A concise Dickens quotation urges keeping a compassionate heart, enduring temper, and gentle touch, reflecting a humane ethic. The line emphasizes patience, kindness, and restraint as enduring personal virtues.
A common tip for taking bitter medicine is to take a small pinch of salt to erase the bitter taste. This simple palate trick helps swallow medicines more easily.
A former schoolmate learns his love for Mary Barnard conflicts with her engagement to Mr Disbrow. He sends a cipher note hidden in a book prompting a delay, Mary postpones the wedding, and she ultimately marries the man she loves a year later.
An educational note explains how sand forms from silicon combining with oxygen to create oxides and silica. It describes sand’s oxygen content, the history of silicon in rocks, and how rocks become sand through erosion and wave action at the seashore.
A Bedfordshire resident displays a Tibetan yak in his grounds and rides it astride as shown in the illustration. The yak, used as a beast of burden in Tibet, is similar in size to a common ox and covered with long silky hair. Its coat protects it from cold and it yields fine milk.
Instructions describe a circle rope game where players loop rings on a rope and slide them toward the ends. All players move hands back and forth keeping up the motion while a central player must guess or avoid being identified as “it” based on where a ring ends up.
The reader is presented with a pun filled Q and A about daily work. A gra zor and a FLARE are named as the answers to the riddle style prompts. The excerpt blends playful wordplay with a newspaper humor tone.
Innovations at the Silver Bay missionary education conference include laymen institutes led by J Campbell White and pastors led by Dr. Cornelius H Patton. The program features seminars for Sunday school leaders and church workers, with Dr T H P Sailer presiding and a distinguished faculty. The article also notes denominational growth since 1800 and reflections on Christian self-denial and character formation.
A Mack's National Weekly anecdote recalls a Sunday school discussion on the Prodigal Son. The elder brother is blamed for bitterness at the feast, as a child suggests the fattened calf alone failed to bring joy to him. The line captures hopeful humor amid moral teaching.
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