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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1920
Page
11
The article notes wide variation in party frocks among fashionable women. Heavily draped gowns use rich fabrics for curving lines, while lighter silks create straight silhouettes. A novel wired hip line frock using velvet ribbons and metallic belt hints at current design trends for the dancing floor.
The article offers practical kitchen tips on substituting cheaper fats for butter and bacon fat to improve flavor in cakes, cookies, and pastries. It also covers washing rug care, plus several recipe ideas including Eggs in Green Peppers Porcupine Apples Sour Cream Cake and Meringue tips.
Readable text outlines elaborate evening wraps with fur and brocade, capes with deep brocade yokes and velvet trims, taffeta panels with painted bottoms, large silk roses at the waist, and silk or satin linings. It notes outer garments must be mantle like and stylish though not all are masterworks.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes promising rich fade resistant color on wool silk linen cotton and blends with a color card and in package directions. A humorous urban anecdote from Pittsburgh Sun features Mrs Blithers and a driver mistaking partygoers for thank you marms on a boulevard at night.
Sore eyes and related symptoms including blood shot watery and sticky eyes healed promptly by nightly applications of Roman Eye Baleam.
A flashy stranger asks if anyone will buy stock, touting luck. Squire Witherbee counters that everyone else has bought little stock, prompting the caller to offer an escape on the next train rather than summon workers for tar and feathers. The Birmingham Age-Herald reports the tense exchange.
An advertisement touts Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root as the leading cure for kidney liver and bladder issues. It emphasizes quick mild relief from a gentle vegetable compound and offers sample and purchase options through Dr. Kilmer & Co. in Binghamton New York.
A dialogue features a thief claiming a lawyer role while an eminent counselor refuses to hand him over. The thief offers a roll of bills as a retaining fee found in the vest. The exchange ends with a quip about memory and quiet kindness.
The piece claims kerosene is undervalued by housewives and notes its use as a lubricant and cleaner. A drop or two can revive sluggish mechanisms, and it can replace soap for cleaning floors with faster, brighter results using a well oiled mop.
A cartoonish caption notes natives in Australia tearing down telegraph wires to fashion bracelets earrings and rings. It quips the idea of wiring as current fashion material and counters with a summer smile being cooler and a winter frown warmer.
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