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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1920
Page
15
A writer notes how party frocks display diverse tastes among dancers. He describes gowns from floor-sweeping drapes to knee-length lines, with heavy brocades for draped silhouettes and lighter silks for straight-fine dresses. The piece highlights wired hip lines, velvet ribbons, and metallic belt details.
Fashion notes describe wrap designs including capes and mantles with brocade yokes, fur trim, and Chantilly lace. New tafteta wraps feature long painted panels, deep puff collars, and large silk roses at the waist, praising silk work as a true masterpiece of design.
The article discusses substituting cheaper fats for costly butter and bacon fat for cooking, including methods to wash fat to remove smoky taste and uses for lard and chicken fats. It also covers improving substitutes with powdered sugar and sweetening, plus rug washing techniques using suds, brushing, rinsing, and air drying, with notes on drying weight and warp safety.
The note suggests using eggs as main dishes. includes Eggs in Green Peppers, Porcupine Apples, Sour Cream Cake, and Meringue ideas. Details cover prep steps like par boiling peppers, decorating apples with almonds, dry ingredients for cake, and light meringue topping.
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes promising rich fade resistant colors for wool silk linen cotton and blends with a color card in stores. A comic vignette features Mrs Blithers and a chauffeur on a dark night misreading boulevard lights as thank you marms. Also a Roman Eye Balsam ad claims quick healing for sore eyes.
A Birmingham Age-Herald excerpt shows a gleeful con man tempting townsfolk with stock bets until Squire Witherbee exposes the trap. The scene ends with the counteroffer to flee by train and avoid vigilant retribution.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a premier cure for kidney liver and bladder issues. It claims rapid gentle relief, lists two bottle sizes, and offers a ten cent sample from Kilmer Co in Binghamton New York for readers of the paper.
A dialogue unfolds about turning a suspect to authorities and a claimed retaining fee equal to a roll of bills found in a vest. The Eminent Counselor asserts not sending the man to the bulls and emphasizes a witness fee and legal aid. An aphorism closes with a reflection on absent-mindedness and quiet kindness.
The passage urges housewives to value kerosene as a versatile household aid. It suggests kerosene works as a lubricant to start stalled devices, as a cleaner in place of soap and water, and that floors mopped with kerosene in oil achieve quicker, brighter results than traditional cleaning.
The fragment notes Armile described as cooler in summer and warmer in winter than another subject, with a frown noted. It presents a simple comparative statement without clear context or other identifying details.
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