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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1910
Page
7
An unusually pretty luncheon was given for a recent bride with bridal wreath and American beauty roses. The centerpiece featured a circle of bridal wreath with a double heart of American beauties suspended above. Each plate bore a long stemmed beauty with a heart shaped envelope containing the couple’s cards. Candles, favors, and attendants' coronets followed a white floral theme, creating a striking processional setting.
A mother hosts a sand pile party inviting a dozen children to a bright Saturday gathering with clean sand, toys, a pail and shovel, a water tub, and icing flour for pretend pies plus sandwiches ice cream cake and lemonade to take home. An outdoor fete features a country house party with tennis croquet archery al fresco luncheon lawn dancing lanterns fairy lamps and a lakeside surfing theme with a picnicked supper and fruit refreshments.
A dinner party featured a Jack Horner pie crafted from pink crepe paper with pink carnations on top. Pink satin ribbons, white porcelain sardineres with a pink fly, and gold lettered place cards created a festive table with nine guests and lilies as a centerpiece.
The piece cautions women against extreme skirts and tied up looks, urging careful choice, sensible dressmaking, and avoiding excessive vanity to prevent unbecoming lines and awkward carriage. It warns that many designs are ugly, except for very tall figures, and criticizes the frenzied fashion cycle.
Chantilly lace and Spanish shawl trims shape straw hats. A French style large horn hat features lavender orchid and pale blue velvet knot. Black lace on white satin and color accents appear on frocks with beads and veiled chiffon trends. Royal blue veiled with black chiffon is common.
Cincinnati markets report varied figures across commodities. Butter and eggs show multiple price points, with apples, cabbage, currants, berries, onions, peaches, and pears listed by type and region. Grain prices cover wheat, corn, oats, hay, malt, barley, rye, bran, and middlings, while live stock notes include cattle, hogs, sheep, lambs, and calves with range values for shippers, extra, and good to choice grades.
Berlin report states the German balloon Gross IIIL left Gotha with a military crew and landed safely at Tegal after a 170 to 200 mile flight.
R G Dun reports improved business confidence in the latter part of the week aided by higher security prices and good crop rain, with steel producers posting strong quarterly results. Iron and steel show steadier production and declining cancellations, while sheet products slide modestly. Dry goods demand rises for staple prints and duck, with exports steady. Footwear prices ease, leather demand steady, and hide markets brighten from large packer sales.
Bradstreet in New York reports 198 U S business failures for the week ended July 28, with comparative figures for prior years. Canada records 41 failures. Wheat and flour exports from both countries total 1,246,745 bushels for the week, with four week totals around 5.05 million. Corn exports for the week amount to 22,831 bushels, with four week totals near 449,471. Also note 12,000 saloons in London.
A community portrait of a self made man who amasses wealth yet becomes a fool in the end. He overlooks manhood for possessions and a warning voice declares his life a failure as conscience and scripture affirm his foolish choices. United Presbyterian notes the contrast between worldly success and spiritual judgment.
Medical testimony links tobacco to widespread harm including heart slowdown and high blood pressure, noting low pass rates in military tests due to tobacco heart. It claims tobacco increases apoplexy deaths, harms lung tissue, and even destroys germ life, while suggesting diet changes can curb tobacco desire.
A brief meditation on enduring hardship with faith. The text notes life’s trials challenge hearts, yet fire is not through. It points to cycles of plenty and famine, citing psalms that speak of desolation and peace, and expresses hope that joy will follow years of trouble.
An old timey ad extols Easy Task laundry soap as a remedy for wash day headaches. It contrasts rough tasks with modern cleaning, claims the soap drives dirt out without shrinking fabrics and warns grocers not selling it as living in the good old times.
Fritz the gardener, a stolid German, returned from the city after a long day at the market and slept through a crowded train. Waking near Bloomfield, he exited the open car door directly onto the sand and, calmly, remarked that there should be steps there.
Paul D Cravath spoke at a Lawyers Club luncheon as vacation time arrives and a country wife song resurfaces. A man teases another about his wife going to the country, but the reply reveals she has returned.
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