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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1919
Page
15
Fresh fruit stains vanish with boiling water poured through them, with borax or ammonia added for hard water. Dry stains soak in cold water, then salt and boiling water or lemon paste may help. sun or frost drying aids stubborn stains. Grass stains respond to cologne or alcohol baths. coffee stains soak in cold water. chocolate and other stains require lukewarm baths and repeated water changes.
A fragment advises melting paraffin and pouring into greased egg cups with twine, collecting drippings. It suggests a kitchen sifter for ashes and cleaning scraps, and altering stove panels by fitting enamel cloth into a gas stove tray and replacing wooden panels with gliss panels.
This summer favors Nivy blue as the dominant color with strong interest in sand gray and lighter blues. Smartly dressed women will use this trend along with cay, buttercup, apple green, and orchid, offering ample color variety for wardrobes.
Summer suits must look cool with loose heat weight silk and fiber fabrics. Newer weaves outpace traditional linens and mohairs, featuring light jersey and satin vests, three quarter sleeves, and crisp white cloth with fine stripes. The left suit shows a sweater coat with a sheer vest. the right is a tailored white stripe suit with organdy collar and beaded buttons.
The article notes rising popularity of ribbon decorations on hats, with tweedier arrangements and loops extending from the crown. Ribbon loops appear at the crown front or side, and a small sailor may feature an alpine bow of tenminch ribbons.
Readers note vivid color pairings blue and orchid shaping wardrobe choices for evening and semievening gowns. The article mentions quilting usage and occasional integration into tailored dresses, reflecting fabric craft trends.
In Boiling Springs a vain, wealthy visitor quarrels with Miss Nellie Lovejoy over a white cat that roams the boarding house yard. After a gunshot ends the feline nuisance and a jail fine, Nellie pays the fine, revealing her concern for the suitor. He forgives pride, then asks her to care for him always.
A discussion of Afghan merchants as powerful, far traveling trader bankers. It notes Sethii traders, their links across Asia, branches in Petrograd and Moscow, and their price influence in Bokhara and Tashkent. It describes merchants who also handle drafts to distant cities, blending commerce with finance amid early 20th century geopolitics.
A Life magazine excerpt notes a boy, still learning, meeting new girls and noticing their changing traits every few days. His mother warns him about being changeable, while he claims the shifts come from the girls themselves as he grows acquainted with them.
A US Department of Agriculture notice warns strainers and utensils on dairy farms carry up to a billion bacteria if not washed and sterilized after each milking. Sterilized equipment reduces counts to about 31 thousand per cubic centimeter, improving milk keeping quality and palatability.
The text describes keeping milk clean after leaving the udder by protecting it from fires and dust. It emphasizes methods to maintain purity of milk from healthy cows and suggests practical steps to preserve cleanliness and safety in storage and handling.
A short note extols milk and cream in cans over buckets and shadow pans for barn collection and transfer. It highlights the convenience of regular cans and wide mouth varieties, and praises the shotgun can for separating cream or setting cream to sour for butter making, easily covered and water friendly.
The most successful dairymen lack a rotation system to yield a separate cash crop alongside dairy profits. Increased farm fertility from concentrated feed offsets fertility lost through dairy sales. The same labor used for dairy work can also support a profitable market or cash crop.
Advice for dairy operations notes a tank provision of 160 pounds or 20 gallons per cow daily. It also explains that calves are often the source of kicking cows, as rough handling by handlers contributes to the behavior.
Fort Worth Texas reports fortunes from new Texas oil fields with small $100 investments yielding up to $15,000. Burkburnett area seen as best prospects. Burk-Texas Oil & Refining Co offers treasury stock at $10 a share and plans first Burkburnett well. Investors urged to mail money orders to 42 Petroleum Building Fort Worth for shares.
Toy manufacturers nationwide were invited by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington to gather a full set of American toys popular during the war for permanent exhibition. A special committee has been appointed to supervise the project.
A Kansas university professor is compiling a collection of bird calls and plans to set them to music, to be whistled or played on the phonograph. The note appears in the Kansas City Star. A political remark warns that a candidate should sew up his pockets before leaning on friends.
An old health advert promotes nitro phosphate as a tonic to boost nerve energy, vitality, and weight. It claims improved digestion, sleep, and mood, warning that the product can increase weight and urging careful monitoring of scales to avoid unwanted flesh gain.
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