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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
3
The article notes a shift away from unattractive swimwear toward vibrant silk and jersey designs with rubber cloth accents. It highlights lavish, ballet inspired silhouettes for women, with rubber cloth used on caps, hats, scarves, and skirts. It questions whether these suits will get wet, while praising the era’s colorful elegance.
A fashion feature highlights new hat styles for motor and outing wear. Designs show narrow drooping brims, soft crowns, veils, and varied trims in silk, taffeta, felt, and leatherlike materials. Beach and water sports outfits also appear with tassels, plaits, crinoline, and lightweight fabrics.
A Victorian style guide describes elegant sandwich fillings using sardines ham cucumbers olives veal tongue and varied bread types. It includes creations with cream cheese, pecans, pimentos and mayonnaise and offers recipes for cornmeal mush dishes and savory sauces to accompany tongue and chicken preparations.
The article explains how borers hatch in June and infest trees by boring through bark near the ground. It recommends wire insertion to kill larvae, red sawdust at the base as a sign, and filling holes with rosin soap. Methods include ash mounds, shaving fires to attract beetles, wrapping trunks with coarse paper, and regular spring and fall worming with lawn care to protect young peach and apricot trees.
The article outlines fruit soil preferences from L G Herron of Mississippi A and M College. It stresses open porous subsoil for drainage, notes peach and sour cherry favor light soils while plums and European pears prefer heavier soils, and advises proximity to the house for care and protection.
United States Department of Agriculture urges fruit growers to consolidate insecticide purchases to cut costs. It promotes arsenate of lime as a cheaper alternative to arsenate of lead, outlining a home-made preparation and usage guidelines while noting safety concerns for delicate foliages.
In hot weather use live bait for bass locating deep water holes and spring creeks. Deep trolling for wall-eyed pike works best in 50 foot plus depths using a multi leader rig and eight ounce sinker with shiner bait for strikes and multiple runs.
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