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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1919
Page
9
The article notes America increasingly designs and makes women's underwear at home with washable silks and crepe de chine rising in use. It praises hand finishing as superior to machine work, cites two envelope chemises as examples, and describes silk and cotton versions with lace, embroidery, and empire waistlines.
Mothers seek ready made and partly sewn children’s wear as busy lives limit home sewing. The article notes practical materials and shop displays guiding home dressmaking, with July as prep for September school wear. Featured outfits include a black and white checked woolen dress with a long cape coat and practical pockets, and a cotton poplin dress with a jacket like bodice and a plaited skirt.
A blinded former soldier and a nurse named Hope find fresh purpose during a spring storm at a seaside cottage. Major Angie, readjusting to life after war injuries, forms a tentative bond with Miss Forbes as Aunty Kate blends care with schemes to aid them.
The article traces dentistry from early practitioners and barber-dentists to modern dental surgery. It notes Doctor Jones as likely the first American to practice exclusively, the evolution over 181 years, and highlights Qdontology tracing to Prof. Richard Owen in 1830 identifying the link between tooth vascular tissue and hard substance.
In a flowing oration to Tumsinville supporters, Hon Buckram Peagg casts himself as a plain worker who earned his luxuries by toil and invokes a storied stump near the post office as a remnant of his family’s past in his bid for the legislature.
The piece extols birds as destroyers of weed seeds and pests, claiming hawks and owls kill many mice annually and that birds save grain and trees. It urges protecting birds as essential to farming and by extension to cities.
A New York woman took a summer vacation with four children despite her husband’s objection. She contracted a bill for board which the husband refused to pay. The lower court granted the claim but an appeal reversed, holding that a wife is entitled to necessities of her position but a summer vacation is not among them.
The London Globe recalls the 20 year journey to grant the first medical degree to Mrs. Schurtieh of Manchester on May 15. The piece notes heated debate, Jenner’s dismissive remark in Convocation, and the historic significance for women in medicine.
Ad promises easy corn and callus removal with Freezone drops costing only cents. It claims immediate pain relief and painless removal of hard or soft corns from toes and feet, applied with a few drops from a tiny bottle at any drug store.
An advertisement asserts that Othine double strength removes freckles and skin spots. It claims one ounce suffices, results appear in days with night and morning application, and money back guarantee if ineffective, urging women to ask for the double strength product.
Advertisement promises quick relief for summer colds headaches mumps hay fever and eye ailments with Vader Balin and Raman Eye Balyam. Offers free samples and 225 tube size via 50-cent stamps or local purchase from E. W. Vacher Inc New Orleans. Warns against imitations.
The article surveys Arona near Lake Maggiore as an industrial town with medieval echoes from Angero Castle and Borromeos’ ancestral halls. It notes Garibaldi’s guest visit in 1848 at Hotel Reale and references Turner’s Arena painting, with Ruskin denying photographic accuracy and a caution about calumny in tales.
The article urges nitro phosphate as a source to rebuild nerve tissue and increase vitality and weight. It notes thin, frail figures as evidence of nerve exhaustion and claims phosphoric elements assimilated by nerve cells improve energy, mood, and fullness, while warning to monitor weight gain.
A quirky historical note describes the leech as a weather predictor. It claims the leech lodes before rain, lies motionless in heat, and crawls swiftly when wind or storms approach. It also speaks of leeches living at jar mouths in frost or snow, signaling weather changes.
A terse fragment shows a suspended man arguing with a superior and clinging to his position amid pressure over money, with phrases about defiance and persistence as tensions rise.
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