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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1917
Page
8
The article notes silk crepe and heavy silk fabrics shaping an elegant afternoon dress with a straight silhouette and defined bodice. It highlights milan hats with strawberries accents, lace braids, and bold summer hats in purple georgette crepe with violet floral trims.
Instructions suggest repurposing worn shirtwaists into children's dresses by cutting from the waist, leaving backs intact and using the sleeve area. Designers describe styles and fit for different ages, with adjustments to collars and hemlines to suit small children.
State Food Commissioner Barnard issues bulletin to Indiana grocers urging use of cheap staples like cereals legumes dried fruits and oils to avert a food shortage. Advice includes discouraging fancy groceries high priced candies and imported items and promoting home cooking with bulk foods.
A neighbor reveals distress over a husband’s prognosis while a wife debates whether to reveal the death news soon. Amid ads, readers encounter Castoria’s familiar line and a string of quips about pacifists, eye infections, a horse’s charm, free leather, and missing phonograph records in a conversational newspaper page.
Cincinnati authority says corns of any type can be lifted out with the fingers after applying a few drops of Freezone. A small bottle, about the cost of a single treatment, can rid feet of corns or calluses without pain or infection. The product dries on contact and does not irritate surrounding skin. If your druggist lacks Freezone, he can obtain it from his wholesale house.
An old advertisement promotes a "kidney remedy of real merit" with claims of long use and customer demand. The letter by Dr. George A. Cornet from Port Washington Wisconsin asks readers to send ten cents for a booklet and details, promising sizes of bottles and mail order sales.
Fragmentary OCR text presents stray quotes and garbled phrases about Sally working by the day and references to pellets, a lawyer, liveray bowls, gasoline, and a typewriter. The readable parts depict a nonsensical dialogue with no clear event or identifiable subjects.
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