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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1907
Page
6
Early fall hats feature light gray and white soft French felts with medium wide brims and round crowns. Simple trims of ribbon silk or velvet with wings or plumes accompany tailored dark suits. The key is the side roll, with brim bending upward or left side rolled and tacked to the crown, creating a drooping trim over the brim and hair.
Advice from a period article urges girls to match outfits to venues, favoring modest, well kept attire over flashy, costly frocks. It emphasizes suitable shoes, simple white gowns for evenings, and immaculate grooming as marks of breeding and good taste in town and at seaside locales.
Mrs Eva Uncapher of Grovertown Stark County Indiana says she was near death from a cough before trying Dr King’s New Discovery. Four one dollar bottles cured her cough and restored health. Dreier & Bro druggists guarantee the remedy with prices of 50c and 1.00 and a trial bottle free.
Delicate ribbons in pale blue pink or mauve require tepid water and gentle handling. An old method uses potato water to wash, soaking briefly, then rinsing in tepid water, squeezing dry, and ironing with a protective layer.
An old advertisement notes Ring’s Little Liver Pills provide prompt relief for headache and biliousness and are good for the family. Sold through Meyer Bros Co at three drug stores on Calhoun street. The snippet also mentions dynamos driven by gas engines in Boston.
Insects bites and stings sun burn cuts and burns relieved at once by Pinesalve Carbolized a poultice that draws out inflammation. Try it. Price 25 cents Sold by Meyer Bros Co three drug stores 602 902 and 1424 Calhoun Street.
A 19th century discussion questions whether single women should have visiting cards. It argues cards imply old maid status or independence, contrasts maturation benchmarks, and notes professions or pursuits may justify own cards. Most insist avoiding cards until age thirty-five to forty, especially if a mother is alive to list on her card.
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut writes that after trying many remedies and physicians for diabetes he improved with Foley's Kidney Cure. After two bottles he improved and five bottles cured him completely enabling him to pass a life insurance medical. Foley's Kidney Cure claims to cure back ache and all kidney and bladder troubles. Dreier Pro.
The article argues that when given opportunity women show business skill equal to men. It notes many husbands let wives manage family finances for efficiency. It adds that in France and Germany most small shops are run financially by women with sharp accounting and integrity.
A. J. Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana writes that a summer cold lingered three months and resembled hay fever. He tried several medicines with little help until Foley's Honey and Tar quickly cured him and later his wife used it with the same success. Dreier & Bro.
A vivid statement notes the heart’s blood travels seven miles with each beat, amounting to about 4 292 000 miles in a seventy year lifetime, highlighting the vast circulation of blood within the human body.
A retro guide proposes lemon themed parties with lemon crafts using lemons, toothpicks, and knives to shape animals, plus lemon based prizes and foods. It also details a White and Green party concept with elaborate or budget decor, a table plan, white flowers, green accents, and a lemon flavoured supper menu featuring clambouillon, creamed chicken, and lily cups.
The article stresses that babies need ample sleep and should rest alone in a crib. It notes wakefulness from indigestion clothing hunger or overfeeding and that teething illness may disrupt sleep. It urges nightly sleep by seven, warns against rocking to sleep, and recommends cooling sheets and independent fading to sleep.
Six years ago John Fleasant of Magnolio Ind recalls starting Dr King’s New Life Pills and finding them increasingly beneficial. The Dreier & Bro. druggists advertise the 25 cent sale and guarantee.
A mother laments her ten year old son lacks manners, noting he learns courtesy mainly from observing other children and school. The article urges consistent home examples like saying please and thank you, speaking calmly, removing hats indoors, and giving up a seat, to ease social acceptance and reduce later hardships.
The passage argues that a boy will face scolding and punishment in childhood to instill proper manners, tempered by love and forgiveness. It contrasts this with a harsh world that punishes or ignores, leaving intolerance. Proper correction aims to ease the man’s future life and his wife’s life.
A Morgantown Indiana man, A. R. Bass, suffered nightly trips and backache from kidney trouble before treatment. Foley’s Kidney Cure is urged as the remedy to relieve symptoms, strengthen kidneys, and restore health. Dreier & Bro.
A reflective piece urges readers to curb envy and cultivate charm through joy, cheerfulness, patience, and kindness. It argues self-improvement through friendship broadens and enriches life, emphasizing positive conduct over resentment.
An old advice ad notes that most appendicitis victims are constipated. It promotes Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a gentle, non nauseating remedy that stimulates the liver and bowels to restore natural action, urging consumers to refuse substitutes. Dreier & Bro.
About 100,000 nets are in use during the herring season by the 800 fishing smacks of the Netherlands. A net lasts about three seasons, but due to losses from storms and other causes between 49,000 and 50,000 new nets are bought yearly.
Summer coughs and colds yield at once to Bees Laxative Cough Syrup containing honey and tar with no opiates. Children like it and its laxative qualities make it handy for mothers. Hoarseness croup and coughs yield quickly. Sold by Meyer Bros. Co. at three drug stores 602 902 and 1424 Calhoun street.
A London education committee consider a Home Chat scheme to train girls in domestic duties for artisans earning 28s to 3 a week. The plan covers washing cooking cleaning budgeting shopping care of a neighbor’s child weekly and marking prices on furniture to teach cost awareness.
William A Fertwell of Lucama North Carolina reports a remarkable recovery after taking less than three bottles of Electric Bitters He says the tonic cured his Brights disease in the diabetes stage and stopped years of liver and bladder trouble The product is sold by Dreier and Bro at 50 cents Also note that about 3000 people land daily in New York from ocean vessels.
Pineules are marketed to relieve backache and rheumatic pains by stimulating natural kidney action. A 30 day treatment costs $1.00 with money back guarantee if unsatisfactory. Sold by Meyer Bros. Co. across three drug stores.
A study states that the average man requires 1,600 pounds of food annually to maintain his daily energy and nutrition needs.
An advertisement announces Man Zan Pile Remedy in a collapsible tube with a nozzle for immediate relief of sore inflammation itch and protruding piles. Guaranteed relief available at Meyer Bros Co three drug stores.
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