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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1907
Page
22
Elizabeth Lee notes sweaters are now a staple baby wardrobe and outlines affordable, stylish options. Designs include white pink or blue trimmings with Norfolk-style stripes, three sizes for children aged one to three, and a Rus sian-inspired double-breasted model. Also covers home made jackets using nun's ceiling or batross, silk linings, lambs wool interlining, and simple kimonos costing around three to four dollars to craft.
A historic guide describes nightly arm care using warm almond oil to smooth rough elbow skin. Procedures include cleansing with mild soaps, a weekly green soap scrub, benzoin tincture rinse, lemon flesh application, and generous almond oil massage. Tight bandaging over elbows aids absorption, aiming for pink, soft skin in minutes.
Practical guidance on bathroom hygiene covers ventilation with full window opening, regular washing of towels and sponges, and frequent use of disinfectants. It recommends draining and deodorizing with copperas and soda solutions, boiling water down drains, and weekly enamel care with vinegar, salt, and kerosene for cleanliness and odor control.
The tea strainer pincushion article requires no special skill. Paint a simple flower on the strainer fill with horsehair seal with a cardboard disk covered in bright silk and fringe the edge with ribbon. Tie a bow to the handle to hang the cushion. A toothbrush traveling case can be made by unskilled hands using rubber cloth two inches wide folded into bags with a drawstring.
An advertisement extols Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as improving complexions by aiding digestion and liver and bowel function. It claims mild, non nauseating relief, discouraging substitutes and urging readers to remember the ORINO name. Drefer & Bro.
Making their own lamps is a fad with women who pretend to have decorative instinct. They choose any jar or vase for the standard, porcelain or metal, with brass shapes often the most stunning. A six inch oil tank and burner is common, and the mouth size matters to prevent spills. Safe practice is to buy the tank first and match the jar. Shades favored are Japanses paper in black lacquer frames, with holes punched and filled to fit the room’s color scheme.
A printed card states druggists will refund money if Foley's Honey and Taz fails to cure cough or cold. Claims to stop serious cold results, cure grippe cough, prevent pneumonia and consumption, and contain no opiates. Mentions yellow package and urging to refuse substitutes. Drecr & Bro.
A taupe beaver hat with self-colored trimmings suits young faces when hair is worn in loose curls. The semi-dressy model features velvet bows around the crown and a central satin plisse corsage over plumes.
Dainty lawn pocket handkerchiefs feature a quarter inch hem with embroidered dots or a small vine in colored mercerized cotton. Corner motifs include buds, trefoil, and four leaf clover in pinks blues greens and lavenders to match any suit.
C V Pepper of Fedora Tennessee recounts a dramatic recovery from lung and throat hemorrhages after doctors failed. He credits Dr King's New Discovery with instant relief, rapid cessation of coughing, and healing enough to return to work in three weeks. Drug store ad offers 50 cent and 1 dollar bottles with a free trial bottle.
A brief two-quote snippet contrasts art as divine manifestation with a life defined by purposeful activity love and hope. Both emphasize meaningful engagement as core happiness and human fulfillment.
Grape juice forms the base for a fruit punch with a lemon and orange zest infusion. Boil a syrup from four cups sugar and two quarts water, cool, mix with eight lemons and four oranges juice, two quarts grape juice, and ice. Prepare a separate fruit punch syrup with lemons oranges rind, sugar, currant and berry jellies, pineapple and grape juice, then blend overnight and add peaches cherries berries and ginger ale before serving.
A recipe instructs to brew syrup with water and sugar then mix in strong tea, strawberry juice, lemon and orange juice, shredded pineapple, cherries, and bananas. After resting, strain and add mineral water and sliced ice, yielding six quarts of tea punch.
A Cedar Grove Maine man relies on Electric Bitters to conquer liver and kidney troubles after persistent illness. A letter claims he improved after one bottle and completed a full three-bottle cure. Dreier & Bro. advertise the remedy as the best on earth, priced at 50 cents.
A red sunrise signals rain while gray or greenish skies at sunset warn of gloom. Bright yellow sunset predicts wind. A red full moon rise suggests unsettled weather patterns to watch.
Peter Fry of Woodruff Pennsylvania recounts years of illness with doctors in Waynesburg declaring no cure and predicting death within a month. After a friend recommended Foley's Kidney Cure and three bottles taken, he reports improvement and eventual complete recovery.
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