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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1907
Page
38
A 1910s-era guide advises gradual nail improvement through nightly oil treatments, warm soaks, and careful cuticle work. It emphasizes patience, gentle shaping, bandaging with oil, and avoiding scissors to prevent thickening and roughness. Specific steps include glycerine or almond oil, thickeners to loosen flesh, and a basic filing routine.
Practical styling guide notes a wooden skewer method for shaping. Whittle the end to a rounded, flat tip and smooth edges to achieve a simple, adaptable winter look suitable for various hair types.
A small tape hanger on hat bands lets hats hang securely on hooks without brushing. The era’s coiffures, once sharply stiff and netted, are fading as fashion shifts away from hairlines that add years. New season favors artificial curls and puffs above the forehead and at the sides.
The article details women's hairstyles with emphasis on front hair shaping and back styling. It notes front hair can be pulled into a pompadour or parted center or side, and that curls or puffs complete the look, providing a soft, attractive touch for all ages and appearances.
The passage describes creating loose wide waves as a foundation for marcel style hair. It notes the back hair can be arranged in a coronet braid or pulled to the crown and twisted into a figure eight, secured with pins and decorative combs or shells.
An ad promotes Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup claiming it aids digestion and brightens complexions without upset. Separately, Brussels officials halted work on the king's new palace after discovering it encroaches about twenty four feet on city property, giving the architect one month to correct the setback.
A Cedar Grove Maine man, Geo H Parris, credited three bottles of Electric Bitters with curing liver and kidney troubles after discouragement and relief from the first bottle. Dreier & Bro., local druggists, guarantee the remedy as best on earth for stomach liver and kidney complaints and offer it at 50 cents.
The article advises choosing portieres that fit room size and style. Small rooms need plain or striped fabrics to add perceived height, avoid large patterns, and use light-weight materials. For large rooms, tapestries and velvets are suitable, and lining adds body to draperies.
An old newspaper advertisement promotes Ring's Little Liver Pills as a cure for biliousness and headaches. It claims to wake up lazy livers, cleanse the system, and clear the skin, priced at 25 cents and sold by Meyer Bros at 602 and 1424 Calhoun Street.
A Mediterranean shellfish spins a fire silk as delicate as silk from a cocoon, earning the showy name prima nobilis for its rare craft and beauty in the sea.
A collapsible tube with nozzle offers relief for piles marketed by Meyer Bros at 50 cents. The product is described as ready to apply and suitable for any form of piles, with store locations listed at 602 902 1424 Calhoun Street.
A description of winter opera fashions highlights fur wraps with soft silhouettes. The illustration from the Queen shows an apparently shapeless garment that reveals elegant lines when worn, emphasizing the refined drape and tailoring of fur ensembles.
Pinesalve Carbonized acts as a poultice drawing out inflammation and poison with antiseptic healing. Useful for chapped hands lips cuts and burns. Sold by Meyer Bros at 602 902 1424 Calhoun St.
Truffles enhance meat pies ragouts and sauces and are used for stuffing game and poultry or as a garnish. They come in black red and white with black the ripest. Instructions describe truffle stuffing for capons or turkey boned turkey stuffed with truffles and a detailed forcemeat including bread crumbs beef tongue pistachio and Madeira. Roast or boil options and serving ideas follow.
A fragmented recipe describes chopping eight truffles and cooking in a saucepan with butter salt and pepper. It references a teaspoonful or tablespoonful measures for seasoning and a wine based glaze with a bouquet and Maderta.
The directions describe adding butter, shaping bread into box heart or circular croustades, marking surfaces with a knife, frying in hot butter, then opening the shells, removing the insides, and filling. This provides a concise method for making bite sized pastries.
The method describes arranging thin slices in buttered pans, seasoning with parsley pepper and mace, then baking with olive oil. After baking, lemon juice is squeezed over and the dish is served. EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD.
Peter Fry of Woodruff Pennsylvania recounts two years of medical care with top Waynesburg physicians, dire prognosis, and a friend’s advice to try Foley's Kidney Cure. After three bottles, his health improved and he fully recovered. A note describes wind speeds from seven to eighty miles per hour for various storm severities.
In Fedora Tennessee C V Pepper recounts a life saving recovery after hemorrhages of the lungs and throat. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery with instant relief as coughing abated and bleeding diminished enabling recovery within weeks.
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