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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1907
Page
4
Instructions for hosting a charades party with group divisions and improvised costumes. Suggestions include simple props, staged scenes like a caravan and moving day, and sample words such as Roosevelt, music, cop per, and matinee. Also contains a baking recipe for buttercream icing and cake decoration.
Practical guidance for hand sewing a baby layette using soft wool and sheer fabrics. Emphasizes avoiding starch, choosing warm light flannel, and trimming with simple handwork. Details lists of garments, materials, and finishing methods for blankets, shirts, petticoats, and napkins.
Rosanna Schuyler argues that a maid's apron signals hygiene and status. She urges cleanliness, practical colored over white aprons for dirty tasks, snug bibs, and proper back-fastening to avoid exposure. She notes English regulations favor simple linen or muslin, with varied styles for day and dress wear.
The article outlines pale pink and blue baby wrappers with decorative fronts, seam finishes, and a two inch hem, plus night slips with lace or bias finishes. It covers infant dresses with tucks, yokes, and beading, and details cloaks caps bootees bibs and a multipiece infant set dress with yardage requirements and material choices.
A notarized card states druggists will refund your money if Foley's Honey and Tar fails to cure your cough or cold. It claims the product stops coughing, heals the lungs, prevents pneumonia, and contains no opiates. The genuine product is in a yellow package and substitutes should be refused. Dreier & Bro.
A long essay extols the charms of women over forty, arguing that middle age brings attractiveness through experience, grooming, and tasteful dressing. It condemns faddish dyes and the pursuit of youth, urging care of hair, skin, and clothes to enhance rather than mask character and charm.
Separate lace flounces have become favorites with young women and offer a practical upgrade for working girls. They slip over plain tailored shirt waists, adding a dressy touch for office days or evening events, and can be pinned to fit yoke shapes in front or back.
An old advertisement touts Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a cure for biliousness and habitual constipation. It is described as gentle on the liver and bowels, without irritation, and praised for not nauseating. Dreier & Bro. urges remembering the name and avoiding substitutes.
Foler’s Honey and Tar for coughs and colds is declared unaffected by the National Pure Food and Drug Law as it contains no opiates or harmful drugs. The note promotes it as safe for children and adults. Dreier & Bro, a Spanish laundry, is criticized for its labor-raising stationary process.
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