Dust coat materials pongée in fashion reports
A brief fashion note highlights pongée as a popular dust coat fabric. The item is praised for style and practicality, fitting modern tastes and a range of outfits.
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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1914
Page
7
A brief fashion note highlights pongée as a popular dust coat fabric. The item is praised for style and practicality, fitting modern tastes and a range of outfits.
The article reviews red woolen material used for dust coats with wide flare hems and belts. It notes styles including circular florence embellishments, mother of pearl buttons, tunic belts, and various trims such as collars, cuffs, and belts. It describes lightweight and midweight wools, fashionable colors like bright blue and peche, and construction tips for belts and tunic hems.
The article explains spring reno ideas for wardrobes showing a suspender tunic worn over a plain shirt, making old dresses look new. It describes cutting a Cuba strip from taffeta to create a stylish, waist-fitting improvement and securing the top edge for a fresh look.
The passage details a trend toward short, fussy bolero garments with narrow rest sections bulging at the hips. It notes draperies, arced tunics, clover drapes, and various sleeve and cape collar styles. A blue gabardine with lemon cloth accents and Roman color touches is highlighted as a novel expression.
Two dainty girdles for lingerie frocks are shown. One uses pale pink messaline ribbon with a matching rossette and pendant buds hanging from baby ribbon. The other features white panne satin ribbon with tangerine and black polka dots and is trimmed with black satin buttons and knot details.
An old advertisement touts a hair drill as the latest remedy for balding. It promises scalp exercise to move the scalp and strengthen hair, claiming quicker growth and thicker, richer hair with practice. The copy stresses ease, supposes gratis benefits, and urges immediate trial.
When the aigrette wilts on a hat, remove it promptly and consider a fresh bow of ribbon. Modern bows feature three large loops and one small loop, lightly wired and centered under a fluffy high brim. Adopting the tilted brim demands different hair arrangements and often higher styling this season.
A delicious starter built on finely diced apple pulp. A dash of lemon juice adds brightness, followed by diced orange and grapefruit pulp. Pineapple chunks and shredded maraschino cherries complete the mixture. When thoroughly chilled, serve in long stemmed glasses.
A London Tivita report notes a new gadgetry wave with a talking clock to interrupt conversations at railway stations and warn clerks of departures. The device rings aloud for meal and rush times, calling workers to duties and signaling end-of-work moments as a satire on workplace life.
A page from Kenyon and Weir promotes improved agriculture with ideas and observations for farming. The note invites reader feedback and emphasizes learning from others to advance farming practices.
A detailed first person guide to a Missouri kitchen garden 80 by 60 feet, fenced with poultry netting and grape arbors. The author describes soil fertility from poultry litter and ashes, yearly planting cycles for onions lettuce radishes and early crops, transplanting onions, trimming tomatoes, corn layout, and sunflower interplanting, plus weed control, composting, and winter storage. The piece ends with a practical note on poultry and farming efficiency and a brief market commentary.
Mushrooms fetch 20 to 60 cents a pound and can be grown in cellars at about 57F. Prepare a 12 to 14 inch bed using horse manure with straw litter and loam, stacked and turned for several days to vent gases. Plant English mudroom spawn nine inches apart, keep 67F, water lukewarm, and cover until exhausted. Expect mushrooms in six to eight weeks barring material or moisture issues.
The United States Department of Agriculture notes potato powdery scab as a newly identified disease with round pustules and brown dusty spore masses. It may threaten future crops, as spores can survive years in soil. experts weigh quarantine measures affecting imports from Canada and Europe.
A reader describes the plow shoe device in the Missouri Valley Farmer. Made from scrap iron and a 2x10 board, the contraption attaches with bolts and a strap to help balance the plowman as he moves the implement between fields.
Practical guidance on managing sitting hens with ample water and corn, dusting for pests, and limiting eggs to fit the hen’s brood. Advice covers moving hens after dark, placing eggs, gentleness, and keeping nests quiet to encourage successful incubation even in cold weather.
The article argues soil fertility is an investment, not a bankable asset. Plant food, moisture, and soil condition control productivity, with crop costs including the loss of fertility. It cites nitrogen credit for legumes and warns rotation alone cannot sustain profits, as future generations bear the cost.
The text advises sowing artichokes or rape in part of a hog lot to supply forage for pigs, notes that shade and water promote growth, and suggests one daily grain ration until fattening. It warns that wire fences cause injuries and proposes cost efficient, quick crossovers using simple wooden or lumber stiles. It also mentions green manure crops like red clover and field peas as common cover crops.
This article discusses Indian Runner ducks as a lucrative farm venture by L. M. Bennington. It notes ducks can lay 200 or more eggs, eggs are larger than hen eggs, and suggests Indian Runner ducks may outperform hens for egg production. It also mentions broilers, with pound and a half broilers fitting well for most markets.
A travel vignette in a Mexican setting traces shifting leaders as a president and his predecessor are alternately named as soon to be ousted or shot. The piece blends fiction with a reflective aside on fame and political peril amid Sierra Madre landscapes.
A 1900s style notice extols Postum as a coffee substitute after a Tennessee woman narrates improved health, weight gain, and no tonic use since switching. It details regular and instant Postum forms, prices, and a vendor note. The piece also weaves brief anecdotes about mischief by a druggist and social uplift, plus a physician appointment.
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