To Clean and Renovate Household Items in Tipsy Notes
The Ladies' Column offers practical home care steps. It covers cleaning water bottles with tea and vinegar, temporarily sealing leaks with yellow soap and whiting, refreshing a Mackintosh cloak, reviving a shabby wicker chair with green satin cushions, glazing rolls with a sugar-milk glaze, preparing fried breadcrumbs for game, assembling a layered meat and egg dish, Norfolk dumplings from dough, and bananas in syrup using raspberry and red currant juice.
Two hoods pattern from coat material explained
A short guide describes making Pretty little hoods from coat fabric. The diagram outlines pattern No 1 with a central dart that shapes the neck and gatherings at notches to fit. The simple construction suggests easy adaptation from existing coats or jackets.
Jelly bag and hood shapes for children’s wear
Describes two hood styles for youngsters. No 1 features a straight front with lambs wool edging and a smooth fall when worn. No 2 offers a variation of the jelly bag shape, both praised for comfort and for preventing stiffness if a child sleeps with them.
Imely Fare Pot Roast of Lamb Recipe
Instructions describe a lamb roast using one ounce lard half ounce butter one onion and meat cooked in an iron pot until browned. Fry onion with fats, brown meat, add water and turn constantly for even cooking, keep pot covered, finish with gravy and vegetables. French variant includes chopped cold meat breadcrumbs suet onion pepper salt hot sauce and mint sauce methods.
Export Widow Trade Shock From Pekin Chronicle
A Fengtien correspondent reports a Japanese trader importing about 3000 Japanese widows for sale as domestic servants or secondary wives. Photographs are shown to buyers, selections made, and the women weighed with value set on a 60 cent per cattle Chinese pound base.
Wife's Punishment and Husband Shoots Son in Georgia
From New York the Daily Mail correspondent reports a Georgia tragedy where Charles Lloyd shoots his son after discovering his wife and a lover in the house. The 12 year old boy dies in the hallway as Lloyd guns down the intruder, leaving the wife alone with her remorse. Lloyd is imprisoned as the manhunt for the lover begins.
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New York
Daily Mail
Georgia
Charles Lloyd
Quitman Plantations
Lloyd
William Davis
Davis
Parish Coping With Coal Bill Sting
A priest describes a church fund drive to cover coal heating costs. Tim Nolan with a sly wink refuses to donate, prompting a post service rebuke. Tim insists he’s onto the con, joking that the church is heated by steam rather than coal.
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Tim Nolan
Tim
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