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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1908
Page
6
In a mountain settlement, a weary group of bluecoats searches for a rebel scout while a young girl shelters them with wary hospitality. After the soldiers depart, a disguise helps a Confederate plan to slip away toward safety, as Granny sleeps and the girl helps Dan evade pursuit.
William A. Radford offers free advice on all building topics to readers, citing his broad experience as editor author and manufacturer. He explains that a bungalow plan shown is long for its width and stresses designing houses to fit the owner’s lot landscape and personal goals.
An editor highlights vine covered screens for privacy and aesthetics, favoring Dutchman's pipe and Virginia creeper or lighter climbers like clematis. It discusses a long narrow one story bungalow on such lots with a side entrance, veranda, and heating plans, plus cost estimates and garden integration. It also notes the historical arc of science with Davy's early potassium and sodium discoveries in 1807.
London Titus notes several British statesmen with high official earnings. Gladstone’s total receipts exceed £102,000 while Halsbury tops the list with well over £200,000. Salisbury about £100,000. Devonshire £64,000. Cross £74,000. Hicks Beach £72,000. Goschen £70,000. Hamilton £68,000.
Fashion guidance notes kimono coats as among the most attractive evening wraps for small figures, warns they may not suit stout or very slender women. Adjustments to fit shoulders and back enhance line, while Paris authorities insist on a touch of black in the toilette. Blouses for morning wear remain simple with lace and silk slips.
The article notes the danger of overtrimming with buttons on summer fashions. It advises using many small buttons in groups on gowns, fewer large buttons on coats, and suggests crocheted buttons as the popular choice for decorative effect.
The article urges careful furnishing to avoid gloom and highlights the fireplace as a key mood booster. It traces the fireplace’s decorative history since 1750, praising brass andirons fender and mantels as brightening elements, plus mirrors, pictures, and small touches like a brass tea caddie on the mantel edge.
Coins with holes to bring luck are suggested as a decorative book-marker weight. A floral ribbon fringe carries the coins fastened by narrow satin ribbon at the back, with white and pink or pale green and primrose colors proposed for a pretty effect.
The article provides old fashioned tips for skin and scalp care. It suggests heating lard for plaster mixtures, using grease with camphor to prevent blisters, homemade scalp liquids for hair loss, washing with Castile soap to stimulate pores, and a simple orange flower water lotion with benzoin for a pale smooth complexion.
A feature on fashionable millinery outlines at least five required hats for the happy woman seeking polish. The shop offers turbans bell and boat styles trimmed with wings and ribbons, plus frilly crowned nets and flowers. Other options include the cavalier with plume, wide-brim sailor, and embroidered lingeries with rosé wreaths, velvet strings, and new Ronney shapes challenging Hagerle hats in adult wardrobes.
White wash skirts long unused in the closet were cut and sewn into a little coat for a two year old. JT trimmed the garment with embroidery, noting the skirt once belonged to Aosties and was repurposed into the baby’s coat.
A Stamford Connecticut reader describes a four year battle with inflammatory rheumatism. Skin peeled hair fell out and three large bed sores appeared before Cuticura products brought relief. The writer reports complexion clearing sores healing after ointment use and hair regaining shine. March 6 and 12 1907.
A book agent tries to sell a large red volume to Eli Hobbs on his porch. Hobbs replies he has no wife or children, only himself and a cat. The agent offers dubious uses for the book, including throwing it at a spouse, prompting Hobbs to remain unmoved.
The term internal revenue is limited to revenues collected by the internal revenue bureau under the treasury department and does not include revenues from internal sources such as public land sales patent fees or postal service income.
A resident in the East bottoms woke to four feet of flood water. Rescuers found him wandering the yard with a fishing pole probing the ground. He explained he was seeking his well to fetch a pail of water.
A Minnesota schoolteacher known as the Postum Preacher recounts her struggle with coffee and nervous prostration. She credits Postum with steady nerves and improved health after adopting the beverage, noting her husband also switched and experienced relief from caffeine jitters.
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