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Newspaper
Grand Rapids Tribune
Location
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1918
Page
6
A readers page by William A Radford offers advice on home improvement and design, detailing exterior remodeling ideas, window treatments, roof, siding, and brickwork. The piece discusses extending a house, attic and bedroom work, and maintaining a cohesive look with beveled knee walls and shingles.
The note discusses interior planning for a house extension focusing on privacy and access. It suggests placing a new bathroom to avoid passing through bedrooms, possibly adding a dining room or reconfiguring the living room. Emphasis on matching floor levels between old and new sections and ensuring independent access to the bathroom.
Fragmented report describes a Chinese pneumonic plague spreading from Harbin to multiple regions. It notes rapid transmission along railway lines, deutscher labor camps, and mentions carriers and deaths. It references East Asia, Europe, and mentions Germany and Spain in connection with the pandemic timeline.
Fragmentary OCR text presents a garbled quote about attitudes toward gasolineless Sundays. It mentions a senorita and a reference to Eetolighan Agedforald, but the passage is incoherent, with names and phrases unlikely to be accurate.
The Washington figure for this year places commercial apples at 24,335,000 barrels, up from 22,519,000 last year. The Newark News cites higher prices and wastage as factors, with private orchards sold early and much fruit wasted. Government estimates New York state alone shows 88,400,000 barrels of 160 to a barrel in fall.
A fragmented recipe collection references crisp rolls for breakfast and various baked treats. It lists Barley Currant Cakes, Economy Cake, Oatmeal Biscuits, and Corn Oysters with ingredients and steps, though many misspellings obscure exact measures. The piece reads like a home cook’s adrift manual for hearty meals and pastries.
A palatable substitute for cow milk and cream is made by mixing sterilized skim with water, evaporating, and emulsifying with coconut oil. An additive, a stabilizer, helps separate water and air, creating a product in demand where milk is costly to obtain.
The text outlines Washington with five early cabinet posts: state, treasury, war, postmaster general, and attorney general. It notes additions under later presidents, including departments of the interior, agriculture, commerce, and labor, highlighting the expansion of executive offices through Adams, Cleveland, Roosevelt, and Wilson eras.
A foundation report describes a road site in Alaska with a two foot moss layer above a 40 foot clear ice bed and six feet of gravel to bedrock. A Berkshire man notes the find and mentions a warden named Spot.
A narrator recalls numerous aircraft incidents including planes crashing into walls houses and bridges plus a flood and forest crash at speeds around eighty miles per hour. The speaker claims a single skinned nose is the worst injury among many dangerous escapades.
A fragmentary line speaks of self made by a thorn from a petaily pene bush, presenting a cryptic, dystopian image with unclear context or action. The sentence offers no clear event, date, or proper nouns to anchor a full newsy summary.
A brief, humorous exchange in Louisye Courtois Journal where Mrs. Wombat asks about a lady candidate and the couple decides to vote the other way, calling her “a peach” in a wry observer tone. The dialogue illustrates local political ribbing and wary voter sentiment.
Internal Revenue Service data show overall tobacco product output rose for cigarettes by a small margin while declines hit cigars, chewing and smoking tobacco. Total collections reached 756,188,059.00 with gains tied to cigarette tax receipts and related duties, despite drops in other tobacco categories.
United States Department of Agriculture trials show frosted and decayed potatoes can yield clean white starch of good quality. They may rival current methods and could supply sizing starch in large factories at shipping centers to utilize surplus frozen and decayed potatoes arriving in fall and winter, reducing waste and production costs.
The text argues that the most conscience-tormented are the sensitive and high-minded, while the smug and fortunate feel self-satisfied. It rejects the belief that virtue yields inner joy or clear conscience as reward, calling such notions inhuman and misleading. The New Kopulite.
A fragmentary moral meditation urges weight of sorrow in life and service to others as a path to freedom from personal troubles. It warns against laziness and wantonness, noting dangers of temptation and the costs of incompetence and sensual excess, while promoting vigilance and self-discipline.
A jumble of quoted lines and anecdotes appears, including lines about May state SUV tgs, a neighbor's girl hit by a car, and comments from Senitor So vim. The text shifts to opinions from Boston Transcript and Galveston News, with stray phrases about trials, juries, fashion, and advertising amid chaotic, partial OCR.
A collage of comic snippets and dialogues portrays a bustling household, social pretensions, and misadventures. Young Financier Newell begs his father for coins to feed pigeons, while a tense quarrel over politics and dignity echoes in a domestic scene.
Readable fragments indicate silver spruce from British Columbia in high demand for construction and aviation uses. Claims mention trees growing very tall up to 150 feet and tapering, with lengths suitable for flying machines. Values cited include 5 to BS feet and an 800,000 aquare ralles, with a 4,000 profit note.
New York fashion faces a tongue cry from Henry II to Cromwell as designers mix eras in frocks. The piece notes fashion borrowing from past ages, warns of future trends, and links wartime history to style impulses affecting wearers.
The article surveys prewar and postwar dress, linking Cromwell era styles to modern Paris fashion. It compares old frock shapes, sleeveless blouses, and embroidered collars with contemporary coats and oriental drapery, noting tensions between novelty and conservative tastes, and predicting a restrained, sedate elegance in spring lines.
A brief note on blocked effects in table linens and scarfs for the bedroom shows colors and embroidery guiding the pattern. With fine linen scarce, households may favor cottons and prioritize a pure surface, using machine or hand hemstitching and couching to vary blocks sized around six inches.
Corsets described in flesh-colored silk brocade are veiled by black lace and finished at the bottom with a ruffle of wide edging, creating a layered decorative silhouette.
A description highlights the potential for a border around the edge to yield novelty and new possibilities. The text suggests experimental approaches and creative outcomes arising from enclosing the periphery. The idea centers on exploration and inventive design to maximize distinctive features.
Fringe has invaded the precnet of sweaters. It often lines the sides of the large sailor collar and matches the sweater wool or contrasts in color. A silk sweater with black and white fringe around a shawl collar and cuff edges shows how fringe decorates the garment. Tassels appear as short fringe bits at sash ends and collar corners to secure points and add decoration.
Knitted silk lingerie and matching vest and bloomers sets in tailored trim with flat stitched bands and contrasting ribbon colors have become fashionable among American women, highlighting economical appeal and style in current wardrobes.
Chicago reports that prison escapee known as Big Joe Moran is securely held at Joliet prison after a dramatic capture by Deputy Sheriff Haynes of New Mexico. Moran, once a Cook County jail inmate, allegedly taunted authorities and Westsiders during a turbulent escape attempt before being recaptured.
Two young girls robbed a Chicago saloon at gunpoint, forcing the bartender and two patrons to surrender. After taking $150 from the cash register they drank whisky, rang up No Sale, and left with $14 from patrons before escaping in an automobile.
Gary Indiana report describes Della Nickotovitch aged fourteen and Annar Milunn aged fifteen escaping from a jail by tearing out the ceiling and sliding down a water pipe. They fled outside the building and were captured near the outskirts hours later. Della remained at a girls home in Indianapolis while Annar faced federal charges over a cashing dispute involving a teller’s check.
John Murray, a 63 year old, began serving a five year federal sentence at Leavenworth after being sentenced in Chicago for his crimes. Authorities state he is an incorrigible counterfeiter and has a long record.
A cooperative workers’ group named the Solerytion has been formed in Stentier ville G2 to aid in the conservatl of coal. It is described as the first of its kind in the country, aiming to support workers and foster collaboration.
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