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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1921
Page
5
Two years into the experimental ostrich project near Nice, 32 birds were started, 25 from California and 7 from Abyssinia. Progeny total 110, maintenance about £3 per year per bird, plume sets valued at £40, and ostrich lifespans estimated at eighty years.
A pampered mother in a large household learns hard work when her husband hires a servant. She leaves for a month, and the three daughters must cook bake and manage the home. The experience teaches the value of their mother and domestic labor.
The piece argues to reserve yard space for a children's play area with a sand box bells water and simple toys. It contrasts dirty romping clothes with a clean house image and urges letting boys wear cheap rompers and short hair for freedom to play and grow.
A collection of humorous maxims on relationships, conduct, and money. Wry observations compare bachelor life to marriage, note vanity and foolhardiness, and joke about wealth, pursuits, and social norms with period voice and pointed irony.
Practical guidance for very thin women urges ample sleep, rest breaks, and daily humor. It counsels keeping outdoors, moderate exercise, and avoiding haste toward skimpy fashion while endorsing tasteful padding and tipo dress according to body type.
A discussion on prudent purchasing urges women to consider usefulness over novelty. It warns against reckless bargains and notes many shoppers lack economical discipline. The piece observes that bargains tempt many, yet usefulness determines value, with praise for truly frugal buyers.
The guide warns against using a heavy needle or silk on kid gloves and advises using a thin cotton thread waxed with beeswax. It instructs menders to place the finger on a glove mender, take alternating stitches, draw thread evenly, avoid tight spacing, mend on the right side, and secure the thread.
A short verse praises a kindly old woman who valued simple joys and good health. It highlights restraint, cheerful effort, and the power of kind words and a smile. The piece credits Hotme Chat as the author.
Advice on keeping white canvas and leather shoes pristine through washing rinsing and air drying. Includes methods with gasoline naptha or chloroform for white kid leather and storage tips using tissue paper talcum powder and blue paper. Recommends French chalk pipe clay dry flour and magnesia for dusty shoes.
Quick method to clean steel carving and bread knives uses an old razor strop with emery for bright sharp steel. If no strop, wrap emery on a flat topped stick and rub with cloth to achieve similar results.
The article advises cleaning bric a brac especially china pieces with an old shaving brush to dust crevices and aid washing. It recommends ammonia added to warm water, using a tablespoonful per gallon, instead of soap.
Create a corset cover bag from light teal linen sized to fit the corsets. Add three large green eyelets on each side at the top and weave a green satin ribbon through them. Embroider the complete name on one side of the cover.
The airship, a long sought solution, remains both marvel and menace. It expands travel while posing grave risks and weapon potential. Nations vie to harness its power, risking deadly consequences in peacetime and war.
A decade of change in American business elevates the "gentleman" as the ideal applicant for big jobs. Big traders now seek tactful, independent, discreet men who speak their language and fit club life, capable of polite, trustworthy conduct in any city’s life. The gentleman works along the line of least resistance, hence his demand. Bookkeeper.
A collage of aphorisms about women men and everyday behavior. Notes on honesty jealousy weather shopping and parenting reveal social attitudes with pointed humor and playful irony.
In Huddersfield a station promotes lark singing by training captive birds. Birds are taken in boxes to fields and left to imitate free birds. Competitions last ten minutes to eighty, with small prizes totaling about £6 to £7. The novelty attracts amusement and modest profit. the practice has persisted for about thirty years.
An Vld Homan town at Ribchester near Blackburn reveals Roman Britain’s extensive trade and industry. Archaeology uncovers heavy red tiles for flooring, bronze ornaments, a public bath site, villa floors, altars, statues, coins and tools showing Ribchester as Rigodunum a major port and manufacturing center on Mersey routes. After Romans left it declined through Saxon and Norman eras, becoming a small trading village with later Tudor modifications.
Western Australia hosts an official inspection of a colony named New Jerusalem founded three years ago by Solomon Fisher a converted Jew. He established the Church of the First Born claiming a blend of Christianity and Judaism and secured a 10,000 acre grant from the WA government for a settlement now home to sixty one adherents.
Disjointed text references the Smiths and The Smiths with phrases about early wars, weapons, and national contributions. It mentions British victory, Fry Crecy, Crimea, and Loudon Siandara in a cryptic, non coherent manner with limited readable facts. No clear event dates or identifiable people beyond those names are confirmed.
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