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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1909
Page
6
A New York inventor created a wire hair roll with three combs to secure a pompadour. It shields the style from rain and wind, stays light and cool, and can be worn with wool or cotton fabrics without damage. Cost about 20 cents to make.
A long fashion feature details colorings, fabrics, trims, and silhouettes for women’s wear. It notes cherry black fabrics, hand-tucked waists, hemstitched collars, matching belts, Irish crochet lace, and elaborate hats with exaggerated crowns. Also offered are beauty guidance on posture, sunlight, digestion, hair styles, and remedies for arms and complexion with practical examples.
A column argues vanity myths about women and men, claiming women are often unfairly accused of monopoly on vanity while men also show vanity in attire and brains. It suggests truly clever women avoid flaunting wit, as wit can harm social prospects and relationships.
Description of a fashionable costume featuring Stanning Cloth in wood brown chiffon broadcloth. The front panel is trimmed with brown velvet covered buttons and pointed side pieces. A white round collar and stock with maroon velvet band and bow. A maroon turban with a white aigrette and a sable pelerine complete the ensemble.
A 19th century domestic guide advises mixing sugar of lead, powdered alum, and lukewarm water to treat fabric. The recipe says to soak fabric in a tub for twenty four hours and to stir thoroughly at first, ensuring the ingredients dissolve before use.
Begin washing painted walls or varnished woodwork from the bottom and work upward to prevent streaks caused by water running down. Use old soap dissolved in one and a half gallons of water as a cleansing solution.
A jagged entry advises mustard plaster for a child with half flour, a soda solution to stave off headaches, and a rheumatism remedy noting joint pains. The fragment hints at practical household cures using common ingredients like flour and baking soda.
Advice recommends repairing shrinking stockings by cutting out heels, lengthening the leg to the desired foot length, and inserting from another pair the needed heel and foot portion. Cut deep enough to avoid a tight instep. this avoids new seams at the toes and leverages existing fabric.
A historical note states that women physicians in French prisons are very successful and likely to steer inmates toward better conduct through hopeful, encouraging words, acknowledging many prisoners are victims of circumstances and deserve support.
A New York Sun note teases a shift in fashion with designers dropping figures and focusing on streamlined gowncraft. The verse suggests a trend toward simpler garments and hints at gendered craft changing with modern tastes.
Aunt Eliza recalls Joshua chasing flies as harmless humor within marriage and devotes a vignette to past trials and enduring love. Betty listens, while Eliza notes nerves and coping strategies, comparing Joshua’s quirks to other men. The tale ends with a triumph of a fly caught and a lesson on affection.
A succinct piece contrasting hotel and prison cells through social psychology, arguing that valuables drive fear and segregation. It suggests a civilization valuing nonmaterial assets like skill and fellowship, enabling sociable talk without constant guards. The essay ends with a quip about a funeral keeping someone away.
A garbled excerpt suggests questions about a woman at home and a lady with a new stress or from the Installment house. It references an empty back seat of a big automobile as a factor in a man’s walking discontent, capturing a fragment of social tension.
Step by step directions describe making hard soap from lye grease and water using a stone jar a pan cloth and bread pan. It covers dissolving lye melting grease straining mixing forming a thick gruel pouring into a lined pan then cooling cutting into squares and drying before use.
A simple enhancement to a two pan cooker adds perforations along the inner pan edge to carry steam from the lower water pan into the food chamber. The steam increases heat and speeds cooking while keeping moisture, preventing drying.
This reads like a recipe collection detailing potato shells with celery salt Hungarian paprika butter cream egg whites and a yolk glaze then raised waffles milk butter sugar salt yeast and flour with eggs and baking and finally pecan cookies rich with butter sugar flour baking powder salt milk vanilla and chopped pecans baked on buttered sheets.
Mix two cups of graham flour with one teaspoon of salt and one cup of water. Roll out thin, cut into wounds. Layer on a greased pan, brush with melted butter, add a second layer, pinch edges, brush again, prick through both layers and bake twenty minutes in a hot oven.
A small solid head of cabbage is chopped finely and placed in a kettle for twenty four hours. After salting and adding a little water the cabbage is drained rinsed and fried in fat or butter. It can also be boiled with meat.
Prepare a granite pie plate with sliced apples then top with a soft rich biscuit dough. Bake until golden and serve with the baked apples showing on top, dusted with sugar and dotted with butter. Cream may accompany if desired.
A simple cleaning fluid is prepared by boiling half a pound of sinked lime with a pound of soda in six parts water for two hours. After simmering it settles, the clear liquid is poured off for use.
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