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Newspaper
Independence Enterprise
Location
Independence, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1913
Page
9
The letter explains that the engagement ring is worn on the fourth finger of the left hand, next to the little finger. It notes the ring ceremony is common, the clergyman explains how it is done, and that the bride-elect often does not need to visit the courthouse, though license rules vary by state. The first finger is the thumb, though some call it the first finger.
A reader asks if ushers are necessary for a church wedding and whether the bride should wear a veil. The answer advocates ushers to guide guests and reserving seats, suggesting four to six ushers for larger weddings and endorsing the veil as a traditional, special bridal accessory for the bride.
A twelve member girls club plans a Leap Year party as an informal, non dinner event. Call each special boy to invite him, then enjoy dancing or card games with college students and serve light refreshments.
Betty asks about proper costume for a noon wedding. The bride may wear a veil with a white gown, a street costume is appropriate, and a veil is favored for lifelong privilege. The groom may wear a frock coat or long-tailed cutaway with suitable accessories.
Inexperienced asks if one should remove all clothing in a sleeping car and suggests donning a Pullman robe with a silk cap and soft slippers for comfort and presentability in sickness or accident. The writer also shares a traditional toast praising a father, signed Madame Meral.
Guidance on breeding and judging workhorse feet to enable four miles per hour with a load. Emphasizes sound, well formed hooves with upturned soles, prominent frog, and robust walls to avoid fatigue and deformities from disease or founder.
An article argues purebred cattle outperform scrubs in profit with better feed and care. It claims purebreds produce market-ready beef faster, noting three crops of purebred animals can be raised for every two of scrubs, and that grades gain value through infusion of pure blood.
Anton Mickish of Union County Oregon describes a homemade root cutter built from inch board with three slides and a tilting top. The device, mounted on three legs, uses a central knife and movable triangular piece to raise for large beets, improving efficiency in feeding stock.
The Maine experiment station tested how many Brahmas and Plymouth Rocks hens per 10 by 16 foot pen yielded best profit. Pens held fifteen, twenty, twenty five and thirty hens. profits per hen ranged from 80 to 36 cents, showing crowding lowers egg farm profits.
A New York inventor has designed a fumigation apparatus for poultry. The device uses guide rails in a coop and a cleverly placed fowl with a head hole so the bird avoids inhaling fumes while the fumes circulate to kill lice and other insects. Chicks can be fumigated by placing them in a hanging basket above the main chamber.
It costs more to obtain foundation stock of sure-bred animals, but it costs no more after that to raise them.
A Bohemia watering site hosts an Indien dress making show opened by a princess. An attempted display trick with dressmaker dummies backfires as two lace blouses attract attention, while the dummy substitutes turn out to be carved poems and readings.
The piece traces velvet making from Arab origins to medieval Venice and Genoa. It notes Lyon inheriting a craft around 1616 and France under monarchs like Louis XIV shaping fashion inclining velvet with gold and silver embroidery. It mentions velvet in royal consumption for hangings and furniture covers.
In a house of commons exchange, Sir William Osborne queried the identity of a new member and, upon learning it, remarked that the apposition has enslured him yet he appears the finest face for a grievance the speaker has seen.
A literary fragment by Maarten Masrions titled Eve the eldest explores naming as humanizing. The narrator notes Eve carries a chosen name to avoid sanctified halo pressure, contrasting with others called Marln within Kyve.
A method from Germany preserves eggs by immersing them in a ten percent solution of liquid glass. Eggs treated in this coating retain freshness for many months, and even after a year hatched chickens remained healthy. Prepare by dissolving one pound of liquid glass in four quarts of cold water, store in glazed ware, and immerse eggs briefly. To boil preserved eggs, perforate the shell first.
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