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Newspaper
Inter County Journal
Location
Ackley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
6
A festive verse invokes bells to ring for the new year and awaken echoes. It celebrates hope, friendship, and God’s grace, urging the community to listen as bells peal and the season’s bright promises unfold.
A brief period item describes easy crafts for New Year gifts. It outlines a whisk broom holder and a pasteboard base, covered in gold-brown denim with careful hemming and finishing touches.
Instructions describe covering a seaters circle holder with denim and Persian trimming, adding gold braid, assembling disks, and attaching a back loop to hold a whisk broom. The project uses old kid or gueca leather for a novel work box and notes cutting a pasteboard bottom four inches.
Instructions describe shaping a pasteboard box with wadding, tracing an oval pattern, cutting and assembling sections, and covering with pale silk. Steps cover folding, cutting, basting, overseaming raw edges, and concealing elder pieces by sewing for a finished, decorative glove box.
Instructions describe attaching fine silk cord to the shade of a glove around an oval shape. The lower end remains cord free. Each side is stitched to a square bottom and over peel. Two full pockets of soft silk are made matching the shade.
Instructions describe making a butter plate dolly with silk ribbon attachments for a needlehook and thimble, then sewing a book mark set from colored ribbons with gold thread and tassels. The guide includes stitching methods Kensington stitch, fringe cutting, ribbon pairing, and lettering quotations on ribbons with gum arabic for durability.
The June New Year known as the night of the drop marked by Isis tears and the Nile rising. Priests and people kept vigil by the river. Sacred fires lit, homes ablaze, white robes, oil anointment, flower crowns, and palm bearing as chants and feasting spread through the land.
A short reflection on turning New Year wishes into concrete purposes. The piece urges readers to replace idle wishing with determinate plans and actions to improve their own lives and assist others, framing progress as the result of purposeful effort rather than mere desire.
The essay traces the horn blast from ancient Israel to modern America, linking shophar sounds with lawgiving at Sinai, religious festivals, war, and national joy. It notes the horn’s evolving uses, the solemnity of trumpets in Jewish rites, and prophecies of a future universal liberty proclaimed by the great trumpet.
A historical advertisement claims Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery relieves nervousness and dyspepsia by improving digestion and blood quality. It touts alcohol-free formula of native roots, with free extracts booklet on request from Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo NY, and promotes Pleasant Pellets for liver and bowels.
A London musical comedy scene features Clyde Fitch noting a loud laughing author in a box. A fired Irishman learns a simple lesson about wages while a Russian Dragomiroff leads a bayonet charge in Shipka Pass, jokingly berating his retreating troops.
Jesse B Mitchell of Washington Kansas, a local telephone man, recounts his twelve year kidney trouble. He suffered back pain and fatigue until using Dodd's Kidney Pills, after four boxes he reports no back pain, renewed strength, and energy for daily work.
In Chicago, Joaquin Miller discussed Western progress when a reporter asked about city fires. The Bierras poet answered that the fires stem from tepid growth and the friction it creates.
Dealers claim Defiance Starch is essential for customers and cannot be replaced by any other cold water starch. It is advertised as usable cold or boiled and claimed to be the whitest option, even whiter than white, with strong emphasis on its whitewashing nature.
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