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Newspaper
Ironwood Times
Location
Ironwood, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1908
Page
6
White leads the list of favored negligee colors with gowns featuring delicate trims. Descriptions cover gowns with lace, chiffon, satin belts, and elaborate skirts. Styles highlight lace enclosures, velvet bands, and decorative roses, point toward green satin accents and kimono sleeves.
The article notes women often neglect basic skin care and weatherproofing. It warns against using dirty towels washcloths and damp sponges, hard limey water, wind and dust without cleansing afterward. It also discusses Gibson shoulders and long ulsters as practical travel attire over delicate gowns.
Peacock colorings trend in evening attire with blue and green chiffons. A blue chiffon sill voile and green chiffon garments feature elaborate embroidery with glass beads. The hues of deep blues and greens dominate these stylish fabrics.
A historical guide describes an easily made embroidery silk case as a necessary luxury. It details materials including cardboard, white China silk, ribbon, flannel, and decorative cover, plus stitching steps to craft a padded box with needle holders and corded edges.
A description of a smoke gray street suit features a tight fitted waist to knee depth line, a rounded hem, and a high plaited hyacinth hive taffery misette with black soutache trim. The piece is presented in a military influenced arrangement and noted as increasingly fashionable for very small shaped frills.
A quirky remark from Home Magazine notes humorists and their weights. F. P. Dunne tops at about 160 pounds while other writers such as Mark Twain and George Ade range around 147 to 150 pounds, with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs close behind. Q. Henry is described as a great humorist in the 180-pound class.
A 100 dollar reward is offered for proof that Catarrh Cure fails. The advertisement asserts Catarrh is a constitutional disease and guarantees a real cure by a systemic treatment. It claims the remedy strengthens the immune system and destroys the disease at its source. It urges readers to consult testimonials and buy from local druggists.
Story from Cleveland Plain Dealer features Rev Dr Wallace new East End Baptist pastor and a Boston girl who defuses a carbench hand incident. Also promotes Sloan's Liniment with a testimonial from J P Hubbard of Marietta S C claiming rapid relief from neuralgia and use for insect bites and sore throat.
A village scene features Mrs. Hardapple and Hiram Hardepple debating the value of a dead cow killed by a car. They mention rough estimates from $6 to $600 and threaten legal action, while a city man is singled out as the killer. A pantry ad for Postum follows.
Charles Von Saehnen of 210 A St Colfax Wasl says he suffered kidney troubles for thirty years with back pain rheumatism and frequent urine flow. Doan's Kidney Pills gave him near complete relief and he praises the product sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box from Foster-Milburn Co Buffalo New York.
Representative Birdsall of Iowa objects to high Washington rentals during the congressional season. He likens it to an Irish farmer who protests a valuation on Pats place as excessive yet plans an addition to show the old home is worth the assessor’s figure. A dentist, in a joke, binds warl for his own teeth by taking out those of others.
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