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Newspaper
Ismay Journal
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1913
Page
7
A family hosts a playful school shower for a young girl ending summer and starting school. Polly organizes gifts and games with sea themed favors, ink bottle encased watering pot, sewing basket items, and book straps. The event features a breakfast table reveal and a grand supper with a boat centerpiece and a planned engagement announcement.
A seaside hostess hosts a summer farewell outing with girls in wash frocks and men in outing suits. Dainty pink blue and white sunbonnets will be given to the girls while large straw hats with matching bands are awarded to the men. Each man is to select a girl whose bonnet matches his hat.
The article lists travel packing ideas from celluloid cases to leather accessories. It covers manicure kits compacted in buffers, distinctive color choices for groups, folding umbrellas, binoculars, pocket flashlights, and various cases for medicine, shaving, dressing, and lavender salts. It notes rising smoking trends among travelers and suggests practical, ready to use items for ocean and mountain trips.
On a dark piazza the use of natural state willow chairs provides relief. Bright crimson cushions in white or green enameled chairs add inviting, cheering color to the scene.
The Bowtex Globe Paris Correspondent notes hats now show fruit clusters such as apples strawberries and currants on tulle and black satin millinery. Parisiennes favor black and white effects after bold colors, with fruit accents as a stylish but secondary touch to flowers.
A brief look at how words evolve through centuries. Neighbor traces from sib to god sib to gossip while farmer shifts from boor to neighbor, and pitcher to chap. The piece highlights language as carpentry-like, with long build times and changing meanings.
The year 1813 saw US Congress meet for the thirteenth time amid war with Britain yet marked by American naval and land triumphs such as Perry’s Great Lakes victory. Madison began his second term as Europe’s powers clashed, Napoleon fell, and Argentina gained independence. Notable births include Wagner Bessemer Livingstone Pitman Douglas Porter Fremont.
A legend from two millennia before Christ recounts a princess discovering tea by drinking water infused with tea leaves from a twig. The tale says court ladies repeated the practice, spreading the custom and aiding the rise of a vast Chinese tea industry.
A compact string of quotes and proverbs with wordplay notes and a question about a hidden anagram. It weaves cautionary sayings like All that glitters is not gold and One good turn deserves another with playful rearrangements.
A step by step guide to building a rabbit trap from a soap box. It describes removing one end, reinforcing with cleats, inserting a bait stick, creating a brace, hinging the top, and baiting with apple. The method advises daily checks at morning and evening.
A neighbor’s boy was sent to buy five postage stamps with two dimes the man gave him, the extra coin for the man. The boy returned crying after losing one dime and explained he had lost the man’s dime, not the stamps.
A humorous exchange shows a woman asking Bobby to yield his seat to his father in a street car. Bobby replies that he would not give up his seat in a car, though it would hurt at home. This snippet reflects domestic humor and social norms.
A Pennsylvania inventor creates a hinged collapsible developing cabinet that folds flat for travel. When opened it forms a lighted box with front window and side sleeves for arms, using colored glass windows to protect plates. It is lightweight and compact for on the road development.
The first announcement of glycerine by Karl Wilhelm Scheele, a Swedish chemist, 137 years ago noted as the sweet principle of fats and named celsuss. Chevreul Berthelot and others refined glycerine, and Scheele also discovered acids and elements including uric acid calomel tungsten scheelite prussic acid and Scheele's green.
German engineers develop landing cars to handle unwieldy dirigibles. A long pneumatic side cushion car hauls the airship into hangars after man powered lowering. Smaller cars with hydraulically operated arms grasp railings or propulsion shafts to secure the craft.
A new Asiatic cable will be laid from Adena to Hongkong via Colombo and Singapore. The 6000 mile line will cost 5 million dollars.
The patent office once required a working model for every mechanical patent but stopped this 20 years ago after a model containing real nitroglycerin caused dangers. An exception exists for perpetual motion claims where a working model must be shown before the application is considered.
A compact device integrates a soft iron horseshoe magnet and fine wire to control a stopwatch. When the counter starts the spring releases the armature, energizing the watch to start. When the counter stops the circuit closes and the magnet attracts the armature to halt the watch, preventing human timing error.
A collection notes 1 624 languages on the American continent and patents across fields. It mentions Munich opening a municipal aeronautics museum and various inventions from France, England, and Rhode Island, including portable refrigerators, sun goggles, scalloped nickel coins, a sound wave photo device, a high speed perforating machine, and a door alarm. It also cites a German aviator planning a transatlantic flight via Spain and the Azores, as well as Hong Kong gas stoves and a one handed knot tying tool.
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