Belgian Styles Dominate War Era Fashion In The Limelight
The piece discusses Belgian influence on upcoming fashion including velvet gowns with porcelain beads, fur trims, and dramatic collars. It notes Americans embracing Belgian inspired looks as a symbol of wartime courage, with high collars, fur stock neck coverings, and various collar styles from directoire to consulate, and the rising popularity of wide fur outer collars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Callot
Germany
Belgium
Directoire
Consulate
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Keeping Hands In Condition In Frosty Weather
A sanitary brief on hand care for frosty weather advises soaking hands in warm milk as an inexpensive prep. It recommends glycerin and rose water after washing to soften skin, and warns Vaseline may promote hair growth while suggesting Vaseline under the nails loosens dirt and keeps nails supple.
Gown Designed in America Reflects Louis Philippe Style
An evening gown titled La Femme a lu Mode showcases white faille and silver brocade inspired by the 1860s Louis Philippe model. It features a stiff plaiting across the bosom and shoulders, presenting a quaint and beautiful design.
Fashion's Fancy in Furs
Fur coats and capes feature godets and long sleek lines. A seal marquash coat and bright yellow fox shawls showcase luxurious fur textures. Demi ajusté sealskin coats reach knee length with dramatic godets and roomy sleeves.
USEFUL GIFT FOR DETACHABLE COLLARS
The article describes a simple wall mounted collar case. Two linen covered cardboard panels hinge together to form a box that holds detachable collars. Linen strips with holes meet a button on the inner surface to secure, with rings at the top for wall suspension and a tape loop to close.
Dictates of fashion highlight modern styles and silhouettes
Fashion notes describe decorative trends this season with slip on blouses and mid dy blouses. Apple green evening wear appears in frocks while three quarter length coats gain favor. Jockey cap shaped hats lead millinery and plaid suits feature high white piqué or linen vests. Capes and jackets emphasize belts and pockets with braidings. Dancing frocks feature waist to hem files worn with black or brown hats. Some portrayals show silk turbans with jeweled ornaments.
Color and mood linked by science warns against red rooms
A historic piece notes color influencing emotions and mental state. It cites faddists, then scientists, claiming colors alter behavior and even flower hues affect conditions. It warns that room color can change character and advises avoiding red rooms for effect.
Notes on Hog Keeping For Profit And Health
A compact guide urges movable hog houses and early maturity to reduce disease risk. It stresses clean yards, ample range, proper bedding, and mixed feeding with roots and clover to lower costs while maintaining weight gain and health. It warns against wet pastures and single breed reliance, advocating careful breeding stock selection.
Farmers Are Great Movers
Statistics from the Department of Commerce show farmers are constantly relocating. Nearly 6 million respondents report 52 percent moved within five years, with over 1 million moving within a year. Regional differences include 57 percent in the North, 44 percent in the West, and 41 percent in the South. The government sees mobility as hindering soil knowledge, crop yields, and fertility preservation, and notes no solution yet to this roving tendency.
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Department of Commerce
Death Trap for the Sheep
The article explains how sheep can die when trapped in depressions or furrows, especially on fleshy animals. It notes that helpless sheep may thrash and die if not rescued, and recalls that attendants at fairs check at night to prevent such traps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Kleinheinz
Wisconsin Sheep Breeders’ Association
Ufe
Sheep Owners Urged to Daily Flock Checks
Sheep owners are advised that sheep may struggle to escape, so a daily or near daily visit to flocks is a wise precaution. Attention to detail during these visits helps ensure success and better outcomes for the flock.
Nine Superior Farm Rules For The Garden
A historical note presents nine horticultural rules for farmers emphasizing proper seasonality completeness efficiency and orderly work habits. Rules cover finishing tasks leaving tools in order avoiding waste and removing decaying plant parts to protect crops.
Ladder design to prevent weakness and breakage
A safe ladder is built from clear two by four scantling with notches one inch deep at crosspieces and secured by half inch screws. This method avoids nails that corrode or loosen, yielding a strong light ladder that lasts indefinitely.
Arid Tanana Valley Farm Scene in Alaska
The Tanana valley near Fairbanks is described as an ice bound basin with frozen ground storing all moisture. Summers thaw the ground and farmers irrigation is unnecessary due to subirrigation. Area under cultivation doubles yearly with wheat yields of 55 to 60 bushels per acre aided by constant daylight from May to September.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Arizona
Tanana
Northwest Prairies
Middle West
Technical World Magazine
Japan
Mount St. Elias
Mount McKinley
Tanana Valley
United States Experimental Farm
Lime Sulphur for Peaches and Apples Shows Strong Control
Pennsylvania experiment station reports that summer-strength lime sulfur sprayed on June 22 30 and July 11 against young San Jose scale found around June 18 eliminated young scales and greatly reduced adults. August 20 found no living scales. A similar test on an eight year old heavily infested apple tree suggests summer spraying alone can control San Jose scale on apples, though two or more sprays are likely.
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Pennsylvania Experiment Station
San Jose
Fall Cleaning of Orchard
A guide urges clearing marginal trees from older orchards to improve profit. Remove damaged or unproductive trees and replace with standard varieties. Windstorms may have damaged limbs and tops. cut broken limbs, treat wounds, and collect brush.
Personal crisis reports rise among Berlin women
The Berlin women’s movement coincides with a sharp rise in female personal crisis reports, from 8.3 to 10.6 per 100000 women, while male rates stay steady. Experts link the rise to women entering workshops factories and new roles, increasing economic and social risks. In Berlin the suicide ratio shows 48 women per 109 men taking their own lives.
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Berlin
Germany
Feeding Cattle for Fat or Milk Output
Article discusses feeding cattle to achieve fattening by corn intake or milk production by milk producing foods. It contrasts corn-rich feeding for weight gain with dairy-focused diets and mentions urats taust feed as milk enhancing.
Prison Mine Escape Slide Reported at Fort Leavenworth
An inmate used a coal chute to slide about 50 feet from the prison tipple to an outside area at Fort Leavenworth Kansas. The incident involved Bilge Howard as the subject described in the sparse, fragmentary report.
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Glid
Liberty
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
State Prison
Bilge Howard
Revolve Wind or No Wind at Golden Windmill
The Golden windmill in Golden keeps turning whether the wind blows or not. Park authorities installed a hidden electric motor inside the tower to keep the blades revolving when the wind ceases, ensuring continuous operation as described by Popular Mechanics.
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New York
Golden
Hard Luck Pursues Them in Quest for Work Across States
A Kansas City couple, Joseph Haas and his wife, robbed four months earlier in Mankato Minnesota, traveled from Omaha to Kansas City seeking work. After ill luck and exhaustion they were taken to Emergency hospital with Haas feverish and his wife in delicate condition. They had been promised work by a labor agency for a $3 fee paid to the Helping Hand, and money given for fares to Northmore, but the farmer refused work and meals, forcing them to walk back exhausted.
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Kansas City
Rock Island
Mankato
Minn
Joseph Haas
Main Street
Haas
Omaha
Northmore
Spy Swallows a Cartridge in Paris Jail Escape
A New York US citizen attached to a Paris branch was arrested as a spy in Europe. He swallowed a live revolver cartridge in an unsearched moment, a desperate act that failed to convict him but left him unable to work.
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New York
Europe
United States
Paris
Fight a Pitchfork Duel in New Jersey Farm
John Pfarr is under arrest after a pitchfork duel with Jack Anderson at John R Powers’ farm in Lower Penns Neck township. Both men were torn by prongs. Anderson is believed carried off by friends into Delaware, while Pfarr was treated at the county jail for injuries.
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Pennsville
N. J
John Pfarr
Jack Anderson
John R. Powers
Lower
Penn’s Neck Township
Pfarr
Anderson
Delaware
Spy Uses Belgian Uniform Trick to Lead 248 Belgians to Death
A refugee reports that a German spy disguised as a Belgian caused the massacre at Merbes Ye Chateau. The Belgians, deceived by a supposed safe path, allowed a force of Germans to approach, resulting in 248 deaths after a ruse.
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London
Tibetans Warm to Explorers as Surveys Break Walls
Captains Bailey and Moreshead report Tibetans show little hostility toward foreigners after surveying the Tsangpo Brahmaputra corridor. Misidentification as Chinese causes distrust, but open travel with plane-table and theodolite is now possible without passes from Lhasa. Gebauer plans to follow Tsangpo west from Burma toward the Himalayas.
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Tibet
Bailey
Moreshead
Tsangpo
Brahmaputra
Morshead
Lhasa
Tsangpo-Brahmaputra
Petermann
Mittellungen
Walpole 1788 Letter on European Wars and Power
In a July 8 1788 note from Strawberry Hill Horace Walpole compares then current European tensions to present times. He cites invasions and partitions that erode law of nations and warns about rulers with absolute power while praising simple honesty and lamenting the dangers of unlimited authority.
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Henry Seymour Conway
Strawberry Hill
Horace Walpole
Portugal
Spain
Poland
Walpole
Joseph
Austria
Frederick
Frederick the Great
Prussia
Louis XIV
Justice Stephen Field A Prominent American Jurist
Stephen Johnson Field born November 4, 1816 in Hadam, Connecticut. He graduated Williams College in 1837, studied law, moved to California in 1849, served in its first legislature, then on the California Supreme Court before becoming associate justice of the U S Supreme Court in 1863 under Lincoln. He faced assassination attempts amid controversial state decisions and was protected by deputies.
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Stephen Johnson Field
Haddam
Conn
Williams College
Athens
Grecian Islands
David Dudley Field
John van Buren
California
Union
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Lincoln
Terry
Justice Field
Famous Confederate Soldier Gen David Bullock Harris
Gen David Bullock Harris a distinguished Confederate soldier and engineer born in Virginia about 100 years ago. A 1833 West Point graduate he resigned to pursue civil engineering and aided Confederate defenses at Manassas Island No 10 Fort Pillow and Vicksburg. He led engineering works at Charleston and Petersburg before dying of yellow fever in 1864 while on duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Bullock Harris
Virginia
West Point Academy
Army
Confederacy
Manassas
Island No. 10
Fort Pillow
Vicksburg
Charleston
S. C
Petersburg
Moving Meals and a Polar Lecture Misunderstanding
Sir Ernest Shackleton stories recall a lecture moment when a crowd misheard pemmican as a decorative penguin scene. The Philadelphia Public Ledger notes the chairman’s polite thanks after audience memory of films and penguin imagery.
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Ernest Shackleton
Ernest
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Massachusetts professor touts mud pies for soil taste test
In a Boston chamber of commerce agricultural course Prof. H. H. Haskell of Massachusetts Agricultural College urged tasting mud piles to assess soil productivity and suggested making mud pies to sample texture and quality.
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Boston Chamber of Commerce
8. H. Haskell
Massachusetts Agricultural College
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