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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1912
Page
3
Fashion notes describe washable tussore and silk blends for children’s dresses. Suggestions cover colors from Peasant bronze greens to Mandarin blue, with designs featuring sleeved frocks, high waist bodices, and decorative trims.
Advice on fur care highlights avoiding heat and damp weather hazards. It urges regular inspection and proper storage to preserve gloss and pliability, warning against drying furs by fire and stressing cool, breezy storage with seasonal checks.
Selfon notes a spring surge of fancy trimmed suit skirts led by demi tailor made lines. The drymonds economist cites the draped skirt as the latest marker, shown in high class suits of chiffon, taffeta and charmeuse. More models are arriving and many more are in construction.
Skirts remain narrow in tailored suits though not restrictive. Many dresses show small kick plaits to ease walking in two yard skirts. Some smart models feature an inset plait in a contrasting color and fabric for flair.
The Dry Goods Economist notes linen dresses with side front closures using large crochet buttons. Hooks and eyes secure the fastenings beneath, with crochet stems allowing the buttons to hang loosely. Large buttonholes enhance the trimming effect on the garments.
A practical guide urges ready to prepare foods for unexpected company, stresses simple meals served well, and offers recipes like a cherry steamed pudding. It promotes affordable, wholesome choices, avoiding drugs for common ailments by using fruits, vegetables, and home cooking.
A vintage guide to maple based treats includes maple rolls with butter and nuts, parfair with maple syrup and cream, popcorn pudding with maple syrup, and Bonnie Clabber served with maple sugar. Practical steps describe mixing, heating, chilling, and serving in sherbet cups or with ice.
Housekeepers realize that cheating the grocer and the butcher increases the druggists’ bill. A brief warning on consumer honesty appears in this old newspaper fragment.
A terse plea echoes through the page urging quick action to help someone in need as a playful prompt references a beloved game and a sense of urgency per a brief, informal item.
A quaint set of maple sweet dishes and creams are described. Recipes include rich bisemite dough with nutmeg and maple syrup baked for a thick sauce, vanilla ice cream with pecans and hot maple syrup, maple cream from cream and syrup with cooked wheat, frozen fruit cream with cream milk figs almonds peaches and flavor extracts, and maple taffy made from maple syrup and coconut milk cooked to hard stage.
The text asserts that inequality in private property is an unavoidable fact because humans vary in their ability to create, sacrifice, and grow wealth. It criticizes utopian remedies and schemes ignoring human nature as insults or injuries to individuals misled by glamorous but hollow promises.
The Daily Club urges advertisers to plant seed with regularity in a compact, watchful section rather than scattering through broad national mediums. It argues that focused, well watched campaigns yield bigger harvests than thinly spread efforts across vast territories.
William A Radford extols a compact four-room house designed for two. The plan features a 30 by 42 foot footprint with ample sunlight and cross ventilation, a large living room, a heating stove, and a cistern for soft rain water. He argues small towns offer easier home ownership and value for money, noting costs to build have risen but a $900 to $1200 price range remains plausible with updated materials. He shares reflections on sunlit homes, country life, and practical water needs.
A New York banker recalls Charley Morse after his Atlanta penitentiary release. An acquaintance showed a engraved note of Morse thanking supporters, while the banker warns Morse may owe him $400,000 and could repay now that he is free.
A rural postmaster confronts Miss Greenhill with a pamphlet that likely targets her. He recalls she mailed a letter three weeks earlier to a company sharing the pamphlet’s publisher, suggesting a connection but lacking a proper address.
A quirky exchange centers on Biffels, described as original and silent on wishing for John D. Rockefeller's fortune. The dialogue hints at his distinctive personality and unconventional views.
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