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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1912
Page
6
Beguiling spring millinery gears up after holidays as demand surges for children's bonnets. Designers copy favored wholesaler designs in early production with soft shapes and subtle trims. Two featured hats pair pink hair braid with lace, and light blue satin straw with chiffon. both use ribbon, ruffles, and floral accents.
An old guide extols paper bag cooking to preserve vegetable flavors and nutrients. It outlines methods for asparagus onions potatoes spinach and cutlets with bags, water and brief bake times, plus a sauce finish for the cutlets.
A brief literary note contrasts fame to friendship. Oliver W. Holmes is quoted comparing fame to a scentless sunflower with gold sand while friendship is described as breathing with sweets in every fold.
A guide to savory pastries and small bites using puff or plain pastry. Fillings include chicken with olives and lemon, ham with pickles, salmon with cucumber, and mutton with currant jelly. Also suggests apple sandwiches with French dressing, cheese accents, and dessert tarts from scraps.
Article advice argues jealousy harms friendship and love and should be crushed. It urges focusing on self improvement, thinking of others, and living efficiently to reduce possessive feeling. It stresses replacing jealous thought with social effort and personal growth.
A shop finds a costly yet charming use for lace scraps by crafting a round tablecloth or tea cloth about fifty inches on a linen base. The project features four triangular corners, lace insertions, filet ice motifs, and openwork cross patterns with diamond medallions along each edge.
A woman may craft a table cover or scarf from monk's cloth in dark green, sewing linen figures such as clover and oak triangles with burnt orange rope stitching. Includes a window curtain idea and notes the project is quick, attractive, and suitable for winter work.
A plain plum colored ratine street suit features a loose sacque coat and turn over collar in black velvet. The outfit is completed with a witch’s cap in white ratine to match the white fur.
Revival of Spanish lace influences fashion with evening toilettes and manteaux. Designers integrate broche veiled trims and woven lace into capes and stoles, creating graceful draped fronts and back embellishments in refined, classical styling.
A fragmented description discusses a bright green theme in a handkerchief motif. It mentions a square border with a fright tint, tabermade fastening, and attempts to match the correct gts. References to a New shaded dabulas and French tots appear as decorative details.
The Indianapolis News notes velvet suits shine with simple lines as the fabric carries the design. Velvet coats are loose tunic style to protect seams, with braid accents, band motifs, and crochet buttons echoed on skirts.
The design emphasizes light gems with a thin dainty silver or platinum setting that gives the work its delicate look. It notes that jewels need not be wholly expensive and that some pieces are semi set to achieve a supple effect.
A quotation attributed to Wendell Phillips argues that modern efforts must equal or exceed past virtue. The speaker notes a cracked plate sent to China yields a cracked replacement, illustrating the call for higher standards.
A quotation from H. W. asks how long grindstones without grit would take to spur an ax and how long ungritty affairs would take to make a man. The line reflects a metaphor about preparation and effort in both tools and character.
This excerpt discusses pork cooking, praising its versatility and urging thorough cooking. It covers cold roast pork as salad, salt pork in fruit cake, spare ribs with sauerkraut, bacon wrapped oysters, stuffed spareribs, and pork in a paper bag. It also notes price influences and country kitchen traditions.
The article explains roasting in a paper bag with butter or suet and seasoning, noting 3-pound roasts take about 45 minutes. It covers gravy, browning, and adding kitchen bouquet, plus bagged vegetables like onions and celery, and sides such as potato straws and sweet potatoes. It also mentions pies, puddings, and serving hot from the bag.
A quirky early note on imperial geography shows two young writers misquoting the phrase the sun never sets on the British Empire. They propose a reversed image placing Britain’s reach in the north south and east, reflecting playful confusion in Strand magazine era prose.
The smallest boy reaches across a black hole to pull Tommy to safety as onlookers warn of danger. The crowd cheers the fat boy who explains his weight helped him widen and save the day. He also reveals affection for Tommy's sister.
Old Brother Bogus taunts a citizen with claims of pioneer status and railroad influence while recounting a past incident with a train and a windowed fine in a southern town. The exchange highlights tensions between race and authority in a fragmented narrative from the period.
A Michigan household received a misdelivered package of Grape-Nuts that led a recovering stomach sufferer to embrace the product. The writer credits digestion, immunity to distress, and restored appetite to Grape-Nuts, noting improvements in mood and plumpness for herself and her husband.
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