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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1910
Page
6
William A Radford explains practical home heating and insulation advice for cold weather. He details the benefits of high quality sheathing and insulating felts, proper knot-hole plugging, and the use of building paper to reduce heat loss. The seven room, one and a half story design, 22 foot width, costs about $3000 and suits narrow sites.
Two Parisian gowns are described in detail. The first is a smoke gray and yellow mousseline de soie over yellow liberty with a corsage fichu, gray trimmed straps, a yellow glace taffeta rosette, and a yellow plastron with lace. The skirt gathers with ruffles and embroidered bands. The second gown features black mousseline de soie over red liberty, a combined corsage and sleeves trimmed with plaited ruffles edged in black liberty ribbons, a red plastron with tiny buttons, and a ruffled, liberty-trimmed skirt.
A playful exchange where a girl explains that a cold in the head makes her speak in a dialect. She notes she always gets it right, unlike many professional imitators who fail to mimic the speech accurately.
A vintage guide details several banana dishes including Baked Bananas with Raisin Sauce and multiple variants. It covers preparation steps from peeling and scoring skins to baking in moderate heat, plus sauces and optional additions like lemon juice or port. Recipes also include a Banana Pie variant with crust instructions.
Old linen should never be discarded as a housekeeper’s asset. Cut worn sheets to form a new center, seam and hem outer edges, then edge remaining pieces with terchon or crochet lace for tea cloths. Use scraps for illness supplies, make polishing cloths from huckabacks, and boil gnushn curtains to reuse as herb bags or for straining sauces. Salt bags boiled clean make jelly bags.
A white Jap silk blouse trimmed with silk embroidery forms a pretty outfit. The model features a tucked net yoke and under-cuffs with embroidery shaping a center front point. Instructions note using 2 yards 34 inches wide and adding net insertions or points as desired.
A dainty baby pillow described with a plain center for the head and a circle of oval eyelets edged with pale blue or pink ribbon tied in a bow. A wreath of small flowers can be embroidered beyond the eyelet circle for a more elaborate look, finished with a hemstitched edge and fine lace whip stitched.
A family peach dessert method uses a cup inverted in a dish to collect juice. Rich pie crust lines the sides, peaches go in whole with sugar and butter, a top crust is baked about an hour until peaches are done. Serve by lifting the crust and cup for juice.
Simplicity governs girls autumn millinery with models echoing seasonal hues. Browns with red or yellow accents, moss greens or stone grays touched by purples suit young faces for a tasteful, fashionable look.
The colored handkerchiefs are in fashion, featuring a half white half colored design with the color split on a line. New printed styles appear in dark browns purples prune blue deep rose and navy and French blue. Men, especially in Paris, wear them with evening dress in dark purple green and brown.
Coarsely chop 12 sour apples after paring and curing. Seed 1 cup of raisins and 2 green peppers, add 4 onions and 6 green tomatoes and chop very fine. In a preserv ine kettle, heat 4 cups vinegar, 2 cups brown sugar, 2 tablespoons mustard seed and salt. Add chopped mixture, simmer 1 hour. Stir in chopped apple and cook until soft. Seal in pint jars.
The piece notes that wool embroidery on coarse net is a fashionable trimming. It claims the decorative work is costly yet accessible to beginners who can make entire trimmings for their dresses using transfer patterns. It describes sewing paper patterns to the net and transferring to the right side with crewel like thread.
A simple DIY tip suggests using stuffed fingers from an old kid glove padded with cotton and fixed to the back of furniture with tiny tacks. This makes a discreet guard to prevent wall and woodwork damage.
A historical tip explains cleaning fine lace by placing paper on a flat surface, covering with thick magnesia, laying the lace on it, adding another paper sheet, and weighting it. The lace remains covered for several days to finish the cleaning process.
Cut up two gallons of green tomatoes for winter. Add three gills black mustard seed, three tablespoons dry mustard, 21 of black pepper, 1144 allspice, fur of salt, two celery seeds, one quart chopped onions and sugar, and 2% quarts good vinegar. Add a little red pepper to taste. Beat spices and boil together until well done.
Form dough into small balls, place in greased pan, flour the tumbler bottom and flatten into cookies. They will bake evenly and look good with far less effort than cutting out.
A simple recipe for invalids uses one half ounce cocoa and two teaspoons malted milk mixed into hot milk, stirred briskly to dissolve, and served with graham wafers.
Use a large bowl to rub the fur with ground rice until clean. Gently work the powder from the fibers, then shake thoroughly to remove residue and restore fluff.
A girl punishes herself in a closet after stealing praise worthy items. After 15 minutes the mother opens the door and hears the child confess through a squeaky apology about spoiling the dress hat and parasol.
A seventy year old man from South Effingham New Hampshire describes severe hand sores lasting over a year. After trying two doctors he credits Cuticura Soap and Ointment with rapid healing within a week and notes a neighbor's child also improved. He mentions dates March 5 and April 11 1909.
The American Red Cross prints 25 million seals with a one inch square design showing the emblem in red and green and the greeting Merry Christmas Happy New Year American Red Cross. A prize of 100 dollars went to Mrs Guion Thompson of Waterbury Conn for the winning sketch.
Lloyd C Griscom denounces party dissensions as a nasty tit-for-tat spirit. He cites a seaside dance episode where a jealous fiancé questions which woman he kissed, prompting a brief playful retort from the fiancée.
A New York jeweler notes life’s uncertainties in wedding rings. He says more than half of this season’s rings were returned after the ceremony to inscribe the wedding date, while the rest had the date engraved earlier but the rest of the inscription kept until after the knot was tied.
Druggists sell Murine Eye Remedy in liquid form 250 priced 60 cents and 1.00. Murine Eye Salve in aseptic tubes 25 cents and 1.00. Free eye books and advice by mail. Murine Eye Remedy Co Chicago. Also notices a light literary exchange and a cake flour promotion.
Fragmentary note notes a Mrs Winston and a syrup claiming to aid children. The text hints at social perceptions of wealth and status but offers no clear events, dates, or verifiable facts.
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