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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1913
Page
6
The piece describes a game titled A Snoonful of Fun where a blindfolded player uses a large spoon as a wand to identify others by touch. It notes players may disguise themselves by standing on tiptoe, hiding necks with handkerchiefs, shawls, or removing visible clues like collars or coats to thwart recognition.
A rare kitchen stunt shows a radish pressed cut side down against a plate to lift it. The trick relies on suction and surface cling as explained in the diagram, likened to a wet leather disk gripping pavement.
Freddie recounts a neighbor offering a penny for his mother's secret and the boy boasting that the secret was worth half a dollar, revealing a sly exchange and the mother's amused approval.
Miss Muffet visits a food show eats seven breakfast foods and gathers ten pounds of samples. A 10 percent weight gain occurs after the meal while arriving weight is 11113 pounds. If she had eaten double, the gain would be 11 percent. find her incoming weight.
A collection of punny riddles and jokes about hospitality, astronomy, schooling, vowels, lisps, chairs, dessert, and a mother versus barber. Each riddle delivers a wry pun or wordplay twist highlighting language quirks and double meanings.
A nostalgic account of boyhood adventures chasing woodchucks on farms. It describes scoldings from farmers, wooden fence and post pile damage, and how boys hunted and trapped woodchucks using simple traps. It notes farmers’ concern for animals and the woodchuck’s bold springtime fights with dogs.
The piece notes decade long change in rainy day dress from dull Mackintosh wear to cheerful outfits. Women now pair bright red or purple hats with tailored suits and raincoats, thick stylish shoes, and color silk umbrellas to lift moods on wet days.
A new soap tablet targets travelers with convenience and neat packaging. Fifty tablets come in a compact bus, under three inches square, with nickel tweezers for extraction. The tablets dissolve easily in water and cost about the same as a bar of toilet soap.
More than 400 hairdressers from London Brussels and Berlin met in London to discuss seaside season fashions. A renowned Paris stylist predicts hair will rise upwards toward a pompadour style with minimal chignon and no brush-flat ears, suited to Englishwomen.
Blue and white German china decorated with Delft designs makes a durable yet dainty blue breakfast table set. A coffee cup and saucer are priced at 50 cents. Also featured is Copenhagen blue and white fluted tableware a square egg dish with scalloped top and eight egg cups on stems.
A washable shirtwaist is described with a plaited bosom front dickey collar and black cravat. It may be made in white crepe de chine as an alternative.
The New York Yacht Club accepts Sir Thomas Lipton s sixth challenge for the Americas Cup after discussions. Lipton remains determined. his Irish-born backer De Thomas Lipton seeks glory for Ireland. Mrs Catherine Murphy recalls Lipton as a barefooted Glasgow boy who later became a millionaire and hero to his family.
Prominent figures including women leaders condemn Col John Jacob Astor for leaving Mrs Astor five and a half million dollars payable only if she remains unmarried. Ida Husted Harper argues the provision is unjust and dangerous to state duties, urging like western laws in New York.
Col Gorgas argues tropical regions could become desirable for civilized living after Panama's sanitary success. He notes Caucasians thrived there for six years with 10 000 people, attributing improvements to protection from yellow fever and malaria and predicting wide influence of the Panama experiment.
Levi Parsons Morton former vice president from 1889 to 1893 and New York governor in 1895 1895 celebrated his eighty ninth birthday May 16 in better condition after months of grave illness. He spends most days on a couch at his Fifth Avenue home in New York. Born in Shoreham Vermont Morton rose from clerk to banker and financier before entering politics and serving as Minister to France and congressman.
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