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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1914
Page
5
A devotional piece on treating scripture as nourishment for the soul. It compares eating food to digesting Gods word, explains memorization as holding the word in the mind, and argues that slow, deliberate study yields spiritual strength and joy. The author cites Proverbs 18 10 and 1 Peter 2 5 to urge daily memorization and reflection.
A look at a modern Psyche knot blending ancient and twentieth century styling. The front hair forms a fringe rising over the temples while the back is drawn into a knot and loose coil. Actresses and fashion followers experiment with Egypt and Moqu Indiana influences as high styles emerge.
Bridal veils with lace borders are preferred, though tulle veils remain in fashion. The cap drapery offers varied arrangements, from full even frills to side placements, often supported by wire loops or a circlet of wire covered with orange blossoms. Lace veils are cherished heirlooms to be kept, while wedding attire stays conservative with long sleeves, covered necks, and Princess-style gowns.
Cameos are popular again as brooches buckles and hat trims. People reset old relics in fine gold or silver mounts of a refined Hechter pattern. Even small cameos become earrings on thin chains, with pink and white tinting suited to day wear with new dull copper or tango red outfits.
Evening stockings are described as extraordinary and theatrical with bugs butterflies and birds embroidered on silk webbing. The piece highlights kaleidoscopic bead effects and striking color contrasts such as black with mauve helliotrope pink and blue bronze. The wearer’s movements emphasize the dramatic design.
The piece explains how satin dancing shoes can be transformed with bronze, brown bronze, green bronze, or copper paints. Best on black satin, silver and gold suit white or pale pink and blue. A peacock blue gown with green and bronze tones can be matched with black satin shoes treated accordingly.
Velvet novelty introduces peau da tigre or leopard skin velvet in light chiffon weight. It features a mottled surface that creates a two shade look like leopard or tiger skin. Available in plum dark blue golden brown tobacco brown taupe white and sapphire.
Instructions describe sewing the upper end of a discarded hose supporter to a two inch length of ribbon then attaching a large safety pin. The pin fastens through the folded skirt belt and the hose supporter slips over the hook on the closet. A supply of these ribbon hangers would be a nice gift for a girlfriend.
A Union Signal piece by Mrs Cora Wright argues liquor interests seek 1,000,000 boys as victims to fund government protections and licenses. It frames boys from decent families as targets to bankroll the liquor trade, urging concern for youths sacrificed to this revenue motive.
A barrel of thirty two gallons and more holds barrels of headaches heartaches and woes. It warns against the glass with curses blows tears hunger poverty crime and fear born from the liquor trade and the ruin it brings to orphans and families. Beware the glass.
A Knoxville judge argued that prohibition would fail only if social gains did not follow. He listed needed advances: more Sunday school and church attendance, better schools and teachers, $40,000 for facilities and equipment, a 60 percent drop in drunkenness and crime, and even substantial spending on necessities versus liquor. He suggested that lack of these improvements would prove prohibition failed in Knoxville.
Dr. T Alexander MacNicholl warns that typhoid carriers are quarantined by police, yet alcohol remains the greater public health threat due to entrenched political protection. He urges decisive action within ten years to avert a disastrous epitaph for the republic.
Dr David Stare Jordan estimates the average human life at 225 billion dollars in vital assets and evaluates the nation’s wealth at 110 billion dollars. He argues that preserving human life surpasses other cares such as forests and livestock disease control in importance.
In 1908 Jefferson county Alabama including Birmingham had no saloons and 130 murders. By 1910 the area remained Prohibition free with 198 murders. In 1911 the city and county were without saloons for nine months, opened for three, totaling 88 murders. In 1912 the first full year with reopened saloons, murders reached 306.
A lively temperance moment grips national legislative halls as candidates for Congress are urged to clearly state their positions on temperance issues likely before the House and Senate. Prominent voices insist sincerity fuels progress.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines goals for poultry clubs, including improving egg handling, market quality, and revenue. It covers meetings, expert assistance, exhibitions, club structure, age rules, member duties, and a four year progression with yearly egg sittings, pedigreed stock targets, and record keeping for prizes.
A seven year old boy, Rupert Fishwick, who visits London Zoo with his nurse, draws lifelike animal figures from paper. Since age three he has cut animals without drawing first, starting by dog figures after seeing dogs in the street. He works secretly, using scissors with small filed points to avoid harm.
A London Sketch humorously records a vicar questioning a boy about combing his hair. The boy explains no comb exists, citing his father’s lack of a comb and even hair, turning the exchange into a gentle domestic joke.
A Washington schoolboy offered a sharp definition when asked what a synonym is. He said a synonym is a word you use when you don’t know how to spell the one you thought of. The remark drew wide notice in Brooklyn Life and impressed many readers.
Advertising should embed your business facts in community knowledge so that when buying arises, people think of you first. Continuous repetition across newspapers builds familiarity, not occasional circulars or a single ad. Results rely on regular copy and ongoing presence, like college study.
The St Albans Messenger Bays notes Franklin county advertisers increasingly abandon billboards and handbills and will rely on newspaper space. It argues newspapers reach the family circle and ads placed there become part of daily life, not easily ignored.
The article asserts Canadian Indians are largely self-supporting, with under ten percent needing outside aid. It highlights Ontario and Quebec as mostly self-sufficient, cites Chaughmowaga reserve as a strong citizen group with skilled workers, and notes federal Indian Affairs spending minimal. It adds that the Blackfoot reserve members sold land in 1910 to buy farms and adopted modern farming methods.
The remark suggests readers favor reliable rational promises over extravagant ones. The quote underscores a belief in steady logic as more persuasive to the intelligent audience.
A compact note urges using persuasive advertising by aligning with public sentiment. It questions the value of forcing medicine on people, framing the approach as respectful of adult choice and autonomy.
A man speculates that Mr. Grafton Grabb was made on the Sabbath citing Tit-Bits remarks on honesty as the Creator’s rest. The exchange presents a humorous, philosophical aside about character and origin with casual newspaper flavor.
The notice proposes that women may have the final say if they allow retention of the last event. The statement frames a conditional support for gender implications and a political or social stance tied to an unspecified ongoing matter.
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