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Newspaper
Mansfield Mirror
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1915
Page
2
Snowball, Puff, and Eli nap in sun when Puff slips away with Nina Kitten's dogged pursuit of love. Snowball discovers Puff's affair with Nina, confronts danger as a dog barks at a tree, and escorts Nina home. Puff returns, ashamed, as Kit scolds his wandering.
A detailed home project by Ward M. Wills of Bakersfield California describes building a porch swing with a seat board 30 by 14 by 1 inches, corner rope holes, an oak rail frame 30 by 18 inches, and supporting rope and pipe rails. The design uses four %-inch pipes 15 inches long and rope through seat holes to create motion when pulled.
A brief Atlanta Constitution piece urges readers to stay hopeful during holidays. It contrasts complaints of busy times with the need to pull through by keeping life’s summers alive in the soul. Belief that the world is okay should not silence action.
A compact reflection on how spare hours shape a boy's future from diligence to mischief. The piece contrasts productive use with wasted time and notes a student’s mixed feelings about school and breaks. The narrator recalls a boy named Eric who enjoys school but dislikes lingering long idle periods between classes.
An unnamed old lady in a river scene contemplates the fear of drowning, pondering what middle age and peril mean as she faces the water. The brief meditation evokes dread and resignation in the face of looming danger.
The article explains a Boy Scout technique for resuscitating the apparently drowned. The method involves prone positioning, downward pressure on the lower ribs, release and rebound to suck in air, and repeating at about eighteen times per minute for up to thirty minutes, even without a pulmotor.
A morning activity called a Paper Doll Party invites a young girl to write and send invitations to dolls, color and cut out refreshments, plates, spoons, bowls of fruit cake candy and ice cream, and a souvenir for each doll. Dolls are dressed in best outfits and introduced before dancing and eating. A Noahs Ark drawing and coloring may follow.
A mother asks her four year old Clara about eating an apple. The girl replies yes she pepped apple before eating it and that she ate the peel afterward. The exchange highlights a playful child mishearing and responding with charm.
Mammal asks Edna what exit means pointing to the word over a moving picture theater door. The little brother exclaims it means the entrance out as the two discuss doors and signs in a playful scene.
Advice stresses care in personal appearance including clean hands and face, combed hair, and brushed clothes. It urges not to ignore little details as they matter in how one is seen, while noting expensive attire is not required.
Editorial notes from the Chicago Tribune on liquor power and temperance groups. It cites the Life Extension Institute claiming beer impairs memory, judgment and slows mental processes after moderate consumption, warning of narcotizing effects and reduced muscular efficiency.
A correction notes enduring errors in dry state counts as of 1914. It cites a leading weekly map omitting Iowa, another writer listing 16 including Iowa and Idaho, and records up to September 21, 1914 showing nine states dry, followed by nine more. It lists the eighteen states in order they went dry.
James an reports on prohibition progress as world leaders and nations move toward abstinence. The article notes Bryan’s wine free dinner in Washington, royal abstinence in wartime London, nine American states adopting prohibition, bans on absinthe in France, and Russia’s stricter stance, framing antialcoholism as serious and nonridiculous.
A Socialist committee report presented May 13 in Chicago urges total abstinence as the only safe approach to alcoholism. It cites German authorities, including 800 German and Austrian doctors, condemning beer as more harmful than commonly believed, and says the party must take a definite stand against alcoholism.
Illinois expanded dry areas from twenty-eight to fifty five counties and seventy county seats, with 1 234 of 1 430 townships prohibiting saloons. Over two years ending May 1 1915, no previously dry area became wet.
Colonel Arthur B. Donnelly issues order prohibiting liquor use by all 1100 members of the First Regiment National Guard of Missouri and all officers and privates aboard the water wagon. The ban applies to every officer and private.
Bedford county Pennsylvania reports final payment of its bonded indebtedness of 38000 dollars owing to a period free from saloons and related restrictions.
A new fall tailormade features a moderately wide plain skirt with three deep side pleats and a semitting coat that overlaps at the front. The coat shows a left-center button stance, silk inlay at the high collar, curved outward sleeve buttons, flap pockets, and a waist belt, with machine stitching highlighting workmanship. The overall impression is admiring, suited to women of all ages.
In the realm of neckwear novelties appear with ostrich boas in white and black, lasting through winter. Indoors, sheer white organdie collars and jabots rise in importance with high turnover and wing shapes. New outer garment collars are very high, fur lined, braided, and chic for cold weather, notes Julia Bottomley.
A New York physician reports success in preventing nausea during anesthesia. By placing a pleasant perfume at the patient’s nostrils and elevating the head, he says ether or chloroform can be discontinued. The method uses bitter orange scent saturated on adhesive plaster at the nose tip.
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A school scene features Nellie and her teacher as Nellie explains the term minuteman. She says a minute man is a man who wants everything done right away, revealing a child’s blunt grasp of urgency.
A Bos ton streetcar scene features a debate on municipal cleanliness. A social worker argues dirt is mental as well as physical, saying cobwebs in homes mirror tangled minds and that public spaces reflect inner order. The crowd questions whether the majority accepts dirt.
A re-enforced concrete post supports an attractive street lamp and provides space for treed signs. Atop the pole a 12 inch frosted glass globe houses a high candlepower electric lamp. A square frame around the globe holds four blue glass strips bearing white street names, making the intersection clearly visible by day or night, as described by Popular Mechanics.
A Minneapolis Journal writer urges rock gardens to mimic natural terrain. Beds should descend from a high point, with rocks cropped from surfaces and hidden origins masked by trees or shrubs. The design should span two to three rods wide at one end, tapering to occasional rocks along the lawn.
Preliminary estimates for this series of house plans note that costs change with digging conditions such as rocky or hilly ground. Material costs differ by tests and locations. The plans, built around Boston, give actual costs but architects warn to allow for inevitable extras during construction.
A Kansas City Journal item notes a Thesan Egyptian frieze showing a chariot driver raising five fingers. The piece humorously wonders at the gesture and jests that the driver might be operating a jitney chariot.
A quirky case opens in court as a man, described as dumb, is arrested for uttering forged notes. The paradox highlights the unusual jury or judge reaction to the defendant’s alleged crime and intent.
Swan Creek Michigan readers share testimonials praising Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for restoring strength and health from fatigue and female weakness. Annie Cameron of Swan Creek and Lu Cuantes Rowe of Kennebago Maine credit renewed energy and household ability to the remedies.
President Woodrow Wilson, pressed for time, tried a quick lunch counter. He found the Lightning lunch unsatisfactory, later telling a friend it was quickly followed by thundering pains.
Mrs Blank of Boston remarks on her laundress daughter now married and unhappy, noting she has given her husband two or three good scoldings. The saying that some marriages are happy and some are not is echoed, as every silver ring bears a cloud.
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