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Newspaper
Mansfield Press
Location
Mansfield, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1909
Page
2
Berlin denies Prince Estei Friedrich will visit Marblehead this summer. Explorer DeKoven Losing Well plans to leave Seattle May 1 for Alaska to avoid moving day perils. A London man who started as a juggler left $75 million. he was a financier. Lumber costs rise, reducing grocery corner talk.
Even with no doubt about spring's arrival for fish, uncertainty lingers for humans. Fishes build housing from building glass blocks in Silesia, appearing solid enough for people to hurl stones without harm.
A Cleveland woman asserts her husband is the biggest har she ever knew a remark likely to be denied by other wives. The blizzards of winter will not end soon and summer tornadoes and sunstrokes will keep graveyards busy.
A curio of random lines ranging from military talk about Japan’s ships to social fashion and politics. It riffs on kidnapping praise, wife and husband banter, German imperial media sensitivity, Spain and Portugal politics, public decorum, and a German scientist’s leg based attraction. The tone is cheeky, fragmentary and era specific.
A column of aphorisms and quips on topics from naval supremacy in Britain to Missouri voting on prohibition. It notes weather cautions, a Chicago professor on baseball, and a Topeka Capital joke about a hat blown by wind, closing on human follies and chase.
Russia considers taking another loan at the earliest opportune moment. Meanwhile some individuals who have enrolled for automobiles are also involved.
Premier Asquith compares suffragettes to Farinata from the Inferno, noting he met them with courage despite offering no clear government aid. Kipling may revise his pessimistic view, suggesting current seriousness in public stance.
Practical guidance for farmers on season tasks, stock care, and garden management. Emphasizes soil liming for spinach, careful cow and sheep handling, calving, hog litter, weatherproofing, and the importance of clean, well-ventilated pens. Includes seed corn testing method and pest control for pear trees.
A weekly sewing club invited members to a formal informal luncheon on Tuesday with a pink color scheme and heart shaped foods. Guests enjoyed a formal service with conundrums tied to shirtwaists, dolls dressed as shirtswaists, and a matchmaking token game ending in a Lohengrin wedding march dinner of heart shaped patties and pink desserts.
A 16 year old girl organized a charming souvenir postcard luncheon suited to church societies and clubs. Invitations asked guests to bring six interesting cards and share stories. The centerpiece featured a fern ball with tiny nation flags.
An evening gathering of about 20 friends and guests. The hostess presented cards tied with blue lover's knots and small blueprints showing the happy couple. Printed beneath Matrimony in blue and gold, the party included a game to form as many nonproper words as possible in thirty minutes, revealing the couple's news.
The hostess invited guests to wear bird representations as flowers and fruit tree branches adorned a gay dining room. Canary birds lounged in gilded cages, a centerpiece held apple blossoms, and guests identified birds like bluebird robin magpie and parrot. Confections were tiny candy gowns.
The bride-elect, one of a six member club, had a unique engagement shower plan. Each guest chose a coordinated burlap pillow design in new stitches, and a luncheon followed with cushions changed with every course, five courses in all, creating a novel shower idea. Madame Merri
The article notes a return to coronet braids and directoire abandonment in Paris. It highlights favored Irish crochet lace, broader skirts, and fuller garments. Tussor, Shantung, and a range of wine and black and white color schemes shape millinery and fashion tones for spring.
The fireplace should be a dominant yet harmonious feature in a cottage living room. For a natural wood, green oak, and burlap setup, a grey stone fireplace with an oak leaf pebble mosaic adds a decorative touch the family can craft together on a rainy day using colored pebbles.
A. A. Perkins of Granbury Hood County Texas recounts years of severe back and kidney problems from a fall. He credits Doan s Kidney Pills with relieving his condition and reiterates his public endorsement. Sold by all dealers for 0 cents a bar Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A playful exchange notes different ways people obtain money with a punchy line about a wife’s kiss as a signal of desire. The remark contrasts methods of getting money in a lighthearted, intimate exchange.
An elderly black laborer slipped from near the third story during construction and plunged headfirst to the ground. Passersby rushed to help, offered spirits to revive him, and the man, after a brief moment of confusion, declared he was “all right” after the impact.
A budding author claims her story has all required words but a critic argues none are necessary. The passage praises Hamlins Wield Oil for soothing aches pains soreness swelling and inflammation and promises relief from all kinds of pain.
A concise proverb notes that even when humans chase nature away with tools like a pitchfork, she inevitably returns. The saying underscores environmental resilience and the limits of human control.
Advertisement style lines promote whitening with Red Crows Ball Blue and Mea Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething. Mentions softening the gums, calming pain, and a large 204 package count. Ends with a joke about rain and soft water.
Gardiner Maine Mrs A Williams reports severe organic troubles and a threatened operation, resolved after three months with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. The letter extols the remedy as a safe tonic for female health and urges sick women to seek Mrs Pinkham's free advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
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