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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1912
Page
3
Fashion notes describe patterns for a simple dress and a long coat. Fabrics include cotton foulard and muslin with embroidery. Descriptions mention a patel front skirt, a collar, and cuffs with contrasting foulard trims. materials require yards of fabric and widths specified.
A guide details crafting smart ties and jabots from black and white satin ribbon. Designs include bows, fringed edges, filet lace bands, and crocheted motifs, with variations for youth and formal wear using satin, velvet, and decorative accents.
A description of children's millinery showing Cretonne hats and rural headwear. It notes fine silky straws with a humorous incongruity, trimmed with tiny flowers and Anglaise bowing to Valenciennes lace variations. Some hats use cretonne and flowered muslin, reflecting a wide range of choices.
A brief instructional note advises householders how to prevent rhubarb pie shortages. It suggests chopping rhubarb in a bowl and straining the furce before filling the pies to ensure enough filling. The tone resembles a domestic tip column from a historical newspaper.
Graceful lace jabots elevate the Cobbing touch to the sharpest tailored rigs. Elegant accessories frame ensembles and signal refined style for formal attire. The guide emphasizes delicate detailing and proper pairing with business and social outfits.
The article advises small gardens yielding fresh flowers for meals through summer. It stresses simple breakfast displays, thoughtful dinner arrangements, and keeping blooms like sweet peas pansies and poppies vibrant by timely trimming and vase water. It warns against fading flowers and favors natural settings over crowded styles.
The Dry Gcotts Economist notes mid summer demand for atin mannish shirts. They highlight Robespierre collar styles with crystal buttons down the center front and joined lone shirt sleeves to an extended shoulder line. Many finishes include a small satin cording.
Embroidered white lingene waists feature tucked clusters and sailor collars with cuffs and dots matching the crystal buttons. The garments are described as uncommonly smart and stylish, noting the lack of color as a novel detail in these pieces.
Inch wide patent leather belts in black pink coral or light blue are cut over their white linings and piped with white. Buckles are brass or leather covered.
In Columbia a dispute erupts over university dairy milk handling. Dairymen argue milk separated for university use should be sold to the public, while Superintendent Eckies Heede bans direct consumer sales, claiming it would injure local commerce and university ice cream production. The controversy touches university publications and student caperions printed in the University of Missouri press.
A campaign by the Missouri State Teachers' Association promotes a direct tax to fund public schools, normal schools, and the University of Missouri. Del Wy and Lamein heads the campaign committee. details include a statewide vote and distribution of funds to educational institutions.
Joplin reports plans for a 36 day Good Roads project to build a north south highway from Kansas City to the Gulf via Shoal Creek route. About 30200 dollars will be spent with twenty mules used. Nevada club approves a 46000 bond issuance for the special road district. Work on the Neosho section to start within thirty days.
Jefferson City reports state funds totaling fifty one thousand dollars allocated by the state treasurer Cowgill to support agricultural and mechanical institutes. Funds are split among several institutions including a government water university project, the Kolin school of mines and metallurgy, and Lincoln Institute, with further distribution to various states tied to agricultural welfare and German Alliance Convention plans.
In Manila Mia recounts a voyage to a native town aboard a coastwise boat packed with animals and produce. A clumsy local banca ferried the party to a thatched house where a menu features fried bananas curry jelly from sowers and a coconut milk drink.
A narrator recalls a visit to an expansive compound overlooking a garden with long bamboo bridges and tall palm fronds. Native workers and a large household staff maintain order as cooks and boys manage daily chores amid tropical scenery and blooming fruit trees.
A brief satirical epigram notes it is not every woman who makes you a good wife who makes you a good husband. The remark plays on domestic virtue and comic reversals with concise wit.
I suffered eighteen to twenty years of awful itching on my thigh and scalp. Aged sufferer I. Ah Fink shares how Cuticura Soap and Ointment stopped the itching in two days and cured the scalp dandruff. The ad promises free samples and offers Cuticura products worldwide.
A brief, cautionary note recalls the quiet arrival of a warning figure as people pay little heed. The article emphasizes the overlooked moment and the potential implications of his presence.
A vintage description outlines several gown styles for a middle aged woman featuring white collars edged with scalloping and embroidery. One design uses white chiffon with a black border, another black net with thread accents. Some collars extend to the waist while others tuck under a gird, highlighting light blue embroidery and delicate voile trims.
A garbled passage shows Mrs Le Jones and Mrs Van Tyie in a tense scene from Harpers Weekly. The text includes disjointed lines about a Chinese chanfeur and a desperate plan involving a pint glass window and a rope, with surreal suggestiveness and incomplete context.
A girl at a table holds a cup of water while her father moves it. The cup tilts spilling water on the girl. She mutters in distress as she leaves the table. The fragment hints at emotional discomfort and unresolved feelings.
A fragmented note describes a sliding plate tote device mounted on a jig for pinches. It mentions an opening that rarely generates steam and a burner, referencing a mechanism to prevent access or entry. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or action.
Rev Dr Bansley manager confirms Nebraskan guest will attend the Jefferson City tiny Chautauqua assembly on August 26 marking a designated Bryan day.
Hamilton Ohio hosts a novelty event as the city band performs to celebrate the birth anniversary of Major the dog. Louis F Morner organizes a banquet with Major seated at the head of the table while owners and friends admire the honored canine between the many courses as Major indiscriminately devours his share of the meal.
Fragmentary text mentions names and actions but lacks coherent details or identifiable entities to form a clear news item.
Fragmented OCR text mentions a Lord figure and a father, with garbled dialogue about seeing and winning. The readable portions suggest a personal or moral reflection, but concrete facts or clear events are not present. This item appears as a damaged snippet without a coherent report or named entities to anchor a fuller summary.
A fragmented OCR item mentions a color gale and a person named Steve, unclear details about the event or outcome. The readable bits suggest a local note or brief about a color-related gale and a named individual, but specifics are missing. Further text needed for precise summary.
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