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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1909
Page
3
A young hostess plans a Labor Day luncheon with six veteran housekeepers sharing practical tips on household duties. Invitations include notebooks for notes, symbolic favors, and a simple menu from a friend’s recipe book. Guests enjoy place cards, a tree shower, and light musical entertainment as the bride elect receives well wishes and gifts.
A popular five o'clock beverage blends grape juice with ginger in a third portion. Using white grape juice instead of purple improves the drink. Serve in glasses half filled with cracked ice.
National Lead Company promotes a free guide to painting with exterior interior color schemes and specifications from their experts. The ad invites requests by mail for a booklet and an instrument to detect adulteration in paint materials.
The passage urges mothers to examine each Castoria bottle, a remedy for infants and children, noting it has a 30 year history. It includes quips about parental amusement and a stray line about manners and money, ending with a slogan about honest smiles and a remark on smokers.
Advice from a vintage ad text promotes Defiance Starch for stronger yet thinner application. It claims shirts and fabrics launder at home with better finish, less wear, and no sticking, comparing favorably to steam laundry and other brands.
A Detroit Free Press caption jokes that a woman’s college education did not improve her, noting she still helps with housework. The piece titled Mother-In-Law Again features a quip about a husband’s smile signaling trouble at home in Illustrated Bits.
A Methodist bishop visiting a friend with two daughters joins a trout outing. An old fisherman jokes Catchin many pard, and the bishop replies I am a fisher of men. The piece also notes Success Magazine touts laughter as medicine for body and mind, urging resistance to anxiety and depression.
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