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Newspaper
Maurice Times
Location
Maurice, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
6
A 1920s fashion note describes advance models with broader hip lines in evening and dance frocks. Black taffeta and changeable silks feature full peplums, lace flounces, and silver detailing as Paris journals predict taffeta dominance this winter.
In hard times fabrics stay costly so use every inch. A mother recycles half worn summer skirts into smocks for her daughter with color embroidery. Matching bloomers from gingham linen or chambray accompany each dress, and shirts provide extra material for rompers and blooms for young children.
The latest fashion finishes include vandykes and scallopes in fabric steels, offered as double or single cuts and stitched with aliver, gold tinted silk for buttonholes.
A fashion notice explains brown reemerging in women’s dress with brown suede and fur trims, black and brown combinations, and varied accessories. It notes brown suits, furs, and dyed leathers, with brown face powders popular in Paris for a pale complexion, and pairs brown with purple, old rose, Venetian red, and gold.
Instructions explain washing rubberized and balata shields to maximize value. Use warm water with ammonia, rinse in cold water, scrub with a stiff brush, shape while wet, dry at room temperature, and avoid hot radiators or ironing. Avoid naphtha and strong yellow soaps.
The latest corsets use light weight fabrics and minimal boning to shape the silhouette. Long apron models offer no discomfort due to scientific bone placement. Bust lines rise slightly for those preferring a higher silhouette, with waist extension kept to a few inches for slender figures.
Mrs. Glendale Chesterton hatches matches for her daughters, but Lucia resists and lures a different pair into a woodland romance. Adam Forthgiver seeks outdoor life and ends up finding a wife for a guide, while Lucia marries someone else, leaving everyone to adjust to a tangled happy ending.
The U S Department of Agriculture urges fall construction of hog houses with proper shelter and ventilation. It notes no single design is superior and farmers should choose colony central farrowing or simple shelters, ensuring rain and snow exclusion, good drainage, and dry bright bedding with regular replacement.
The largest private exchange to date is in a New York hotel opened to the public. It spans 3,165 square feet with an operating room 110 by 25 feet and a switchboard with 28 positions. It serves 2,200 hotel rooms and 40 public booths with 110 attendants and 28 line positions.
The Hudson's Bay Company claims status as the oldest corporation in Canada. In 1676 King Charles II granted a charter to Prince Rupert and associates naming The Company of Merchant Adventurers of England Trading in Hudson Bay.
A historic hog mineral formula recommends keeping before hogs a mix of one bushel charcoal one bushel hard wood ashes eight pounds salt eight pounds air slaked lime or fine lime stone four pounds sulphur and two pounds copper sulphate for feeding and mineral balance.
An important function of livestock on the farm is to furnish a market for crops grown. It enables farmers to convert grasses forage crops and legumes into higher priced finished products and to return to the soil the plant food taken from it.
Gosis are of great advantage to a pasture that is brushy. Short rations and flaxative may be used for sightly sick hogs. Good teams have more to doe with good farming than most people realize. Few farmers can afford to get slong without feeding a few hogs for mar ket More teams should be raised to take the place of horses and mules now In use. Every farmer sooner or later must replace his teams. Why not raise wastate.
In Overton county Tennessee leaders use business men and banks to finance standard bred stock for poultry clubs. Banks provided 1600 dollars to create ten-hen pens shared with farmers. The endless chain plan aims five years of growth until every member holds a pen, expanding one breed across the county.
A laying hen shows an enlarged abdomen from enlarged intestines ovary and oviduct with a deeper rear body and spread pelvic bones. When laying stops the condition reverses and ear lobes contract as production declines.
Farmers note hens seek mineral elements in wood ashes and coal ash. They burn refuse and brush near poultry ranges so birds clean up ashes and charcoal fragments remaining after fires.
A farmer who previously took in standard bred fowl will not return to mongrel or crossbred poultry, reaffirming preference for pure stock.
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