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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
6
Quaker collar and cuff sets are fashionable dress accessories suitable as Christmas gifts. They can be homemade with sheer cotton or linen fabrics, simple hemming, fine lingerie lace or embroidery. A quaker set edged with cluny lace is shown.
Gauze bags with puff balls are popular new Christmas gifts. Made from chiffon or gauze over a silk hoop, they feature satin ribbon hangers, rosettes, and cotton puff balls with tiny bows. Used once, the bags are discarded, and flowered silk muslin versions with color matched hangers also charm dressing cases.
An illustration shows a girl’s room calendar and a hatpin holder. The hatpin holder is a small moire ribbon covered tube with leather like buckles and straps resembling a golf bag. The calendar piece is circular with holly wreath decoration and two rotating disks displaying the months and numbers.
A display of White Parisian Ivory items, brass novelties, silk novelties, fancy boxed stationery, perfumes, and pottery showcases dainty gift creations. Prices range from 10 cents to $1.00, highlighting new dresser pieces, milady cushions, manicure sets, and boxed stationery in appealing packages.
500 dozen items of value for children, ladies, or men. Dainty lawns and linens, embroidered pieces, centered boxes, towels, and tableware. Quick clearance lots include robes, slippers, caps, aprons, ribbons, handbags, and jewelry at half price. Shop early for best choices and bargains.
Hartford Conan reports two burglars ransacked Herbert Randall home curio room. They took antiquities and curios including an antique Greek Bible, a Roman gold pin from Venice, Greek coins, a cameo pin, a diamond pin, a gold watch, and a topaz stone. loss estimated at $1,000. Fleas in red uniforms were mentioned as bizarre curios.
William H. Whiting of Jonesport in Washington county fashioned a personal tin hat with a copper band, inspired by a 1915 fashion and designed to endure rain. He chose tin over straw wool or Panama for practicality and style, wearing the unique headgear confidently in public.
A reflective scene portrays a sunset scene and musical rain as Whiting nervously imagines a bolt of lightning that might strike his hat. People tease him about the hat while Whiting notes it is indeed his own hat.
Two cows wandered seven miles from Newton Square to Paoli after a car unloading at Paoli rail yard led to the trampling death of two calves. The mother cows, missing their calves, traveled at night to the Paoli pens where their offspring had died. The cattle dealer F H Bernheisel coordinated burying the calves and moving the herd to his farm.
Every farmer in Mills County is urged to attend the Farmers Institute in Malvern. The program aims to interest progressive farmers with a special Domestic Science program for the ladies. Bring samples of corn and small grain to enter in the corn show. The institute and the people of Malvern extend a cordial welcome.
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