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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1912
Page
3
Mary Dean notes chic shoulder wraps such as the Coralie made from wool, satin, and silk fabrics with decorative Mercury wings or quills. She details a two-yard scarf sewn into a drop shoulder wrap and a pantaloon jupon, a two-legged gown with wide drawers and quilled lace, designed to flatter figures and fit skirts of the era.
Dress for a four year old girl made of cambric with grounding and a four short skirt flouncing attached to a long waisted sash. Bright colored sash completes the outfit.
A costume features a blue and gray striped delaine skirt and a plain blue semi fitting coat with a belt around the back. The revers and cuffs use the striped fabric and a blue hat with a black satin brim and wing trim accompanies the outfit. Materials include four yards striped delaine and three yards plain delaine at 28 inches wide plus eight buttons.
Dark serge dresses in seal brown navy and black brighten with plaided silks at the waist collars girdles and sleeves. Plaided waists extend into the skirt with bib or jumper effects. Robespierre collars turnback cuffs and military girdles also in fancy silks. Silk dresses plaided with yellow red and green on dark backgrounds feature amber or blue buttons.
A fragment describes ratine scarfs and collars in a simmer wardrobe. It notes the plain ratine and lace fashions, mentioning Irish lace influences and the indispensability of collar and cuff sets.
In a domestic scene from Youths Companion Elinor Grahame a writer and self described minor poetess navigates envy and social routine. She rejects pretension and connects warmly with a modest companion while planning to attend the Ladies Society talk on poetry and higher life.
A Suburban Life Magazine passage urges parents to emphasize reading in childhood. It warns that reading impure books shapes character poorly and can push youths toward crime or ruin through corrupt literature.
Fire killed timber once seen as waste is now used widely in packing boxes for fruit and in making telephone poles and railway ties. The material is favored for its near odorless quality and lack of flavor transfer to fruit, improving suitability for various applications.
Mrs. M. L. Dean explains a dry clean trough method for feeding shell grit bran and dry ration. Build a hinged ceiling access, cut side slits and install a slanted trough that drops feed as hens remove it, reducing waste and rain exposure.
The Indian Runner duck is praised for feather production during moulting, preventing feather loss and litter, while also serving as an egg machine and a forager. They return home reliably at night and combine practicality with aesthetic appeal due to their lively nature, form, colors, and habits.
The text argues poultry keeping should be run as a business with proper accounting. A system of records on income and expenses helps the poultryman determine profitability and identify losses or inefficiencies.
A New York American report recalls a public phrenology lecture where a professor proclaims a boy has a large bump of philoprogenitiveness. The boy quips that he gets along with his mother but not his father, explaining the bump was from yesterday's belt buckle hit.
The Westminster Gazette quotes a string of humorous misstatements by students. It parodies legal rules, Roman history, zodiac lore, religious behavior, grammar, and algebra with playful misinterpretations.
Two brothers named Chalmers, a minister and a physician, shared a western town home. A visitor asking for Mr. Chalmers is told by the physician, Youve changed since last heard you preach. He adds, Oh its my brother you want to see, he preaches and I practice.
Businessmen from New York intend to establish the world’s first butterfly farm in Red Bank New Jersey. They will raise diverse species with brilliant coloring for sale to society women who wish to display butterflies in conservatories and parlors.
A dialogue fragment features Nan praising a new young man as a rough diamond and a Jasper with potential polish. The exchange notes sending influence abroad while remaining benedictions to locals. The quote ends with a proverb about life starting at forty and unlearning.
A man credits Grape Nuts with curing nervous trouble and indigestion linked to waffles and gravy breakfasts. After two years of worsening symptoms he switched to Grape Nuts, stopped coffee, and gained weight while his appetite and nerves improved.
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