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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
7
John Lester rescues a lost girl Dolly and learns Dolly is his sister in law Alice reveals Dolly is her stepsister and John’s future, after Dolly’s rescue at the flooded riverside leads to reconciliation between John and Alice amid a small hotel crowd and a family reunion.
The article describes attractive practical frock designs for young girls, emphasizing home sewing over ready made garments. It highlights white and tinted cottons, ginghams, lace and embroidery, plus a line of fabrics suitable for autumn and school wear. For six-year-olds, it specifies 4 1/4 yards of 24 inch fabric or 2 1/2 yards of 44 inch width.
An inexpensive gift suitable for an engagement or birthday is a combing jacket sewn from huckaback. The piece is folded to form a neck opening with scalloped edges, padded darts, and buttons, finished with braid, lace, or ribbon.
A splendid prize for a juvenile party is a box of imported cardboard toys in animal shapes. Six animals come in each set and are durable playthings with patented joints. Some boxes include wild creatures others familiar barnyard animals. Each figure has habitat and habit descriptions in easy English on its back.
White batiste blouse features groups of fine tucks at the top alternating with wide tucks. Long sleeves have tucked sections and the yoke and cuffs are made of guipure lace.
The article notes the Recamier hairstyle with center part, wide sides, and back, plus little curls pinned at the back growing in popularity each week. It also describes country wear cottons copied from foulard designs, plainly made with skirts, bodices, wide folded belts, and embroidered white muslin accessories, considered charmingly fresh.
A summer bazar bag idea uses a six inch pasteboard bottom covered in cotton batting and silk. The bag bears pinked silk ruffles at the base and a roll top casing for a drawstring. A bisque doll head in crinoline costume hides inside, revealing its true purpose when the bag is opened.
The summer season boosts striped hosiery with short skirts and high-heeled slippers. Fashion favors narrow white and color stripes or black and color, with black and white pairs preferred. Black pumps dominate, some opting for white canvas pumps with white skirts, complemented by a black and white striped belt and a taffeta crown scarf ending in a large side bow.
Des Moines editor W J Pilkington leads a radical seven month town wide plan in Dexter Iowa with Guy Q Pogue handling stores. Thirteen merchants and two banks cede control to boost sales, set salaries, regulate hiring, and dictate advertising while city council members, all merchants, back the effort. Public improvements and civic pride rise as Dexter gains nationwide attention.
A Boston Post note recalls the old Pure Food Law era when salt cod could be chopped with a hatchet for deception. The supply was soaked overnight to salt while fresh from the brine and dried in the open air.
A Paris promotion debate hints the city could become France’s Pittsburg. Mr Comrox muses Paris might claim cultural and industrial prominence, comparing its social energy to Pittsburg’s steel era.
New York reports a unique camp setup where two dozen Avenue A street cars, stripped of wheels, serve as lodging for girls at a camp run by the Vincent Culture Society of New York in Mountainville Orange County. The camp offers meals, chores, and communal facilities with river swimming and outdoor comforts for 3.50 dollars a week.
Mrs. Wie Wagg Young, born Buffalo 1845, becomes Chicago schools superintendent. Educator, author, and former University of Chicago professor, she led the women principals club in her election campaign and advances in public schools.
The quoted exchange features Frau Hubmeir throwing a flatiron at her husband after he sat on her hat. He counters that she loves him too much, while she laments she has no new hat, revealing a comic domestic dispute tone.
A proverb-like reflection asserts a man only feels happiness when he believes himself so in any form of self deception and remains unhappy unless he could be happier.
A mother argues for a pension to ease her child's mental agony after Johnny is excluded from a grandfather's will. She recounts the family’s Sunday routines, a shy child peering from the doorway, and a pointed taunt from Johnny about being left out of the game.
A fragmented OCR line shows a dialogue with a preacher named Tommy about history and timing. The brief text hints at a reminiscence or challenge regarding telling someone named Hes or Nee, but lacks full context or events.
David Price of Corydon Ja describes kidney trouble with a weak back and poor health. After one week on Deans Kidney Pine he walked without a cane and health gradually returned, with seven years of good health since. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box. Poster-Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Methodist bishop visiting a friend with two daughters goes trout fishing with them. An old fisherman asks if they are catching many, and the bishop replies he is a fisher of men. The fisherman quips that the bait is right.
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis reports nearly 3,000,000 people attended tuberculosis exhibitions in the year ending August 31. Besides three traveling exhibits, 28 other displays are active nationwide, up from three displays four years ago.
An eminent lawyer, cross examining the clever mother of the plaintiff in a breach of promise action, was bested in wit but reframed his earlier failure. He addressed the jury and asked what his client had been, implying a stronger case than the outcome suggested.
A Boston mother writes of feeding her three sons Rob Jack and Dick aged 6 4 and 2 Grape-Nuts daily claiming stronger health and energy. She also recalls improving a neighbor's weak child with the cereal and notes that her family uses it as a candy alternative. A advertising pitch touts The Road to Wellville booklet.
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