Delft blue and white themed bedrooms and furnishings
The article details white enamel bedroom sets with Delft blue decorations ranging from landscapes to wreaths and windmills. It notes blue and white shades lighting lamps beautifully, priced high, and suggests alternatives like green white or violet white for lighter schemes. It also mentions birch and bird’s eye maple as light options and contrasts personal reactions to white interiors.
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Delft
St. Louis Republic
Crepe Paper Vase Cover Idea in Two Tone Pattern
A simple guide instructs layering two colored crepe papers and cutting a circle three times the bottle height to fashion a delicate scent bottle cover. Instructions emphasize pairing pale color combos like pink and blue or yellow and brown for decorative matching.
Frill Bottles and Household Advice Highlight Fashion and Health
A sewing craft describes shaping a bottle neck frill with paper and ribbon for the dressing table. The text also offers household tips on salt uses for cleaning and health, including lung disease remedies and a New York specialist's diet advice, plus opinions on obedience in marriage vows and fashion notes on gold patina and bicycle speed.
Dainty Crochet Novelty Showcases Delicate Drawn-Work
A description highlights crochet patterns that mirror drawn work, noting their fine, fairy-like texture. Patterns can be adapted for bureau scarfs, tablecloths, tidiets, cushions, and borders for sideboard scarfs, with adjustable widths.
Dainty Sideboard Scarf Crochet Instructions
Crochet directions describe forming a square with five double treble stitches at the top of each side, separated by thirteen chains, then adding centers and joining points. Do two repeating squares joined on two sides, then finish with six double crochets in each space and fringe knots worked through holes near the edge using unthreaded sewing machine stitch.
Odor in Feathers Warns of Improper Curing
A New York Tribune note explains odor signals improper feather curing. Properly dried pith prevents smell. airing and insect ticks help only if done early. Feathers should be redone every six or seven years. high quality feathers offer lighter bulk at similar cost. Modern pillows use a small ventilator to air feathers.
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N. Y. Tribune
Scrubbing Machines Promise Easier Domestic Chores
A new device to scrub floors uses four wheels a water tank and rotary brushes to wash and rinse. An absorbent endless band wipes the floor as the cloth is pressed and renewed automatically. The design aims to reduce labor even in homes without electric power.
Rest in peace ransom on tombstone debate in witty exchange
A widow resists the phrase We will meet again for her husband's tombstone and favors Rest in peace. A Chicago Record quip recalls Agnes who disliked a play and suspects a hat borrowing incident and seating conflict.
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Texas
Agnes
Chicago Record
High Time at a Ball Sparks Veil Over Past
A fragment hints at social commentary on Mrs Meyer and Mrs Boney at a ball. Witnesses Mrs Schmidt-Well remarking it is time to move on, while Mrs Meyer contemplates the scene and Mrs Boney appears in a notable dress.
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Meyer
Boney
Propagation of Strawberries and Black Raspberries
S Cc Vaughn explains practical methods for propagating strawberries and black raspberries. It covers planting from runners, spacing, and soil enrichment, plus tips on tipping canes for new plants and natural self propagation in woods.
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Minte
S. Cc. Vaughn
Profits of Dairying Learn Customer Tastes for Butter
The article argues profit hinges on aligning butter with consumer tastes. A dairyman should view cows as a craft, study buyer preferences, and price quality accordingly. Superior butter need not cost more to produce than inferior, and ignorance is costly.
Wheel Molling Movement Urges Road Improvement
A call to start the wheel molling for better roads urges neighbors to discuss and persuade skeptics, arguing the movement will benefit every locality and that dialogue wastes little time.
The Roman Roads and Their Long Lasting Construction
The article surveys Roman road building methods noting durable layers of sand cement and stones used in roadbeds. It describes excavation depths, layering techniques, and the rare use of pavements such as the Via Appia. It details road widths from two to 120 feet and distinguishes military roads from private feeders.
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New York
Bergier
France
Via Ap
Via Appia
Noman
N. Y
How to Improve County Roads Promotes Pledge Plan
The Los Angeles Times urges candidates for supervisors to pledge support for a comprehensive road system. It denounces patchwork repairs and calls for a first class highway network, arguing current methods waste tax dollars and yield no lasting results. The piece links road quality to farmer costs and broader public infrastructure.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Europe
Ia Telen
Dairying Tips and Milk Pricing Plan from Experiments
Rural World stresses vigilant dairying for quality butter and warns against high temperatures and long churning. It highlights uniform cow feed and testing before shipping butter. The North Carolina station proposes pay based on milk yield and fat content, $12 per gallon plus adjustments per 1/4 percent fat deviation.
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North Carolina Experiment Station
Health in Old Age: Interview With Seventy-Two Year Old Mrs Hotalen
A Union New Jersey report details Mrs. Jane Hotalen of Haliesville Sussex County at seventy-two describing improved mobility after two years of rheumatic and sciatic pain. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills, noting quick progress within a week and ongoing relief with multiple boxes, with no adverse effects.
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Port Jervia
N. J
Dr. Williams
Jane Hotalen
Haliesville
Sussex County
Aix
Br Williams’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
Almanac Weather Lore From Seasonal Clues
A rustic collection of folk weather signs links camphor in bottles to storms, sparks from kettles to cold, spring frogs signaling frost’s end, candles smoking to foul weather, and 12 Christmas days foretelling the year. The last Friday of each month serves as the almanac index for the next month.
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Riley
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