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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1911
Page
2
A description of two stylish gowns favored by the smart set. One in black and white grenadine with striped flounces, green silk yoke, and embroidered bodice. the other in white linen with Madeira embroidery, scalloped flounces, and a fichy corsage with heavy embroidery.
The article suggests repurposing discarded light colored kid glove tops into baby booties, small bags, book covers, calendar covers, scented pads, and powder applicators. It details simple steps for cutting stitching and finishing with ribbon, eyelets, and monograms, plus tips for storage of rubber sandals and overshoes.
Fashion arbiters decree feather toques and muffed stoles will replace floral trimmings as summer hats retreat. Peacock and golden pheasant feathers dominate new toques and muffs with pheasant heads, while dyed cheap feathers imitate birds. Milliner notes feather outfits offer lightness and warmth and novelty shapes appear in shops.
A succinct reflection on how wealth draws many allies and quick promises, highlighting the timeless tension between money and loyal friendship.
The article outlines blouse options to pair with a dark serge suit. It highlights a bronze brown mousseline de sole blouse embroidered with self-toned floss, worn over a tucked white net gulmpe with Cluny lace, plus a chic hat with a narrow brim and brown and white feather.
Instructions for making a simple home hamper from a box three by two feet with a thirty inch height. Cover with blue oilcloth, add nickel handles, enamel inner surface, three compartments for stockings linen and lingerie, plus interior and exterior pockets. Adjust materials to room style.
Harper's Bazar notes the season's bolero wraps as a standout innovation alongside simple sarah silk dresses in rich fall colorings. The three piece ensemble is praised as elegant and highly useful, earning strong reader approval.
By D Ward King the piece urges keeping roads in good condition after a protracted drought. It explains dragged roads stay smooth and dust free, advises building a light split log drag from the Office of Public Roads, and urges using every shower to reshape surfaces so roads stay good through winter.
Popular Mechanics describes a lightning hitcher and detacher for horse drawn tugs. The design keeps tugs on shafts with outer end attachments and a driver foot action to detach the horse from the vehicle.
The text explains half-brothers and half-sisters by sharing a dam or sire, noting the system helps identify horses by sire and dam. It cites stallions producing many foals, with Hambletonian 10 siring over 1,200 foals and Dexter as a champion, implying about 650 males and 650 females if sex-ratio were even.
The piece extols farming as a satisfying occupation offering land ownership as a stable investment. It notes the farmer’s joy in shaping nature with artistry to craft farmsteads and fields that resemble living pictures more alluring than any gallery.
Article explains hogs' vulnerability to sunstroke due to lack of sweating. Recommends frequent swabbing with water to cool the body and transferring prostrated hogs to shade with cool water poured on head and neck, avoiding the rest of the body.
An 19th century style guide outlines a quick cheap smok ing process for farm meat using inverted barrels filled with meat. A ground-smoked fire of chips or cabs creates a draught to smoke pieces in minutes, with cautions to monitor heat to prevent fire.
Prof R M Dolve of North Dakota Agricultural College recommends the egg shaped cistern as strongest and most economical. It can be built of concrete with a lumber form and earth backfill, or plastered into the soil for a leak free long lasting tank.
The piece argues that extensive farming conflicts with dairy success. It says small barns and intensive farming are needed for good dairymen. It also notes that farmers who try to own and cultivate all adjacent land neglect dairying and lose interest in it.
The business man argues for keeping colts in pasture rather than beside their dams to avoid the bother of a colt following the team.
Advises farmers to protect freshly stored grain from cattle and colts, keep grain secure, and clean up after each setting to prevent spoilage and loss.
The method to raise a heavy horse centers on good foal nutrition in the first year. Begin grain as soon as the foal will eat and allow it to consume all the oats it will take.
A separator is described as standing level on a solid foundation inside a clean bright and well ventilated room. The emphasis is on stable placement and proper environmental conditions to ensure reliable performance and safety.
Onlooker 4 presents Wilbur D. Nesbit in a verse parody about wealth and social status. The speaker mocks the idea that money buys dignity arguing that a laird or lordly status comes from more than cash. The piece questions virtue, luxury, and the allure of riches.
A woman in court testifies she struck her husband but claims sorrow rather than anger, admitting the weapon used was a gad iron. The exchange reveals her defense as she faces battering charges.
A young city woman finishes a piano interpretation at Mr Meddergraass’s country boarding house. She notes her father spent 5000 dollars on her musical education. Meddergraass, with whiskers, reflects half-way satisfaction for spending spare money on gold bricks.
A backstage exchange highlights the pressures of a stage career with a stage manager directing a denunciation scene and a leading lady worried the calcium light will miss her diamond rings. Groundlings lack such trials as they sit in the audience.
A dialogue features an eminent scientist claiming daily messages from Mars and a puzzled listener who asks how to answer what is not understood. The scientist notes that Martians cannot understand the answers either, highlighting communication challenges.
A witty exchange in a theater setting features a high browed critic condemning vice as a monster while a shrewd manager brags about selling gallery seats for five dollars. The dialogue hints at satire and commercial theater dynamics.
A courteous salesman asks a woman to view special flat irons, but she declines saying they are now living in a house. The dialogue captures a domestic domestic scene and a polite refusal.
A short dialogue contrasts the Kansas visitor who says he lives near nature's lungs with the Adirondacks cottage dweller claiming proximity to nature's heart. The exchange highlights differing scenic appeals and a rustic backdrop.
John Titus vacationing in a Maine village becomes smitten with Margery True after music from next door triggers memories of a song. At a temperance meeting he endures a lecture, then meets Margery during the church program. He agrees to marry her after a month’s stay.
Census returns list population density per square mile for European nations. Belgium 642, England 567, Netherlands 451, Germany 306, Italy 806, Austria 241, Switzerland 220, France 202, Russia in Europe 194, Denmark 171, Hungary 163, Turkey in Europe 165, Servin 150, Portugal 148, Scotland and Ireland 137, Greece 132, Roumania 177, Spain 101.
A dramatic note imagines a bold probe into a boarding-house trust. The speaker warns that such an inquiry would become a chaotic affair, mixing up investigators and targets in a sensational scene.
A druggist recalls how families, relying on in-store phone calls for surgery news, crowd the shop. A Mrs Smirnoff learns her son is recovering but not yet out of danger. The scene portrays anxious relatives awaiting hospital updates and the clerk’s effort to pacify hysterical patrons.
Seymour states McSuffray from Oregon rarely speaks to his wife. Ashley recalls she cast her vote on election day while he supervised the children and did not return until after polls closed.
A family scene depicts a mother urging Maybelle and her fiancé to begin saying farewell as travel plans are set for a return home next week. The dialogue emphasizes an impending parting and a conclusion to the engagement.
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