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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1909
Page
3
The piece discusses new fall models with fuller sleeves and skirts, noting long princess lines and yokes as key features. It suggests styles for different figures from stout to slender, including cuirass and drapery touches, contrast fabrics, and accessories like plumed hats and Dutch lace collars.
The piece notes wider ribbons now used on lingerie items measur ing one to two inches and urges economical handling. It recommends keeping ribbons rolled in original paper and extended to the roll end, with long eyed bodkins for threading. It cites color trends from pinks to orchid shades and lists new hues gaining popularity.
A new gold bracelet style in width from half an inch to an inch draws attention with heavy engraving or patterned enamel. Younger buyers envy as prices rise, while clever women rediscover heirlooms from grandmothers or mothers. The piece mirrors a mid century fashion, suggesting ancestry as a source of current novelty.
This brief guide shows turning a handkerchief into a decorative jabot. Choose a scalloped edged piece with small embroidered flowers, trim three corners, stack muslin, fasten tabs, plait the remaining fabric, and sew the jabot to the bottom of the stock.
Instructions describe a bodice using same fabric as the skirt, with scalloped lace over-bodice, velvet bindings for center front and cross straps, and lace epaulettes. Required materials include one yard 46 inch fabric, two and a half yards of face, one and a quarter yards velvet, and two buttons.
The guide notes that in wool serge fabric the twill on the right side always runs to the right. This tip helps dressmakers align patterns and cut fabrics efficiently for upstanding garments.
The guide explains veiling techniques from folding and sewing tips to securing the veil at the back. It notes that new veils feature large meshes and bold designs while color trends favor purples whites and lace looks, with affordable white silk Brussels net as a lace substitute. It also describes motor veils and simple patterns using washing silk or cotton voile that are inexpensive, crushproof, and washable.
A northern travelogue reports booming Western Canada wheat oats and barley yields in 1909. It notes large acreages of wheat up to 40 bushels per acre and oats 45 to 60 bushels per acre, with many districts forecasting bumper crops and substantial land development attracting American settlers.
A witty exchange about speed and a chauffeur, with one character constantly bailing out the driver amid nautical metaphor and private parties.
A character mentions a doctor urging Jimmy to leave business for fresh air. The plan to give him air involves an unusual voyage on a galt sea trip.
A single rare orchid plant sold for three hundred dollars in Colombia. To hasten collection, natives cut down the trees that host the orchids and remove the flora from the felled trunks.
A terse exchange hints at a begging visit as one speaker warns off the other then contemplates whether the request was serious. The dialogue showcases social tension and a moment of insistence versus restraint in a domestic street scene.
A 16 year severed Sequoia trunk near Tulare County California rises 75 feet above the ground with a 15 foot diameter. Lumbermen cut it for timber but miscalculation left the stump in place and dynamite shattered the trunk rendering it useless. The giant remains upright held by its weight enduring strong winds.
A six year old girl suffered hive outbreaks for two months after contact with infected playmates. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment in daily hot baths itching subsided and the eruption cleared, per Mrs. George L. Fridhoff of Warren Michigan reporting June 30 to July 13 1908. Potter Drug & Chom Corp is listed as sole proprietors in Boston.
Thomas Tabby boasts of renting his flat at a song like price. Tabby Tiger recalls a 2 a.m. solo on the back fence as he started, and donations in the form of furniture and other items filled the bill.
An article urges painters to use fall for exterior work noting surfaces dry and no frost. It highlights pure white lead mixed with linseed oil as a winter coating for protection. The National Lead Company offers a complete painter outfit from the 1902 Trinity Building, New York City, with exterior or interior decorating options.
Chesterton states that altruistic energy stems from justice, charity, and free will. He adds a judgmental element, that actions will matter to both helper and recipient in time.
A Victorian advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a definitive cure for catarrh, asserting it treats the constitution by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Proponents offer $100 to anyone not cured and invite testimonials, with Cheney & Co. of Toledo as suppliers. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The Standard Oil Company holdings in Bayonne New Jersey center on its east coast refinery. Assessed at 7360000 in 1908 the value now climbs to 13000000 prompting an appeal to the Hudson county board of equalization.
A humorous scene shows a clerk guiding a wife to the correct collar size twelve and a half for her husband as she complains. A testimonial touts Resinol Ointment curing itching piles after three weeks of use. Parisian authorities propose hat pin restrictions due to injuries from long pins on public transport and venues.
Indian widows number around 26 million, reflecting social hardship and the era's demographic realities.
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