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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1912
Page
4
The article highlights bordered fabrics like cashmere marquisette voile and delaine with innovative borders. It describes two tiered skirts with wide patterned borders, corselets, and sleeves in spotted fabrics, a taffeta belt, and borders around hems and deep pan neckline outlines, finished by lace fichu.
A description notes a deep purple satin hat adorned with gold embroidery and a large gold osprey motif. The text emphasizes its rich design and ornamental quality.
The passage notes bordered fabrics as a summer feature useful for simple toilettes. It describes muslins with borders including a white muslin with a 12 inch pink border and embroidered dots in pink and white, plus other muslins in palest pink and white with dainty white embroidered flowers. It mentions marquisettes and volles with colored borders and a novelty made entirely of tiny drawn work squares.
The Dry Goods Economists report a mid width skirt as the popular balance between full and narrow styles. The new design keeps straight lines with enough fullness for easy walking and features subtle back or side plaits pressed or attached to avoid flare.
The piece notes favorite jewelry and ornaments with pearls and velvet chokers returning to fashion. It highlights how black velvet enhances the pearls and flatters the throat, linking old world style to current trends.
Dennis A Stovall of Oregon in the Northwest Farmstead argues a clean henhouse and yard simplifies poultry keeping. He recalls discarding fancy roosts and elaborate nests after tests showed they required more care and offered little advantage for egg production.
A historical note describes a carpenter's poultry house arrangement with three foot high roosts arranged side by side to prevent crowding. Roosts can be removed for cleaning. A smooth board floor and lime emulsion or lye treatment are recommended. Boxes with ventilation and straw changes are advised, burning old straw during cleaning.
The article explains a poultry watering setup with a float lever system. A tin can float linked to a lever opens and closes a supply valve as water level rises and falls. A spring keeps the valve open until the float rises, then shuts off flow until level drops again.
The article explains that late hatches face heat and insect pressure but can perform as well as early hatchlings with good care. It suggests setting hens or using incubators in August so chicks reach September when weather cools and insects lessen. Early fall hatches grow quickly and can be good for winter to spring use. Pullets from these hatches may not be large yet will start laying next spring and continue through summer, ensuring a steady egg supply.
A German singer named Erdos performing in Budapest suddenly fell ill with heart weakness. He telegraphed his sweetheart in Frankfurt to join him. They married in a hospital ward and Erdos died an hour after the ceremony.
The fragment describes a soft felt petasos worn under the chin by lower class Greeks such as herds and travelers. It notes that mobility and gentry wore no head covering outdoors, and women preferred flowers in their hair rather than hats.
In a domestic vignette Mrs. Brown preserves peaches with jars covers and rubber bands. Margaret aged about ten asks permission to finish the task and put on the garters, prompting a cautious kitchen moment.
The article asserts electricity cannot be frozen or adulterated and that it works equally well in hot or cold days, underscoring its reliability as a power source across conditions. It emphasizes purity and stability as key benefits.
The piece recommends cooling a wash bowl, opening the eyes under water, and repeatedly washing to loosen hairs. It suggests these steps will help remove bothersome hairs with a cotton-tipped applicator. It notes Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup is not the best remedy for teething children.
The illustration shows a convenient coop design for poultry keepers. It can be built from 2x3 to 4x5 feet or larger, with small versions for a hen and brood and larger ones for up to 100 chicks. A three-section yard with 1x2 or 1x8 inch strips and one-inch mesh keeps out cats when covered top to bottom. The court and house should be moved to fresh ground weekly.
An old home remedy instructs dipping fowls in warm water with melted bacon grease to shed vermin and accelerate feather shedding. It claims the grease softens feathers, kills vermin, shortens moulting, and leaves birds healthier for winter and spring.
Fragment discusses caring for chicks with emphasis on humane treatment and feeding. It mentions using one third cracked cane seed and keeping a brooder floor clean with daily wet towels. The tone mirrors a practical poultry tip from an old local notice.
In warm weather vermin breeds faster than in cool weather. The remedy calls for thorough disinfection of henhouses brooders and brood coops with a good liquid disinfectant and dusting the fowls and chicks with lime powder.
The article stresses timely molting, March-hatched pullets laying now, and vermin control in warm weather. It warns on ventilation during brooding, humane handling of broodiness, and the need for warmth, feed, and protection from heat to raise chicks and keep hens healthy for egg production.
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