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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1906
Page
14
A strange instruction claims only a woman with a perfectly shaped foot can skip trees in her shoes when not worn. It asserts that daily worn shoes can stay nearly as shapely as new if trees are inserted immediately after removing the feet.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes Pasadena's acting mayor is Miss Anna McGrew a witty capable stenographer to Mayor Waterhouse. While the California mayor tours Cedar Rapids Iowa she handles city duties effectively and smoothly.
Anne Rittenhouse explains a method from the Chicago Inter Ocean to fix a sagging skirt by laying the seam on the floor, measuring two inches from it with a chalk line, and turning up the hem evenly. She recommends an outside two inch bias fold stitched with two rows to create a steady footline.
A young Jersey town landscape gardener earns a living by designing hardy flower gardens. She began helping friends without pay, then her expertise grew in demand. She focuses on arranging tall plants as a backdrop for smaller varieties and maintaining a regular color scheme.
An article surveys new lace gowns with flat waistbands and decorative sleeves, praising Valenciennes Irish crochet Cluny Chantilly and other laces. It then argues for fair wages in homes, proposing labor division among daughters and sons to support family harmony and introduce outside work as needed.
A discussion on Audubon society ideas contrasts with a fashion roundup describing weather hats, Eton costumes, belts, collars, and Empire hats. The piece highlights plumage trends, color touches, and accessories, followed by simple recipe snippets like Ginger Snaps and Bakewell Pudding.
The New York Press notes Mrs Longworth and Mrs Roosevelt showcasing hats with birds and feathers. Mrs Longworth favors osprey feather aigrettes and dove accents on pale gray headpieces, while Mrs Roosevelt avoids birds as a rule though her children are Audubon members attending sessions in Washington.
The soprano Madame Sembrich trims hats with flowers she has not decided on yet, using mauve orchids and pink to red carnations chosen after trying the hat on. She avoids perfumed blooms and her method has surprised friends who mistook the natural arrangements for real, noting their lifelike look.
After exposing hands to hot soapy water, rub with a mixture of vinegar and camphor spirits. Use one teaspoon camphor to two tablespoons vinegar to counteract alkali and keep skin soft and smooth.
The rubber plant thrives with daily watering and weekly leaf cleaning using milk. A monthly circle around the roots with a tablespoon of castor oil is recommended as a tonic to keep it glossy and strong.
A Garden Magazine writer notes successful growth of greens in living rooms. Seeds from delicate to large types like carnations chrysanthemums cyclamen germinate at varying rates with some care. Swainsona seeds may need shell cracking and soaking before sowing for sprout emergence.
Mrs Rover extols the chafing dish as a key kitchen utensil enabling quick table service and hotel style meals. It warms cold meats at the table, reheats soups and vegetables, and aids for unexpected guests with simple pre meal prep and careful dish sequencing.
Stratford consul Seyfert notes American literature dominates Canadian homes and libraries. He cites widespread presence of American books and periodicals and says their advertisements greatly aid American trade.
A historical note states that the area of Mexico is about 766 000 square miles. This measurement reflects a broad territorial scope, highlighting the country’s large geographic size.
The filageolot fascinates Americans as a historic courting instrument for Apache youths. The cedar flute, about twenty four inches, splits to form an air chamber with holes and a lead lip. The Jagcolet is a whistle headed flute once played by English ladies in the seventeenth century.
A collection of wry maxims on education weather marriage money and human nature drawn from Reflections of a Bachelor in the New York Press. It skewers pretension and moral smugness with humorous generalities about farmers education weather money and social life.
The Chicago News advises shoes should be three fourths of an inch longer than the foot to allow forward movement. Short shoes injure toes and joints, causing corns and bunions. Do not wear walking shoes indoors or on consecutive days. Clean and oil daily, especially soles and stitches, using castor oil. Keep heels in repair with rubber heels and replace laces and ribbons regularly.
A quoted New York Press jab argues Africans and colored people never sneeze due to climate. The globe trotter claims cold damp air causes sneezing, insisting Africans never sneeze even when abroad, comparing natives’ sneeze patterns to swimming ability.
An assortment of curiosities spans science and history with notes on ivory poaching, sulphur in apples, a top penny toy collection, fading chinchilla fur demand, a London orchid sold for 6085 dollars, and a Scottish baronet gifting gramophones to institutions. Also mentions ancient coins and a Watt built dredger in Dundee.
A hospital near London keeps patients on a fruit diet and over three years reports two deaths among five hundred. The institution is named the Lady Margaret Ifruitarian Hospital. Nine one armed men from Loch Haven Pennsylvania shared a banquet recounting how they lost their arms, blaming railroads for three, threshing machines for three, gun accidents for two, and war for one.
At Worcester a slab over a departed auctioneer bears the single word Gone. In Sussex a stone lists the deceased’s initials and date with He was. Cane Hill Cemetery Belfast features an inscription reading Left till called for.
Mechanical traction ditching devices move sewer trenches in stiff clay and show costs of 30 cents per cubic yard. A traction wheel with attached buckets digs 26 by 84 inches trenches, running 2 feet per minute and delivering 900 feet daily in practice.
An eighteen year old Waitress at Tetchen was fined fourteen days imprisonment for kissing a stranger at a railway station. The Prague correspondent notes the magistrate worsened the sentence by adding four days and banishment from Bohemia to Dresden after release.
In scattered items: Vesuvius conditions easing. Filipino war costs cited at $55 per person. South America markets for used cars. Newberry College receives $25,000 from Dr. D. K. Pearson. Shonts notes near elimination of mosquitoes in Panama Canal area. Carnegie offers Roanoke College $25,000 after matching funds. Buckwheat Field at Grant's Tomb proposed as public park. Orca whaler near Vancouver Island reports a 100-ton sperm whale catch. China to train 60 Pekin Police School graduates in Japan. Mexican city hosts a potential locomotive factory by American syndicate. Lincoln England typhoid epidemic cost $60,000 with 424 hospital patients. William G. Logan donates a $70,000 Kansas City residence to church extension. New York District Attorney notes only 33 first-degree murder convictions in ten years.
Rosestvensky seeks retirement while Roosevelt praised as marksman. Ising Edward receives Penn honorary degree. Funston and Lie linked with careers. Paine of Harvard argued to teach music as art. Rindle becomes U S Minister to Servia. Gorman ill. Wanamaker eyes Senate. Lake Mohonk to host arbitration meeting May 20 to June 1. Green of Omaha runs for Senate. Millet family noted. Jean-Baptiste Mullet recalled as artist.
A fragment from the Washington Star records Miss Cayenne debating Mr Bliggens. She notes his cleverness lies in foreseeing that what he might say would not be clever, a rare and unusual trait.
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