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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1905
Page
7
A cheerful note on enjoying small pleasures despite budget limits and a practical guide to hair care for girls. Mothers are advised to teach daily brushing, loose braiding at night, and to avoid sharing brushes to protect nerves and hair health.
A Newark Advertiser piece analyzes women who pose for attention, noting the habit stems from mirrors and admiring listeners. It argues posing hinders genuine popularity, warns mothers to teach self composure, and urges women to look pleasant without overemphasizing self.
Lighter silk braid patterns dominate this season with novelties in color and design. Broderie anglaise trims, transverse tucks, Venise lace combinations, and Valenciennes laces lead the look. Velvet bands and delicate ribbon bows accent skirts and bodices for a stylish finish.
A historical sketch argues that many societies treated wives as property and laborers. It compares customs in Morocco Circassia Georgia Samoa Fiji India and Africa, noting wives' work, subservience, and husbands’ perceived authority and ability to overlook or desert wives based on beauty, utility, and compliance.
Scraps of lace, new and old, especially floral, help tasteful women beautify gowns. By cutting leaves and flowers from net and applying to silk, the design is covered with silk for a vivid effect. The result resembles stamped patterns but stands out without padding and looks more original than shop patterns.
A column on preserving youth argues that few women truly stay youthful as Father Time progresses. It urges avoiding worry over trivial and major concerns, embracing a calm mindset to reduce wrinkles and reliance on cosmetic treatments. The piece notes youthfulness as an art of remaining young.
A collection of maxims on love, serenity, honesty, health, tact, sorrow, and aging. Quotations from Nineteenth Century thinkers and Thackeray emphasize sincerity, duty, and the subtleties of happiness. The notes pair moral guidance with observations on human conduct and emotion.
A London Chronicle note advises quick wit to fill silences at dinners with a ready made anecdote about an aunt. The trick is to hit a boundary with a safe topic, keeping the talk flowing regardless of the reply.
The rope used today for the execution of John Slenry Young is a hemp rope owned by W A Stewart of Cleburne former Johnson County sheriff. Made in St Louis in 1898 for John B Shaw a white man by a German craftsman the rope is eighteen feet long costing $12.50. The noose has never been altered.
Preparations underway for a weekly London edition journal aimed at dealers and performers of magic. The publication will cover tricks, apparatus, and trade news for conjurors.
A small boy in a twelve story Chestnut street office building watched a mounting car indicator on a dial with his mother. He exclaimed that the fast moving clock explains why everyone hurries, reflecting a moment in Philadelphia life.
An old advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for cases Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure. The notice touts F J Cavenety Co of Toledo and lists druggists, with testimonials, pricing at 75 cents a bottle. It includes endorsements of Fleney for 16 years and promotes internal use of the remedy.
The birth of the poet prompted Schiller’s father to beg God to grant the boy the gifts of mind and soul the father himself had never attained due to lack of education.
Captain W. S. Graham of Wheeling West Virginia writes that after long suffering from sores on face and back and misdiagnoses of blood poison or bare bets itch, Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment cleared his skin, and he thanks God and his friend for the remedy.
Amateur Gardening argues that real health comes from gardening rather than patent medicines. The piece notes garden cities, lady gardeners, horticulture and agriculture rising in popularity as people embrace living in and through their gardens.
A colossal brazen statue near Kamakura, about 20 miles from Yokohama, sits on a lotus pedestal. Dating to Emperor Shomu’s era (died 748), the idol stands 63% feet tall from base to crown, reputed as the world’s largest.
Quick results from Concord New Jersey Justice of the Peace N1il says Dean's Kidney Pills improved his disordered kidneys and backache. He reports dark irregular secretions cleared, no back pain since, and overall health improved. Fouster-Milburn Co. Buffalo sells at 50 cents per box.
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