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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1912
Page
6
The article notes women’s attention to head dresses during the opera season. Fancy caps, bands, ribbons, and millinery flowers adorn evening wear, with gold and silver tissue caps and jeweled pieces. Pearl bead Juliet cap and jeweled band highlighted by Julia Bottomley.
Postals reflecting seasonal themes grow more fascinating as time passes. Cards feature wedding anniversaries, bridal shower invitations, and affectionate scenes like Cupid amid wedding imagery. Studied designs include decorative scenes with regional stamps and simple verses accompanying music or national symbols.
Instructions describe making a belt buckle using an oval or oblong foundation and a heavy cardboard shane. The process covers the foundation with lasered Peter Wadding and black or white fabric, cro cheted towers, ovenwork stitching, and tight sewing for a neat buckle.
The note describes belts of ivory white leather with a gold end scroll design and leather buckles, plus black suede belts with dull silver cross stitch. Edges may be armed and stitched, focusing on suede belts reinforced with heavy silk.
The article notes vogue in lingerie with airy chif fon flowers used in skirts and slips. Flowers appear in wreaths garlands and nosegays. Tiny Bavarian embroidery adds delicate detail while trims stay flat for underwear.
A writer in The House pet cautions against night curling of a child’s hair, arguing that curly hair care costs and risks outweigh perceived benefits. The piece weighs practical grooming choices and student comfort amid household debates.
Mrs J G Johnson of Scottville Michigan raves about Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and its Sonative Wash saying it keeps her rested after caring for a large family. She claims it helps her 13 children and aids her eldest daughter's painful periods.
In a charged political aside, Dixon queries if Landi’s senate seat was bought by his wife’s money, implying influence. The remark hinges on money and marriage ties as potential influence on Landi’s position.
A promotional notice explains Cuticura Soap prevents skin troubles and serves as a versatile toilet soap. It highlights emollient properties, purity, fragrance, and benefits for hands hair and scalp while noting higher initial cost but longer wear. Readers are invited to request a free sample and a skin care booklet from Cuticura in Boston.
A boy recounts the prodigal son returning home and his father running to meet him. The teacher questions the line about the father falling on the neck and the boy jokes about it causing hurt to fall on the neck.
A fragmented dialogue questions why a white hope cannot be found. The speaker suggests that a suitable candidate must first be identified as white and capable, adding a sharp, ironic view on bachelor viewpoints and self-perceived parity.
A collage of satirical lines and ads ranging from political quips to patent medicines. It mentions cigars priced at 10c, decorative penmanship, Garfield Tea claims, a pile cure promising 6 to 14 days, and Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething pain at 25c.
A quoted dialogue hints Puffkins remains unwrapped in his motor car with hopeful prospects. The exchange suggests a developing, lighthearted mystery or theatrical moment. Readers are left awaiting further clarification or resolution.
Foot care product describes using Allen's Foot Bare to shrink shoe size by shaking into footwear. Promotes reliable relief for dancing parties and new shoe discomfort. Sample address listed at Allen St Olmsted Le Roy New York.
A sharp remark questions a young woman’s social polish as one person notes her politeness to all she encounters and another challenges the idea she belongs to high society. The exchange hints at class tensions and perceptions.
Important to mothers examine each bottle of Castoria ensure it bears the signature In Use For and Fletcher's Castoria is trusted for infant and child relief. The ad urges care and brand recognition for a familiar remedy in households.
In a small country town Dr. Mary Walker, known for wearing men's dress, is taunted by a boy who asks if she is the Mary with a lamb. She retorts that her reply is harsher, saying the boy’s mother had a jackass.
A stock melodrama scene features villain Charles Walcott drawing a penknife after forgetting his revolver. In the staged gunplay the hero collapses with the line I am shot and dies in faux tragedy, causing confusion among cast and audience.
Thos M Brown of Springfield Missouri proposes a Farmers Canning Factory within or near towns of 1590 or more people in the state part. He offers 15 sizes from 85 dollars, capable of producing 25 to 735 dollars a day for farms and communities. Farmers can work on payments or 13 percent of the pack until paid. Each farmer can grow 3 to 10 acres tomatoes annually and earn 500 to 1209 dollars by canning. Interested readers may request a booklet.
A thirteen year old print miss at a New York Episcopal church answers the fifth commandment during a rector’s catechism about confirmations. The rector notes the era’s suffragist days as the girl explains “Honor thy mother and thy father” and the girl adds “Father used to come first.”
Samuel Untermeyer, speaking in Pittsburg during an after dinner praise of woman, quotes a commercial traveler telling a storekeeper to buy a cash register as a Christmas gift. The device would show strict accounts of receipts and disbursements, savings and expenditures, guiding prudent spending.
A Metropolitan Magazine excerpt describes a ranch boss using a share system with greaser laborers on a 30000 acre property in New Mexico. A Mexican man asks for work and is offered to dig postholes for half the output, with freedom to choose the work site on the employer’s land.
William Fink of Brooklyn was sentenced by the New York Court of Special Sessions to four months in prison for counterfeiting the Carter’s Little Liver Pills trademark. Judge Devalt stressed the harm to the public when a trusted remedy is faked, aiming to deter future frauds.
Read as a playful exchange about Dubsley, noting his ear wiggling and cow imitation skills as indicators of a promising stage career. The casual dialogue hints at performance flair and potential in entertainment.
To Dyspeptics: Others have found a steady course at Garfield Tea a pleasant means of regaining health. Why not you It’s the contrariness of her sex that induces a woman to agree with a man just when he doesn’t want her to.
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