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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1909
Page
6
A compilation of children’s notes and vignettes from The Sun, Chicago Tribune, and Youth’s Companion. It covers poems about the sun, Italian children’s daily life, conundrums, and a Dolly’s queer babies tale, plus a note on a new electric organ invention.
A moral exhortation list urges propriety and integrity. It promotes promptness, virtuous living, honesty, debt repayment, restraint from intoxicants, kind greetings, and perseverance while warning against vice and false appearances. It reflects sentiment of early 20th century self help.
In Knud Rasmussen's The People of the Polar North a young orphan boy befriends a traveler after receiving a pocket knife. The boy then offers walrus meat in return, showing pride and reciprocation despite lacking relatives. The tale follows Kajaranguaq living as everyone’s drudge and sleeping in an old shelter.
Advice on rations for horses and mules favors green feed sparingly for fast work, with legume hay and corn stover forming most of the diet. It recommends a base ration of seven pounds grass hay or corn stover, eight pounds legume hay, ten pounds corn, and two pounds cottonseed meal, plus guidance on adjusting feed with changes in work. It also highlights carrots as a winter stock feed and gives cultivation tips.
A plan for a grain granary along practical lines is described to save profits by better storage. The design features an elevated, weatherproof lower floor with slatted boards for air flow and rain protection, a solid driveway wall, and large corn cribs with sliding doors and a ventilating window.
The article argues the biggest ear of corn is not necessarily the best due to factors like yield, with larger ears implying fewer ears per plant and potential efficiency losses. It emphasizes that other conditions affect overall profitability and quality.
A compact set of sayings about frugality and shrewd business. It notes that those who know how to live on little avoid being enslaved by wants. It praises a wise judgment of others intentions and links daily effort to future opportunity. It asserts success comes from turning small profits into large work effort.
A Southern Fruit Grower note urges growers to acquire a serviceable sprayer and spray mixture to ensure trees produce the best fruit and achieve a good price.
The text contrasts understanding ads and motives, arguing distrust of perpetual questioners. It frames uprightness as a divine requirement guiding all human dealings and emphasizes ethical behavior beyond convenience.
A column notes a trend of women painting on hostess note paper with monograms as keepsakes, citing Miss Roosevelt’s White House gifts. It also discusses social contact, temper and health insights, and profiles women critics like Mrs Serena Payne and Mrs John B Henderson as influential taste makers.
The latest perfume wave centers on an elusive scent described as the fragrance of a flower secreted in a dress and hair, with the slipper becoming a new receptacle for perfume used by many fashionable women in society.
A New York report notes perfumed essences liven fashion from handkerchiefs to hair sachets and scented blouses. Narcissus and violet are favored scents, with jewelry pieces like lockets and jeweled slides designed to hold a drop of perfume.
The essay argues delaying purchases protects you from hardship and rewards long toil. It cites a comfortable home, green fields, and a river life as the payoff after years of labor. It asks readers to consider personal emergency risks if work or health fail next year.
New suspenders in narrow lisle, gored sheath skirts, and cashmere de soie fabrics mark the season. Thick and thin materials mix in coats with vermicelli braiding and Directoire sashes. Clinging skirts prefer about two yards in width. pale gloves in Paris favor rose tones, fawn, and brown hues. Matinee bags of leather, larger than purses, carry touch up kits, pen, and opera glasses, reflecting rising elegance and prices.
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