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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1905
Page
3
An unusual fashion snippet discusses shifting styles with emphasis on a close fitting line and embroidered detailing. It notes a short blouse over a girdled waist and a straight front, with a plaited box pleated skirt and velvet accents, while sleeves feature puffed cuffs and decorative loops.
A courtroom overhears a woman describe a morning of ordinary chores from dawn to breakfast. She details caring for children sewing buttons mending a rent, tidying rooms, tending plants washing lamps and hair, sweeping, and preparing breakfast while addressing a teacher and keeping household items in order.
Practical advice on grooming and self care urging gentle use of a pumice stone and emollients, hot baths with aromatic mix, regular foot baths, and avoidance of fret and harsh medicines. Emphasizes natural remedies from vegetables and fruits and cautions against patent medicines.
A Wilton woman used an ether sedative on her injured husband after his buzz saw accident. While he was under anesthesia, she arranged dental extraction and an artificial set, then learned the teeth work was done at Dr. George W. Hatch’s insistence. The husband awoke to find both procedures completed.
Ard Gould praises Mrs How e birds as part of the finest U S collection. Mrs Booker T Washington leads 500 negro girls at Tuskegee Institute seeking better things. Miss Bessie Bain in Chatham N Y becomes district highway overseer. Carmen Sylva, Romania’s queen, is a student and worker as well as a poet. Mrs John W Mackay owns a carved carnelian necklace once worn by a pharaoh’s daughter. Miss Tantum Tren ton N J plans a building in memory of her father at Booker I.
Advice emphasizes good circulation, outdoor exercise, sound sleep in ventilated rooms, and mild bed coverings to brighten complexion. Once health and sleep are addressed, external skin applications or cosmetics are rarely needed and facial washing and drying should reduce the need for powders or rouge.
The passage argues that educated and spiritual women must conform to their husbands' standards and through intangible psychic influence shape their husbands and become ideal mothers. It portrays marriage as a sacred bond in which the wife imparts spiritual tone to family life and remains connected even beyond death.
A girl skilled in transforming old furniture with cretonne and tacks converts a small antique trunk into a shirtwaist box. She lines the interior with calico, decorates the outside with cretonne, pads the top with an old quilt, and adds a four inch cretonne edged ruffle with brass headed tacks to resemble a French dower box.
A New York widow kept her husband's ashes in an urn for six years. After remarrying she moved the urn to the bathroom and found her maid brushing teeth with the ashes as dentifrice, remarking on the unusually white teeth.
A Fortnightly Review essay argues a woman's highest value lies in motherhood or in work that serves others, aligning with natural roles and maternal instincts within society's scope. It states choosing a line of care that honors maternal duties is essential to economic value.
Rev. Russell m. Conwell extols silence for fools and urges believers to speak of Christ only when they possess love for him. He uses a farm analogy to value speech, notes there is a time to speak and a time to hold quiet, and describes heaven as a moral goal driving human progress toward larger living.
A religious reflection on heaven as home and the peace offered by faith, followed by practical horse care advice and notes on corn cultivation. The sermon emphasizes living present faith while cherishing the hope of heaven, and the horse care piece outlines windowed stable design for air and shade.
The article explains fruit cooling before shipping to avoid spoilage. Do not place warm fruit in closed, nonrefrigerated cars. allow latent heat to dissipate. Cool nights permit overnight air cooling. use cellars under 60 degrees or storage pits dug into hills as cooling and storage options.
A small leather tab attachable to bushel baskets prevents handle pullout under heavy loads. The plan, costing little, allows baskets to remain usable until worn out. The description focuses on a simple, durable handle attachment method for heavy vegetables and grains.
A compact collection of aphoristic maxims critiquing sloth vanity and hypocrisy. It blends religious tone with social observations urging sincerity, self discipline, and forward motion while warning against worldly hollowness and graven images of wealth. The piece contrasts faith with cynicism and calls for inner integrity over external display.
The instructions describe using a flat iron or small hickory strip run through slits to form handles. Ends are thrust under basket splints from the inside, with leather threaded to create a second handle for dumping. The diagram shows attachment points for the second handle.
Farmers near Waupaca and Kilbourn, Wisconsin, vote to form mutual marketing companies after refusing to sell at 12 or 13 cents a bushel. They plan shipping produce themselves to obtain higher prices and ensure a fairer profit split.
The article explains excessive horse saliva arises from mouth or throat issues, stomach problems, or irritants in food like lobelia muscarin tobacco garlic and ginger. Brown or second crop clover hay can trigger slobbering. Treatment focuses on removing the cause with simple astringent mouth washes if needed.
A Michigan Farmer writer urges the diligent farmer and his sons to stay busy on rainy days. They should inspect fences and posts, sharpen tools, mend harness, grind sickles, replace worn parts, prepare hay rigging, and ready planters. Stay ready and don’t wait for fair weather.
A device aids lifting fodder shocks from ground to wagon. An upright standard attaches to the wagon frame and a swingable boom moves around it. A cable adjusts boom height to finish loading, reducing back strain for loaders.
German authorities conduct a comprehensive cattle census by state and town. Enumerators are paid by the town, not the state. Cattle fairs slated for census day must be postponed.
Five distinct hog breeds are credited to American skill and are said to adapt better to American conditions than any foreign breed except the Berkshire, which is noted as a good hog everywhere.
Practical hints on livestock care and farm maintenance include ventilation for cow barns, avoiding medicated cattle feed, pruning lilac seeds after blooming, lightening harness, placing shaft stops, collecting windblown apples for pie, curing mutton legs like ham, walking up hills when riding, burying diseased fowls away from yards, repairing screens, controlling flies and mosquitoes, keeping drives clean, dust control, and deep soil digging with fertilization after harvests.
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