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Newspaper
Otterbein Sun
Location
Otterbein, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1913
Page
8
A pen machine nicknamed the steno type is introduced enabling shorthand writers to reach 400 to 600 words per minute on paper in accurate form. It operates on phonetic spelling and records speech in plain English characters, offering the same work as shorthand with clearer output.
A description of a classroom proverb game where students complete proverbs aloud or in writing, with examples like A stitch in time saves nine. It also recounts a spoon shower for a bride, a portrait party silhouette activity, and a sheet and pillow case shower with lavender sachets as a humorous, communal celebration.
Primrose Day on April nineteenth is noted as a novelty for guests. The piece suggests wearing primroses on coats and using large double primroses in pots as prizes for bridge games. It mentions the memorial link to Lord Beaconsfield and is signed by Madame Merri.
New dresses in white serge and white satin feature serge extending above the girdle to a high waist line. The design creates a dramatic, elevated look with the skirt starting higher on the torso.
A description of a fashionable costume with a pleated skirt, satin Drake hat, and velvet hat. Details note colored face cloth, light waistcoat trim, and buttons and loops along the front. Materials list includes serge, buttons, cloth for collar and revers, and satin for lining.
Canada again claims the $1,500 Colorado trophy for best peck of oats with Hill & Bons of Lloydminster Saskatchewan winning in 1911 and 1913. Western Canada grains excel against global entries, while mixed farming spreads across Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta.
A fragmentary survey of 19th century etiquette and commerce appears, mentioning good intentions, breakfast cakes, grocery items, and Adv. Money as a virtue mask. It cites Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething gums, advertised at 25 cents, and notes indecision about calling a man then switching to the telephone.
An old advertisement urges examination of CASTORIA for infants and children, noting it bears the signature and claims “In Use For Over 30 Years.” A Delaware line references Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria. A dialogue about a father’s whaling money, sheriff stunts at a whipping post, appears in the surrounding text.
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