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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1927
Page
2
A Department of Agriculture guide explains choosing curtain styles to suit room size and light. It suggests light walls, glass curtains, cretonne bands, and crepe tiebacks, with porch-shaded rooms benefiting from pale colors and vinyl-like drapery options.
The article promotes tender poke shoots as a desirable spring green while warning that poke berries are poisonous. It explains selecting true poke, trimming shoots, and avoiding underground roots, with cooking methods such as boiling briefly then simmering in salted water. It compares poke to other greens and suggests simple seasonings.
The bureau of home economics offers two popular hot sauces chocolate and butterscotch to dress desserts. Directions cover boiling water brown sugar flour salt cinnamon vanilla butter and optional chocolate and milk for a rich sauce serving seven to fourteen portions with recipes detailing steps and heating times.
Cooking may not destroy mineral salts found in fresh vegetables. Some minerals dissolve in the cooking liquid, so pot liquor should be served. Mild vegetables can be steamed or boiled in little water or briefly cooked in milk to minimize salt loss. stronger vegetables’ water can be saved for soup or gravies.
A detailed note on a dress featuring top fagoting rather than post-cut pieces. The design uses one front piece with yoke created by fageting lines, minimal slashes, and controlled fullness. Fabric options include heavy white crepe fageted in red, or white on black, with box plaits adding skirt fullness.
The dominant feature of the spring coat silhouette is youthfulness with plaits on cloth and silk coats sewn flat from collar to knees. Plaited ruffles, fine tucking, and pointed panels enliven the straight silhouette. Connars, tuxedo designs, bows, belts, and prominent pockets define the popular parts coats and two tone fabrics.
New lace effects in dresses attract favor in German shops. Lace is lacquered or waxed and worn over frocks of various colors. Underslip color is echoed in artificial flowers attached to shoulder or bodice.
A fashion note describes a sleeveless two piece sports frock in white crepe de chine. It features a novel ge ranium red scarf collar, flat crepe, and front buttoned jumper with small tabs.
Summer wardrobe notes expect sleeveless sports frocks in cottons and linens. A renowned international tennis player popularized sleeveless pique designs in white and pastels, inspiring practical, slender straight-line frocks with hidden fullness for tennis or golf. Yellow shades gain vogue, especially maize tones.
Women at resorts favor white bases enlivened by bright colors. Printed linens and cottons in gay hues, hand blocked designs and calico prints appear. Black and white motifs and compass patterns in cottons and silks feature in coats paired with white crepe frocks, creating bold two piece outfits.
A Paris crepe dress illustrates the trend with cocoa tone and a plaited skirt from neck to hem. Cross tucks at the shoulders and waist create a square-patterned effect, while many frocks feature both plaits and tucks as the main decoration.
Elegant gowns appear in fashion coverage with the formal evening dress holding a steady position. A softer chiffon frock remains popular for its fluttering charm during dinner hour, creating a balance between tailored dignity and delicate movement.
A 1927 U S kitchen column presents recipes for pork cake broiled smoked herring jellied chicken Vienna steaks paprika schnitzer chicken with macaroni sardine sandwich oatmeal gruel and oatmeal sausage. It notes lengthy simmer times and steps for gelatin chicken preparations and practical tips for digestion.
A Cavendish Vermont man who bought an unoccupied house found twenty pounds of fine honey stored in the chimney. He collected the honey in good condition, turning an odd discovery into a pleasant surprise for the new homeowner.
Doctor Tsinoukas asserts an invention will destroy the influenza microbe in fifteen minutes. He describes the device as an electric machine touted to rapidly eliminate the virus.
A humorous exchange questions why a resident calls a home Simla when the person has never visited India. The reply notes a common street name mix up seems to stem from a simtar like term used by neighbors.
The advertisement promotes Castoria as a long trusted remedy for infants and children addressing constipation flatulence wind colic and diarrhea. It claims Castoria relieves discomfort by easing stomach and bowel action and helping food assimilation leading to natural sleep. The genuine product is identified by the signature appearing on the label.
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