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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1924
Page
2
The article discusses footwear as an essential final touch to outfits, noting that modern styles mix artistry with comfort. It describes evening shoes in satin or kid with rhinestone buckles, modest sandals for day wear, and pumps with a medium heel, plus two strap models in varied colors.
New shoe novelties blend artistic design with comfort for women. Kid leather offers quiet elegance while patent leather remains for daytime wear. gray tones fade from town wear as colors like scarlet white blue white green and mauve pair with outfits.
Fashion notes recount a summer trend favoring parasols with gown inspired fabrics and patterns. Paris designs feature taffeta silks crepes prints and floral motifs in black white and rose palettes with white bamboo sticks and white enamel frames. Handles showcase jewels and fine woods as velvet and ribbon accents lead the season.
A fragmentary fashion column notes evolving trends for children and ladies. It highlights delicate coats and capes in pale blues and yellows, white fur collars, and handbags with bold embroidery. The style shift favors concentrated embroidery on bags rather than all-over patterns.
The guide advises weekly thorough cleaning of refrigerators with hot soapy water and soda. Remove food, wash shelves and drawers, clean drainpipes and pans, and dry completely. Clean ice bins, keep food in clean dishes, inspect for spoilage, and relocate near the kitchen to reduce steps.
The article notes green corn tastes best freshly gathered and discusses how cooking corn on the cob impacts flavor. Boiling is common, but old fashioned fire places roasting remains a favored method in some regions and in campfire cooking.
The article details boiling corn whole or cut from the cob with butter and milk for 10 minutes, plus a method using separate beans with corn. It also describes using a narrow paper roll on the kitchen wall to list supplies, hung with a pencil on a string, and mentions a Virginia guide photographed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The United States Department of Agriculture suggests cleaning zinc surfaces with bath brick and kerosene washed items. Rinse thoroughly after washing to prevent quick tarnish. For stains use acid like vinegar or lemon juice, then wash completely.
Recipes and tips for using canned leftovers to make beverages and desserts. Includes peach juice drinks, grape juice with ginger ale, Raspberry Whip with raspberries and whipped cream, Strawberry Pineapple Jam, Currant Pie with meringue, and a Fruit Syrup Salepoon. Also notes a Shakespeare quote about baking and cooling.
A collection of aphoristic musings on work effort honesty and success. It notes hurried work spoiling results and the ease of getting into trouble while praising practical cleverness in pursuit of goals. It mentions spring unrest and a future diet trend popularized by a doctor.
The article outlines basic cake making steps focusing on preparation and technique. It emphasizes gathering all ingredients, lining pans, and proper mixing for a fine crumb, noting that lighter batter yields layer cakes and that careful baking prevents doming. It provides a simple Plain Cake formula with butter sugar milk eggs baking powder and flour.
Leaves of the cinnamon tree yield engenol used in making vanilla. Nonedible fish from French ports are processed into flour mixed with seeds for poultry cattle sheep and dogs. A Burma lumber firm adopts tread tractors to replace elephants in log piling. A Los Angeles man develops a five foot long microscope claimed to be the most powerful. An inflatable buoy attaches to a waterproof hunting suit to aid hunters in deep water.
A dated reflection on how holidays are valued by trifles, extravagance versus avarice, the limits of advice, temper as a vice or disease, and gendered social weather. It notes that public opinion is powerful and change requires cautious steps, and mentions fashion in a sooty city needing new hats every six weeks.
A playful column notes the endless hunt in politics and contrasts it with Airplanes carrying English diners to fashionable restaurants in France. It hints at social cruelties and the mystery of a caller asking, Guess who this is, without revealing identities.
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