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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1910
Page
11
A vintage guidance piece stresses routine hair care for girls, highlighting daily ventilation and cleanliness. It warns against over brushing and prescribes gentle, lengthwise brushing, loose braiding, and regular shampoo to maintain scalp health and appearance.
A dress designed for business or home use in dark shades. Suggested fabrics include broadcloth serge henrietta cashmere veiling or challis. The description emphasizes versatility and elegance in suitable dark hues.
A fragment describes a black silk waist with lace trim and a matching guimpe, highlighting refined undergarment styling suitable for formal wear. The text emphasizes delicate lace and high fashion tones, suggesting a coordinated lingerie set.
A maker has devised a wire hairpin at regulation length with kinked prongs to prevent slipping. The pin is comfortable and hair friendly, selling for a few cents per box and less likely to be lost than ordinary pins.
The article notes French women carry a powder puff and a bonboniere in theater bags. On seating, a Frenchwoman dusts her face with the puff to maintain a peachlike glow, preferring this to showing a faded complexion, a practice contrasted with American habits of mouchoirs and fans.
This guide explains pressing silk or ribbon with a dampened paper layer before ironing. It notes no lint on the ironed fabric, a new stiffness, and a perfect finish, recommending the method as a reliable rule for neat results.
A milliner notes the vast use of large white bows with black outlines on many hats. Bows often feature lace or satin edging and may include a satin lining forming a border around the face. Sometimes the reverse white edging black appears.
A harmless customer chats with the new cashier across the cigar counter while paying his dinner check. He jokes about easily spending money and the cashier retorts that money is not meant to be held, implying minting coins with handles would be odd.
Charles H. Rosenberg from Bavaria presented lumps on his body that the immigration doctor initially suspected as illness. He explained the lumps contained money, showing a $500 note and revealing a total of $11,000 planned to buy an Oregon apple orchard.
A tale from the old south where Miss Mattie hosts a distinguished guest. She sends water and a bath invite to Mr Nirman, prompting laughter from him. Tillie the maid recounts the moment in vivid dialect and humor. The exchange ends with a playful miscommunication about washing.
A humorous exchange features a new resident asking a whitewasher named Ale Hall to whitewash a chicken house. The colored patriarch praises his skill yet quibbles over the task, noting Ale Hall’s quirks but confirming his quality despite the odd job fit.
The verse counsels contentment with one’s lot and optimism to ease misfortune. It reflects on constant springs of happiness found in human hearts as years pass, noting sunny gleams, golden dreams, and the warmth of love in aging.
Dialogue fragment shows a landlady accusing new boarders of bringing a foreign nobleman while another doubts him. The exchange notes he has not paid any money yet, raising questions about the boarder’s authenticity.
In a humorous exchange, Grouchly calculates saving $2,190 by skipping three ten-cent cigars daily for 20 years. Moxley questions the sum, Grouchly confirms, and the pair jokingly asks for a bite of tobacco.
At a vaudeville show a white audience applauded a blackface comedian as Uncle Hiram muttered of the rising color presence. A city man praised the performer as a self made negro amid the crowd's cheer.
The article frames American Indians as wealthy per capita with rich oil and timber resources on tribal lands. It notes millions in agricultural land value, ranges supporting about 600000 head of livestock, and revenues exceeding 272000 from leases. It also mentions asphalt deposits on Indian lands and large Indian livestock holdings.
A chortling patron orders eggs with slang, prompting a waitress to clarify plain English. The humorous exchange centers on mistaken phrases and the man’s bid to bait the staff with jargon.
The League of Politeness has been formed in Berlin to inculcate better manners. Initiated by Fraulein Cecelle Meyer and inspired by a Roman group, it adopts the Italian motto Pro gentilezza and will wear a medal as a talisman to curb irritability and discourtesy. Any polite person may join.
A recent Gazette issue publishes an order in council forbidding ordinary interments in the churchyard of St. Giles' Stoke Pages Buckinghamshire. The note recalls Gray's Elegy and identifies the peaceful spot as the hamlet churchyard.
A mother recalls her three children John Tom and Edith with Edith the baby learning fastest. John grumbles that Edith learns quickly because she has them and they did not have us. The joke hinges on a child's mispronunciation and family humor.
A Gainesville man recalls Governor Allen D. Candler of Georgia who switched from cigars to a pipe at the start of the year and kept the vow. He claimed he saved 208 dollars by the change, though the punchline asks where the money is.
The Christian Herald recounts Ramadan as a sacred month in which the Koran was revealed to men by Gabriel, Prophet Muhammad retired to the cave of Hira for prayer, and leading prophets received revelations. It notes open heavens, closed hell passages, and chained devils during this period.
A dialogue shows two doctors offering differing treatments and finally agreeing to a compromise by mixing the two approaches. The exchange highlights clinical disagreement and practical resolution in medical decision making.
A bus climbs Cumberland Gap and a rear door slams repeatedly. Passengers hush others and fear the mare on board, named Spake, who grows anxious as the door closes. An old dialect tale from Success Magazine notes the mare’s fears.
Excerpt recounts Sara Bernhardt's playful reply to compliments on her age, claiming she works constantly and is a great grandmother. She jokes about exaggerated praise and recalls Paris boulevard life, noting crowded streets and accidents, while a nurse escorts a boy who wants to view a road incident.
A conciliatory man tells a vindictive person not to call someone a pig in a dispute. The reply defends the insult, saying there is no value in implying the person is worth 40 cents a pound to anyone.
A sentimental observer asks Mr. Meekton if he felt nervous proposing to his wife. He says no but adds that foreseeing the next ten years would have changed his answer.
Mr. Sirius Barker favors his daughter receiving artistic education by singing. He dismisses art and literature as wasteful and believes singing offers a temporary atmospheric effect rather than lasting work.
Mrs Bossim speaks with her husband amid an earthquake at a hotel room. He recalls awakening to alarms and hazards as a vase, chair, books, and a framed picture strike him. He notes his first thought was of her, while she remains angry for the evening.
A new staining method for glass creates a pebble like surface after firing. The process colors the design in mineral pigments before firing at high heat, producing a soft mellowness in window lights. It claims novelty beyond known Venetian and Phoenician techniques.
A Howard Holmes reflection describes women on a train in full dress sharing apples and daguerreotypes while speaking loudly. He contrasts raucous chatter with sweeter voices and asserts honesty in his discourse, admitting fear at only two voices ever heard.
The trial on libel over a weekly critique of brain nutrition revealed expert disagreement on brain chemistry. It cites Geoghegan Beamis and Carey, noting Potassium Phosphate as central to brain matter and digestion and claiming food lacking it causes brain fatigue while nourishing foods support brain health.
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