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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1909
Page
8
A vintage guide presents a homemade music roll as a clever gift for a girl who sings or plays. It describes crafting a linen covered roll with embroidery, copper silk lining, and card end pieces, plus a plaited card handle. It also outlines a dressed table accessory handkerchief bag and a homemade brassiere project using grosgrain ribbon and featherbone.
The description outlines the cambine cut as short and low necked with feathering along seams, front closures, and waist cut two inches above. It praises a novelty suspender belt for Christmas, noting simple construction once purchased and detailing how the buttons and loops connect in the back.
The piece notes legal and social restraints on English peasants, mentioning a Duke banning poultry on his estate and tenant farmers forbidden to kill game. It contrasts this with fashion tips for suspender belts in blue silk and kid trimmings, suggesting lighter colors for wear and decorative ornaments.
Byron R Newton outlines how wings main planes and movable surfaces control lift pitch and roll in early aeroplane design. He notes rear rudders and front pull propellers and mentions the Wrights using wing warping to gain stability while pursuing patent infringement cases.
A Keokuk Gate City report cites a high tobacco prevalence among local men and boys. In four class years at Keokuk High, nonusers showed better academic performance than smokers. about eighty percent had started smoking before high school. Advertising for DeWitt’s liver pills and witch hazel salve is included.
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