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Newspaper
Perth Amboy Evening News
Location
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1908
Page
2
Ellen Stan outlines tailored lingerie and overblouse waists shaping wardrobes. Tailored shirts suit morning wear and under jumpers. lingerie waists feature embroidery in old rose hues with lace or satin bows. Simpler lace free waists use fine tucks and beading. Readers can order pattern 28956 for 10 cents.
A fashionable girl considers abandoning her pongee wrap admired for its embroidery. She wears a long black narrow band from Chinatown as a trim, but at a laundry she learns the joke is the embroidery, with a Chinese man noting its use for holding up trousers.
A girl with many engagements sets a fixed telephone hour so friends can reach her. She calls the maid to relay where she may be reached if she is away. The plan works well and she would not return to haphazard plans.
Perth Amboy sits on the Staten Island Sound at the mouth of the Raritan River, 23 miles from New York, with 30,000 residents and a 1.72 tax rate. It boasts daily steamer service to New York, four railroads, two telegraph and two telephone firms, two electric light companies, a public library, ten grammar schools and one high school, multiple parochial schools, a city hospital, and municipal water works. The city supports extensive industry including smelters, copper works, asphalt plants, cement works, shipyards, glass and ceramic works, and numerous factories, making it a major trolley hub with rich quarry and clay deposits nearby.
A fragmented list names fire alarm boxes with cross streets in New Brunswick as well as city officials and department heads. It includes box locations on Washington First Streets Elm Street and others, and provides emergency signals and contact duties. Official titles span mayor aldermen police chief fire head health officer board members and city departments with meeting times.
Atlantic City is urged to study Long Branch and Asbury Park as warnings and examples. Long Branch’s collapse followed open vice and lawbreaking, while Asbury Park remains steady with lawful growth. The piece argues that permanent cities rest on law and order, not reckless prosperity.
Aug 9 Clam Steam Young Men's Club Union Grove expect gathering. Aug 11 Public Market Place opens at New Brunswick Ave and Fayette St. Aug 15 Court Standard No 111 picnic Excelsior Grove. Aug 16 Picnic and Basket Party Thor Lodge Danish Brotherhood. Aug 16 Rhode Island Clambake at Excelsior Grove Maurer McClellan Engine Co. Aug 17 Germans Layt Loeser Excelsior Grove. Aug 20 Annual Excursion Sun day School to Asbury Park Ocean Grove. Sept 7 Work Horse Parade under A of 8 P C A. Sept 7 Excursion Perth Amboy Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles. Sept 10 Trolley Ride Around Loop Keystone Athletic Club. Oct 29 Oriental Supper Ladies Auxiliary Simpson M B Church. Oct 29 30 Ladies Aid Society St Stephen Danish Lutheran church. Nov 18 19 20 Fair Ladies Society First Presbyterian church in chapel.
A summer decor feature highlights grass linen curtain loops in white on colored grounds. Embroidered loops range from narrow to wide, with ready embroidered strips and home projects. Shaped designs use flowers like apple cherry blossoms or wistaria. Antique supports revived in cretonne and colored glass or crystal imitate old rosettes for country homes.
A fragmented note hints at upcoming oyster lovers’ wait of 28 days, while a mock ad line promises “good news” for burers. It mentions Perth Amboy’s 60 men willing to seek public office and riffs on cruise crews and hurried meals before departures. The piece reads like a mosaic of quirky phrases and local references.
Dorothy Dale interviews Mrs Bryan about her life at Fairview Lincoln highlighting her poised, gracious nature and her home. She plans a sunlit red brick house with an alfalfa grounds, a curving sun reflecting porch, bamboo furniture, and art filled interiors while a watchful servant deters visitors. The piece portrays a composed, influential figure managing home and public life with quiet authority.
A humorous toast recalls Eden and Adam tending the garden until Eve is bitten by a snake after a mistaken bite of the forbidden fruit. The verse plays on phrases about desire and temptation with rustic dialect.
The piece advises weekly remedies for weakly children including good diet and cod liver oil or malt. It cites regular living, deep breathing, and nutritious foods as cures for dark circles. A cream of egg white, tanolin, cocoa butter and camphor is suggested for facial contour issues and nose wideness.
A collage of old advice urges dampening hair with bay rum to hold curls, suggests daily ten minute dance for flexibility, advocates home made mucilage as a substitute for plasters, and notes aphorisms on polite talk. It ends with a quirky rule about balloon ascents in Vienna and a moral call to love.
A humorous dialogue about letters from a wife, a life sentence pun, and misheard lines. The piece weaves quick gags with wordplay and social quips, featuring nameless characters and brisk, playful exchanges.
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