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Newspaper
Perth Amboy Evening News
Location
Perth Amboy, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1908
Page
1
Ellen Stan extols simple waist styles for girls, favoring practical school and afternoon dresses in gingham and linen with matching collars, cuffs, belts, and hats. Describes Dutch collars, embroidery, and belt options, and invites readers to mail 10 cents for pattern number 4173 with size and address.
The article advises meticulous breakfast table care for hot weather with varied chief dishes. It lists cold ham, fried or broiled fish, eggs, scallops, croquettes, sardines on toast, cold tongue, and salads. It includes making croquettes from leftovers, quick warm dishes, hot onions with ham and rice, potted meat, and pickled fish as a breakfast option for summer mornings.
An excerpt from a July Woman's Home Companion column covers methods to keep ice water cold by insulating a pitcher with a crown-cover box and brown paper. It also discusses cooperative meals to save fuel, and mid‑summer hairdressing trends with flatter foreheads, wide sides, and chignons. Sleeves vary from trellis designs to angel drapes, with many styles showing the arm.
Population 30,000 located 23 miles from New York on Staten Island Sound at the Raritan River mouth and head of Raritan Bay. Ocean steamers reach 40 to 85 feet water. channel 21 feet at low water. Daily steamer service to New York. Four railroads Pennsy, Central of New Jersey, Lehigh Valley, Staten Island Rapid Transit with branches. telegraph and telephone services present. no electric light company. Two daily newspapers. library, grammar and high schools, colleges, and multiple parochial schools. Major industries include smelting, refining, copper works, steel, terra cotta, shipyards, cement, pottery, and chemicals. Address inquiries to Secretary Leon.
The text lists intersection names across multiple streets such as Market and First, Smith and High, New Bruns Ave and New St, and Buckingham Ave with Hartford St. It includes an alarm procedure directive urging to open a door pull the lever and stay at the box until firemen arrive. It also catalogs city offices and officials with party affiliations and meeting schedules, from mayor to board of assessors and water commissioners.
The piece argues that rains revived mosquitoes after a dry period, urging draining marshes and removing stagnant pools to curb breeding. It notes Prof. Smith's plan to drain wetlands or introduce fish to eat larvae and mentions public debate on weather effects and civic efforts. It also covers a light editorial aside about a governor’s plug hat and a call to make market day a big Perth Amboy event with local civic pointers.
A sale note advertises Men’s Fire Neglige Shirts and Monarch shirts in patterns with coat style and cuffs. It highlights special pricing and mentions Cluett shirts and other details, emphasizing value and fashion.
July 80 Social Swedish Congregational Church on Neville street lawn. July 81 Westminster Cadets drill in Presbyterian Chapel. Aug 2 Dan Relief Society excursion to Bellewood Park. Aug 11 Public Market Place opening at New Brunswick Ave and Fayette St. Aug 15 Court Standard No 111 picnic at W Excelsior Grove Maurer. Aug 16 Rhode Island Clambake at Excelsior Grove Maurer McClellan Engine Co. Aug 17 Germans Day at Loeser s Excelsior Grove. Aug 20 Annual Excursion under Simpson MV BH. Sunday School bury Park and Ocean Grove. Sept 7 Work Horse Parade under 8 P C A. Sept 7 Perth Amboy Aerie excursion Fraternal Order of Eagles. Sept 10 Trolley Ride Around Loop Keystone Athletic Club. Oct 29 Oriental Supper Ladies Auxiliary Simpson M E Church. Oct 29 30 Ladies Aid Society St Stephen s Dan iah Lutheran church. Nov 18 19 20 Fair Ladies Society First Presbyterian church in chapel.
A former American minister to the court of the mikado describes a Japanese garden with a central lake and a tiny island bearing miniature mountains, peach trees, pines, and azaleas. From a veranda angle the island appears vast, while annual care by master craftsmen keeps spring beauty for a wealthy owner with water lilies, lotuses, irises, and moss enhancing the scene.
Mercerized gingham makes a plain dressing sack collarless with a two inch white folded outline on opening fronts and sleeves. A card holder is formed from heavy cardboard as a triangle top receptacle for a ball of cord, with a hole bottom for cord exit, tied with baby ribbon. Leather is noted as highly useful for covering shirt waists.
A fragmentary note centers on a drummer in a band and a man who fights for his rights. The overheard lines evoke a terse exchange about cold facts and personal stance, framed in a terse newspaper-style moment.
The text advises using burlap for utility boxes and portieres, noting color harmony with room schemes enhances beauty and usefulness. Ends of boxes finished with linen braid in burlap color, secured by button tacks, purchasable from upholsterers or drapery departments. burlap offers an inexpensive yet attractive material option for portieres.
Women excel in decorative work and can profit as collectors of curios and antiques. While supply has declined nationwide and caution rises among cottage owners, skilled female discrimination remains valuable. Many households rely on a woman's artistic input to create beauty in the home.
The piece describes a woman who dwells on trifles while neglecting major issues. She cites fatigue from sewing and housework as excuses for not exercising or changing her weight. She laments other women’s pretty clothes but claims she lacks time for such frills due to family burdens.
A fragment discusses a woman convinced life harms her while she ignores agency, calling her a homemade martyr. It shifts to a home remedy for whooping cough using egg white sugar and tar oil, then pivots to fashion woes about new blouse fabric and undergarments and the feeling a new corset brings.
To clean vases and bottles use a handful of raw rice in warm soapsuds. Shake vigorously to scrub the interior. The rice polishes as it cleans, performing better than a shirt for this purpose.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a prisoner asks for more time and the judge contemplates granting a year. A light moment follows when a courtroom suggestion about a puppy is jokingly offered, eliciting surprised reactions from the occupants.
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