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Newspaper
Pickens Sentinel
Location
Pickens, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
6
The article highlights holiday candle gifts for home use. It describes candles for lunch tables living rooms and dressing tables and notes electric lamps that imitate candles as a candy substitute. It covers glass candlesticks brass or mahogany holders and jeweled shades in silk paper and crepe with decorative bows and fabrics for dressing tables and tea cozies to keep tea hot.
The description details a decorative lamp and shade crafted from thin white cardboard and colored wax seals. A glass candlestick shade holder supports a paper shade with a rope lamp stand and bluebird decorations, tied by a ribbon and bow. An electric cord switch activates the light.
An attractive desk set for either sex uses a heavy paper crate and a oblong Teasy colored paper pad. Pockets are created from paper with edges folded over and pasted, while blotters use colored paper and ribbon. A suit round piece is formed similarly with circular pieces and a bow.
A reader describes an easy tea cozy project for Grandma Whit using printed Japanese silk or cretonne. The pattern uses four outside fabric sections and four inner pieces, forming a warm cover for large teapots with minimal material and effort.
A humorous feature details two novel male pincushions from a dressing table display. One shows a pink satin heart with a kewpie soldier and ribbon pins. the other a cork pin-tree on a meat skewer in a wooden bucket with colored head pins.
There are bags for everything this Christmas including vanity opera and shopping bags crafted from rich brocades ribbons and metallic laces. A party bag shown features platino ribbon and corded seams with silk lining and top fastened by narrow eatin ribbon.
The third annual Baptist hospital report credits Louis J. Bristow with major improvements and a reduced debt from over 16000 to just over 2000. It notes 1597 admissions with a 2 percent death rate, over 63000 in yearly business, and new facilities including X ray equipment a renovated heating plant and a maternity ward fund started by C K Henderson with 1000 dollars.
State chief game warden A. A. Richardson reported that wardens across South Carolina found Thanksgiving violations and accidents to be few. Twenty three minor offenses were recorded and two accidents occurred, including a boy from Pickens county accidentally shot in the leg and J. Rey Todd accidentally wounded.
Construction of the Hamilton Carhartt cotton mill on the Carhartt plantation four miles from Rock Hill is progressing rapidly.
Orangeburg and York counties report new cream route setups and a $12000 Anderson cooperative capital. Aged Confederate veteran Dr William abter Smith dies in Glenn Springs. Chester mills invest in worker benefits and new community facilities with baths and reading rooms. Union appoints ik Howze as Mason County master. R Williams resigns as clerk of court. Fairey Drug Co of St Matthews receives a $3000 charter. Cynthia Barnett dies from fatal burns at Kethel, York County. Manning attends boll weevil talks. Marie Jenkins wins York pig club prize. Governor Manning’s fire insurance inquiry panel to meet in Columbia December 18. Pamlico votes to incorporate. Columbia Press plant burns, $200000 loss.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines how harvest care and proper storage reduce rot and losses. It covers digging maturity, gentle handling, rough field sorting, and avoiding sacks, plus building or using crates and bins with ventilation and disinfected receptacles. Temperature curing starts at 80 to 100 degrees then cools to 55 degrees with ventilator management and careful opening in warm weather.
Agricultural note from Mississippi and Texas stations promotes silage as a cheap succulent feed, calling it “canned pasture.” It cites higher milk and butterfat yields with silage, lower waste, and better land use, while urging supplementary high protein feeds like alfalfa hay and cottonseed meal for a complete ration.
The article notes continued strength in demand for medium and heavy draft horses and mules despite the growing use of automobiles. It cites Mexico where the army relies increasingly on mules and ante trucks to support logistics, reflecting a shift toward durable animal power.
Lime is essential to upbuilding American farms along with good seed and teams. Farmers need time to grow soil building crops to improve humus and moisture storage, leading to heavier yields and greater profits.
An odd ad fragment touts Noah Webster at seventy and a nonsensical claim about a diction ary and a laxative product Hromo Quinine. It mentions warnings about nervousness and head sensations and hints at a Roman Eye Balsam for sleepy eyes and strain, with a signature line and product references.
The text argues that excessive wealth creates a burden to find wants. The rich retreat from society by building estates, multiple mansions, private yachts, or private orchestras. Such anti social displays, though magnificent, feel silly and hollow to the weary financier.
The Ohio State Journal notes the slinky figure will define the season's style and jokes that a fashionable matron of about forty two will soon confront the challenge of where to place herself when donning her new own.
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