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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
3
A 1920s style forecast explores fall and winter coats and suits with long dignified silhouettes, wide sleeves with fur trim, and diverse collars from chin to tuxedo. Fur trims in sable and beaver accompany embroidery while skirts remain at shoe top length, with the Russian blouse popular among fashion followers.
A guide describes how to fashion appealing wax beads and jewelry from colored sealing wax. It details simple tools and steps to create necklaces, girdles, medallions, and decorative pieces using a steel needle, knife, alcohol lamp, and wax, with careful heating and shaping to achieve varied colors and finishes.
A compact note outlines methods to treat stains and rust on fabrics. It recommends alcohol for iodine or grease, oxalic acid followed by borax water for iron rust, and leaving peach or pear stains to set on snow before oxalic acid rinse. It also mentions borax or ammonia water as rinses.
Elkhart Mayor W E Wider and nine councilmen appeal to the state board of tax commissioners to cut the school levy from 1.34 to a lower rate, arguing economy in education and noting the levy would raise about 475000. The board cites deficits and salary increases as reasons for the current request.
A Chicago reader credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing a female trouble after doctors advised surgery. Vermont and Burlington testimonials follow praising relief and improved ability to work. The piece notes many patients avoid operations with the remedy and invites requests for a free private text on women’s ailments.
Cincinnati has spent $300,000 on a city hospital touted as pleasant to be sick. A Boston Transcript editorial jokes about a cheap summer vacation by going to Cincinnati and falling ill, implying the city’s hospital as a humorous travel risk.
The remark notes that regardless of a house’s impressive façade the surrounding space behind is limited to a narrow yard.
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