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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
3
A hostess hosts a candlelit tea for a dozen elderly women with lace sprigs on sticks as nosegays. The event features old time songs, fancy work, a simple menu, and a playful program proposing topics for discussion and a “stunt party” with songs, stories, or acts.
The article recalls Twelfth Night on January sixth marking the end of Christmas celebrations. It describes Lord of Misrule and the burning of Christmas greens to ward off spirits, and suggests hosting ideas including an oyster supper, hot cheese sandwiches, and a mystery cake with two beans crowning a king and queen for the evening authority.
At a church social guests shared three minute talks on a postcard of interest. Invitations used church postcards. Judges awarded a post card album to the person with the most interesting story. The table displayed the cards and the cards moved from around the world to a quiet home.
Readers note fashion favors rough plaid silk or felt hats as a pleasing refinement. The texture pairing brings a distinctive look to headwear, appealing to those seeking subtle luxury and tactile interest in their wardrobe.
A step by step guide to making a decorative table mat from cut leather. It covers pattern transfer on Manila paper, pinning, tracing, cutting with a sharp knife, and assembling with velvet and satin backing. It notes suede calfskin as a preferred leather and cites cost around 35 to 45 cents per square foot.
A fragment discusses Milan lace used as collar and cuffs, silks and muslins in scarves, and a cloudy black chiffon dinner gown spangled in gold. It notes fashionable Derk tomes, a kilted skirt with a plain yoke, and a light colored silk hat with black Chantilly lace and a velvet bow for white gauze gowns.
A fragment describes narrow gleaming silver ribbons sprinkled with misty silver spangles, suggesting a decorative or festive textile motif without clear context or identifiable subjects.
Mil linings and dressmakers will favor vivid tones this season. Hats will blaze with color especially fiery reds. Whole hats may be red but most should use scarlet sparingly. Red appears as crowns cockades short tips velvet bands and flat pump bows on hats.
The article notes that large beaded decorations appear on gowns wraps gloves and opera bags and even stockings. It says women with leisure time can design bead patterns and purchase beads in large boxes of all colors at low prices.
A man wakes at a white gate and is confronted by St Peter, who reveals the man's crimes in ice and coal price gouging. Denied entry, the guardian hints at a role in a harsher land where demand for ice is higher. The man awakens to the reality that business is business.
Amid joyous demonstrations from local mothers Camille Favre was guillotined in Saintes after being convicted of murdering a six year old girl. In life he cared for sparrows in the prison courtyard and asked for six of them for his final meal before the next day’s execution.
A young man asks which is which while Isabel, not yet a teen, acts as mother to a two year old. She answers with dignity and identifies herself as Isabel, then continues caring for the baby, deftly handling the social miscue.
In Hyde England a bonfire celebration on Guy Fawkes day yielded a cache of over a hundred old English sovereigns. A lady and youths unwrapped two mouldy mattresses, which split open releasing the coins. A wild scramble followed as police sought any owner, but none could be traced.
The iron screw steamer Sarah Sands carrying 300 soldiers sailed from Portsmouth to Calcutta in August 1857. Fire aboard on November 11 damaged cargo and a gunpowder barrel exploded, but Maj. Brett and Capt. Castle led efforts to subdue the flames. A strong gale caused flooding near the blown port quarter, yet the vessel reached Mauritius on November 21 with no loss of life.
A Baltimore American humorous dialogue notes a father telling his son to take up a calling. The son, literal minded, interprets it literally and lands a job as a theater carriage mega phone announcer.
A brief quotation contrasts gender behavior, stating women are worse when bad, but avoiding countable praise of men. The line attributes the sentiment to Geo. Elliott &. C., reflecting a dated social remark.
The piece extols Central Canada Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta as fertile homesteads where 160 acres can yield 20 to 30 bushels per acre, with higher results and strong rail links. It notes rapid town building along Grand Trunk Pacific, government support for schools and churches, and urges readers to consider Canadian homesteading to join a growing agricultural frontier. It contends Canada will soon supply wheat to the United States.
A traveler asks a peasant if a Scottish bog is hard at the bottom. The lad says yes. The horse sinks into the mire. The traveler curses the boy, who then joyfully explains the bog is hard but the rider is not yet there.
The dialogue notes Depend’s remark about Charley’s wife and a joking reply. A cheerful person who borrows everything but trouble is described. Lewis' Single Binder is praised as a mellow cigar for the smoker. A line on trading money for experience suggests a difficult lesson about value and robbery.
A fragmentary ad describes Allen's Lang Balsam as a remedy for coughs and mentions bottles and dealerage in a dated, promotional tone. A separate line notes a woman's dislike of jealousy compared with making others jealous.
A humorous exchange where Applicant asks if heavy work is required, Mr Jigge replies that his wife always makes the biscuit, suggesting domestic labor shifts rather than office duties. The men trade a lighthearted line about who handles heavy tasks and baking.
An old advertisement promises a “most effective” cough prescription with cherry bark and pine syrup, claiming rapid cure for acute coughs and bronchitis. A separate anecdote recalls a clergyman riding in a smoking compartment who playfully asks the other passenger if he would object to him smoking, after lighting his own pipe.
A colonial era anecdote recalls a rector in Eltham asking a visitor in uniform who he was. The officer replies he is the recaiting officer of the Sixteenth Foot and seeks introductions to clergy and gentry. The piece also notes Japanese sleeping directions tied to burial customs and a ceiling compass diagram in homes and hotels.
Instructional note describes using Rough on Rats poison in outbuildings by mixing with food, placing on boards under openings large enough for dogs or chickens to enter while leaving small gaps for rats, claimed to clear infestations in one or two doses. Mentions E. S. O Wells druggist in Jersey City.
A courtroom quip has the defendant deny stealing the doctor’s watch. He explains he found himself in a desperate quandary because the doctor’s prescription read a spoonful every hour and he had no timepiece. The judge remains unimpressed by the humorous twist.
A jumble of testimonial quips and lighthearted ad lines appears, including a Cleveland doctor praising Angt Rerinol, gibe about lace curtains and a front door ritual, plus gag exchanges and salesman pitches. The clipping blends jokes, product notes, and playful chatter with an undercurrent of business offers.
A witty exchange notes a woman's travel and a curiously shaped panatella. The quip plays on Kipling’s line about a woman and a cigar, contrasting it with a humorous compliment about her form.
An advertisement touts Detchon's Relief for Rheumatism as quickly easing severe pain. It promises first dose benefit within hours and notes doctors' sarcasm when disagreeing. The copy includes various quips and claims about cures and morals.
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