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Newspaper
Potosi Journal
Location
Potosi, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1909
Page
3
A home gathering showcases guests sharing personal hobbies from Sevres plates and anniversary cups to monogrammed towels, books, prints, and Chinese pottery. The event emphasizes sociability around crafted amusements, fudge making, and playful games involving balls and door tricks to pair participants.
Four girls and four lads gathered for a Saturday night event. The boys wore aprons while the girls guided them through fudge making amid much merriment, sharing chafing dish, kitchen tasks, and friendly instruction.
A midcentury hostess guide shows red geraniums as the exclusive luncheon decor for city and country hosts. It suggests a large glass bowl of scarlet blooms with green leaves, red candles, white place cards with red geranium, and a white gown with a red belt. Menu includes cherry cocktail, tomato bouillon, salmon croquettes, beet salad, raspberry sherbet, and red iced cakes with matching cream patties.
A foldable envelope style linen or cambric serviette holder, sized to fit a serviette for a week of meals, features drawn thread edge hem, a pocket end, and a flap with open hole embroidery. It can be adapted to a washing glove or handkerchief case, using the same design and embroidery.
Morning wear features cavalier hats and low oxford shoes with pumps deemed smart. Pongee serges offer a lovely texture while cotton flowers charm hats more than silk. Chiffon scarfs with spangied medallion borders glow in brilliant colors. Black suede shoes appear smart yet smudge easily. crossbar dimity gains praise for being fine dainty and inexpensive.
The newest shoes for the Parisian elegantes are the low shoes new to Paris. Parisian stockings with these shoes feature large transparent squares. Novel colors include brick violet and peacock blue. Some wear linen shoes with linen gowns, matching dress colors. Metallic tissues like silver gold and copper make elegant evening slippers.
Advice to refresh a worn black chip hat from last summer. Brush off dust then rub lightly with soft silk dipped in olive oil. Wipe dry and store away from dust until the oil is absorbed.
The narrator, Mr. Flickerton, muses on how age slips past unnoticed in people we see daily. We misjudge others ages by long familiarity, believing friends to stay the same as years pass, while self perception often ignores our own aging despite visible changes. Providence has many kind ways.
The Paris League Against Excess of Aviation warns planes threaten crops birds and architecture and proposes rules. It calls for a maximum speed of 20 miles an hour, bans land descents on military or cultivated land, and taxes aircraft at one tenth of a penny per square centimeter of surface.
A boastful exchange in which one man challenges another over Africa hunting claims. The critiqued hunter notes he never said Africa and lions, only wolves in Montana, as a prank is planned to prove him wrong.
A stern office boss questions Johnny about smoking and demands a cigarette, prompting Johnny to stammer that he barely smokes as tension rises in the office scene reported by the St Paul Dispatch.
Mrs. Wesley Clemens of Manchester Iowa describes constant sewing work causing kidney trouble and back pain. She reports relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills, claiming improvement in a short time until completely free from her trouble. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box.
A Bohemian Magazine excerpt recalls a Yale faculty incident where a fast student faces misconduct scrutiny. Professor Ladd seeks positive identification of the man, while Wheeler questions identifying the woman involved, illustrating cautious, high‑minded review over dismissal.
A Yukon Kansas parent describes a two year old suffering a severe rash with blistering and intense itching for three months. After medical care failed a cure came from Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with no relapse for over two years. Dated September 17, 1965. Potter Drug & Chess Corp. Sole Props Boston.
Prominent women including Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt Mrs. Keith Spalding Collis P. Huntington and Mrs. Borden Harriman contribute large sums to anti tuberculosis efforts. Mrs Albert Norton Wood in Porto Rico directs a crusade for tuberculosis relief. Mme Emma Calve and Miss Olga Nethersole also support and lecture on tuberculosis issues.
Important to Mothers urges careful examination of every bottle of Castoria to ensure it is a safe and reliable remedy for infants and children, emphasizing proper selection and usage for young patients.
Joke dialogue about a sculptor ending his affairs in a formal, businesslike state. The artist’s situation is described as in statu quo, reflecting a pun on professional discipline and completion. No real person or event is named.
An ad page riffs on musical passion and price scales for Chamberlain and other brands. It praises 10c Pure Extracta and Pure Phosphate Baking Powder as pure, unadulterated with U S Government endorsement, notes availability through F B Chamberlain Co St Louis and Howard Bros Buffalo. Also promotes Pettits Eye Salve 25c and Lewis Single Binder cigars with casual domestic humor.
Rev John Henri Sattig of St Philip s Dyker Heights Brooklyn relays a Milford Pa tale of a neglected graveyard where only one mound is cared for. A butcher boy visits daily for six years after the man who died gave him kindness, tending the grave in all seasons.
The Washington Post quotes Merrill E. Gates, secretary of the board of Indian commissioners, praising sanitation progress to curb tuberculosIs among Indians. He argues education is needed for the tribe, while anecdotes about an old farmer and bacon illustrate attitudes of the era.
An Englishman named Pthorne and an American travel anecdote highlight linguistic quirks. The ad extols Allen's Foot-Ease as a century old, trusted powder for clean, healing feet with over 30 000 testimonials. Congress allocated 12 009 dollars to Indian affairs to investigate and treat trachoma and curb its spread among Indians.
At a Chicago baseball game gatekeeper tells Comiskey an umpire named Hurst is present with two friends. Comiskey reacts with surprise then agrees to admit them. This anecdote appears in Every body's Magazine.
A Washington Star quip notes Mr Stormington Barnes seeks the spotlight. An ad praises Marine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago claims relief for tired eyes and states it is non irritant. Hamkins Wizard Oil boasts fifty years public trust. Uncle Josh quips about Turkish cigarette smoke and the Lewis’ Single Binder cigar ad warns of imitations.
A man ties money to meals while a woman spends for adornment as a glittering engagement ring signals a social milestone.
An orchestral dinner scene in Denver Calif during the Democratic national convention ends with a tense moment as a Tammany man comments on a woman at a nearby table. The husband introduces himself and the potential conflict is defused with a casual greeting.
A historical treatise argues that unquestioning obedience builds power and responsibility. It claims successful leaders are those who do not argue or respectfully push back, but who execute commands without question. The piece extols the large man who recognizes superior authority and follows orders.
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