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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1908
Page
3
The News requests donations to The News National Campaign Fund via bank check or mail to Prescott Ark. Acknowledgment of receipt is promised promptly.
Weather good and health fine as Sutton reports a busy week. Prof. B H Davidson assumed as principal while Miss Hattie May Blake assists. A picnic featured an education address by H B McKenzie, a Woodcraft talk by G R Haynie, temperance remarks by Rev Jackson, and a Sutton Bodcaw baseball win nine to three.
A monthly summary shows good attendance and strong teacher effort at Brescott schools. The report urges parental cooperation, self government, punctuality, and a contest offering a half holiday for perfect grades, followed by detailed tardy and excused totals by grade.
The blouse of this jaunty suit is adaptable to serge flannel pique duck or heavy linen. Navy style with seamless shoulders and over the head slip. Removable white linen shield left sleeve embroidered in colors. lie of black silk. Knickerbockers gathered at knees with elastic. Five sizes four to twelve years. Pattern requires specific yardage by width. Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with name address size and pattern number.
In a playful exchange a girl teases about color blind spectators at a boat race. Kitty notes a rival club emblem on an observer and jokes that the wearer cannot tell colors, prompting Tommy’s amused reply.
Italian journalist M Capponi recalls meeting Victor Hugo on the writer’s eightieth birthday. Hugo received the foreign press in a throne like chair, smiling as Capponi praised him as the greatest lying poet and living author, and Hugo gently affirmed the sentiment.
A geologist explains so called vegetable stones found in plants. Tabasheer forms in bamboo joints. coconut stones occur in Javanese coconuts. pearly stones in pomegranate are carbonate of lime. These calcite and silica deposits arise from diseased plant juices and can cause human stone growths if not removed.
A reflective menu piece describes household dieting and dining woes with a protest against restricted foods for all family members. It critiques formal and informal entertaining, hints at table etiquette, and offers a recipe for fresh currant bread along with a sample luncheon menu including squab and croquettes.
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