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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1910
Page
7
The article outlines summer dress trends featuring one piece and princess gowns, flounced skirts, and front fastening wash gowns. It highlights lingerie gowns in handkerchief linen and lawn, lace trims, and hand embroidery, with options for medallions, panels, and high girdles.
A spring coat design features a versatile pattern drafted in cloth satin and adaptable to silk pongee and crepe de chine. The green suit with black trim suits many figures and emphasizes approachable fashion over slenderness, paired with a green crepe de chine blouse, ecru lace, and a black straw hat with velvet band and ostrich plume.
A new silk Princess slip features a separate 18 inch ruffled flounce of China silk or batistes with a top band and buttonholes to fasten to the slip. The detachable design aims to cut laundry costs by letting the slip be laundered less often while serving as both plain and fancy flounces.
Instructions describe making scented sachets to protect notes, goods and clothes. For note paper mix starch and arms root with attar of roses. for goods blend cloves caravan seeds allspice dried rose leaves and salt. for clothes pulverize cloves cedar and rhubarb to scent and deter moths.
A playful note describes a diner who set an Italian record by consuming a mile of spaghetti in three minutes and a half, likening the feat to a table d hote challenge.
From French Beauty Monthly and attributed to M Fournier a French scientist the piece advises against washing hair frequently and promotes a dry powder shampoo using four ounces of orris root and four ounces of box powder applied every two to three days to keep hair light fluffy and allegedly stimulate growth It claims moisture fades color and makes hair thin and asserts the given formula uniquely yields results
A Bermudian passenger recalls a Valentine Day quip about a suitor who accepts both yes and no with equal grace. Mark Twain cited an Irish wooer asking for a valentine on February 14, only to be told the beloved belonged to another. He sighs wishing she were twins to have at least half of her.
A 100 year old eye salve first sold in 1807 by Howard Bros Buffalo NY shows annual sales growth as a wonderful remedy curing millions with all druggists carrying it. The ad notes Waterman’s Ideal Fountain Pen for census takers and urges neglect of cough with Allen’s Lung Balsam available at druggists.
A collage of old product pitches and wry maxims. Notes include Bromo Quinine cure claims, Cordelia teething syrup, Mrs Winslow’s Syrup for teething, Lewis’ Single Binder cigars, Dr Detchon’s Relief for Rheumatism, and various proverbs about wives and brothers.
Two unsolicited letters praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female illnesses. Mrs Ella E Askey of Cresson Pa describes healing after a fall and years of worsening symptoms. Mrs Sarah Leighton of Baird Wash claims kidney and female health issues resolved after use.
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