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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1908
Page
7
The article notes braid has returned to fashion after decades, appearing on summer dresses from silk to lace trimmed garments. It urges careful technique for flat braiding, shrinking wash braids before application and offers patterns to create circular or square braided motifs on skirts and bodices.
The article previews charming separate coats in pongee silk and cloth for summer wear with light dresses. It emphasizes versatile, mostly untrimmed designs with few braids or buttons, and details how fullness from shoulder plaits flatters both stout and slender figures.
The piece notes fine panama hats and fancy straw options for summer wear. White duck sailor-brim hats become smart with light woolens and white designs, trimmed with white silk bands or satin ribbon twists, while pale ribbons appear but white remains preferred.
A brief item recommends corset covers cut low at the neck with sleeves ripped out and edged with lace and beading, plus mending under the arms. It also urges daily outdoor exercise as air is essential for health.
A simple concrete outdoor cellar built under a water pump cools by windmill water flow. It suits dairymen without ice, enables easy pipe repairs, and doubles as a storm cave in the west and southwest. Construction uses reinforced concrete six inches thick, with steel rods, stairs, and a total cost around fifty dollars.
The transition from whole to skim milk for calves should be gradual by withholding increasing amounts of milk daily and adding an equal or greater amount of skim milk. Linseed meal or oil meal supplies fat. feed more if using flax. Sometimes mixed into milk or meat, sometimes as a jelly, warmed to aid digestion. Professor Thomas Shaw notes digestion limits govern amounts.
The piece emphasizes dairy as a profitable farming pursuit and warns against feeding dusty hay to cows before milking. It outlines common butter faults and explains a method to separate butter from buttermilk using a cheesecloth lined crock, yielding clean butter ready for storage.
A farmer finds his dairy herd of fifteen gave less milk after a temporary keeper abused the animals for flies. He watched the man mistreat the cows, discovered the cause, and replaced him. The new handler restored normal milk production.
Prairie Farmer suggests using a two by four cut as a triangle shaped lock. Bolt the piece at the acute angle to the stanchion side three inches above the top rail, notch the rail 1.5 inches deep, and the stanchion when closed will drop the piece into the notch to secure it.
The article advises using fine salt rather than coarse salt for market quality. It stresses even distribution through butter to command prices, recommending salting during churn, preferably before the butter is taken from the churn and when granules form.
Mrs. T. C. Willadsen of Manning writes that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound saved her life after years of female trouble and costly treatments. She praises the remedy, urges others to try it, and notes she followed the advice and regained health. The advertisement promotes the product as a standard affordable cure for numerous female ailments and invites letters to Lynn Massachusetts for advice.
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