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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1924
Page
10
A fashion note from the New York Times describes new girl dress ideas emphasizing simple, hardy designs inspired by grown-up trends. It highlights wash fabrics, Paris models reproduced in New York, silks and shot silks, taffetas, crepes, voiles, plaids, and plaiting as key features for juniors and misses, with looser fits and minimal trimming.
The article discusses fashionable girls evening wear focusing on a refined fif teen dress. An underdress of flesh pink crepe de chine is layered with silk lace cobweb mesh and a Dresden color floral embroidery edge. A five inch ribbon band and entre deux panels shape the decollete bodice, with ribbon straps and matching accessories.
Fashion notes describe colors like yellow green Chinese blue and lacquer red as dominant in styles. Red tones appear as brilliant lining accents with outer fabrics cut to reveal eyelet like openings and sprays of color.
A small floor cushion covered with intricate needlework in a fascinating old fashioned design, low enough and compact enough to be highly serviceable.
The new Farmers' Bulletin No. 1394 Watermelons outlines handling from planting to shipping. It warns against rapid acreage expansion, stresses soil rotation, careful thinning, ripeness timing, and clean car shipping to protect profits and quality.
Agriculture advisory notes that a 2 percent oil emulsion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture helps control the San Jose scale. Water hardness can cause oil separation. test with a pint sample and adjust with a weak Bordeaux mixture using bluestone and lime.
The text explains crowding in brooders comes from insufficient heat and chicks huddling when cold. It notes fright from lanterns or sudden disturbances worsens huddling and stresses keeping the brood-er warm and avoiding unsettling movements to prevent stress in young chicks.
Breeding pure breds and selecting vigor from a flock improves vitality. Mating hens with exceptionally vigorous cockerels yields stronger offspring and better results overall.
Guidance on alfalfa hay cutting timing when blooms appear or shoots emerge. Use a shoe on the mower to avoid damage. Wilt in the swath briefly, then rake and windrow to cure. Sun exposure risks brittle leaves and unsafe baling unless leaves cure with stems. Leaves provide about 60 percent of feeding value when properly cured.
A historical brief notes spontaneous combustion risks tied to curing practices. It warns that improper storage could ignite the area, stressing careful curing to prevent fires and protect the premises.
Weeds steal soil nutrients and moisture, urging farmers to plant corn every ten days for a succession of roasting ears. A homelike home differs from a homely one, and shrubs can convert the second into the first. The typewriter is a useful farm tool, providing carbon copies of business letters. With prices high, a well kept garden promises returns next summer even if no sale is made.
Greenville Texas woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending monthly cramps headaches and nervous exhaustion after years of suffering. The testimonial notes relief from feminine troubles and urges sale by druggists nationwide.
A witty exchange in College Humor features a medical examiner commenting on angina and a quip about a name mix up, highlighting campus satire and misdirection in a humorous dialogue.
A brief mismatch as a man seeks employment responds he is not a mechanic but a McCarthy in a Boston Transcript item. The exchange highlights avocational misfit in a job advertisement vignette in a humorous archival clipping.
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