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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1916
Page
9
Fashion notes from 1916 survey cape popularity surges among society women. The peasant cane style cape, often lined in contrasting colors, leads over motor coats with a variety of fabrics including tulle satin and chiffon. Evening wraps in red and blue chiffon with marabou trim complete the look, while haute coiffure trends shift toward empire era-inspired styling.
The article asserts hands show age first and that manual laborers show older hands than the leisured. It advises special care after age thirty, focusing on the backs of the hands. Daily use of cold cream or olive oil is recommended, with benzoin tincture or lemon juice added to reduce yellowing.
A pretty blouse is described in handkerchief linen white with delicate color spots. Contrasting colored blouses suit silk tailored outfits. White georgette crepe with heavy color embroidery makes a fine blouse. The latest millinery trend features a transparent hat with under brim trimming. A card recipe cabinet proves convenient for a young house keeper. For picnics or long trips fold a bungalow apron over the lunch basket for easy serving.
A description of capes in silk fabrics shows rose pink and emerald green garments with distinct trims. One cape features a rose ostrich trim along a narrow collar edge, while another green cape uses three spaced rushes and a ruche collar.
A short folk remedy suggests buying five cents worth of tannin at a drug store and shaking a little into an empty powder box. Sprinkle tannin into your stocking every few days to ease burning feet and forget the discomfort.
The article notes fullness in fall models with a dark green broadcloth coat trimmed in darker velvet. The silhouette appears clearly defined and the accompanying hat matches the trimming with a small feather as a focal accessory.
An asbestos silence cloth offers better protection than felt or quilted versions. It safeguards table tops from hot dishes and spills, is waterproof and heat resistant, lintless, and finished with neat binding. Made in halves with three bound hinged sections, it folds compactly for storage.
A writer reflects on a rural district schoolteacher who urged students toward distant opportunities, inspiring rural exodus. She ignored local life, favoring city visions, while many youths later returned to farming. The piece urges valuing home horizons and the dignity of rural life.
A newly married couple laughs at a joke in the groom’s studio. The bride reveals she cooked that morning while the artist husband painted, and they both try to guess what the objects were meant for. The anecdote underscores playful domestic misunderstanding.
A prince dismisses a flat pancake-shaped shoe found at a ball as an unworthy memento. An attendant reports a lady left it behind, but the prince orders it thrown on the ash heap, declaring he will not seek the owner.
Mrs Styles asks about her daughter being backward and Mrs Myles replies yes. The plan is to pair the forward daughter with the backward one to balance behavior. The exchange highlights social labels and childrearing attitudes.
A playful exchange highlights unusual pitching feats and a rival boast about a sharp mouth strikeout. The dialogue contrasts ambidextrous pitching with a boast about verbal punchline accuracy, suggesting a local sports banter note.
A brief quip contrasts fare handling on railroads with boarding houses as a pointed humorous remark. The exchange underscores how circumstances alter viewpoints on charging for services in different settings.
A distressed woman ran through the corridors of a large railroad station. An officer asked what she sought and she replied she was looking for the entrance to the outside. The moment captured shows confusion and concern in a public transit hub.
The Boston Evening Transcript quotes a couple with a joke about naming a baby and the comment that more wives would respect husbands if they were not so well acquainted.
A Baltimore party touring on Sunday misread a hospital sign and found an inscription outside a prominent institution confusing. A quick-witted local explained the message meant to convey affection, not offense, saying the place was “crazy about you.”
A quip explains the difference by joking that a nautical mile is “knot.” The pun contrasts distance units tied to sailing with land miles, highlighting how nautical miles relate to navigation and latitude.
Castoria is a harmless substitute for castor oil and sedatives. It claims to soothe teething troubles relieve feverishness and diarrhea and aid digestion. It has featured the signature of Charles H. Fletcher and warns against counterfeit imitations saying genuine Castoria bears that signature.
A humorous aside in a religious service at an asylum ends with the keeper explaining one inmate has a rare lucid moment every seven years. The minister asks if he should stop speaking and the keeper replies to proceed.
When pimples blackheads redness or roughness appear smear the skin with Cuticura Ointment, wash with Cuticura Soap and hot water. These emollients help prevent pore clogging. Free sample by mail with Book. Address card to Cuticura Dept L Boston. Sold everywhere.
In a Muncie hotel lobby, the callboy tech speaks names Mr. Baker Carpenter Mason while two traveling salesmen nearby joke about trades conventions and propose their own names Brewer and Iceman, prompting a playful scene captured by the Indianapolis News.
A terse exchange shows Briggins agreeing with another speaker as a social tactic to signal that the other's views are not worth serious argument. The dialogue highlights implied condescension and social distance within a terse reproof.
A boy visits a neighbor in Hunting Park Avenue to report his father soldered a steamer to stop boiling over. He asks to borrow a step ladder to scrape rolled oats off the ceiling, as told by the Philadelphia Ledger.
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