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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
6
The article urges choosing eton jackets for versatile, flattering lines and practical warmth, noting their enduring popularity and easy wear over lingerie dresses. It also reviews mandarin, kimono, and tokio sleeve trends, advises on coats like Chesterfield and three-quarter lengths, and suggests fabrics, linings, and sewing tips for home sewers.
Readers may craft a small hair net case with two purse like pockets to hold about six nets. Made of colored linen or silk and edged with stitching, it fastens with buttons. Embroider “Hair nets” to personalize. Cardboard stiffens sides and top for shape, useful on holidays.
A modiste notes mourning women face indecision about proper attire. After long black wear, many seek cheer in color, but proprieties apply. The guide lists allowed jewelry: gold pieces, jet, silver, gun metal, gold antiques, and uncolored stone adornments.
A brief note states diamonds and pearls remain suitable for all but the deepest mourning, and for second mourning violet enamel jewelry is now deemed appropriate, signaling a subtle shift in mourning attire norms.
Paris reports favor deep blues and wine strawberry hues with guimpe and princesse gowns. Sleeves trend wide kimono shapes, trimmed skirts grow plain while blouses gain emphasis, fabrics turn to sheer materials with contrasting hems and linen dominates coats and net dresses in late summer ensembles.
Crescent and horseshoe brooches studded with rhinestones lead in popularity for day and evening wear. Plain gold filled brooches feature the hoot fleny delis and four-leaf clover as favorites. Music and enamored breastpins appeal, while delicate floral pins in green chamel and pearl violet designs with diamond centers suit summer gowns.
James R. Keeler of Cazenovia New York recounts fifteen years of back and kidney pain. He reports relief from the first box of Doan's Kidney Pills and full recovery after two boxes. He notes his wife and friends also benefited and recommends the product. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY
A humorous dialogue recounts Kidder’s mock remorse after discovering his best girl wed someone else. The twist reveals he himself married her, sparking comic gouache as Bidder claims the punchline and cigars are on him.
A gossiping fragment notes a rift in the Newed family with the bride possibly returning to her mother. The tale claims a supper from her cooking school recipes triggered tensions, as boys once used a biscuit to finish a ball game after losing a ball in a fence hole.
James Wilson, secretary of agriculture, discusses aid to farmers and future cheap, abundant products. He cites darum wheat, wheat-testing machine, and potash extraction from granite as examples. A story of a bootblack craving fruit underscores economic hopes for affordable produce.
In a 1905 letter from Fairmont Walden's Ridge Tennessee Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas recounts using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills to treat a child with stubborn eczema and later another case of poison oak. She credits rapid healing and no relapse after abandoning a physician’s prescription.
The Framingham national bank has received for redemption a June 12, 1854 note from the old Framingham bank, predecessor to the present institution. The note is described as crisp and clean and will be kept as a keepsake by the bank.
The dialogue describes mercenaries binding captives with a cement that contracts as it hardens. A contrasting anecdote about a bathing suit shrinking adds a sharp, ironic parallel to discomfort and constraint.
A committee member questions the placement of a joker at the end of the numbers in the entertainment program, while another member defends the tail end choice as natural.
A London burglar, arrested after a spree, laments his aging and recalls he once could rob twenty houses in two hours. He says he is getting old as authorities detail the failed break in.
A short aphoristic note cites Goldsmith on riches bringing anxiety and new troubles, followed by Helps urging kind words to arrive at opportune moments. The pair reflects moral reflections and social conduct advice common in late 19th or early 20th century newspaper miscellany.
A South Dakota woman details years of nervous twitching and sleepless nights tied to coffee. After switching to Postum Food Coffee, her symptoms vanished and she sleeps peacefully with heavy bedding. She endorses Postum as worth its weight in gold and recommends the health classic The Road to Wellville.
The article notes Circassian communities in the Caucasus raising daughters to be sold into harems under Turkish and Persian rulers. It claims such practice makes Circassian beauties famous in orient harems rather than at home.
The sperm whale can stay submerged for about 20 minutes before surfacing to breathe 50 or 60 times, a process taking roughly ten minutes.
Advertisement notes Allen's Foot Ease as a cure for swollen sweating hot and aching feet, suitable for use by women to wear shoes one size smaller. Sold by druggists 25 cents with trial offers and a free sample. Also mentions government finding granite ground as good fertilizer.
An old advertisement promotes Krause's Headache Capsules from Norman Lichty Mfg. Co Des Moines Ta priced 25c. It also notes Lewis' Single Binder cigars from Lewis' Factory Peoria IL. plus a quip about dark horses in elections and fault-finding women with corns.
A miscellany of anecdotes on dress, laundry tips, and household humor from a vintage column. It extols Defiance Starch for fine white goods, notes lessons in sewing for boys by fathers, and includes wry vignettes about family conversations and moral maxims.
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