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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
3
A fashion piece advises women on what to carry while shopping and how bags suit different figures. It describes various bag styles from watch bags to triped suede and cretonne options, noting practicality, color variety, and upkeep for summer use.
Instructions describe making artificial silk flowers requiring a light touch. A five inch diameter rowe is formed from about 30 inches of taffeta or soft satin cut on the bias. Pieces sewn form a four inch wide band eight three quarters yards long, folded and gathered into scallops.
A detailed guide explains shaping a border with a petalless carnation model using shiny material and a single piece of fabric. It covers securing to a thin florist wire, creating a calyx for vases, or neat back centers for hats and dresses, and shading techniques for different band cuts. Green leaves use green ribbon and a four yard length for a medium carnation.
The article recalls a revived fondness for antique hues in quilts and bedspreads. It notes prune resembling wistaria magenta, mulberry, a brownish pink like rose leaf potpourri, and lavender once used for mourning or second marriages, linking colors to memories.
A Farm Journal diagrams a cut under hay rack with bottom framing showing severed outer sills to allow front wheels to cut under. It notes the two inner sills are four times heavier than the outer ones and recommends hard wood cross strips. The second cut shows side uprights attached around the opening with ends in the inner sill and tops in the top rail.
John T. Stewart urges farmers to base drainage on accurate topographic maps showing local improvements land boundaries watershed and elevation data. He notes five foot contours where possible and stresses permanent survey marks to avoid duplicated work and costly re surveys, warning improper ditch location wastes money and inadequately drains land.
A short editorial contrasts ethical poultry merchants with graft and dishonest traders, arguing most breeders run their business with integrity while a few corrupt the industry.
The note argues hogs cannot perspire and suffer in heat, so they should be provided with ample shade to stay cooler. It emphasizes shelter to protect livestock from high temperatures.
The article explains timely straw care from harvest to storage in the shed, stressing housing over stacking, and using straw for stock bedding feed and fertilizer. It notes stored straw aids winter shelter and drives soil enrichment when spread, concluding straw pays for its care through multiple farm uses.
The article warns against using inferior lubricants for wagon wheels. It stresses that grease must have the right body, not be too runny or too thick, and urges buying a reliable, expensive axle grease and sticking to it for durability and performance.
Place boards twelve or fourteen feet long on two common carpenter's horses to build a rack for husking shock corn.
Nature provides a leguminous crop for every farming region. Cowpeas and soybeans in the south, crimson clover in the east, red clover in the central states, alfalfa in the west, and Canada peas in the north illustrate extensive distribution for agricultural use.
Sylvanus Verrill of Milford Maine says a severe injury left him paralyzed and with severely discolored urine. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with restoring strength, reducing pain, improving kidney function, and enabling him to walk with crutches then fully recover. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a box.
An excerpt presents a dramatic exchange with Misa Lacer declaring fear and a friend responding that safety lies in not being near the waist. The Philadelphia Ledger citation frames the quote as a dramatic moment. The page then promotes Lewis' Single Binder cigars sold by a Peoria dealer and closes with a Seneca quotation urging contentment with little.
A promotional style piece urges readers to write to Mrs. Lydia Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for confidential medical advice. It claims decades of correspondence with sick women support her knowledge and that grateful letters prove the method’s power.
A testimonial from Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allentown Pa praises Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for curing her menstrual disorders and headaches after following physician advice and the product’s directions. The letter credits the remedy with turning her into a well woman and urges others to try it.
The advertisement proclaims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as the standard remedy for women's ailments for thirty years. It claims to cure displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities periodic pains backache bearing-down feeling flatulency indigestion dizziness and nervous prostration.
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