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Newspaper
Roanoke Review
Location
Roanoke, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1923
Page
3
Fashion notes describe Sleeves Minus or Transparent trends in summer frocks with white silk knitted costumes. A Bertha sleeve effect with sheer trims dominates, featuring drop-stitch weaves, bright color braids, and moire silk accents for brides and day wear.
A poem fragment describes unseen gates opening and spring heralded by tulips, robins, and blue birds on a tawny lawn. The verse uses rich imagery of flowers and birds to signal the season, with lines about unworded promises and azure skies.
The article highlights fresh greens spinach watercress lettuce and dandelions as cleansing foods and recommends rhubarb desserts and puddings. It notes tonic ideas such as pie-Teant and sulphur molasses historically used for cleansing and mentions fruits like apples oranges strawberries as liver aids.
The fragment invokes Gray's line about hidden beauty and wasted sweetness. It frames an image of unseen blossoms and unspoken depth, suggesting a meditation on quiet depths and unvoiced worth. The tone is solemn and contemplative, with maritime allusions.
A collection of simple home recipes including Swiss toast with berries and butter fried bread, a fruited dip for bananas pears and apples, baked fish with horseradish sauce, croquettes with rice and sausages, fried apples as accompaniment, and meringue shells to keep a week.
A farm guide notes goslings are hardy after a month but need careful early care. Keep them warm dry and fed small frequent meals. Start with corn meal and shorts bread crumbs and chopped eggs then add grass and other grains as they grow. Move young geese to fresh ground and later free range with water access and ample grazing for rapid growth.
Madam Cow and Miss Nanny Goat recount a humorous moment when passersby were surprised to see them living near the city. The animals discuss moving vs staying, noting a cow’s simple comforts and their own contentment in place. The tale ends with shared amusement at the observers.
Amarillo Texas woman Mrs Robinson credits Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from crippling backache cramps and fatigue after three years of illness. She says it helps with irregularity and nervous weariness and enables her to perform her housework and duties.
Geese and chickens do not breed well together. Geese wash in water pails and deplete clean water, driving chickens from mash hoppers. Geese thrive on a field near a pond with ample water, reducing water carrying needs and supporting grazing on cheap grass.
Farmers can boost profits by frequent flock drafts, proper equipment, and good hen house feeding. Chicks need initial rest after hatching, with minimal feed for 48 hours, then focused feeding to support egg production.
Mary returns home in tears after falling into a mud puddle. Her mother exclaims at the sight and questions how it happened while the girl explains she wore her best dress and had no time to change.
A short opinion notes that a miser saves money simply because he lacks a plan for using it. It suggests thrift without purpose may stem from ignorance of other options.
An advertisement touts Cuticura products for soothing baby rashes The text promotes Cuticura Soap for hot baths Cuticura Ointment for anointing and Cuticura Talcum for finishing Claims the products are purer and sweeter with a fragrance Also notes prices at 25 cents each.
A Louisville Courier Journal piece notes the shift in dialect storytelling from traditional forms to slang. It reflects on changing language styles in literature and the authorship of regional vernacular pieces.
An old advertisement notes Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been used for four decades to treat catarrh. It describes an ointment for local relief and an internal tonic that acts through the blood to reduce mucous membrane inflammation. Sold by druggists. E. J.ney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
A brief quip frames a domestic moment in which a woman explains choosing summer furs over a winter tent, reflecting humorous gendered tradeoffs and thrift. The exchange highlights practical, tongue in cheek decisions within everyday life.
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