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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
6
Lady Halle, born Wilhelmina Nerude in Brunn Austria, rose to fame as a top London violinist. Appointed by Queen Alexandra as court violinist, she receives universal praise in royal circles. Her prized Stradivarius violin, once owned by Ernst, is valued at $10,000.
Syracuse's Mary Elizabeth Evans devised a clever plan to raise funds by printing a booklet of brief letters from physicians who praised her candies. She set up a self-serve candy showcase with a glass cabinet, a red black sign inviting customers to take candy and pay from her till. The system relies on trust as customers select, pay, and close the doors, with Evans noting her change has remained correct so far.
The article extols a full length mirror as essential for women to avoid lipperfections in makeup, ill fitting garments, and unflattering hats. It contrasts this with hand glasses that reveal only partial views and trigger constant readjustment of outfits.
A reflection on vanity and self image from a Boston Traveler line. The passage muses on pride, discomfort from vanity, and how people react when egos are bruised. It uses metaphor of shoes in front and a long mirror to ponder self perception.
A reflective critique argues that emancipation cannot occur within marriage yet true marriage must be based on equality. It condemns feminine submission as unworthy, urging mutual respect, absence of force, and rejection of any right of one partner to command the other. It treats paternalistic authority as barbaric in married life.
Economical women can study old cloth reuse to clothe children cheaply. Techniques turn grown ups’ cast off garments into a small boy suit or a girl’s jacket. Even partly worn dresses yield material for new outfits, an art worth learning in tight households.
A period piece advises cleaning melancholy hat ostrich feathers by applying a pipe clay and water paste, rubbing only in one direction, then drying and freeing powder. Feathers are recurlled with an ivory paper cutter or the back of a silver knife, a method for readers unable to hire cleaners.
The Evening Lamp explains that lowering a lamp does not save oil since the same amount is consumed as gas. A dimmed flame produces odor and harms nearby plants. use a small lamp with a properly sized wick if little light is needed.
A young girl seeks advice to tighten wooden tubs and pails. The remedy involves stuffing straw inside the vessel and placing a weight on top to slow water loss while pouring. Water still escapes but the straw helps retain enough to aid swelling the wood.
Advice on using water for tea coffee and cooking. Boiled water should be avoided for extracting juices. Use soft water for extraction and hard or salted water to retain nutrients. Cook vegetables with just enough water to prevent burning to preserve nutritive value.
A historic wash for dark hair combines half an ounce of castile soap in a quart of hot water with an ounce of carbonate of soda dissolved, then add an ounce of spirits of wine and a few drops of violet perfume. Apply night and morning and brush the hair for about ten minutes.
The article notes Holland and Belgium washerwomen famed for their cleanliness using refined borax to keep whites bright, praising the practice as part of domestic laundry technique.
A historic note describes using borax powder in a large handful mixed into ten gallons of boiling water to substitute for soda, yielding nearly half the soap used. The fragment reflects household chemical practices and cost-saving measures once common in domestic cleaning.
A fragment discusses guiding children with trust while treating them as email criminals, implying cleverness in overcoming restrictions. It also describes reshaping a crushed straw hat by dampening, stuffing with soft paper, and drying to restore form.
The page suggests removing mildew from leather with a kerosene dampened cloth and finishing with a soft rag. It also notes a curious line about Japanese girls gilding their lips for attraction and mentions a coral gem plant for a basket. The fragmentary text includes a playful exchange about poetry critique.
A newspaper tablet quips about a jealous husband who discovers two men at his wife’s home. One is the wife’s brother fresh from service. the other is described as the result of excessive drinking. The tale hints at gossip and domestic tension typical of urban chatter.
A Sepertor Game features a playful exchange on golf and polo. A spectator asks which is preferred and a speaker jokes that in polo you can blame bad plays on your pony, reflecting lighthearted sports banter in Chicago.
In a Muberry street auction crowd two Italians joined the playful banter with the auctioneer. One bidder Pietro Dionerella won a household article after the clerk asked for the name. The second bidder Patricka O Sullivana prompted more joking as the crowd laughed at the mispronounced names.
English artist Mr Boughton, sketching in the Alps, finds a perfect background and a foreground figure of an old woman. He asks her to stay seated, she agrees but soon worries about the duration. She reveals she is sitting on an ant bill, making the moment comical.
A four year old, logical and curious, questions his mother about heaven after she says her grandmother is there. The child presses for confirmation and recalls meeting relatives, prompting a reflection on memory and belief. The exchange reveals a child’s persistent reasoning and a mother’s careful truthfulness.
The keepers of the big cobras at the Central Park menagerie and New York Zoological Garden face difficulty supplying their venomous charges with preferred food. In the cobras native land they feed on smaller snakes, but in captivity they must settle for rats and mice at times. Other captive snakes are fed toads, mice and rabbits, and English sparrows are also purchased for them.
The key to successful artistic furnishing lies in blending wall and floor coverings with woodwork rather than chasing trends. Red wall coverings pair well with dusky Flemish oak but clash with golden oak, which needs a dull soft blue in burlap or cartridge paper.
Advice on using olive oil to fry foods to avoid disliked fried dishes. Recommends frying parsnips or carrots in olive oil with salt and pepper, noting oil offers a distinct flavor and stressing the importance of using good quality oil.
The article warns that the rag doll should be disinfected by steaming, and at teething age a pure gum rubber ring should be supplied. It cautions that a cracker ring, though valuable in theory, becomes dangerous if a child uses it as a floor- wiping tool.
An icicle falling into a barrel of unslaked lime sparked a blaze at the new state capitol in Jackson Mississippi. The watchman sounded the alarm and firefighters flooded the flames. Water contact caused hundreds of barrels of lime to ignite, hastening the destruction of the building while crews worked to save the nearby structures.
A collection of old fashioned at home remedies for sprains headaches neuralgia quinsy burns and wounds. Advice includes amica tincture lemon juice coffee onion poultice egg chalk white of egg with chalk for burns and a fire treated sugar whisky for stomach pains. It advises using clean tissue paper as a wound compress in an emergency.
A brief note describes a test run for a new sled with a speaker urging to pull a couple more miles before experts pass judgment. The humorous tone frames a workers’ or inventor’s early testing phase and public scrutiny.
A Washington Star line on how time passes with changing weather from January through June, followed by a quip about July, then a mention of Uncle Ezra断 and a remark about pickpockets. The fragment blends weather reflections and a playful aside on theft.
A critique notes the world applauds a man who rescues a drowning woman while ignoring a man who drives backward near a beautiful woman. The speaker laments hypocrisy and calls out gendered judgments in public admiration.
A witty exchange from the New York Journal features an office boy insisting the editor looked but cannot see the items and the artist urging another inquiry. The dialogue highlights a humorous blockage between staff over visibility of materials.
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