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Newspaper
Russiaville Observer
Location
Russiaville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1916
Page
3
Grove's The Old Standard Tonic Ad Promotes Health
General tonic claims quinine and iron benefit the liver malaria blood and whole body. Ad copy highlights tonics for health with American made Red Cross products and mentions grocers. Includes price 50 cents and light humor about spouses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove
The man who foots the bills always has a kick coming
A terse proverb expresses that the person funding expenses often bears the consequences or objections, implying accountability follows payment in disputes or responsibilities.
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Bills
Combination Garment Design Bridges Underwear and Evening Wear
The design proposes a wide skirt era with an over corset cover and shoulder strap to conceal undergarments. It advocates cross bar lawn or batiste corset covers with narrow top edges, matching beaded flouncing, and embroidered edges. The garment suits Dolly Varden underskirts and satin or chiffon finished petticoats with elaborate ruching and furbelows.
Season's Styles By A Man's Collection
A Paris letter to the London Times describes a man's collection of model dresses for women. Short full skirts dominate with varied drapings pockets and plaitings while tailor-made suits feature short basques and diverse collars. Boleros Dolmans and 1860s influences appear offering graceful options for stylish women.
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Paris
London Times
Dressy Suit of Silk
White spats may be washed to look new after soil. Use warm water and good white soap. Wash well rinse and do not wring. Hang while still wet and after a few hours they dry smooth and ready to wear.
Fashion Hints for Girls Outfit Styles and Fabrics
The guide notes white crepe de chine as ideal for a little girl chemise set. It highlights checked taffeta trim on plain color dresses, button trimming on suits and frocks, and long utility coats covering dresses. Silk jersey for eating wear and new silk suits with fitted backs are favored, with mouse color favored, large checks and bold stripes in silks, flannel blazer jackets with serge skirts, and evening dresses with short puff sleeves.
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Euting
Neatness Tips for Modern Smart Dress
The article contrasts past fashion pitfalls with today's ease of neat dressing. It stresses spotless shoes and well kept hair, the value of a neat hair net, intact gloves, a quality handbag, and a sheer snow white handkerchief. It argues modernization reduces untidy risks while maintaining smart appearance.
RULES BANANA NECESSITY IN FOOD CULTURE
The banana rises to prominence as a daily staple noted for its adaptability and affordability. It is praised as a high yielding fruit immune to disease, with dramatic comparisons to other crops and a suggested use in infant nutrition through simple banana flour preparations.
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London
Eric Pritchard
Disguise saves young bird in strange nest theft tale
A narrator explains how a phow chick born black to blend with its adoptive myna family survives by resembling the hosts young. The tale notes the phow’s koel lineage and its habit of laying in a yellow wattled myna nest on a hollow limb. The setting is the Philippine islands.
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Philippine Islands
Phow
Southern
Pacific
Indian Ocean
Marseilles-Rhone Canal Nears Completion Amid War
The 50 mile Marseilles Rhone canal will allow small Mediterranean steamers to access the Rhone river. A four and a half mile tunnel through the Rove mountain was bored, wrapping up six years of labor on a project touted as advancing France's wartime logistics and strengthening its already vast canal system despite the conflict.
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Marseilles-Rhone
Marseilles- Rhone
Rhone
France
Rove
Palestine
Vanished ocean liners and their fate recalled
A historical tally shows several ships lost with all aboard in the Atlantic. The President carried 136 souls in 1841, City of Glasgow with 480 in 1854, Pacific with 240 in 1856, Tempest in 1859, City of Boston in 1870, Huronian in 1902, and Waratah six years ago, with no word ever found.
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Atlantic
City of
Glasgow
Pacific
Liverpool
Boston
Land hunger and Fraser's future land sales compare
The Nebraska State Journal warns that opening 4000 acres in the North Platte irrigation district signals the end of free land distribution as a national safety valve. It notes rising U S land prices, Canadian 160 acre free grants, and Western Canada lands at $12 to $30 per acre drawing American settlers and reshaping economics and politics.
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The
Nebraska State Journal
Uncle Sam
North Platte Irrigation District
Canada
United States
Iowa
Western
Nebraska
Western Canada
Mother's Sculpture Admiration by Rodin for Duncan
Auguste Rodin, who gave his art to France, praises Isadora Duncan after a Paris visit. He recalls a moment when the sculptor held the dancer's little girl on his knees and told Duncan she was a great sculptor.
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Auguste Rodin
France
Isadora Duncan
Paris
M. Rodin
Madame
Woman Recovers After Six Years With Pinkham Compound
Mrs. J. S. Barlow of Columbus Ohio writes of six years of illness with female troubles and narcomania and drastic weight loss. After ten days on Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she could eat again and gained weight. She credits the medicine with restoring health and strength and urges other women to use it.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
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