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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1911
Page
9
The article describes trimming techniques and decorative stitches for garments, highlights plaid fabric use for facings and trimmings, and sketches a shepherds plaid dress with red serge accents. It notes a scarlet patent leather belt, a black velvet hat with velvet rose rosettes, and a boy’s gray raiment trend with elk gray stockings and Roman plaids.
Crochet pattern describes joining two crochet strips by alternating double crochets in chains and turning at intervals. It specifies chain counts and turning chains, with details on how many stitches to work in each row and how to align the two strips before connecting across three chains and finishing with double crochets along the last row.
Bright color relief dominates new girl and women fashions with reversible fabrics and color contrasts. Black appears somber for early teens until reversed with light blue cuffs and collar accents transforming the look. White or cream contrasts brighten dark outfits, with a noted smart dark blue three piece suit featuring sailor collar and cuff bands.
The passage links hygiene to efficiency, asserting clean teeth hair and skin prevent wasted time and future issues. It offers a mosquito sting remedy with ammonia eau de cologne boracic acid, aromatic vinegar, and a sage tea hair dye method using green tea and sage steeped then applied nightly for shade.
This marker, made from ribbon and elastic, measures about 1 4 inches wide and 7 8 inches long. A buckram strip covered with ribbon forms the back, stitched at the edges, with elastic at each end and a tassel bow embellishment. The elastic slips over book edges to mark the page.
The piece notes wide latitude in revers designs with striped cloths and silks featuring collars revers and cuffs in woolly materials such as va line and polo cloth or silky haired fabrics like camel's hair and zibeline. It also mentions new smooth English cloths in plain and plaid effects for body and trimming and the reliable double faced fabrics for novel manipulation.
Feminine statistics show the waist measure normalizes today, with 26 to 28 inches no longer shocking. The Hissome corsetiere no longer reveals covert dismay at modest waists, and health and comfort of women influence Paris drapers to respond to gentler figures.
A Baltimore Sun item notes a playful line about settling disputes with wit rather than force. A woman settles a man’s coffee with a white of an egg and settles his hash with a look, hinting at clever social comeuppance.
A Wichita district court restraining order led Judge T C Wilson to sentence Mrs J R Tarbill and her son Clyde Tarbill to six months in county jail and a $500 fine each for selling liquor at the City hotel. The City hotel building was ordered closed and padlocked.
Biggins proclaims support for plain truth while the frank philosopher notes many defend truth only as a difference of opinion. The exchange highlights differing aims of candor and contention in public discourse.
An advertisement warns that inflammatory rheumatism can cripple for life and urges early treatment with Hamlins Wizard Oil. It also brands welfare cheats as harming workers’ livelihoods, asserting social impact from people seeking unearned income.
At a mass meeting in Hunne Well $250 was subscribed by business men to cover expenses of the four councilmen facing ouster proceedings.
A long list of women across towns such as Elmo Missouri Peoria Illinois Natick Massachusetts Milwaukee Wisconsin Chicago Illinois Galena Kansas Cincinnati Ohio and many others attest to cures of tumors menses maternity irregularities ovarian trouble nervous prostration and other female ailments attributed to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They state they wrote willingly with no compensation to confirm the medicine's power and honesty.
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