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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1894
Page
7
Practical ideas for amateur photographers to organize and display photos. Suggestions include a layered card case with silk accents, a watercolor paper album with gilt outlines, plush wall panels with heart shaped pockets, and inexpensive glassless frames for etchings and watercolors.
The article guides amateurs in paper hanging preparation and home crafts. It details making paste with heat and flour, adding rosin, cloves or carbolic acid for stability, and oven cooking of vegetables. It then shifts to knitting, urging simple washable dishcloths and lampwick items, and describes a knitted quilt with wooden needles and cotton batting.
Instructions describe making a scrap rug titled A Unique Scrap Rug Lovel and Pretty but Inexpensive Directlone For Making One. It details cutting 61 disks from plush scraps, arranging them on dark brown canvas 27 inches wide with fringe ends, and attaching disks by buttonhole stitch or simple hemming, with fringe options and alternate materials.
The passage describes building a folding screen using bamboo or wood frames and lettuce green decor. It mentions a top drapery of India silk terra cotta fringe, tassel edging, and a decorative top bows of lettuce green ribbons. A lower frame bar twists with cards in lettuce green and terra cotta.
Chicago announces the first official World’s Fair diploma for flour. Washburn Crosby Co. Washburn Flour Mills Minneapolis receives a medal from the fair judges. The flour is described as strong and pure and entitled to rank as a first class patent flour for family and bakers use.
A long list of merchants and towns offers flour brands Gold Medal and Superlative with terms The Trinlxe Flour CovPON 23.00 per hundred pounds or 50 per barrel. Names include Dunmere Hyde Park Providence Carbondale Olyphant Pittston and more, each tied to a specific brand.
A tale of a Swiss poultry venture by Mongleur who spends £4,000 to build a profitable chicken empire. He travels to a Jungfrau hotel to sample stock, but the landlord rebukes the effort with a blunt verdict. The venture collapses amid disappointment and misjudgment.
The text discusses how wealth and governments preserve superb paintings in mansions and public buildings. It notes the challenge of access due to travel and expense and presents an idea to place these visual delights within reach of larger audiences, creating a more democratic avenue to fine art.
The text notes that these pictures are engraved on copper plates using the halftone photo gravure method. It identifies the technique as the halftone photo gravure process and indicates the images are produced by this method.
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