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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1894
Page
7
A mother offers a step by step guide from The Country Gentlemen on sewing nightgowns for several children. It covers fabric choices at 124 cents a yard, cutting and sewing sleeves, elastic wrists, mitten integration, and a Russian toque for day wear, emphasizing warmth in winter nights.
An old advert promotes Rucklon's Amioa Salve as the best salve for sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores and skin eruptions. It claims satisfaction or refund and lists a price of 45 cents per pot with sale by Matthews Brown.
The article surveys the season's skirt styles including gores, the gored bell shape, circular skirts, and overgarments. It notes fuller back drape with slimmer sides, various trims such as passementerie, ruffles, and braid, and discusses fabrics from velvet to silk. It also describes a new two ring glove menders tool for easy repairs.
Two potato salad methods described: a quick version uses boiled salted potatoes cooled and diced with butter onion and vinegar, served cold. The second yields a decorative salad with potato and onion dressed with French dressing, egg yolk and butter, finished with hard boiled egg slices and parsley.
A household article describes a do it yourself baby tender to entertain a child and aid a mother with no help. A shallow woolen box forms the base with a padded framework of posts and bars, cotton batting, bright ticking, a mattress from an old comforter, and a hanging curtain to block drafts.
A new muff style features a long round shape with a six inch deep frill at each end. Muffs are satin lined with frills overlapping the edge. Velvet and astrakhan trims appear with center frill edges, paired with serge gowns. A recipe for crem candy uses sugar water vinegar and cream of tartar with butter, boiled to thread then pulled.
Directions for knitting a baby boot and a ladies slipper in ribbed crochet. Instructions cover materials, foundation chains, afghan stitches, looping, finishing edges, and decorative bow. Includes steps for the boot top, sole, and toe zipper technique.
This brief compiles crochet slipper directions with rounds and stitch changes, plus tips for finishing seams and ribbing. It also mentions household ideas like beeswax lip remedy and corduroy cushions, and a note on coffee preparation and vessel choice.
A Scranton Tribune item advertises The Gem Coupon as the most unique guide. It describes a trip through the Columbian Exposition with 72 leaves printed on one side. It notes sizes, covers, prices, and postage details for mail orders.
Description of medical illumination of the stomach using a slender tube with a glass bead and tiny battery. The apparatus includes a movable mirror to view interior stomach structures. The Tribune Encyclopedia Britannica excerpt promotes the Britannica Elec tricity volumes and invites orders for a vast reference library at wholesale price with installments.
A sale lists lowest grade Minnesota patent flour pastry flour hay rutabagas potatoes onions and lard prices for various sizes of lard pails and cobbler wares along with brooms cedar tubs feather dusters canned peaches beans asparagus pumpkin preserved strawberries jelly fruit butter and other preserves priced to sell. The note says all goods will be sold for less than worth until the sale closes and fixtures will go for their bid amount.
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