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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1911
Page
6
A local dispute centers on a formal garden where Becker declares no chickens allowed. Residents weigh yard rules and garden etiquette while neighbors seek clarity on livestock limits and permissible uses.
A humorous diner exchange centers on a hare soup mix up as a waiter reassures a puzzled customer that the hare soup is indeed prepared correctly. The playful mispronunciation highlights kitchen chaos and lighthearted banter.
Margaret claims Mr. Baker can hypnotize people and notes he holds her hand until it falls asleep, prompting Katherine to question the behavior. The dialogue presents a tense exchange about control and influence within a social setting.
A pair discuss keeping a kitten as company during an impending move. One offers the pet for comfort, the other responds with gratitude and note of the upcoming relocation. The exchange conveys warmth and practical support amid change.
The interviewer asks if the applicant has chauffeur experience and the applicant replies with receipts showing fines paid. The exchange hints at a scrutiny of driving history and reliability.
Ora Lue of New York introduces ribbon garnitures as a decorative option for hosts in the opulent city. Four designs for a June wedding in white and green are shown, including a white messaline rosette with smilax and asparagus fern. Ribbons offer lasting background greenery, enabling fewer blossoms with greater effect.
A bright blue serge Eton suit for a young girl draws attention with a plain high-waist skirt and a novel jacket. The jacket features a deep back sailor collar, pointed front revers, natural pongee collar trim, coral silk edges, black braid, large side buttons, and long sleeves with turn-back cuffs.
Fashion notes lasting pearl strands with tasseled ends revive bead threading style. A demand grows for threaded tiny pearls used in bracelets and other ornaments, seen as light and graceful for young women. Annie Douglas Graham, fiancée of Jay Gould, owns many such pieces for hair throat wrist and corsage in her wedding outfit.
Shops display black overseam kid gloves with white stitching and Paris paints, an old novelty revived and selling to some extent. Silk gloves gain prominence as demand for silks grows earlier than usual, with black and white forms dominating leather and silk glove sales.
The pattern describes a dressy blouse from soft material with a lace yoke edged by a silk band. It features small puff sleeves with lace cuffs and silk bands. Materials needed include 1⅛ yards of 42 inch fabric 4½ yards silk 22 inches wide a half yard lace and six buttons.
A cretonne covered octagonal collar box features a groove for holding pins and slides easily. Tapestry bags in various uses include a opera glass carry bag with a three inch tapestry strip forming the sides and bottom and a gathered cord top. A cretonne darning bag adds outside pockets and a needle case, and a dainty Chinese lantern bag offers a unique design.
Aunt Melissa, a lively talker, and Uncle Silas, economical with words, quarrel over a wasted sugar incident. The rift lasts three days as silence grows, until a daughter notes the father is still huffing and needs reconciliation.
Wise and Howe discuss a striking veiled woman. The woman hides her face not from modesty but to protect the paintwork from sun damage. The banter reveals a quirky domestic moment.
A 19th century advertisement touts Tetterine as a cure for itching piles and skin diseases including tetter ringworm and eczema. It quotes testimonials from Jesse W. Scott of Milledgeville Ga and notes the product costs 50 cents per box, with mail orders through J. H. Shuptrine of Savannah Ga.
Historian George Bancroft told a Massachusetts country road joke from Percy H. Epler's Master Minds at the Commonwealth's Heart. Levi Lincoln, nearly blind, drove geese down Lincoln street when Bancroft, leaning from a carriage, tossed pennies and cried God bless you, my children.
A succinct aphorism notes that requesting help from an adversary may forge a rare bond, while asking a friend may backfire and create enmity. It cautions on relational risk in exchanges across antagonistic lines.
A bold advertisement urges readers to start anew this spring with Garfield tea, herb laxative, and blood purifier to purge sins and purge old languages, implying a cleansing regime for health and morality.
A Chicago testimonial urges women to insist on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female weakness and stomach troubles. The ad claims many cures over thirty years and warns against substitutes for profit. It cites Mrs. Jantekzi of Arch Street, urging trust in the product and its roots and herbs formulation.
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