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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
7
This excerpt offers practical sewing guidance. It covers saving spools, rust prevention, easy thread drawing with dry soap, using pasteboard to conceal hem stitches, finishing machine seams by turning and stitching, tacking soft muslin under thin fabrics, and mending pattern damasks with matched patches from worn damask or an old napkin to minimize visibility.
The guide instructs to prepare whiting, warm water, and flannel then apply a dampened amount to the painted surface. Rub to lift dirt then wash with clean water and dry with a chamois for a clean finish.
A piece notes a shift in English fashion away from costly frocks toward simpler styles. It describes past excess in 10 to 20 guineas gowns, then highlights Dukes’ daughters and other women creating or hiring out small outfits at home, signaling a decline in outerwear extravagance and a return to modest attire.
A simple method to remove apple skins is to soak them in boiling water for about ten minutes. The skins slip off thinly, reducing waste and easing peeling.
Cream Cookies recipe uses one and one third cup sugar half cup butter one cup sour cream three eggs half teaspoon baking soda and three cups flour. Do not roll too thin cookies should be a quarter inch thick or more when baked.
A simple muffin recipe uses one cup boiled rice two eggs two cups flour a tablespoon melted butter three cups milk and salt. Mix eggs butter and milk sift flour and salt add rice and wet ingredients. Bake muffins quickly.
One cupful raisins one cupful chopped suet one cupful molasses one cupful milk three cupfuls flour one teaspoonful soda one teaspoonful cinnamon one half teaspoonful each of cloves and allspice will be needed Steam three hours Eat with whipped cream or all hard sauce.
Instructions describe making a lemon pie with crumbs and lemon rind, followed by a lemon meringue topping after baking. The text also offers housekeeping methods to clean oilcloth using borax and a milk-dampened flannel for polishing.
The orchid, called romance and universal flower, draws collectors to remote lands. A British-led expedition to New Guinea found rare dendrobiums in a native burial ground, with skulls and a guarding idol. Terrestrial orchids drift by wind, lodge on trees, and blossom together in striking variety.
A Buffalo newspaper office vote on the best thing in the world reveals no one names money. Posed definitions include the unspoken unkind word a road over a hill absolute failure indifference to unfair advantage the quiet forest a woman singing at work a child falling asleep the permit to leave the world the sweet restful grave and the unwritten song.
In a czarist Spain style scene, Vera Seerevich informs Minister Rince Treboutskoi of a five man conspiracy to assassinate the emperor. The plot leads to executions and a dramatic act of mercy sparing one lover and all his associates. Vera witnesses the cascade of fates as the conspirators are led away.
This Washington Post feature explains how heavenly bodies move with clocklike precision, noting that a single misstep in a planet’s orbit could disrupt entire systems. It reflects on stars as perhaps dying lights and compares Earth's size to vast suns in colossal celestial communities.
A Wheeling public school pupil sought leave to miss the next day citing a telegram about her mother’s relatives arriving. The girl argued the issue fit under “Domestic affliction” in the school’s absence reasons.
Riddle style quiz prompts about birds and books with wordplay. The questions compare contentment to books and spring birds to a bank, noting promissory notes and flourishing branches. No clear news event or person.
A perceptive survey notes common beliefs about infants among both civilized societies and savages. It cites up stairs supposed birth elevation, wearing clothes inside out bringing bad luck, weighing or measuring the baby, and reflections in a mirror believed to shorten life, with examples from England and Scotland.
Harper's Weekly describes the elephant's rapid digestion requiring large daily fodder about Goo pounds. It notes selective foraging in the wild, tearing branches, stripping bark, and wasting much, aided by nocturnal senses of touch and smell. The trunk nerves detect tiny particles and the palate is delicate.
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