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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1916
Page
2
The piece highlights Russian inspired suits and blouses with rich fabrics and fur accents, describes two elaborate coiffures using pins, waves, and a French twist, and notes coats with raglan sleeves and bone buttons. It praises tailored elegance, elongating skirts, panne velvet, and georgette accessories for slender figures.
The firm introduces a napkin ring pattern with flat bottom flanges that act as a stand. This provides stability and new possibilities for decoration not seen in standard rings. They also offer a teapot or tea infuser in two new styles capable of brewing one to three cups per fill.
Soult highlights white satin outfits as a summer fashion focus with pale hues and light fabric emphasized for fans of breezy courtly style. The piece notes designers' use of white satin to create fresh, cool silhouettes for warm weather wear.
The article urges enlarging and beautifying home grounds, arguing an acre or more around a dwelling improves family life and longevity. It advocates well drained lawns, massed flowers, tree groupings, a children’s play area, concrete walks, neat barns, and coed fences, stressing practical, tasteful farm aesthetics over mere land expansion.
The guide advises sowing hardy annual seeds early in shallow boxes or pots placed in a warm window or hotbed. Use a fine sandy loam soil, best from rot moistened pastures or old hotbeds mixed with sand and manure. Provide ample air and moisture but avoid overwatering to prevent damping off. Do not cover seeds deeply.
Start new lawns by seeding and sodding. Old lawns should be well raked and rolled. Grass will start with warm weather. A sprinkling of prepared stable or sheep manure will be beneficial to old lawns. A light sprinkling of ground bone is also good.
A year back in the war, August 7 1915 reports violence across multiple fronts. Germans attacked Kovno Ossowetz and the Bug region while French forces repelled German attacks in the Argonne and Vosges. Sierock fell on the Bug and Riga saw German forces pushed back. Gallipoli battles waged at Aii Burnu and Sedd-ul-Bahr with heavy losses to British and Swedish vessels. German forces crossed the Vistula and captured the outer fort Novogeor-gievsk as fights continued at Liege and a German fleet blow at the Gulf of Riga mouth. Submarine actions sank or damaged several ships including Meteor Ramsey and a patrol steamer.
Germans bombard Kovno and Lomza while Russians push Germans back in Riga region. British reach trenches near Hooge and lose destroyer Lynx to a mine and cruiser India to a torpedo. Allied sub sinks Barbarossa. French planes hit Saarbrucken. Austro German forces seize Lomza. Evacuations unfold at Kovno and Dvinsk as Anzac lines hold at Suvla BayAnafarta amid Zeppelins bombardment.
In 1915 amid the eastern theater German forces reach Warsaw Petrograd line southeast of Ostroľ, crown prince’s army strikes Ar gone strongly, Austrians and Italians clash in Zagora area, Russian resistance slows near Riga and Kovno, Siedice falls to Germans, Austrians repulse Italian pressure, Brest Litovsk approach, and British Royal Edward sunk by a German submarine with about 1000 lost.
A collage reports Dickinson College age in Carlisle, Pa., and innovations such as outdoor offices in New England, glove typing adjustments, and curved sticks for safer键 strikes. It notes lower wartime wounds deaths, Bertillon’s statistics on toughness, glass coloring by heat, a slingshot with sight, telescopic spectacles, and a fire in Spencer Mass revealing a cash-filled pocketbook undamaged by flames. Consul Seltzer notes a Breslau tin foil factory success.
The Dairy Commissioner notes Saskatchewan co operatives boosted butter output by 1 5 million lbs and shipments reached 52 carloads. Manitoba reports dairy butter and creamery output rising over 1 0 million lbs with gains in cheese, total value up $427 000, plus high butter fat prices and expanding dairy business across northern Alberta.
The Rassano dam in Alberta is completed, hailed as one of the greatest irrigation works. The project will aid farming efficiency and water management across the region.
A vintage advertisement promotes Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for red rough irritated hands. It urges hot soaks, drying, and nightly application with a one night treatment and offers free samples by mail from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
Uncle Pennywise argues the auto business can thrive if everyone saves to buy a machine, urging a grand, customer friendly market.
A Pinnacle South Carolina pharmacist, Brown, endorses Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a top kidney remedy. He mentions liver trouble benefiting and urges readers to request a sample and informational booklet by mail, noting stores carry the product.
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