Fashion Notes on Autumn Gowns and Hats With Hip Emphasis
The article surveys underway dress innovations for autumn in high fashion, detailing hip fullness methods across skirts and bodices from various designers. It notes trimmed flounces, rolled plaits, and side gores, plus new chemise dress fits and satin belts, and discusses hats with Chinese embroidery influences and Russian touches amid mid sized crowns and silk ribbons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buller
Jenny
House of Brandt
Paris
Russia
Smocks Rise in Fall Wardrobe for School Wear
The article notes fall styles ready for school wardrobe prep. It highlights the Cossack smock cut on straight lines, longer than usual, using jersey weaves of silk or wool and embroidered with silk floss, chenille, or heavy wool. A smock suits late summer sport wear and pairs with a plain wool skirt for students.
Fancy Handkerchief Styles Mention Embroidered Corners
The article notes up to date handkerchief trends with delicate shade colors and borders in blue red pink or khaki. Fancy embroidery motifs replace monograms in the corners of these dainty handkerchiefs.
Measures to Prevent Hessian Fly Losses to 1920 Wheat
Agricultural guidance warns of widespread Hessian fly damage to winter wheat in the Shenandoah and Cumberland valleys and the western Mississippi basin. It urges immediate steps such as avoiding sowing on infested stubble, deep early plowing, destroying volunteer wheat, using strong seed, and sowing only during the fly free period with community compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Shenandoah
Cumberland
Mississippi
United States
Department of Agriculture
Storage Houses by Region in Potato Industry
The Aroostook Maine storage house with concrete walls and wooden superstructure is state specific and expensive, often on a hill with deep basements and limited ventilation. Insulated potato houses suit the south better, while dugouts remain common in the west. Refrigerated storage serves northern seed potatoes for southern planting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Aroostook
Maine
Prevent Wastage on Farms
Look out for waste places on the farm especially fields that wash poorly drained areas and overflowed sections. Barnyard manure and implements left to weather waste away and energy and opportunity are lost through improper use of hands rather than machines.
Toads Protect Gardens and Aid Farmers
The toad, though unpopular, is harmless and valuable to farmers. It feeds on insects and helps guard crops. Its eye gland fluid is not dangerous to people unless it contacts sensitive areas. Toads shed skin periodically and can inflate their bodies to deter snakes.
Straw helps sandy soils improve moisture and humus
Sandy soils lack organic matter and suffer wind erosion. Spreading straw protects the surface, reduces damage, and increases soil moisture and humus content, making the soil far better. The straw spreader is a practical tool to apply this practice.
Best Equipment For Garden
Garden equipment is essential for best results in making a garden. No one can enjoy work with crude or unsuitable implements. This is true in garden work. Garden implements cost so little in comparison to their value that no one can afford to get along without them. The same may be said of farm implements and needed equipment in general.
Growing Healthy Chickens for Healthier Poultry
The article stresses shade, clean water, clean coops, proper ventilation, and ample space at night as essential for healthy, vigorous chickens raised for meat, eggs, or breeding. It emphasizes housing and care practices to ensure optimal flock quality.
Trapper Emanuel Peterson Lies in Cabin Grave After 2000 Mile Police Quest
Constable M Chappins of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police journeys 2000 miles through blizzards to confirm the fate of trapper Emanuel Peterson missing north of Lake Athabaska. The narrative extols the Scarlet Riders and recalls the harsh trek from Prince Albert to Cree Lake under minus 30 conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saskatoon
Sask
Emmanuel Peterson
Hudson Bay Company
Fond du Lac
Emanuel Peterson
M. Chappins
Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Lake Athabaska
Edmonton
Chappins
Canada
Corps of
Scarlet Riders
Prince Albert
Frozen trek ends with discovery of survivor and diary
Chappins, trudging through a blizzard with gray wolves and dwindling rations, reaches Fond du Lac after Carnier. He finds Peterson’s body preserved and his diary open with the final entry dated March 29, 1918, lamenting illness and isolation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chappins
Carnier
Hudson Bay
Fond du Lac
Peterson
Baby Smothered During Moving Tragedy in Oakland
Mrs. Joseph Valado preparing to move placed her month old baby on a mattress. A blanket covered the infant and was rolled with the mattress into the wagon by an expressman. The baby suffocated before being noticed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland
Cal
Joseph Valado
Expressman
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Urbana Woman
Mrs. Frank Henson of Urbana Illinois reports change of life symptoms and a winter grippe attack. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength, reducing nervousness heat flashes and backache, and enabling her to do housework again. She urges others to try the remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbana
Lydia E. Pinkham
Frank Henson
S. Orchade St
Ill
These Happy Days in a Flourishing Garden
A green worm advances toward lettuce in a flourishing garden as a playful line recalls salad days. The scene centers on the worm and the growing plants in a sunny, tranquil setting.
A Summer Cold Advice and Boschee's Syrup Promotion
An advertisement counsels that a summer cold is hard to shake and urges bed rest with Boschee's Syrup for restful sleep and easy morning ex pectoration. If staying in bed is impossible, it recommends avoiding droughts, skipping heavy foods, and taking occasional Boschee's Syrup doses, noting it has been made in America for over fifty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
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West
Toad
Farmer
Trapper
Canadian Northwest
Eatonic
ONLC
Epworth Phar. Co
Classen
Okla
Fitzgerald & Co
Boatmen’s Bk. Bldg
St. Louis
W.N. Y
Fort Wayne
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