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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1907
Page
6
Melindy Weeks, a backcountry girl with rough hands and a stubborn will, joins a rural cotton mill with Josie Brock. After three months she proves her worth by weaving a successful knot and securing a steady spare-hand position, transforming despair into skill and purpose.
A notable Axminster Sohne completed at the Royal carpet factory in Wilton for a London club. Entirely hand made and woven in one piece, it measures over sixty two feet long and thirty five feet wide. An immense room over forty feet high had to be erected to house it, with thirteen workers employed for more than four months.
The piece summarizes how to secure deep sleep per Popular Science Monthly. It covers posture with abdomen position, equalized body temperature, moderate pre sleep eating, loose nightwear, breathable bedding, airflow, and timing. It notes more rest in winter, best sleep should occur during darkness, and avoid extreme cold.
Guidance on hand washing drying and shaping fingernails to improve appearance. Steps include drying each finger separately, using cold cream between cuticle and nail base, and rubbing technique. Teeth cleaning advises brushing directions before bed and after meals, plus mouthwash with tincture of myrrh. Also notes on starching garments and minor bruise care with olive oil boric acid and warmth.
An 19th centuryan instruction describes mixing equal parts powdered alum and sugar of lead into a gallon of rain water. After the solution clears, pour off the upper liquid and immerse the cloth for twenty four hours. Dry press and use. the cloth supposedly remains colorfast and resistant to heavy rain.
Elsie Stearns six months and Helen Stearns aged nine of Pasadena keep Bengal named Bengal as a pet. The three and a half foot wildcat, caught in the San Bernardino mountains, grew up with kittens, shows affection to the children, avoids men and dogs, yet protects himself when needed.
In a Rochester court, Lewis Sanderlin a jeweler faces alimony claims after his wife described plans to murder and cremate both spouses and write their own obituaries. She testified he discussed bringing a coffin to their home and detailing how he would look dead.
Mrs Sunderland testified that her 81 year old husband abused her and kept a snake like temper, frightening her in their parlor. She said he began an affair with a daughter of a former wife and stopped paying $100 monthly after 1904. The jury awarded the claimed alimony under the 1897 separation agreement.
Detectives Coniny and Roach search snow from East Wifty-Orst Street station to Third Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street for a set of false teeth lost by a passenger on an L train. Henry E Blankie later enters the station, writes that his teeth came from the L train, and coughs up the missing teeth on the platform.
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