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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1910
Page
3
Instructions for making a comfortable under jacket wrap from wool using a bone hook. Includes foundation chain lengths, ribbed and plain tricot rows, increases and decreases to fit 74 stitches, assembly of shoulders, and a decorative border with treble and double crochet stitches.
An old instruction urges women to keep hands soft and white. It prescribes rubbing with coarse white oatmeal, soaking for fifteen minutes, washing with soap, rinsing in warmer water, drying thoroughly, and applying rosewater with glycerine or a good cream to prevent dryness.
A careful mother makes several pairs of strings for the baby cap. She hems unfinished ends after embroidery, pins them to the cap with small gold safety pins so they can be removed after each wear. This keeps the baby immaculate.
A guide to converting two rooms into a single space by removing the wall and adding a one foot thick half wall with pillars. Thick walls become built in shelves for books, palms and ferns add homelike decor. Wood or cement walls possible with cement glazed or painted.
Beautiful quillings for children's hats are best made by hand rather than by machine. They require ribbon velvet or ribbon, with the latter preferred for its lightness, and the simple mushroom shape minimizes trimming costs. An inch-wide ribbon forms a snappy hat decoration when the ends are passed through a jet or metal slide after tacking to the hat.
An exceedingly useful little garment description. Double breasted tunic fastens on the left side up to the neck with a narrow collar band. Slightly drawn in below the waist by a band of material or leather. Materials: two yards 44 inch width, one sozen button.
Plain silk in new weaves decorates spring tailored costumes of soft hairy wool and one piece gowns. A dull pastel blue gown uses lighter silk for trimming with a gathered skirt and silk blouse. Belted with two fabrics, ends tuck under cloth pieces, lapped in small scallops with black buttons. Silk trims flat folds on the sides. Gowns with matching skirt and bodice viewed as dressier for spring. Silk fancies in capes and jackets add warmth.
A Prescott of items reports a new Presbyterian church planned at Dunbar and a fund drive for a crack baseball team. Earthquake tremors were felt in Columbus and Platte county. A Rebekah Judge was organized at Albion. The oldest resident of Nance county died at 98. The First Presbyterian church dedication occurred in Osceola. Other items mention civic meetings, indictments in Butler county, Ashland farmers forming institutes, wolf kill by two girls in Otoe, Civil War veterans petitioning for pension, a Washington avalanche victim remembered in Red Cloud, a glove explosion injuring Grace Smith, and local jail parole remarks by Warden Smith.
Prof Jaques Loeb the renowned life origin researcher will move from the University of California to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in San Francisco. The German born scientist rose to fame in 1902 at the University of Chicago for fertilizing sea urchin eggs and showing heart activity in salt solution. He will devote full time to experiments without teaching duties, at age 61.
The excerpt recalls a light hearted exchange about George returning home last night. The tone suggests a social vignette highlighting humor around resolutions and domestic banter in a community setting.
Warns against using a single eyeglass when both eyes are not unequal in power. If powers differ, astigmatism requires professional testing and a paired lens. Equal powers make the eye unequal in effect, and even a flat glass misleads the user to favor one eye and can cause permanent wrinkles.
In England Scotland Ireland and Wales a roller skating craze grips the public. Bristol hosts a rink built for the purpose by American management and opened to the public, recouping its cost within the first four months.
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