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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1912
Page
7
Mary Dean highlights taffeta's rise in the new season with outfits and trims in shot colors, two tone gowns, veiled dresses, and bold accents. The piece notes clever cording, machine stitching, and the bold mixing of taffeta with chiffon and lace in coats, waists, and hats, urging readers to embrace the stylish material.
The article notes careful use of color with accessories like a small lawn square and bright borders on tailor-made outfits. It highlights a new feather trim made from ostrich plumes in varying tints, fashioned into a square cockade shape to adorn the brim of a fur toque.
The article describes a neat pale pink satin sachet with silk edging and cotton wool lining suitable for sachet powder. It explains using the silk cord in three loops at corners and center base, suggests embroidery in apple green silk, and notes transfer designs for floral motifs. It also mentions uses as a gift, bazar item, or receptacle for veils gloves and ties.
A study of 73 cases over three months by the Pennsylvania railroad finds that combining high heels with hobble skirts causes many injuries to women getting on and off trains and using station stairs. Reported incidents include heels caught on steps and garments tearing as women descend stairs.
A Farmers Wife urges that no woman should stay at home constantly arguing that regular social interaction keeps a home lively and prevents dullness, asserting women benefit from meeting and mingling with others.
The spring suit offers varied lengths from hip to short jackets with hipless figures returning to a normal waist. Skirts stay narrow with tunic or slashed trims while cutaway coats gain popularity though made practical. Silk ta f fita fabrics and lace collar details highlight demi tailored and dressy models with braided trims and new leather belt designs.
New import favors feature miniature paste board pyramids holding tiny flowering plants. The holders mimic porcelain finish with color accents matching the artificial blossoms. Yellow sets align with table schemes and enhance the overall effect, including small white place cards tucked among the blooms.
A fragment attributes immense influence to small causes, noting that a single black speck can trigger gangrene a storm or a revolution in a terse Amiel style. This concise aphorism emphasizes the chain from minor events to major consequences.
Lincoln spoke of talents beyond arts and the text extols home making as a noble lifelong profession. It urges teaching daughters to value domestic skills, unselfishness, and harmony, arguing trained home makers promote welfare, educate children, and reduce future marital disruption.
Poetic lines describe a life devoted to ministry and service as love’s guiding law. Celestial horizons loom above ordinary paths while heaven and earth share in glory. The verse elevates simple breath as an ecstasy and urges steadfast devotion.
A collection of old time tips covers sewing buttons with matching thread direction to avoid gaping holes, mending lace curtains with cold starch, dusting a sick room with moistened cotton batting, and sanitizing milk bottle caps. It includes coffee enhancement, a baked cream pie recipe, and a fruit salad dressing with almond butter and lemon juice.
E. Dana Durand argues in World's Work that in 1910 foreign-born whites in the United States under ten years’ stay show 155 males to 100 females. Among all foreign-born, 7,522,000 males and 5,821,000 females, or 129 to 100, higher than 1900. native white has 103 males per 100 females.
A reflective note highlights true allies who focus on the most vulnerable point of a cause to seek practical remedies. It emphasizes practical action over rhetoric and praises problem solving by committed supporters.
An authority notes painting and sculpture fit a musician's life while warning music can shorten it. The comment contrasts creative pursuits with the peril of a short career and mentions risks to artists in a concise cultural reflection.
The Scientific American reviews a new automatic electric switch by John L. Polk of Menands New York. The device uses a hand lever and spring action with a dash pot to retard motion, closing one circuit then opening it and automatically closing another. A plan view shows the lever at the extreme left.
A compact electric motor truck crane designed for unloading loading and moving loads in yards and shop buildings is described. It features a front mounted swinging crane with a one ton hoist powered by a rear battery, allowing operation within a 6 to 8 foot radius for horizontal placement and up to 10 feet vertical lift. The vehicle can move loads from railroad cars or wagons to destinations, with a short wheelbase enabling agile travel through aisles.
An old quack remedy fades as electrical devices aid X ray work, with regular doctors exploring physiological effects. Dr Labordie of France presents a sciatica treatment using ionization with sodium hyposulphite, claiming relief via sulphur oxide from electrolysis rather than direct current.
Several tunnels on the Southern Pacific are equipped with automatic electric lighting devices. When the train is within a hundred feet of the tunnel the lights go on, warning pedestrians and affording light for the engineer.
Electricity, a busy servant to man, now assists in dyeing operations, performing actings and providing help in the dyeing process as part of its expanding role in industrial tasks.
A private press exposition showcases the Johnson-Varley tuned cable and wireless telegraph system. It uses 49 reed signals across one semitone, promises fourfold speed over Morse, simultaneous transmitters, lower operator need, and secret wireless telegraphs with interference prevention.
The Popular Electricity notes a Montana patent for distributing electricity to farm tools. The system uses a dynamo with parallel field wires and a movable trolley pair carrying a motor driven traction engine that collects current via a second trolley as fields are prepared.
A proposed fire alarm indicator uses three panes with incandescent lamps to show signaling boxes by number or signs. It can be manual or Morse automatic and suggests a translucent illuminated map with numbered disks to mark all boxes. Red backlights indicate signaling box and station for quick route planning.
The report notes nine signal stations in Alaska, defers to Electric Mules for Panama, and claims reduced meat shrinkage with electricity. It cites a 2700 mile Atlantic cable response, New York fire pumps, 71 armored cables with 13 561 conductors, Berlin’s battery driven street machines, Omaha pumps, and Hamburg monorail tests.
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