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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1912
Page
3
The article notes lingerie styles, including corset covers and pantaloons, will stay close fitting with slight changes after January sales. It highlights materials like nainsook, batistes, dimity, American lawn, and cheap ribbons, plus sale timing and advice for home sewers.
The piece explains how dress style favors a single piece corset cover and pantaloons over separate chemises. It describes bias cut pantaloons, top hems hidden, and one piece corset covers with embroidery flouncing and ribbon drawstrings. Cache corsets with peplum tails keep garments taut under skirts and drawers are very wide.
The passage notes brunettes with blue eyes suit mustard brown and blue, with a black haired violet eyed girl wearing a golden brown mink trimmed coat and hat. It also discusses gray for black hair redolent eyes and green or electric blue shades as flattering options.
Description notes a change in evening wrap design with a wide band of lace or trim now placed at the knee rather than at the garment edge, altering the decorative line of chiffon velvet wraps.
Grace Gould fashion editor urges careful wardrobe use and advises resting in negligees rather than tailored dresses after shopping trips. She recommends including one or two negligees in winter clothes and notes they should be simple and comfortable.
A long time silk care follower advises pressing a silk skirt before first wear. She claims the heat from the iron prevents cracking and that since adopting the plan she has never had a silk crack.
A simple waist protector idea from Good Housekeeping uses blue muslin 26 inches square bound with white silk tape. Cut a central hole just large enough for the hanger hook and bind its edge as well.
A call for balanced living urges public figures to model food restraint for health and morale. It champions practical nourishment over vanity, arguing better health through sensible eating than thinness at the cost of spirit.
A practical guide to sanding and finishing a worn hardwood floor in a dust prone living room. It covers crack filling with prepared fillers, color matching with burnt sienna, applying boiled linseed oil, and the importance of thorough rubbing. It also describes dust control by using burlap or flannel applications and suggests rugs as a durable alternative to carpets.
A Philadelphia inventor markets a spring steel heel creeper that hooks to the shoe without screws or straps. It folds on and off in seconds, fits in a pocket, and its corrugated surface resists ice and hard snow for safer travel on slick pavements.
A simple bake of flour sugar baking powder butter eggs and milk yields a light cake. Add vanilla and bake in two layers for twenty to thirty minutes. Cool and top with maple or white sugar boiled frosting for a dessert cut into squares.
A kitchen note explains beating potatoes until smooth for light mash. It suggests serving with giblet gravy, and describes preparing uniform sweet potatoes by trimming, optional stuffing with butter, and browning in the shell for ease of eating without changing flavor.
A recipe instructs boiling fresh beets until tender then dicing. Mix beets with milk, two to three beaten eggs, salt pepper and nutmeg. Bake in an earthen dish until custard sets. Serve hot as a vegetable main or side dish.
A Canadian inventor designed a clip to grasp the pipe stem with legs that support the bowl in an upright position to prevent spilling ashes or accidental fires. The legs fold for storage.
A design describes retaining the bowl upright on the stem with a ferrule or sleeve that carries supporting legs. The device may connect the stem to the mouthpiece without a clip and offers adjustable upright positioning.
Observers track five comets split between hemispheres. Brooks' comet lies between Ursa Major and Lyra, making the Great Bear appear with four tail stars and reaching magnitude between second and third. Quenisset's comet, seventh magnitude, visible with small telescope, was noted near 15 1 294% seconds and dec 64 52 8. Beljawski's new comet from Simies Russia was spotted at 3 am with RA 10h and dec N8, moving eastward and visible low east at 4:30–5:30 am.
A description explains a hair's breadth as dividing an inch into 10 000 parts with seventeen parts equaling the term. It notes the phrase's use in workshop precision for delicate scientific instruments.
American films gain limited popularity in Nuremberg and nearby German cities. Consul George N. Ifft notes only depictions of cowboy and Indian life hold interest for audiences.
A psychologist offers a playful theory that right handedness stems from the heart's position. The shield on the left protects the heart while the right hand acts actively. The idea contrasts with acquired traits and echoes debates between Darwin and Lamarck on inherited characteristics.
The idea, started by a Kaiser's cousin, sees enameled portraits applied to the nail of the little finger. Photographs are made waterproof with a shellac coating and can last about four months with careful handling. The original portrait cost $90 and illustrated the artistic nail work in Berlin manicures.
Engaged couple Dora Thurston and Frank Wells clash over social cads and house rules. After a dramatic mountain miscue where Dora feigns danger, Wells digs her free then confesses. Dora retorts that women boss before marriage and husbands after.
Karl Burgsmuller of Kretensen Germany has devised a device to temporarily narcotize animalsrendering them insensible. He uses a cartridge with a gasifiable capsicine mix and an inflammable accelerant, plus a small explosive between the mix and the cap. The design resembles pistols sold for disabling burglars.
A collection of curious claims spans airship construction with layered wooden propellers, art gallery dusting by air syringes, early glass engraving dated May 8 1787, and various unusual observations. Other notes mention dew containing radium, banana and potato chemical similarity, candle visibility ranges, fly eye acuity, a Brussels clock winded by wind, oil use in Panama to kill mosquitoes, and fingerprint identification error rates.
Professor G Kraus reports a sudden leaf shower from two trees in Halle Germany after a 26 degree frost on Oct 26–27 1892. The horse chestnut shed 87 603 leaves weighing 135 pounds in one hour while the maple dropped 16 518 leaves weighing 61 pounds in thirty minutes. The last leaf fell Nov 10 with total shed 276 900 leaves weighing 445 pounds.
A fad among aviation wives features souvenir bracelets. Originating with Mrs Glenn H Curtiss, the bracelets list names of 14 airmen who have flown at meets she attended. Now nearly every airman wife owns one, reflecting the new keepsake trend.
A dialogue recalls a jockey seeking ride control while the owner insists on measured pacing during a track appearance. The exchange emphasizes training discipline and shared caution about speed.
Stella asks why Jonah remained three days inside the whale. Bella suggests he may have aimed to establish a residence for a divorce, implying a whimsical or figurative reason behind the biblical tale.
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