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Newspaper
Sullivan Union
Location
Sullivan, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1913
Page
8
Describes walking and smart dress outfits with details on skirts coats bodices and trims. Notes fabric requirements including yards of cloth braid silk satin lining and buttons, with styles featuring basques wrapped seams embroidery and satin hats.
The item urges women to care for their feet with proper footwear and regular washing. It warns against small shoes and short nails, recommends pumice and sandal-safe nail care, and suggests consulting a chiropodist. It also notes a surge of rick rack braid usage in garments and home textiles with broad demand.
A dated note discusses aluminum gifts for bridal showers. It suggests brides receive practical items such as kitchen and linen necessities. The piece compares aluminum and tin options and encourages thoughtful budgeting for larger articles.
Embroidered handkerchiefs are popular as women save time on household sewing. Hemstitched linen handkerchiefs sell for 75 cents in quality fit for embroidery, with options for wreaths initials three in a row or all-around edging.
Cream of corn soup dresses the table alongside dandelion salad and bread with butter. Chops and chocolate éclairs conclude the meal with tea.
The article extols dandelions as a wholesome vegetable for luncheons and describes several simple salads. It explains soaking to reduce bitterness, washing thoroughly, and pairing with greens like watercress endive and cress, plus dressings or eggs. It also includes recipes for creamed dandelion and a ham dish using boiled dandelion leaves.
A guide lists fish options for dinner including salmon trout halibut bluefish flounder sea bass and mackerel. It explains bone removal techniques and provides recipes for halibut in cream boiled salmon steak and grilled trout with bearnaise sauce using step by step cooking methods and ingredients.
Frau Duer rin of Nuremberg counsels English women to burn dinners not villas and to refuse household duties. She argues men should manage meals and children, pressuring them to yield political authority.
A Confederate soldier’s remains and gear were uncovered eight miles west of Gettysburg in a leaf mold layer. Clarence A. Wills found a musket barrel, hammer, belt buckle, canteen pieces, minie balls, and a shoe near two rocks overlooking Lee’s retreat route, suggesting a fatal Union volley.
A tale from Liverpool village traces a long running dispute between Adiniron Tompkins and Moses Wheeler over using ginger in pumpkin pies. Their feud divides the town into gingerites and nutmegites, worsens with sermons and pride, and ends with Wheeler's stroke and death. The pair reconcile only briefly before the final rift proves fatal. The back end notes a 1913 Indiana circuit court notice about estate sale of Joseph Chrisman heirs with hearing on June 9, 1913.
Mrs May Allen of Newark accompanied by her husband Charles J Allen visited the New York home of Mr and Mrs Donald Dorley after May dreamed her elderly father and mother were sinking in a marsh and begging for help. Police and a janitor forced entry to find Dorley and his wife nearly dead in the dining room with a kitchen gas range open.
Judge Robert Carey of the New Jersey common pleas court urged ministers to adopt a one day per year jail obligation for every man and woman saying it would reform life and foster a new Christianity and charity.
Miss Florence Markham of Interlaken Massachusetts has performed regular duties as a letter carrier in that city for twenty four years. She says she likes the work.
Farm sale offers a genuine whip tore available at the owner’s Carlisle area location three and a half miles west of Carlisle. Price listed at 2.25 per bit. Contact Geo. W. Unger via Carlisle telephone system 213-1.
Minnie Rohland as administratrix has filed a final account in Sullivan Circuit Court. The report will be heard on Friday May 30, 1915, the 23rd judicial day of the May term 1913. Creditors heirs and legatees must appear to show cause why the report should not be approved. First insertion May 14 1918. Bays and Bays Attorneys.
Wool consignments ready for processing at Sullivan Woolen Mill located at unit 42 tf. The notice directs suppliers to bring wool for milling. Expect standard grading and lot assignment upon arrival.
State of Indiana Sullivan County May term 1918 IVA DEAL THOMAS DANIEL DEAL Complaint No. 15481. Plaintiff filed May 12 1913 with affidavit that defendant is not a resident of Indiana and must answer by Sept 1 1913 or default will be entered. Lee F Bays attorney for plaintiff. First insertion May 14 1913 3t.
A humorous exchange contrasts Father and Son on the phrase Dame gossip. The dialogue plays on politeness to omit the final e, a quip attributed to Le Crabbe.
Advertising copy extols Electric Bitters as a cure for weakness nervousness and poor appetite promising renewed energy and improved digestion liver and kidney function. Testimonial from Mrs O Rhinevault Vestal Center NY praises the remedy and a local druggist promotes bottles at 50 cents and 1.00 through Joe K Smock Son.
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