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Newspaper
The Alma Record
Location
Alma, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
7
A fashion urged critique on mothers controlling daughters. It highlights flounced skirts with multiple ruffles and tunics, left knee gathers, and rose fastenings. Notes that many frocks use lace or net fabrics and can be home made, praising soft girdles and tied ribbons as styling details.
A domestic piece discusses children’s dress as a key part of upbringing, stressing neat clothes before a father’s homecoming and using romper playwear for toddlers. It then covers warm weather attire for babies, recommending a loose coat over a long dress and detailing embroidery and pattern ideas for crepe de chine and albatross coats.
The issue notes cement production rising to 88,351,191 barrels valued at 67.46 million while 1911 output stood at 79.47 million barrels valued at 66.71 million. It cites farm statistics on cow feed costs, beet sugar byproducts, Modesto butter output, and William Cook's nine Orpington varieties. It also covers horse collar costs, rural school funding in Town, and mutton cooking guidance. A dairy cow shipment to Puget Sound, ranch sales in Texas, weed digging tools, and cautions about automobile safety accompany farming notes and long-lived farm implements.
Favor counters in shops showcase red white and blue decor with new crepe paper designs. Giant firecrackers crown Uncle Sam and Pierrot characters, and a knapsack brims with sweet chocolate in festive displays.
Vanity byes are dainty and extremely useful for graduates. Provide twelve inches of four inch wide ribbon, stitch edges, whipstitch sides, and thread satin ribbon as a drawstring. Decorate with monogram or forget me not wreaths. fill with small vanity items like a handkerchief, powder, pins, and a pinked fabric sachet.
The article describes summer cotton blouses with minimal trimming and front openings. It highlights pin tucked fronts, broad neck embroidery that narrows toward the waist, hem stitching, kimono style elements, and sleeve lengths from elbow to full.
The fashionable summer idea is the white costume with a touch of color. It appears in border prints or embroidery, as a girdle or collar or decorative button. Color may also appear in the weave with yarns of bright color intermingling with white.
An old home trick describes lighting an ordinary wax candle, burning it to a level, then extinguishing and covering the top with salt leaving only the blackened wick end exposed for a faint steady glow.
Numerous brief items note travel and visits among residents from Alma Ithaca St Louis Flint and Breckenridge. Memorial Day tributes at Wright Cemetery. school program accolades. a runaway incident involving Miss Pearl Edgar. family bereavement for Miss Lake and sister Mrs Hufford. funeral at Evangelical church and interment in Breckenridge.
In Bath Tl Mr J Eveland testifies after twenty five years of eczema that Dr Hobsons Eczema Ointment cured him. The physician formula product has long been in use and carries a guarantee. Available at druggists or by mail for 50 cents from Pfeiffer Chemical Co Philadelphia St Louis and affiliated stores.
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