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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1909
Page
6
A fragmented 1910s style column discusses social change, the old order, and calls for naval power and treasure hunting. It notes shifting attitudes toward slavery and race, critiques modern media, trains, and taxes, and imagines a future with large battleships and new coin designs. It cites Captain Kidd treasure searches and naval advances.
A Farmers' Review excerpt discusses ideal farm horse teams, stressing medium size, balanced bone and muscle, weight around 1460 pounds, and uniform conformation for even work. It covers diet, water quality, salt intake, gradual spring workloads, ample grain and hay, pasture use, and clean dry bedding for health and productivity.
Strangers in New England consider connecting house and barn with sheds to transfer between them during bad weather. The concept evolves toward underground public subways inspired by New York tunnels under the river. The author hopes trains may someday run underground.
A rural New Yorker illustration explains a winter tunnel to connect house and barn for northern farms. The piece then covers poultry breeding faults, culling disqualified birds, salt use for cattle, and a ground squirrel pest remedy using strychnine poisoned grain with careful application.
A list of coat designs in blue serge and fawn cloth with features such as pointed fastenings, white faced collars, black satin buttons, silk cords, velvet collars, and matching hats. Specifications include yardages for serge and lining, button counts, and trims like satin, velvet, and roses.
A description of a rouge pink linen dress in a vert princess style with panel seams and tucked detailing accompanies a homespun philosophy. The piece links fashion to efficiency, arguing brains and good housekeeping free women from drudgery and urge practical, modern homemaking.
The article describes gowns with colored shoulder scarves and pink and blue lingerie embroidery. It notes waistline shaping with back clonal seams, yolk depth tucks, and passementerie trimmings in various modia colors. Net girdies, guimpes tied at the waist, and long twisted neck chains with coral beads appear among the season’s details. Cloak gowns in broadcloth and colors like black blue violet and smoke complete the listing.
A vintage advertisement extols healthful living and proper medicine use. It promotes medicines as simple remedies and urges buying the genuine Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna from the California Fig Syrup Co. for general purification and beneficial effects.
The article notes jewelry worn for ornament during the day is rare and emphasizes discreet pieces. It mentions a small gold safety pin and a long barpin for securing stock and belt buckle as useful yet unobtrusive items.
The article notes that Baro Stockings last longer if girls wear slippers that are powdered inside. This reduces friction as milk and ghee rub together, lessening damage to fine stockings.
A simple mouth wash is described by mixing one ounce of carbonate of soda with one pint of water. Use after brushing to rinse the mouth and preserve teeth while cleansing the tongue and gums.
A passage on folk fashions borrowed from Poland and the fashion of dangling curls at the face. It notes daring women going to Paris trying the curls that fall over the temples and create stray locks near the ear.
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