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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1917
Page
12
The article advocates brick cottages on narrow lots with economical construction. It explains face brick veneers over wood frames, solid clay walls, or backing materials, and the shift to general contractors. It emphasizes affordable designs, minimal decoration, and smart interior finishes to achieve comfort and low living costs.
The article discusses solid wall construction using face brick with common brick or structural tile backing and compares cost with veneer. It describes moveable tie arrangements, foundation details, and how a five room framed cottage with face brick veneer would be built, heated, and finished with white stone copings and trim. It notes lot sizing, lighting, and window options, plus a porch and room arrangement emphasizing privacy.
Advises raising feed now to support larger litters and earlier breeding. Recommend breeding sows in May or June for fall litters, ensure no unbred sows over summer, and use proper rationing and flushing. Emphasizes purebred boars, sow care, and timely weaning and mating to maximize meat supply.
The article urges national service through farming. It recommends larger gardens and bounty from crops including potatoes and corn. It suggests rotating wheat land to feterita, planting cowpeas, saving manure, boosting poultry and swine, and increasing turkey production while battling orchard and field pests.
Reports from agricultural circles describe heelflies attacking cattle in summer. Larvae bore through backs, causing holes while cattle flee to water. Larvae ride hitchhiking through the stomach after eggs are ingested and mature by spring or early summer.
The text describes grubs developing in the ground then maturing into flies within about a month. Eggs hatch on hair, larvae burrow through skin, causing flesh and milk loss and devalued hides. It advises pressing out grubs with a knife or applying a few drops of kerosene via oil can to destroy them and recommends keeping files away from cattle and using dip preparations.
Dr W McCampbell of Kanena State Agricultural College warns that work horses show increased sickness on Monday linked to Sunday feeding. He cites Monday morbidity and colic from heavy idle feeding and cold or sloppy bran, recommending lighter grain, steamed malt mash and pasture if possible.
Shoats for early market should have millfeed stop twice daily. In connection with abundant green feed keep a box of wood ashes and charcoal under cover. In the feeding pen they can eat what they need and a small amount of salt.
Paris fashion reports describe Flower-Pet Modela hats with very high crowns and narrow brims as the season’s chic silhouette. Caroline Rebous designs feature lacquer-red Japanese straw and silver-gray ribbons in bow toppers, with lightweight trims and simple lines favored by 1017 millinery. Georgette and Toy Scout hats appear in fine chip and Japanese straw, ribbons twined around crowns and draping over the shoulder.
Instructions for home washing of colored summer frocks and pale blouses. Use salt in rinse water, bran water for Holland frocks with no soap, and bran mixture for pretreatment. Rinse steps include warm water, cold rinse, and a final hot iron when half dry. avoid wringing and use muslin barrier with hot iron to prevent yellowing from hot water.
The article notes pocketed bloomers linked to the new khaki skirt and Norfolk jacket ensemble for women entering industrial fields and outdoor activities. It describes satin and delicate fabrics from white satin to dimity and gainsook, marketed as practical camp wear and travel gear for the summer.
A child friendly supper plan features a trayful of crash finished with taney buttesholing to Mack and a log of animale from the crematite book. Tommy Tucker wears a bib to protect his clean suit while two napkins show cross stitched animals. The arrangement aims to keep a young child calm at the table.
A hairdressing routine outlines adjusting a hair net with care. One end is held while the other is pinned at the front, slight visibility of netting noted. The process includes tensioning the net across the front and smoothing with a hatpin to restore original shape.
Instructions outline methods to transfer designs to fabric using paper and pencil. It explains the wine pine method, tying layers, placing carbon paper if available, and tracing outlines to leave an impression on material.
A fashion note highlights coats with miles of silk stitching in gold beige tones. Designers use bold tower details and large squared panels, with emerald green stitching and delicate cuffs.
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