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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
2
A detailed description extols a seven room house with bath on 36 by 40 feet, noting attic bedrooms and roof space use. It discusses heating with a front heater, hot water circulation, and practical plumbing, arguing modern basins, tanks, and pumps improve health and comfort, especially in villages or country areas.
Fashion commentary revels in shifting trends from boleros and basques to striped fabrics and repousse silver embroidery. It notes short backs, empire waists, and lightweight bodices signaling new silhouettes while praising muslin blouses under coats and thin silks.
The article extols dressing sacques as vital to a woman's wardrobe and praises the new viyella cloth for its warmth, shrink resistance, and variety of patterns. It notes a fog sacque in illustration made of figured viyella, trimmed with matching silk, and a waist belt of the same material.
A vintage description details ornate headwear kept outside the sanctuary and among lace edged sheets. It highlights three cap styles, including a lace embroidered cap with pale pink blue ribbons, a revised Dutch cap with muffin like forms and side pieces, and a Belgian shaped cap with broderie Anglaise and Valenciennes edging.
A fragment describes large cedar tracts in central Tennessee attracting vast flocks of robins. A small hamlet annually markets robins for about $500, equivalent to 120,000 birds, killed at night using torches and sticks.
In Scituate, Mase, an elderly Deacon sells a cart of oxen to a farmer after a five dollar dispute. The buyer later plots violence, and the town is left with questions of trust and consequences amid a tale of deceit. Elsewhere, a mother describes eczema cures with Cuticura products, and a wartime dispatch cites Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton on Japan's battlefield psychology and Asia’s advancing momentum.
An 19th or early 20th century home remedy prescribes Fluid Extract Dandelion half an ounce, Compound Karyon one ounce, Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla three ounces. Consume a teaspoon after each meal and at bedtime to force kidneys to filter acids and poisons from blood and aid rheumatism.
A fragment from a Chicago suburb anecdote alludes to a theology school and weekend vocal efforts of senior students. The text then touts Allcock's Plasters as tested and endorsed, followed by a political note on Northern Democratic Senators Newlands and Teller and their term expirations in 1909.
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