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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1908
Page
2
The article reviews lace hats inspired by the Charlotte Corday model, noting their picturesque yet top heavy silhouette and the need for careful hair arrangements. It highlights variation in brim width, drooping fronts, and the use of allover lace or trimmed brims, with soft pompons in bright colors for late summer wear and suggested color harmonies.
The article notes affordable home copies of collars belts and bodices outshine ready made pieces. It highlights wide frilled necklines, Parisian inspired frills, and tall high collars with tucked lace. Accessories for body ornamentation are numerous but often costly, encouraging clever homemakers to recreate with ribbons and trims.
A collage of odd fashion notes on pale lips and frothy pongees blends with a whimsical river meadow poem. Scattered sentences touch on manners, divorce, and authorship with quirky local humor and moral vignettes. The piece weaves fashion, poetry, and social snippets into a single, eclectic page fragment.
The article touts scented bath buds that dissolve in water to perfume baths, recommending them as a luxury and gift. It also describes delicate undergarments and dresses with specific tailoring details for a refined silhouette, highlighting neck and shoulder fit, waist definition, and discreet fastening.
A chaotic first person reminiscence describes a June day near a fence with barbwire and a trout fishing mishap. The narrator recalls removing a hole in the fence and injuring himself, plus comic and lurid details from a seaside scene and later recollections of the riverbank.
Hall's Journal of Health notes Castoria as safe and beneficial for infants and children, stating it does not contain opium or narcotics, aids digestion, quiets nerves, and respects health while warning against unsafe substitutes and greed.
The Philadelphia Press forum discusses a questionable treatment nicknamed the nickel cure. The exchange mocks an attempted quit and a “gold cure” as ineffective, suggesting the real aim is keeping nickels away from the patient in a slang dialect.
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