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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1900
Page
7
Guide for women on home care and decorating stressing harmony in marriage. Advice on making a happy home, inviting sunlight, and sharing duties to brighten family life with poetic reflections on songs and welcome for guests.
The item describes a tailored garment with veer stock and Jusiel Jagg insertions on cream satin, nine satin bands, pleated front, carmel color depth, and a white hat with blue satin shading. A chatelaine bag on the wrist features a gold ink chain and fringe, with a rhinestone tackle accent.
Simple at home eye care advice emphasizes warm water rinses and salt solutions to reduce inflammation. It warns that outside applications miss the root and recommends a camel hair brush to apply solutions and notes eyewear can prevent many headaches and illnesses arising from strain.
The article argues for regular facial washing with soap due to dust and skin health. It notes soap can shine the skin but that indicates cleansing, and proper drying is essential. It recommends washing chiefly at night and avoiding immediate exposure to the outdoors after bathing.
The text prescribes washing the face with warm water and good soap to lather a sponge, then rinsing with clean water, washing with the hands, and drying with a Turkish or crash towel until the face is dry and tingling, as a method to improve and preserve complexion.
The description notes an overskirt with a scalloped edge finished by Jace at the edge, opening over a flounce of insertion and crepe bands. A light blue velvet ribbon threads through the bodice and ties at the front.
A mother should store a ready to use emergency kit with soft linens bandages baking soda witch hazel absorbent cotton and a hot water bag. Include common child remedies such as croup mixture toothache tinctures and cough syrups. Lock medicines and give a key to a trusted caregiver.
A concise note describes a maid preserving her own person and another item, ensuring nothing is misplaced precisely when it is urgently required.
The article urges embracing sunlight for beauty and health, arguing sun rays aid complexion, atmosphere, and growth of plants and animals. It notes light aids respiration and disease recovery, and highlights its importance for children's development and cheerful rooms.
The article notes beds in fashionable bedrooms feature fine sheets with broad drawn work borders and linen lace edges. California blankets are trimmed by needlework and monograms, duvets edged in china silk with valenciennes frills, and oversized sham pillows coordinated with the duvet. Scented sachet pillows surround sleepers with violet and rose leaf fragrances.
The bridegroom in a morning wedding wears a frock coat white duck or piquetoast trousers dark striped cloth patent leather shoes gloves and silk Ascot tie white or pearl gray with a boutonniere of small white flowers. For an evening wedding he wears dress clothes unless the bride travels in which case he would wear morning coat and no gloves.
A historical facsimile shows an Oct 20 appeal signed by Meare MF DeWaal Hoffa J Botmesy Tomas P Thera and others urging Americans to support the Transvaal war effort. The plea references Boer and British factions, calls for subscriptions, and cites connections to Cape Town and South African Republic leadership.
A street scene near the Prague consulate ends with an American impostor, posing as Senator Beveridge, fooling a visitor and forcing a diplomatic blunder before an American officer intercedes and resolves the matter at a proper dinner.
A report from Mining and Scientific Press describes microscopic diamonds formed in steel processing. A 300 gram sample yielded graphitic carbon after nitric acid and other reagents, leaving diamonds that burned clean in platinum. Also noted is Natal's naming by Bartholomew Diaz and Da Gama's 1497 voyage to India via the sea route.
A Boston applicant tells an interviewer, Yes, air, I want hundred dollars per week. He says he expects about three dollars in daily wages and describes his origin as Boston, according to a Detroit Free article.
Idaho irrigation methods are outlined with cooperative water systems using canals and laterals. Farmers may own land and water rights or lease via irrigation companies. The article notes Idaho’s growth, settlement opportunities, and guidance from the Oregon Short Line. A Missouri river ice explosion near Banker endangers a farmer, where rapid cold formed trapped air under the ice, causing a massive blast.
The piece explains the old saying not worth his salt traces to ancient Rome where soldiers received salt as pay. It notes sal is Latin for salt and that salt exchange and pay led to the terms salary and worth its salt, illustrating the phrase’s antiquity.
Physicians warn that spread of smallpox stems from moldy paste on layered wall papers in homes. They urge using Alabastine rock-base cement as a clean, lasting, safer wall coating to prevent infection and restore habitable rooms.
The illustration shows a large building of the John M. Smyth Company of Chicago, a mail order house in business for centuries. They ship wholesale to consumers nationwide, offering illustration packed catalogs and a vast retail catalog to bring the wholesale price to homes. The company touts savings by bypassing retailers and travelers, claiming reduced costs and faster service.
List of patentees with cities and inventions including Carlestine Blake disinfecting device Ira Gleam fire-escape Corwin Johnson Dy eream separator Knud Lerol Ira Newburg anchor and tension device for check-row corn-planters Patrick Mulloy spice cabinet Emil Rohlffs draft equalizer Edwin Washburn draft-rigging brake beam Nils Wig horseshoe and attorney firm Merwin Rethrop Johnson at Pioneer Press Building Eau Claire.
A fragmented Cleveland Plain Dealer clipping notes a religious service featuring Rev. Mr. Naller. The text suggests a ceremonial moment involving a crown and a dipping act, described in a garbled OCR fragment with low readability.
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