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Newspaper
The Caldwell Tribune
Location
Caldwell, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1908
Page
9
Practical advice on winter washday techniques including salt in rinse water to prevent freezing and vinegar for bands, plus potato-based fabric cleaning method. Also a brief music of marital wisdom, fashion notes on colored stockings, and housekeeping guides for making beds, sickroom sheets, and floor cleaning with potash and lime paste.
The article surveys autumn and winter fashion, noting backward trims, downward Brims, and feathered hats with velvet and tinsel details. It highlights velvet hats, large bows, embroidered bands, and turbans, plus child headgear like poke bonnets, while offering home care tips for flour, table protectors, and nickel cleaning.
A test on corn storage shows germination falls with crib storage while barn racks and a dry room yield similar germination, with oven storage performing fairly well overall. Strength of germination is highest for barn racks, then dry room, while crib storage produces the weakest seed vigor.
A sermon style tract argues that genuine faith shows in daily conduct not public display. It cautions against self justifying sins and hypocritical piety, urges Godward companionship, and sees praise in burdens borne, love shared, and cross paths chosen over worldly gain.
A garments description presents a blouse of amethyst berry satin paired with brow sultan cloth. Velvet rever is a shade darker with a velvet cravat at the collar base. The bodice features a tucked border, narrow silk cord trim, passementerie buttons, and a vest and under sleeves in French batiste and Irish lace.
Silk covered pillows slightly larger than baby pillows with removable slips of fine linen, hand embroidered eyelet design, and torchon lace inset. Priced at $2.05 each, they provide relief for restless sleepers and are handy for tucking under the shoulder or back, or for supporting the head while napping on a lounge or chair.
The excerpt explains improving access to a rack by illustrating a method to ease climbing into the rack. It notes little extra work and material are needed while keeping the rack’s contents held securely as if the end pieces extended fully across.
Professor John B. Smith of the New Jersey Experiment Station outlines a thick acting fertilizer for onions cabbage and maggot control. He cites a formula of 700 pounds nitrate of soda 1000 pounds acid phosphate and 800 pounds muriate of potash per acre with radishes turnips and onions compatible. The mix yields about 5 percent nitrogen 7 percent phosphoric acid and 7 percent potash and costs roughly 82 to 35 per ton.
Missouri Experiment Station offers guidance on controlling white grubs, the larvae of May beetles. Cultivation is the primary remedy, as grubs vary in size due to three years of feeding before adulthood. thorough plowing and patch renewal are advised for infested areas.
The Boston Transcript notes the persistent credulity around miraculous claims and notable impostors. It cites Ney’s supposed execution and escape to America, a Reichstadt claimant, a Kansas death belief tied to Wilkes Booth, and Fitzherbert family papers myths, concluding belief spans varied classes.
An incident during Robert Loraine's performance of Robert Shaw's Man and Super Man in Minneapolis involved a lean man with a red ginger beard in a private box. Applause for an automobile scene led some to believe he was G Bernard, until he corrected the crowd saying he sold the show the automobile. The scene ended with a witty exchange as Shawites and audience react amid confusion.
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