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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
6
A New York man carries a large hatbox and proclaims his wife bought three hats this spring. He argues the $25 purchase must be refunded and admits, in public, that he must return the hat. The store clerk retorts Napoleon would hesitate more than this bold husband.
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap and Ointment for skin and hair care noting benefits for complexions, rough hands, and hair. It urges warm baths and gentle applications and offers a free Cuticura guide by mail from Poltier Drug & Chem Corp. Boston Mass. The ad is followed by a comic exchange from Puck about a nephew with curly blond hair who married a female baseball player.
A correspondent questions the suitability of a woman sent for a set in a musical comedy. The writer notes she has no known leading experience, though she supposedly led another act. The letter hints at issues of performance quality and potential payment or compensation concerns.
Pound Wis resident praising Lydia E Pinkham's remedy after fourteen years of female troubles and pain. She reports improved health and thanks the product and its maker for relief after ineffective consultations with several doctors. The letter urges others to seek the same cure and mentions personal trial and satisfaction.
The article lists flowering choices for May planting including metricaria feverfew and geremon has advice on bulb and bedding plant care. It notes timing for bloom from May through September, with emphasis on hardy varieties, proper spacing, and protection for late frost. It mentions gladiolus tubers begonia tubers and other blooms should be planted mid month, with staggered plantings for extended bloom.
A fragmentary column from Woman's World sketches parasol styling and color choices. It hints at subtle similarities in color and design terms, but the text remains unclear and incomplete about specific models or trends.
Brussels sprouts have gained favor in gardens for their cabbage like flavor and high yield. Plants resemble cabbage but form 12 to 14 inch stalks with many baby cabbages along the length. One plant can yield around 40 small cabbages. Seed can be sown early and transplanted in July, with heavy rich soil and two feet between plants. For overwintering, hang the plant by the roots to keep the home supply fresh.
Swiss chard is praised as a valuable home and market green for poultry, with leaves and stalks usable like spinach or asparagus. The new Luculus variety is favored. plant when soil warms, space rows three feet apart, then 18 inches between plants. Harvest leaves at 14 to 16 inches for different uses, but avoid harming the heart to ensure successive crops thrive.
An English Police Court report details Ben Birch, a salt vendor from Alcester Street, charged by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for employing a gelding in an unfit state. Witness Timms observed a lame cob with ring bones and swelling while Birch claimed he was travelling to Hanbury. A veterinary exam confirmed serious lameness and disqualification from work. the animal was detained and deemed unlikely to recover.
The article outlines best practices for preparing and maintaining an aster bed. It covers soil cultivation, manure mix, crop rotation avoiding lime, May seed timing, spacing at 12 inches, indoor seed starting, and root checks for aphids. It also recommends tobacco dust, dry sulphur or Bordeaux for stem rot, hand-picking beetles, kerosene bath for pests, wood ashes as fertilizer, and broadcasting air stacked lime for soil improvement.
Inspectors stated Birch, a man of some knowledge of horses, must have known his actions were wrong. The defendant was fined 1s and 30d costs after pleading guilty. The mayor noted the lighter fine due to three mitigating factors and that the cob would be destroyed or spared from grinding. He remarked if Hireh knew horse flesh, cruelty in such work was evident.
A Houston Post item recounts a joke about Kipling paying a dollar a word for poetry and a hard-edged editor offering a dollar a line. The poet returns with a response poem and a quip about consulting a fortune teller Bradstreet.
A speaker recalls a wife waking him at night and a husband returning late from work. The fragment hints at a humorous or tense exchange about what he brings home, described as a “fiction” or story, with unclear details and garbled wording.
The furore for beadwork sparkles as designers favor vertical bead strings and beltlike bands. Raised and flat motifs use bugles seed and large beads in gold silver jet crystal and more, with Venice beads and milky glass. The era’s fashion drives demand for antique-inspired and colored bead patterns adapted to playful modern whims.
The article advises on disguising a slender silhouette with shaping garments and fabrics. It recommends avoiding long lines and tight pieces, and suggests using glossy materials, frills, trims, epaulets, and soft accessories to create volume, with specific guidance on collars, belts, and skirt shaping.
A May feature from Edith Weidenfeld in Woman's Home Companion notes that parasols and fans remain essential for the smart American young woman. Simple bright toned parasols now differ from gowns, while elaborate sunshades with lace or floral silk carry the gown’s color. Lace fans in gold silver black or white are the season’s top choice.
A fragment from the Fort Worth Record blends a dreamlike homage to spring with a classroom exchange on injunctions. The student discourse covers the nature of equity, practical use of injunctions, and the supremacy of courts over legislative acts, noting English law as distinct and citing statutes and learned remarks.
A collage of fruit salad methods describes banish banana skin removal and slicing, cherry pitting, orange sectioning, grape preparation, and pecan additions. It includes a romaine bed, a textured dressing with olive oil orange juice vinegar salt paprika pepper and Roquefort cheese, plus garnishes of red pepper and suggested aging of the dressing for flavor.
Salmon loaf uses salmon milk flour butter cracker crumbs eggs salt and pepper steamed three hours. Garnish with stuffed olives lemon parsley violet leaves or paste. Violet cookies mix sugar eggs butter rich sour cream soda nutmeg or caraway, roll with flour bake, decorate with pale green icing and violets. Grapefruit with celery pulp served on violet leaves.
In Harper's Bazar the latest handbags feature dark flatly folded forms heavy with beads and Nap closures. Carried on long bead ropes or twisted silk, they display beadwork on faille foundations with gold stitches and sparking spangles. Delicate brocade designs emerge in light tones.
The menu lists Sunday meals with breakfast items grapefruit fried eggs toasted English muffins and coffee. Dinner features roast beef potatoes roasted Japan fried eggplant and watercress salad. Supper includes bouillon peppers stuffed with oysters Parisian salad preserved quinces and cookies tea.
A dialogue features Natalie noting long attention from him while Estelle doubts he has the courage to propose. Natalie questions whether he may lack the nerve to propose, while Estelle suggests perhaps he never intends to.
The passage laments the so called end of the wife as suffrage rises. It mocks traditional roles noting she mended hoses did housework and waited for her husband. The piece suggests women will be exhibited in museums while questioning sympathy for arranged marriages.
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