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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1909
Page
3
The AWN dress in white lawn features a waist gathered skirt with a deep flounce, a bodice with a lacey yoke and tuck-work, and a side-fastened waist band with a tasselled rosette. Linen dress shows a semi princess cut in pink linen with long front panel edged in embroidery, beading, and ribbon, back fastening, and matching hat.
Wash chiffon in soap lather by rolling and pressing in the hands, rinse, stiffen in gum water, and roll to absorb moisture. Iron with wrong side up along the selvedge to avoid fiber displacement, keeping it taut to remove crinkles. Do not iron natural crepon crinkle chiffon ties. pin ends and stretch to relax folds. Dry fold without pressing.
Linen batiste waist features grouped tucks and rich trim of embroidery and cluny lace. Delicate design emphasizes dainty silhouette and refined finish.
The passage explains hat fashions where the brim is sharply turned up at the sides and sometimes at the back or right side. It notes narrow fronts and backs with trimming placed on the left, detailing variations in brim orientation and decorative emphasis.
Fashion notes from Washington Star praise transparent sleeves as a cool versatile trend for warm weather. The piece suggests pairing sleeves with white chiffon or mousseline, and highlights new parasol designs and raffia belts priced at $1 each.
Use a quilting frame or curtain stretcher converted into a quilting frame by tacking ticking strips on inner edges. Pin curtains at four corners and intervals, then baste to sew. Scalloped edges can be joined two at a time, reducing labor and avoiding sore fingers.
A textile roundup describes a pale blue scarf with graduated gold embroidery at the ends, a green gauze scarf patterned with blue, and a gray gauze piece with ends embroidered in overlapping mother-of-pearl scales reminiscent of Japanese techniques.
A fashion note describes buttons covered with the gown’s material and worn with a foulard scarf trimmed by cord, both matching in silk and button style.
Assistant Secretary J W Fleming handling fair attractions received a letter from Milton Wright Jr of Dayton offering to exhibit at the state fair a Wright aeroplane model in exchange for 25 dollars and two fair tickets.
Silver Bill, a pigeon owned by William F. McGonigal of this city, arrived here August 5 after a 1400 mile journey from Denver. Under National Pigeon Fanciers Association rules, the bird was liberated nine days and nine hours earlier. Last year the distance was completed in 13 days.
Ashtabula reports the marriage of James F. Adams of Ritzville Washington and Mrs. H. E. Jenkins of Conneaut. The groom is 64 and the bride 65, who rekindled their romance from 1867 after a lovers quarrel ended following the Civil War era.
John Thom aged 24 night watchman was shot and fatally injured in Mansfield. Ed C. Smith foreman of Seneca Chain Works is held for investigation after claiming he saw a man peering into the room where his sister-in-law Miss Hazel Greenlese was preparing to retire. He says the shooting occurred during a fight.
William Moore claiming Philadelphia as his home was arrested in Bellefontaine on a charge of fraudulently taking money for magazine subscriptions. He attempted to flee but became entangled in a fence and was suspended until relief arrived.
Fire caused between 10000 and 15000 dollars in the business section at the west end of Broad street in Elyria on August 6. C W Smalley's bakery and Thomas Gray's shoe store were burned out while all city firefighters struggled to keep the blaze from spreading.
Taxation and whisky are the two big problems around which the large activities of the approaching session of the Ohio general assembly are centering. Trial heats for the events to be run off next winter began here with the opening of the annual legislative reunion.
In Galion on August 6 a week after A. J. McKee a Pennsylvania brakeman died from an accident his wife died in childbirth and their newborn infant also perished. The family’s shock proved fatal for the mother who was in delicate condition and she died 24 hours after the birth.
Dayton August 6 Dr D R Miller minister in United Brethren church former president of Bonebrake Theological seminary chaplain of Ohio penitentiary and later superintendent of state industrial school for girls is dead here.
A 14 inch head of oats with 155 grains was raised on L. G. Graves farm near Massillon. The banner stalk is of the Norwegian variety, described as one of the most prolific heads of oats ever grown in the state.
In Rhodes near Mansillon villagers trapped a snake infestation spreading from a nearby brickyard. A roundup killed between 40 and 50 snakes, reducing the danger to the small hamlet.
The article argues a sow can raise two litters per year without extra feed beyond that for a second litter. It cites yields by sow age, stresses September fall litters for winter growth, and notes feeding 10 percent meat meal or 25 percent shorts improves rate and health over a straight corn diet.
An illustration shows a small corn crib designed to deter rats and mice. It advises removing all corn from the bottom so that any corn taken out causes the crib to shift and drive rodents away.
A Wisconsin experiment station bulletin outlines spraying potatoes for blight. It lists 150 pounds blue vitrol, 200 pounds fresh lime, and potassium ferrocyanide crystals with costs and seasonal quantities. First application calls for 40 pounds blue vitrol and 50 pounds fresh lime mixed in 25 gallons water the evening before spraying.
Instructions describe slaking lime, preparing lime and blue vitriol stock solutions, and mixing to create Bordeaux mixture for spraying. It covers proportions one fifth stock solutions per barrel, caution against foliage damage, and a test using potassium ferrocyanide to check lime adequacy.
J. Ogden Armour praises meat stock producers as strong leaders in agriculture. He notes the stockman funds and participates in modern campaigns to improve stock quality and supports exhibitions and breeding programs to raise standards.
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