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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
7
Silk backed hand mirrors and brushes are replacing plain covers in women’s toilet sets. Dresden silk pins, pin cushions shaped like bellows, and schoolgirl pin cases with satin ribbons offer decorative, practical gifts.
The article describes making ribbon holders with initials on linen cards for lingerie sets and talks about covering hatpins for Christmas. Suggestions include embroidering black satin disks with gold thread, taping or tying lids, and using small rosettes of tissue to decorate pins.
A concise note explains that the task is easy for anyone to perform with minimal effort and expense. It emphasizes accessibility and practicality, suggesting that high results come from straightforward methods. The tone remains practical and reassuring about simplicity and cost.
A neat rice paper book is prepared with red paper covers and a red baby ribbon binding. White leaves hold blue carbon slips between them to create a duplicate laundry list.
Folklore connects parsley to both birth and death with old beliefs about fertility and grave rites. The piece cites a London Globe note on parsley as a death plant and a child’s misreading about George Washington from an Old Ladies’ home portrait.
D. H. Amstutz near Kidron will hold a large public sale on January 20. The Gazette prints sale bills on short notice and delivers first class work, helping buyers learn date and location to avoid competing sales in the area.
A Frenchman left money to London’s poor and asked his body cast into the sea off the English shore. Another, fond of dinners, wished a new cooking recipe pasted on his tomb daily. A young American matron in London sought socks for her eldest, finally finding a pair stamped Made in England after days of searching.
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