Home Laundering of Blouses Frocks and Muslin
A detailed guide to home blouse washing and starching methods. It covers soap preparation, lathering, soaking times, rinsing, blueing for yellow tints, starch making with gum arabic, and the clapping technique used by French laundresses to avoid patchy starch. It also discusses drying away from direct sun for colored fabrics and proper conditioning of finished blouses.
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Pennyworth
Sleeping Car Idea From Central City Pioneer Cabin
In Central City Colorado residents recall George Pullman conceived the sleeping car while living in a cabin near the stamp mill in Russe Gulch. He described bunks along walls to maximize living space and in 1863 built a commercially valuable fast sleeping car after leaving Central City in 1862.
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Central City
Colo
George Pullman
Russe Gulch
Pullman
Keeping a Clean Covered Garbage Can at Home
Advice from a city health perspective on cleaning and maintaining a covered galvanized can or wooden box for garbage. Use disinfectants like coal tar products or chlorine lime solutions to kill germs and mosquitoes, and rinse with water. Keep a whisk broom, tilt the can for sun exposure, and clean the box three times weekly.
Live Stock Prices at South Omaha Market Report
Livestock prices show lambs, yearlings and ewes up to 15 cents higher with lambs at 8.05 to 8.50 and ewes 5.50 to 5.75. Cattle receipts 5,400. hogs 12,500. sheep 8,799. Bulls, feeders, and calves vary by grade. top lambs at 8.55, heavy lambs active, and ewe tops 5.85.
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Union. Stock Yards
South Omaha
Practical Turkish towel crafts for home and travel
The article outlines three uses for Turkish toweling: a laundry bag that hangs inside a closet door, simple bath slippers, and a folding traveling case. It gives construction steps, decorative stitching in French knots, and fastening details using hooks, rings, and ribbons.
Nine Days' Wonder and Lady Jane Grey Queen Tale
A historian notes Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen on July 10, 1553 and relinquished the crown on July 19 after a nine day reign. The diary of that brief rule is cited as origin for the phrase nine days' wonder.
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Jane Grey
Jane
England
Edward VI
Boxing as a Manly Art and Its True Value
Georges Carpentier argues boxing is an art beyond brute strength. He asserts boxing disciplines the lower nature, fosters mercy, and develops the self protective spirit. He defends the sport as a noble form of athletics rather than a mere puncher’s game.
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Georges Carpentier
Lesiie
Art Is Long and Worth a Long Effort
The exchange notes eight years of work on a single painting. It took six days to paint and the remaining years to market the work.
Usual Method Morning Scene In Split Dialogue
The fragment shows a brief early morning exchange between husband and wife about waking up. Husband notes Haley is asleep, while the wife questions why they must rise. The tone suggests a domestic vignette from a newspaper page.
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Haley
London
Citizens State Bank Incorporation in Diller Nebraska
Articles of incorporation filed July 15 1914 form Citizens State Bank to operate as a commercial bank in Diller Jefferson County Nebraska. Authorized capital 50000 dollars with 25000 paid in. Board of 3 to 7 directors to manage affairs with officers elected annually. Annual stockholders meeting third Tuesday in December. Names A H Colman Thomas P Price J Smith Diller Arthur E Price Chester Andrews listed as initial directors. Notary W H Barnes confirms signatures.
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State of
Nebraska
Citizens State Bank
Diller
County of
Jefferson
State Banking Board
Rsons
A. H. Colman
Thos. P. Price
J. Smith Diller
Arthur E. Price
Chester Andrews
Jefferson County
W. H. Barnes
Probate Notice for Robert H Patton Estate in Jefferson Co
County Court in Fairbury Nebraska holds probate for the estate of Robert H Patton deceased. John Henry fore requests administration to Thomas P Price as administrator. hearing set for January 12 1915 at 1 PM. Notice to interested parties via Diller Record weekly for successive weeks. County Judge C C Boyle.
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State of
Nebraska
Jefferson County
Said
Fairbury
Robert H. Patton
John Henry Fore
Thos. P. Price
Diller Record
C. C. Boyle
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Middle-west
New Maul
W. R. Meleor
GEO
Claude Ellis
Diller, Nebraska
Odell
R. S. Chlouper
Diller, Nebr
Frank T. Pearce
Notary Public Diller
Record Office
J. Monroe Davis
First National Bank
Neb
DR. NH. Bauguess