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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1912
Page
11
A vintage guide notes fringe feathers become fashionable for women desiring slim purses and chic looks. It explains making eighteen inch willow plumes at home using fringe, wire, satin ribbon, and curling to resemble real feathers.
A visiting woman urges testing a guest room by living in it for a week before guests arrive. She argues comfort beats style, recommending a good bed, sufficient storage, ample bedding, and a proper night table. The piece critiques fancy but impractical touches and stresses practical essentials.
A dated household recipe describes making perfume like toilet water using six ounces of deodorized alcohol, two ounces of Florentine orra root powder, violet oil, and hydrosol. Mix in a china basin, steep three weeks before use, and store in a bottle with a cork.
The text describes delicate embroidery on centerpieces, doilies, or handkerchiefs and waists requiring washing before dyeing. It mentions soaking in a pall of cold water with a teaspoonful of turpentine stirred in.
Useful home remedies are offered including a mustard plaster with egg white that won’t blister, sugar added to canned vegetables to improve flavor, sweet oil to remove water marks from Japanned trays, and steps to brighten dingy towels using soap shavings and lemon juice.
The article notes a new drapery style associated with bupplanting panniers. It mentions a classic type with varied forms, a machine plaited foundation, and draperies wrapped around the figure for decorative effect.
An excerpt discussing memory cultures among nonliterate societies. It describes how memory and listening are highly developed, enabling accurate transmission of messages by word of mouth. It cites Zul authorities and Cetewayo era practices, noting language, authority links, and the shift from writing to verbal communication.
A fragmentary line of verse extols Wonderful sunshine and movement toward strength and hope. The text blends faded archaic spelling with garbled phrases about damp chilt and glory, ending with a distant nod to Baltimore Sun.
A garbled OCR style text reflects scattered lines about flaws, kindness, and a hunt for a sir. It mentions the village of South Africa, shadows, and weathered musings on wisdom and fate, with sporadic names like Killa Wenweler Wilcox appearing amid the gibberish.
A nurse Isabelle cares for Jimmie the sick boy as a devoted doctor and hospital staff become involved. The boy confesses a crush on Nurse Isabelle, the nurse humbly accepts the boy’s affection, and the doctor ponders his own chances with the nurse while tending the dying child. The tale blends romance and bedside tragedy as Jimmie’s condition worsens and the adults confront love, duty, and loss.
A fragmentary instruction describes a prank to burn and reassemble a pie while deceiving others. It outlines hiding a thread piece, regrouping eight fragments, burning ends to suggest disintegration, then presenting the altered pieces to distract onlookers. The text urges secrecy and misdirection among participants.
A garbled passage asks why laughter divides a relation and mentions several nicked names and unclear clues. It reads like a puzzle or quiz item with scattered references to people and actions, but the text remains largely unintelligible and lacks concrete facts.
A fragment describes spinning two china plates on a noodle balance. The vivid scene includes a bottle cork and a delicate point where plate contact affects motion. It evokes experimental trickery and playful demonstration of balance and motion.
Fragmentary OCR narrative mentions a wood and a character named Carey lug Ave Of, with garbled phrases about a green outer, a tape, and a harbor. It references names like Alex Ielnis and Katheodl Yinhue in a puzzling, unfinished style.
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