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Newspaper
The Morning Journal Courier
Location
New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
3
A dense OCR fragment lists kitchen hacks and household instructions. Topics include making batter for irons, preparing cooled vegetables, popcorn balls, simple candy, polishing textiles, milk handling, featherlight ironing, and fruit cake glaze. It also covers stern cleaning methods, wardrobe care, embroideries, and a Worcestershire style sauce recipe, plus cabbage relish and other common kitchen tasks.
A reader suggests removing oil stains with lard before washing in cold water as a quick fix for ruined fabric. The column also recalls a campaign moment where Minister Hon. Truly faced Prohibition questions, with his quip about whether an inquiry or invitation was implied.
Step by step rhubarb wine method with double boiler handling, adding no water, mashing into bits, lifting to thick pulp, then sweetening and perfuming with brandy per gallon. Bottle and seal for storage.
A column notes girls making guimpes for vacation wear using row crochet nets and batiste. Medallions, val enciennes, and plats at collar tops are highlighted, with shop prices around 25 cents apiece. Tailor mades favor colored net for travel.
The Journal Courier showcases a bold black and white costume with a long cape in a dramatic display. The tailored silhouette features a wide front panel that tapers from the hips to the slender belt, emphasizing sleek lines and a striking dialet touch.
The article gives sewing tips for blouse fitting and garment details. It covers adjusting shoulder seams, sketching with a Spencerian pen, selecting threads and beads, and instructions for neckpieces and corset covers. It mentions materials like Nainsook, ribbons, and white lace, with advice on decorative elements.
A dainty dress technique describes an embroidered panel from turk to hem with options for yoke top insertion or full panel length. It notes Marron Insertion, beading, and trimming around the waist, plus undergarment support and varied sleeve and cornet cover designs.
Advice stresses summer care for pets with tips on feeding less meat, offering bone and oats, and ensuring fresh water. Emphasizes cleanliness, grooming, and safe housing while noting vegetables and simple treats. Warns against overheating and unsafe items, urging daily baths and monitored rest in suitable spaces.
The article surveys summer outerwear from light pongee coats to short tailored and empire waist coats. It notes three quarter length pongee dominance, directoire designs with hip seams and capes, jauntily strapped frocks, and luxurious yet practical options for travel and street wear. It highlights materials like crepe, chiffon, broadcloth, lace, satin, and corded trims, with a cautionary note on ready made availability and aging fashion.
A quirky quiz on fish names pairs with a note on reinforced concrete barges and pontoons. It describes 1897 era Chinese and Taian government projects shipping odd craft, including a rowing club base and harbor works, with several barges, garvion, and Durden crafts under construction.
The Journal-Courier pattern offers a new white mercerized cotton towel design for world raised embroidery. The open wreath center stamping measures 22 inches wide with a plain scallop at the ends, and a perforated pattern including initials is offered for ten cents. Pattern department of the Journal and Courier, New Haven Conn.
A garbled verse column presents wedding superstitions by month, noting January through December beliefs about marriage timing and future fortunes. It also mentions telegraphic connections among Atlantic ports and Spanish stations linking Europe and South America.
A damaged OCR page lists various home remedies for common ailments. It mentions salves from butter and vegetables, washes for hands and skin, naphtha soap for warts, an ointment with mothwhorn oil and camphor, tar for insect bites, pineapple juice for diphtheria, and almond-like relief from a described preparation. The tone mirrors old fashion medical guidance with unverified cures.
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