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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1920
Page
3
A Paris fashion desk reports on new sportswear trends reflecting French influence. Novel fabrics, bold pockets, panels, and trims dominate skirts and coats with leather, plaid, and fringe details plus tying methods. Leather and homespun fabrics appear in dramatic, wearable designs.
Crepe de chine, once dominant in dresses, has a renewed presence this season with charming offerings for evening frocks. The material is noted for durability and quality, with pant features praised for their glow. tips include chalking nap fasteners to avoid measuring.
The guide endorses white washable fabrics and skirts in plain or accordion plaited serge, pongee or baronette satin, and lightweight wool plaids as ideal summer sweater companions. It emphasizes practicality and style for a refined, cool-season wardrobe.
The piece notes a growing taste for unusual materials and the acceptance of plaids with gay colors and large patterns. It observes a trend toward bold, bright fabrics and distinctive designs in current displays.
A fragmented fashion note discusses hairpins influencing comfort and appearance, noting common issues with hair and coil ends. It surveys color and fabric pairings such as black coats with plaid skirts and henna tweed ensembles, plus edge braiding and cape backs in wardrobe mixes.
The passage argues that hard work and pluck are essential while luck is unreliable. It cautions that luck can ruin rather than help success and urges persistent labor without dwelling on past mistakes or regrets. Notable lines reference James A Garfield and Sarah Bolton.
The text offers several fish repurposing ideas such as Spiced Fish With White Sauce and Fish Cocktail. It describes methods to season, sauce, bake, or mold leftovers into dishes like Mock Lobster in Chafing Dish, Fish Loaf, and Creamed Fish in Potato Cups, with brief finishing notes and a light aside about motivation.
A collection of tongue recipes including Raisin Sauce With Beef Tongue and Pork Tongue on Toast. Also instructions on beef tongue use in various meals, meat trimming tips, croquettes from soup meat, Savory Tomato Sauce, and a Rhubarb and Raisin Pudding recipe. Contains practical kitchen guidance on storage and waste reduction.
A collection of simple recipes including half inch alicon fried brown bread with eggs, bread pudding with milk molasses and cream, rice omelette with currant jelly, sponge cake portcupines with almonds and custard, lemon cups for sauces, oranges in jelly, and browned oatmeal slices fried in bacon fat. The text blends basic steps and ingredient notes for home cooks.
A scrambled excerpt discusses lions and trainers, noting that lions resist temptations like rewards and that most animals respond to incentives such as sugar or fortune. The fragment hints at training methods but lacks complete context or clear events.
An advertisement extols Milka Emulsion as a cure for stomach catarrh constipation and weak bowels. It claims rapid relief by restoring bowel action boosting appetite and weight with a money back guarantee and six bottle trial offer. It promotes use with a spoon and highlights strong endorsements from a Miami Ohio user.
An examination of army and navy recruits across major European nations shows varied literacy rates. Germany led with 111 percent literacy, followed by Russia at 170 percent, while France 4.90, England 8.00, Austria 23.20, Hungary 28.10, and Italy 3.80 percent. The Salted Riotsary notes a literacy of 7.6 percent.
An advertising notice promotes Cuticura products for clear smooth skin. It advises touching pimples redness or itching then using Cuticura Unnty meat soap and hot water, rinse dry dust with Cuticura Talcum for fragrance, price 26c each.
A severe speaker disputes popular songs while another urges listening. An advertisement touts Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a vegetable tonic and purgative that stimulates gently without irritation.
The article profiles Fanny Crosby the prolific hymn writer known for more than 6000 hymns. It notes her blindness from age six and meeting her husband Alexander Van Alstyne at the New York Institute for the Blind. Crosby later taught there and many hymns appear in Moody and Sankey hymnals.
A Louisville Courier-Journal excerpt presents a speaker urging plain common sense for a convention. It frames the approach as an experiment but confident it will succeed. The tone emphasizes practical reasoning and public discussion.
In a playful exchange, critics wonder why a baseball is referred to as a sphere while discussing its condition. A respondent quips that it is due to the ball’s whirled motion, signaling a lighthearted defense of baseball phrasing.
A jumble of phrases about Bayer Tablets of Aspirin, misprinted claims, and unrelated quotes. The text blends pharmaceutical branding with camouflaged historical commentary and garbled lines about actors, pugs, and hospital programs. The readable parts mention Bayer and aspirin branding in a disordered OCR fragment.
Returning soldiers recount a four mule team hauling a ration wagon in France. The driver, unknowingly veers toward German lines after slipping through a broken American trench. A doughboy signals danger, warning to turn back in whispers as the driver insists on guiding the mules.
Instructions describe removing red ink stains from a table using freshly made mustard paste left for about thirty minutes. It advises sponging off to remove all ink traces and compares the wise person to a tree that bends but does not break.
Fragmented text reports a chaotic, garbled discussion about Lithuania, bees, and cultural references. Names and places are unclear, with scattered phrases about Midus and honey, plus a disjointed line about an actress. The piece reads as an OCR jumble without a clear event or source.
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