Light Fabrics For Summer Draperies From Calcutta Net To Cretonnes
Light fabrics dominate summer decor with Calcutta net curtains in 48 inch width at 50 cents a yard and available in many colors and meshes. Silk, dimities, serim, linen taffeta, and Priscilla silk join cottons for upholstery and draperies, with cretonnes offering affordable floral options from 28 to 50 cents a yard and imported double widths up to 3.50. Curtains should hang straight and align with under curtain shrinkage, while vibrant colors and patterns appear in window displays.
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N. Y. Post
Calf s Foot Jelly Recipe From Historic Crockery
Instructions describe preparing jelly from calf feet by boiling, skimming, congealing, and clarifying. Ingredients include sherry lemon juice sugar lemon rind raisins mace and eggs. The method requires washing eggs beating whites and boiling mixture briefly before straining through a cloth.
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Rane
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Pills Advertised in 19th Century Notice
A transcription of a vintage medical ad offers Hall's Catarrh Cure as a treatment taken internally with a testimonial from local businessmen. The notice promises a cure for catarrh and urges readers to buy the product through Toledo druggists. It also includes a money back claim and contact details for F. J. Cheney & Co.
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Hall
Lifelike Art Critic Reviews New Painting
Grey the art critic commended the realism of the painting You mean my At Work in the Fields The critic said just looking at it tired him The note references various products and notices in a fragmented ad style with no coherent event or outcome.
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Grey
Art in the Soup Scene Inspires Hushed Laughs
A wife leans over as she hands her husband a bowl of soup. She notices a fat scroll in the surface and declares it artistic and beautiful, urging him not to eat it. The moment captures a lighthearted domestic vignette.
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