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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1904
Page
1
A fashion note previews graceful jackets in white batiste with shoulder seams and bolero backs, plus pale green linen frocks. It highlights a rice and tomato Italian dish, and describes wide collars in white taffeta with black polka dots and pink tassel accents as versatile dress notes.
A vivid description of a summer yachting gown featuring a double front blouse effect, a white suede belt, and a matching white suede hat. The design includes a dark blue linen inlaid sleeve, strap fastening under the left side, and decorative trims to enhance the loose coat and strays.
A simple guide to making rhubarb wine describes using one gallon of boiling water per eight pounds of rhubarb sliced thinly. Simmer covered for a week, strain, add four pounds of lump sugar, juice of two lemons, and rind of one lemon. Fine with iginglass and liquor, then rack when fermentation ends. aging improves quality.
The piece discusses fashion at fashionable resorts with colors shifting from white to tones like reseda green American Beauty red Yale blue and Jayvender purple. It notes coats embroidered in cloth and sheens worn with white dresses and vivid color pairings. A wellness gift idea features a decorative jelly filled orange lemon basket for the ill.
Morning Bonnote highlights the cutest bonnets for wee girls in white pique or duyok with colored taway or chambray face ruiles. Ruffles in da plok blue American beauty red complete the seasonal styles.
A recipe advises selecting evenly sized oranges and eating them in sections. Remove pulp without breaking shells, fill every other space with orange jelly, chill shells, then fill remaining compartments with stiff whipped cream.
Color is plentifully used in ties and stocks of the year with striped ribbon designs such as green and gold rose and black red and green blue and biscuit. There are hundreds of different designs in stock on view, brightening and smartening plain gowns.
A damaged OCR snippet describes a home remedy for curling hair using borax casula soap and boiling water. The user should dissolve powders in water, place the solution in two bottles, cork tightly, dampen hair before curling.
Describes a linen undergarment designed to support the bust and confine underarm flesh when wearing thin blouses and corset covers. Features elastic shoulder straps, webbing back casings for strength, and front closure with buttons and lace adjustments. Includes material estimates for medium size.
Fragmentary text describes hate and ire tied to Quildron with references to crowns and a brig. The plaque and sepend fy Hugorie yuliea hint at a coded or allegorical event. Details are unclear and names are partially garbled.
The August Century promises Eliot Gregory’s Mea for hospitality with sincere welcome and creative settings, plus Charlotte Herding’s engaging pictures. Harper’s Magazine reveals the standard Amalgamated expose, with Henry H. Rogers spotlighted and Amalgamated profits delved into. Churchill’s The Crossing prefigures American expansion into Louisiana, while The Real New York sketches a vivid metropolis via varied visitors and guides. The issue also previews The Prehistoric Ruins of America in Ladies’ World and The Merry Ann o a Lake Michigan adventure tale from Macmillan.
The article discusses several dairy associations entering Wisconsin with doubts about their motives. A butter and cheese group plans 1000 members paying 5 dollars entry and 2 dollars yearly, with officers taking remaining funds after expenses. An investigation reveals officers include a butter maker, a station agent, a toll keeper, and a postmaster, fueling concern that the venture is a money making scheme rather than a genuine cooperative.
Molasses, a sugar mill by product, is tested as a dairy feed in tropics and Europe. It is mixed with absorbents such as sphagnum moss and ground worn stalks, fed in limited amounts of one to two pounds daily, and praised for palatability. As dairying grows in the South and cane regions, use of molasses in cow and horse feed may rise.
An old report discusses why feeding certain pig diets yields different gains. It notes that a mix of skim milk and corn fed together can outperform feeding separately. An example shows 100 pounds of skim milk and 5 pounds of inert substance produce 10 pounds gain with corn, yet feeding together gives 18 pounds gain, suggesting a positive combination effect.
Farmers note that swine suffer from vermin and lice which weaken pigs and sometimes kill them. Grease can suffocate pests, but thorough cleaning of pig quarters is essential to stop infestations and improve the hogs health.
A wrenches savant claims alr injures cream by oxygen, suggesting upper cream layers must be removed for best butter flavor. Some scientists dispute this, saying perfectly pure air does not harm cream, though further investigation is needed.
Fragmentary text describes seedlings cultivated in shady woods developing organs for a condition and being moved to an exposed place amid coping with new cog notions. Name or place details are unclear due to OCR errors.
The codling moth is a major insect enemy to U S apple growers in the Northwest including Oregon and Washington. The pest spreads via infested fruit left on the ground or in shipping boxes as moths emerge and infest nearby orchards. Spraying trees with arsenical poisons during egg laying remains the only effective control cited.
Farmers' Review urges farmers to clear loppings and refuse to burn brush near wooded areas to prevent costly fires. Emphasizes many fires go unreported and that neglect causes hundreds or thousands of dollars in damage each summer. Recommends collecting and channelling debris to safe burn piles away from forests.
A pirate seller in Oklahoma pushed bogus pest remedies promising to till hovers and banish gophers, claiming a $3,000 forestry reward. Farmers alerted by a letter show skepticism, noting no cure exists for plant diseases or borers and that such schemes rely on gullible shoppers rather than real science.
It is believed that the Yale pt cheese exported from Canada last year will amount to about 30 million dollars. Figures have not yet been completed.
A long-winded testimonial extols a kidney medicine, claiming relief after two boxes. It narrates years of kidney and back pain, night urination, and a temporary health decline, followed by improvements and a mail offer for trial supplies.
A reader recounts dramatic recovery from years of headaches heart trouble and rheumatic pain after switching from coffee to Postum. He credits the change with improved nerves and vitality and notes the entire family adopted the beverage.
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