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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1916
Page
8
The Washington Star notes bargains in summer fabrics prompt women to add frocks, with home dressmakers urged to design bold styles. It highlights the double tunic silhouette for fall, longer narrower skirts, and the continued use of ribbons and voile in summer and early fall garments.
A vintage guide to ribbon use in fashion explains tying bows with wire, creating sash rosettes for children's outfits, and the practical steps for measuring and looping. It notes hatband ribbons, tailored bows on hats, and the appeal of brocaded ribbons with velvet figures and bold polka dot patterns in summer varieties.
Buttons play key roles in waists coats and capes, adding shape and emphasis. White ivory buttons suit dark suits with white hats or shoes, often ringed with black, pearl centers, or colored rims. Pearl buttons range from large novelty sizes to tiny shirtwaist sizes, with ribbed and checked varieties noted in dark fabrics and new French gray tones.
A charm ing picture hat crafted from yellow crepon features fruit patterning in bright green and deep purple, lined with black velvet. Clusters of appliqué trim the hat with a vivid bright green ribbon loosely tied under the chin.
The passage urges individual thought and understanding of opposing views as vital to peace. It then provides several old time home beverage recipes including Root Beer, Mint Julip, Buttermilk Kumles, and Cream Nectar, with step by step preparation and storage instructions. It closes with a quote from Chas. Eliot about fixing wrongs within one’s own sphere.
A collection of hot weather recipes including Raspberry Muffins Peach Roly Poly Luncheon Dish Cream Whip and Frozen Nut Custard. Each item outlines ingredients and steps such as raspberries folded into batter with butter and eggs, peach layers baked with sugar and water, chicken and ham luncheon cups with mushrooms and parsley cream, and a custard frozen with nut meats and floral extracts. The piece ends with an uncertain fragment “Vereie May weed.”
A terse local note suggests recent corrections in Greenland’s mines claim Greenland is about 150000 square miles larger than thought. A Bensonhurst reader jokes about Greenland waging a recent war, while an ad touts La Creole Hair Dressing and youth tricks.
Ad offers Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap for pimples with a five minute topical treatment. Recommends applying on waking and before bed, combined with bathing. Claims quick effectiveness and free samples by mail with a book. Mail postcard to Cuticura Depa L Boston. Sold everywhere.
Mrs Thomas asks why operators are women and Mr Thomas explains that managers seek workers in love with their job. He bluntly says operators’ work is talking.
An advertisement promoting La Crepla Hair Dressing to cover gray hair naturally with a price of one dollar. Mentions the product as the woman's crowning glory and targets readers with streaked or gray hair seeking a change. Cites Adr as the advertiser.
In a Surrogate's court filing the will of Mrs. Sarah Gray Crane creates a 75000 dollar trust for Amherst College. The document recounts Dr Edward A Crane saving Empress Eugenie from a Paris mob in 1870 planning her secret flight to Deauville and passage on Lord Burghoyne's yacht to England.
An old theater片 style exchange features the first scene row about a hand in front and an understudy nursemaid revealing a baby prop. An ad touts La Creole Hair Dressing to restore gray or harsh hair, priced at $1.00, alongside a cucumber cartridge simile and a quip about men failing to write.
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