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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1909
Page
6
This pattern shows a stylish general wear dress with hip fitting upper section and shadow darts, inverted box plait back, plaited front with tucks, and a flounced lower edge. Suitable fabrics include serge, Panama, Venetian cloth, fancy worsted or broadcloth. Size 13 to 17 years.
A readable fragment describes Paris Pattern No 2081, a dainty light apron in cross barred muslin with gathered body, yoke band, scalloped embroidery, and pearl buttons. It lists sizes three to eleven years and fabric yardage for a seven year old, plus instruction to mail 10 cents for pattern and size data.
A compact Sunday school lesson notes Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians from Ephesus in AD 67, stressing love as the supreme virtue. It outlines the primacy of faith, hope, and love, defines love by its actions, and lists nine ingredients of perfect love such as patience, kindness, generosity, humility, courtesy, unselfishness, good temper, guilelessness, and sincerity.
A collage of humorous exchanges and advice pieces from a vintage page. It includes a gas company sonnet joke, praise for Defiance Starch, notes on home laundering, mentions of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Julia Ward Howe, and light quizzes about Shakespeare.
An assortment of brief items includes Allen's Foot-Ease testimonials promising foot relief, ad copy for Chamberlain's extracts and baking powder, plus quips about goggles and obituaries. The clippings mix product pitches with short jokes and life quotes, reflecting period newspaper filler.
A Shakespeare club of New Orleans once staged a social satire where a lord in waiting improvised lines about the queen swooning, then the crowd roared as he bungled more phrases before the stage manager. The piece closed with the audience in laughter and the actor escorted off. Women’s fashion shifts toward less dowdy attire, embracing stylish change over old moral expectations.
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