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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1915
Page
4
A detailed feature outlines a five room cottage plan emphasizing cobblestone trim and shingle siding to achieve an architectural effect. The design uses level to square roof steps, large window surfaces, a sun parlor loggia, and a cobblestone chimney to blend aesthetics with healthful light.
Fashion notes on Worth and other designers embracing ruffles and trims for spring gowns. Voile and silk pieces feature blue and red borders, white tulle with pink worsted embroidery, and bold floral silks. Mourning fabrics and Directoire styling return with black and white contrasts.
A reader note from the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl humor column implies a freshman asking for meat slices at a boarding house, with a playful exchange about portions and chicken. The quip reflects campus dining anecdotes and social mores of the era.
An unusual sachet ideal for hatboxes or lingerie presents rosebud decoration. Eight to nine roses form a compact cluster with a personal sachet placed at the heart before coiling. A one inch ribbon pockets the sachet, wraps to size, and adds green velvet leaves for a dainty, elegant sachet.
Readers recall the cerise color from two decades ago and its enduring popularity. The shade reappears under the name military red, joining beetroot and geranium as vivid red options that enliven the era's dark, monochrome fashions.
The text describes a khaki wool scarf usable as a sleeping hood or chest protection. It provides crochet instructions including materials, stitch patterns, chain lengths, decreasing to about 11 inches, then finishing with double and single crochet rows. It explains folding and joining the scarf's ends to form the desired shape.
The excerpt presents a reflective verse by Alice Cary urging steady labor to nourish the home and secure rewards. It emphasizes turning seed to harvest, completing work faithfully, and preferring completion over mere survival without accomplishment.
A compact collection of affordable preparations. Salted codfish with drawn butter, Date Salad with cream cheese and red pepper, Rice Waffles with eggs and milk, Lima Bean Salad on cabbage with dressing, French Toast with milk and eggs, Banana Compote with sugar and lemon juice. Includes variations with green beans and vinaigrette.
A collection of kitchen instructions for ham and ham based dishes. It describes parboiling or baking ham slices in milk or white sauce, serving on toast, and making related dishes like ham in milk with onion and celery salad, ham pie with cream sauce, potted chicken and bacon, and a chicken and ham flavored possible salad. It emphasizes parboiling, sauce preparation, and combining ingredients to enhance flavor.
A health ad touts a saline kidney cleansing remedy to flush toxins, claims it cures back pain and urinary issues, urging readers to drink lithia water and grapefruit juice with lemon and take Salts from a pharmacy. It presents anecdotes of kidney strain and general health benefits in a period newspaper tone.
Readable fragments show a mother and a person named Mike discussing cooking or a dish. The garbled text implies a back and forth about ingredients or method, with quoted phrases and uncertain spelling. The piece reads as a casual domestic exchange with no clear event or outcome.
A nurse extols Grape Nuts as a nourishing food suitable for babies when mixed with milk or cream and softened. She claims it aids even weak stomachs and has the doctor's wife agreement in supporting its use for patients.
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