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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1913
Page
6
Mary Dean notes summer dress bargains in crepe de chine with Chantilly lace and trims. She highlights evening and afternoon gowns, reception dresses, and street frocks at reduced prices, plus cotton frocks with delicate tucks and embroidery.
A description of crepe de chine popular in Paris as outdoor wear this season. The fabric drapes well in cross over styles and looped skirts, moving beyond gowns to costumes and ensembles for day wear. It mentions bride gifts and fashion use changes.
Wraps and coats for midsummer mirror spring styles with velvet ribbons lace collars and cuffs. Popular colors include black navy taupe gold Saxe blue and sand. Silks brocades crepe de chine and novelty brocades are made into warm weather wraps with white tan and blue three quarter cutaway coats trimmed with fringe or face cloth and embroidered collars.
A new season fabric damask charmeuse features in various costumes and evening gowns. One striking gown uses the material in a table cover like pattern with a Grecian drape, a front open skirt over chiffon, and a back train. Fine lace over pink tulle decorates the corsage with small jeweled buttons.
Coat effects on gowns offer a pleasing novelty in summer fashions. Many women prefer some outer wrap in town though fashion allows unconventional looks. Coat tops may resemble bloused coats yet stay a permanent dress feature or be implied by draperies and trim.
It is safer to wash and shrink lace before sewing on thin fabrics to prevent puckering after laundering. This prep reduces tension and ensures smoother, neater edges in finished garments.
In a July lesson on Exodus, the narrative traces Moses’ birth amid Pharaoh’s edict, his hidden preservation by Jochebed, and Pharaoh’s daughter finding him. It highlights Moses as a godly child, raised by an adoptive Hebrew nurse, and God’s providential plan to deliver Israel through unlikely means.
This readable fragment presents old world kitchen advice and dish ideas for entertaining. It describes chafing dish use for hot suppers, preparing salads and dressings at table, making savory sandwiches with herb butter, eggs a la Creole with beef and cheese, and a cream butter dressing with red peppers. It concludes with Brillat-Savarin on discovering new dishes versus stars.
Home advisor Mr Willem A Radford offers free expert guidance on building topics to paper readers. The column notes rising demand for small modern homes with bathrooms and hot water, saying porcelain bathtubs and hot running water have become common and desirable.
Radford editor discusses gas ranges transforming cottage living. One floor layouts combine dining and kitchen, reducing space needs and addressing flat living. Advances in plumbing cut costs and ease repairs, while compact storage ideas and vestibule fittings optimize tiny houses.
A vintage kitchen note outlines ways to use ripe bananas. Baked bananas are coated with butter sugar and lemon, then roasted. beef fillets with banana halves are plated with banana quarters sautéed in butter. A banana sponge dessert uses corn starch milk and eggs, chilled and served with custard. Bananas are also chopped into salads with peas and French dressing, and fritters are prepared by dipping banana pieces in batter and frying.
A fragment recalls a young man muttering about evil communications after a supper party. He jokes that being surrounded by tumblerg all evening led to a tumbler mishap as he staggers home. The line echoes social foibles of a bygone era.
A fragment shows a man asking why living men are never pictured on bank notes. The speaker, described as someone who gained wealth by writing popular songs, questions the omission and muses on the theme.
A French newspaper highlights French Guinea as severely afflicted by tuberculosis, with Bassam reporting 21 of every 100 people infected while the coast shows only 2 percent. The piece links the spread to 1911 liquor imports from Holland, England, and Germany carried by German steamers, described by locals as gin boats.
Cleveland doctors report the death of six year old Dora Crzybecksa described as due to old age. The child’s hair turned white and her face appeared aged, with a physical look of seventy. Doctors identify Raynaud's disease as the cause, a very rare condition. Coroner Byrne notes only one similar case in his long career.
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