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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1914
Page
10
Mary Dean discusses how women's sporting outfits reflect season and function. She notes Norfolk suits remain a staple for tramping, with short skirts, tan boots, and practical features. Descriptions cover khaki durable outfits, English worsteds, berges, and a Lancaster cape, emphasizing mix of utility and style.
Readers are guided through a simple foot health routine. Wear comfortable attire and perform a sequence that tightens and releases foot muscles by pointing and flexing ten times on each foot. This gentle routine emphasizes relaxed, controlled movements for better circulation.
The article prescribes a routine to strengthen arches and relieve foot wear. It details toe movements, heel lifting, and five minutes of arch exercises, with five minutes rest, plus cocoa butter massage and careful toe rubbing to prevent bunions and chilblains and ease nerves. It cautions against ill fitting shoes and high heels.
The article discusses making a tiny baby slip or layette with elaborate yet simple smocked garments. It describes a small yoke, low square neck, one-piece construction, and a rosette of ribbon on the left side. White thread is recommended to avoid yellowing on white fabric.
Georgetta showcases in demand fabrics like satin and crepe for blouses this season. The selection emphasizes soft drape and fashionable textures for versatile wardrobe staples.
Gaby Desige extols 1914 gown styles in New York, calling them revelation gowns and beautiful woman, yet impractical. A bootmaker notes a slipper with a tiny purse pocket hidden in the heel as a needed feature for the era’s gowns.
Mrs G Riemersma of Holland Michigan describes a severe eczema outbreak on her child starting at the neck and face with wet itchy sores and crusts that spread behind the ears. After attempting treatment without success she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, purchasing one cake and box and reports complete cure. Sample offers and address included.
Germany advances its canal network with the Berlin Oder navigation project linking Berlin to Stettin. The six mile canal, cost over £2,000,000, enables 600 ton cargo vessels to travel directly from Stettin to Berlin, signaling a new era in internal traffic. An American woman's complaint about London police and a boy scout fixing a split skirt are also noted.
Puzzled child Liltie Raymond asks his mother a question about cows. He wonders how cows can drink water yet still lay milk, while she explains cows eat grass and drink water.
A Clyde Fitch scrapbook auction includes a typographical error from a review of Ellen Terry. The critic wrote Her love of Portia made acting easy, but the printed line misread Port as port, altering the meaning and sparking a note on misprints in literary criticism.
A brief humorous exchange at dinner where a young woman says she met a doctor and doubts her guessing, while the neighbor teases that she is modest and at the top of her profession, reflecting light social banter.
An older advertisement emphasizes careful examination of Castoria bottles to ensure the signature of the maker, noting it is a safe remedy used for over 30 years. It ends with the line Children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
The speaker suggests detouring to Algiers next, while resting in Naples for a few days. They decide to forward their suitcases to Algiers with labels already prepared.
An untidy clipping lists quack remedies and patent medicines including Dr. Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil and a Quinine syrup named Ferrilines. It references a Calgary Winnipeg Vancouver fact and comments on products’ tolerability, with stray lines about dead men’s shoes and waiting.
A government official announces caprifigs can be carried over winter in protected storage layered with sand. The method promises fig growers a reliable supply despite severe weather. The text also notes that personal preferences for diamonds do not define a person.
A vintage advertisement claims PAZO OINTMENT cures piles in six to fourteen days with first application offering relief and a refund if it fails. The notice also notes 124 agricultural cooperative trading societies in Beotland.
An old advertisement extols Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic as equally valuable as General Tonic for its quinine and iron. It claims benefits for the liver fight against malaria enriches the blood and builds up the whole system while noting the honesty of the poor due to their poverty.
Professor Starr, an ethnologist, claims Tehuantepec native women are the handsomest in the world. The pure Indian blood yields willowly tall maidens with creamy skin and striking eyes, adorned in bright dresses, intricate headdresses, and rich jewelry.
Danish millionaire M Ola Olsen will finance Knud Rasmussen’s upcoming North Pole expedition. The two year provisioning includes modern appliances and a scientist staff. Base set at Cape York Greenland with costs around $75,000. start planned next summer.
A hungry tramp tells a tale that stirs a kind landlady. She recalls a failed venture as the man candidly explains the hand laundry he managed collapsed when the owner left to visit her mother.
In Lunmnon Dennis Drew the well known actor barytone told of the Wells Carpentier fight which lasted exactly 73 seconds. Two nuts met at the club one asked if the other was at the fight last night and the reply was that he was bored and did not stay to the end.
A Brook Indiana picnic tale from George Ade humorously compares engaged and married life with a odd kitchen remedy for hands using kerosene and soap followed by lemon or glycerine. Ade, dubbed the cynical bachelor, quips that engaged people praise sun shine while married folks claim moonshine.
A dialogue on a liner features a table steward described as a bird doctor and remarks about patients traveling with bhim. Judge questions a character named Ola Sport Good. Kathryn notes Jack Huggins falling at her feet and Kittye speculates about stumbling. The talk hints at surgeons’ knives and the devil recruiting the unoccupied as friends fade.
Mrs P W Lanseng of Florence South Dakota credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending years of down pains backache and loss of appetite after three bottles. The ad claims the remedy has helped thousands of women with displacements inflammation ulceration irregularities and related ailments and offers confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
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