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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1910
Page
3
One of the prettiest summer decor ideas for vacation homes describes green and white fern motifs on linen doilies. It advises transferring the fern design by carbon or stamping, using wash silks in greens, and suggests three sprays per doily with long-and-short stitch and Kensington outline for stems.
Fashion note describes a blue gown with side tucks on skirt and bodice a wide shoulder tuck and feather mounted button trim. Materials listed include 7 yards 40 inch width fabric 3 yards embroidery % yard embroidery for yoke and 14% yards narrower insertion for finishing.
Readable fragments describe two designs: a trim bodice and skirt with cuffs tucked and a straw hat adorned with large flowers, requiring 7 yards of fabric plus notions. The second design, a semi princess front panel style, suggests use of woolen material in airy blue, with a skirt band trim. details are partial and incomplete.
TEANCIES or e TRASIEMONT G7 Tucking is used a great deal on the summer gowns. Swiss fabrics are often worn with a colored slip. This season coats and wraps of cretenne appear with elastic belts. Coarse Russian braid trims coats and capes. Chantécler embroidery appears on silk hosiery insteps and lingerie. Baby caps use tiny roses. Shirt waists adopt longer shoulder seams. Box plaited net finishes sleeves. Summer sunshades feature brisée ribs and gilt enamel. Black net blouses with lace over white underblouses remain in fashion.
Instruction suggests using cold water to dust down enameled paper or painted walls when soot darkens a kitchen wall. Do not use warm water as it may yellow the paper. Apply cold water with a feather or clean cloth, wrung out, to dust and clean the surface before repainting or recovering.
A crowd of about 300000 gathered at Coney Island on the first Sunday after opening. Lion trainer Peter Taylor fought Duchess the lioness during a performance with four lions, a polar bear, and a cinnamon bear. Duchess leapt at the bear, injuring Taylor with a deep wound to the left arm before assistants and other animals were restrained. Dr Haverly advised cauterization, and the show resumed with the other animals remaining quiet.
In 1871 Edward Lear stayed with the Bombay governor at Mahabaleshwar. A walk there led Lear to sketch a bull peering into a jam pot to remember the word jam for jambul trees, noted by Spectator.
A college graduate accepts a merchant’s offer to start as a clerk with pay based on worth, while the graduate questions whether the firm can afford it. The dialogue reflects cautious optimism about entry-level pay and company capacity.
A quotation notes there are no free schools in China and poorer families educate their own children. It claims that basic skills like counting to ten money, fishing, and trapping, plus a girl’s chores and timekeeping, suffice and mark complete education.
A dispute centers on a singer described as performing a vocal stunt. The exchange questions whether the work of an artist can be a mere stunt and mirrors tensions between competing voices in the case.
Charles D Norton, newly appointed secretary to the president, previously buffer at the Taft White House, clashed with Congressman Francis Burton Harrison over Ballinger Pinchot criticisms. Norton, aged about forty, formerly served as assistant secretary of the treasury and was long with Northwestern Mutual Life, rising to Milwaukee and Chicago roles before becoming secretary.
Edward Payson Ripley, president of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, emerged as a key figure in western rate debates. After Taft intervened to block freight hikes, Ripley joined E A Delano and M Felton in Chicago, then met with the president at the White House. Ripley, born in Dorchester Massachusetts, rose through the ranks from clerk to Santa Fe president, guiding the line’s growth and maintaining stockholder confidence.
Lieutenant Governor White expected to become chief executive of New York when Hughes retires in October to join the Supreme Court. White, 44, a Syracuse-are family, lawyer by trade, Republican veteran, long active in state politics, has deep ties in party ranks and prominence in state affairs.
Barrett, a diplomat and author, once a reporter and war correspondent, lauds young women of South America. His words reflect belief in their future and potential as nations, urging them to enter public life and contribute to regional progress.
An Ohio reader promotes Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a cure for backache and female weakness. The letter claims lasting relief by reaching the root of the trouble and mentions Mrs Frederick of Bloomdale, urging women to seek the medicine for aches, pains, and sleep issues.
Mark Twain cites a Hartford woman who jokes with her husband Jim about rising living costs in late spring. She says she must skip July and August country trips due to expense, while Jim appears sober yet hopeful he can find funds for his wife’s wishes.
A country doctor recounts a man who moves into a dilapidated cottage and, busily whitewashing its interior and exterior, smiles that the eyesore is now cleaned up. The man recounts previous tenants with many children, suggesting his aim is sanitation and order rather than vanity.
A brief humor bit shows a barber asking how you want your hair cut while a student replies he did not come in to discuss the tariff, highlighting a clash between everyday chatter and economic topics.
A Salisbury Missouri woman recounts seeking relief from sudden cramps nausea and vomiting. She learned of Grapetuts food from a Chicago traveler and ordered it, noting her prior failures with other remedies and her husband’s efforts to obtain it.
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