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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1913
Page
6
The article analyzes the durability and style of blue serge garments for women, noting its popularity for fall travel attire. It describes a sewn outfit featuring a wide armdholed blouse, magenta buttons, embroidered edging, a shallow yoke, a rolling collar, and a tunic skirt with left-side opening and decorative buttons.
The article warns that foreign particles cling to the tongue and a dental fur deposits on teeth when teeth are not cleaned twice daily. It advises brushing morning and night, noting many women brush poorly and focus only on the outer surfaces, neglecting inside surfaces.
A Chicago Record-Herald piece urges eating a variety of fresh fruits and seasonal vegetables to improve health and appearance. It cautions against limited diets and warns that spoiled produce, stale dairy, and overripe desserts can trigger summer ailments.
The article notes upturned hems on elegant skirts and tunics, highlighting color contrasts and decorative stripes. Roman stripes and Scotch plaids recur in new clothes, with a dark blue gabardine coat featuring a red, white, and blue plaid hem and black velvet trim.
An old fashioned shopping list advises men receive golfing gear and fishing tackle including a leather tackle box and caddy bag while women are to get a brass memorandum pad and a gunmetal pocket knife. It notes novelty items like portable mothproof cheats in heavy pasteboard for boarding school trunks.
Divided satin stitch adapts sections when a leaf or scroll is too wide to stitch in one pass. If veins are prominent, pad in two sections, creating a split layout along the general line to finish the design.
The lesson outlines Balaam’s meeting with Balak, his conditional blessing and curse, and the sixfold journey in Numbers. It notes Balaam’s knowledge of Jehovah, his use of sorcery, and the famous prophecies foretelling Israel’s future including a star and scepter. The piece ends with the Golden Text urging steadfast faith and warning against double mindedness.
The text argues that the daily food supply would improve with a single trained supervisor in charge. The chosen person should be selected for capacity and suitability to the role, ensuring proper daily oversight and consistent cooking and preparation standards.
A detailed guide to breakfast ideas emphasizing whole wheat dishes, preparation tips, and varied options for all ages. It covers soaking wheat, long cooking times, muffins, baked bananas, cereals, hash, eggs with sauces, toasted bread, and hot beverages, ending with a poetic query about pudding.
Recipes for Baltimore pudding cranberry roly poly queen of puddings date pudding and oatmeal pudding with ingredients, steps, and serving notes. Includes molasses beef fat, lemon rind, spices, steam and bake times, and toppings like cream and hard sauce.
There are three ivory mata in existence. The largest measures eight feet by four feet. Although made in northern India it features a Greek border design. Used only for state occasions such as signing important documents. The cost of this precious object was over RO in palcagy terms.
A vivid survey of historic postal methods from distant lands. It describes Arctic reindeer sledges in Lapland and Samoyed tundras, Tartar riders in Asiatic Turkey Aleppo to Karaman, Formosan horse messengers, Andean and Andean-Peruvian mail routes by llamas and dogs. It notes hazards, environmental extremes, and remarkable endurance of messengers across deserts, mountains, and frozen plains.
Frank Benter of Monongahela Pennsylvania found a live turtle with an inscription reading Henry Ballantine Benter June 3 1804. Predslay Benter recalls the turtle seen three times on the farm in the era of his great great grandfather after a famine, suggesting remarkable longevity of the reptile.
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