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Newspaper
Utah Ogden Standard
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1917
Page
10
Fashion notes describe slender silhouettes and gingham, with blue floral and pink accents. Pockets in dresses, beads to match, and white net frocks rise in popularity. Jersey jerseys and foulard fabrics appear with bright colors, long sleeves, and Parisian influence shaping summer attire.
A period menu offers inexpensive supper ideas for a bride hosting at home. Recipes include Bouillon Fried Sweetbreads and Rice Casserole, Currant Jelly Sandwiches, Potatoes Peas and Asparagus Salad, Love Cakes, and a decorative coffee service. The text describes butter sugar rice batter, baking, and forming molds with rice for dessert.
A historic recipe outlines preparing sweetbreads by soaking in cold water, trimming, boiling with lemon, and assembling in tablet molds with puff paste. The filling uses almonds, castor sugar, egg yolks, cream, orange flower water, and flour, followed by a glacé cream mixture, freezing, and finishing with whipped cream, Maschino, and a butter parsley garnish with tomato slices.
A fragment emphasizes traditional manners: the gentleman should precede the lady while ascending stairs and the lady should precede the gentleman when descending, reflecting formal social instruction.
A reader asks about etiquette for a young woman and a theatre companion. The column advises proper behavior, then shifts to a DIY curtain cleaning method: mix cornmeal with borax, dust curtains, stack, roll, and wait ten days, then shake out and iron to remove wrinkles.
A San Francisco Federal Reserve official explains the liberty loan bonds now on sale to fund World War I efforts. The 2 billion dollar issue offers $60, $100, $500 and $1,000 denominations, 3 1/2 percent interest, 30 year terms, with face value redeemable after 15 years. Purchases support patriotic investment backed by the United States credit and installments allow staggered payments through August.
Ogden High announces eighty seven seniors will receive diplomas in the auditorium on May 29 with Eugene Taylor valedictorian and Miss Marvel Bark salutatory. Tomorrow two playlets under Daniel Sullivan, a patriotic program next week for National Guard volunteers, and senior day festivities follow. Senior banquet at Northana next Wednesday honors the entire class.
An old styled advertisement promotes Cuticura products for hair care. It urges nightly scalp treatment with Cuticura Ointment, followed by morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap, repeating every two weeks. It offers free samples by mail and claims global distribution.
A lengthy discussion on scar tissue, healing, and plastic surgery methods. It covers keloids, skin grafting, and asepsis as essential for proper wound care. Mentions ambrine and petrolatum in dressings, X ray treatment, and cautions about expectations after cosmetic procedures.
In Abe Martin style, a feller must toil harder to stretch wages as the days grow tight. The quip recalls older times when a man could whip out a geld tooth piek and still get by, contrasting past ease with present labor strain.
Preston Thomas of the Weber County Farm Bureau filed with county commissioners a petition to form Weber County Drainage District No. 3 in Farr West. The petition claims a majority of adult landowners support the district, owning over one third of land and water rights. Reclamation reports say drainage is needed, costs will be modest compared with benefits, and the project is practicable.
Ogden men named from Troops B E and G and separate Utah Wyoming units to train at the Presidio San Francisco for reserve corps commissions. List includes Neal McMillan Owen Sherenod Clyde Leage tt Den Garr Frank Grady Fred Dackard Benedict Belefus Paul Spear Francis Wotrel William Halley Elmer Campbell David Farnsworth Stanley Jorgenson Seymour Stepsen J Garner Jensen Clinton Poulson Kenneth Dicker Mitton Greaves Marion Kmithaen Elmer Johe son Edwant Barage Paul Jones Dolph Esmay Benjamin Werner Gilbert Brount Reginald Bacon Rick Anthony Oliver Darnen Oscar Clark Fulton Bel Jammy Alfred H beach William Reeves Oscar V Anderson Estey lsench. Berlin fighting report notes French setback after failed attacks on German positions.
An old medical notice warns that infant mortality is high in civilized nations and urges the timely use of Castoria. It accuses many so called pediatric treatments of containing morphine or opiates, claiming Castoria contains no narcotics and bears the signature of Charles Henry Fletcher.
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