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Newspaper
Van Buren News Eagle
Location
Van Buren, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1912
Page
3
Philadelphia North American details handmade bridal sachets and a china silk throwover for the trousseau. Describes double silk sachets with wadding, embroidery, ribbon bindings, and folding. smaller sachets match colors. Also covers a silk throwover with pockets for travel essentials and practical packing steps.
Paragraphs describe net and chantilly lace trends for girls wear including pleated nets and jabots. It notes muted cream and tan hats with black and cerise touches and embroidered nets for warm weather gowns. It also mentions sashes returning to favor and highlights eye boiling tips for eggs with butter and salt.
In the kitchen advice on cooking peas and beans with minimal water and whipping cream in a pitcher. Includes recipe notes for Raisin Pie with cooked raisins and flour sugar and salt, and Crumb Pudding with cake crumbs, milk, egg yolk, cocoa, brown sugar, vanilla, and a final bake with jelly for a browned finish.
Fashion notes on 32 inch suit jackets and straight lines for garments. Includes fabric choices, sewing techniques, and care tips for tea strength, coffee preparation, and stocking longevity with reinforced garters. Mentions manufacturers’ association and general dress guidance.
Lesiie's Weekly reports a Breton city festivity where multiple marriages occur on the same day. Fisher families from Ploncastel braid in dowries food and drink as ceremonies proceed and brides and grooms ride to celebrate with dance and games before living as couples.
The piece details Norwegian infantry on skis traveling up to thirty miles an hour with eight to twelve foot wooden skis. It notes training from childhood, stealth through trees, and tactics of using snow as cover for rapid pot shots. It cites maneuvers with 100000 infantry demonstrating ski warfare and comments on artillery challenges on snow roads.
A moral story shows an emperor rewarding an old man for planting figs while his covetous neighbor is punished for stealing figs. The tale ends with the saying that figs are preferable to covenants. An agriculturalist estimates a bee visits about 11 000 flowers daily for a common pollen haul.
Italy's historic leaning tower of Pisa, built over two centuries, has had its larger bells silenced by authorities to prevent vibrations that might threaten the structure. The tower remains about fifteen to sixteen feet out of plumb.
A playful quip links Browning to a fowl as a poet and a blush to a girl maturing into a woman, using light wordplay to compare familiar phrases in a witty glaze.
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