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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1909
Page
7
A fashionable outdoor gathering ends in a roaring success as guests ride in four horse wagons to a campfire feast. Corn kernels shaped candy and cob themed decor showcase meticulous hospitality and careful guest grouping by the hostess.
A hostess hosts a bark themed contest with prizes like a wood paper weight and a Yucca palm pincushion. Questions pair common trees with clues revealing names such as Tulip Pawpaw Fir Bay Pine Palm Locust Ash Birch Peach Spruce Beech Cottonwood Hemlock Pear Cherry Elder Cork Poplar Witch hazel Plum and more.
A hostess plans a balanced eight couples party with pre mailed sample cards showing gown and necktie ideas. Guests describe the outfits and ties, papers read aloud, prizes are sample products, and a mystery box table with a chocolate cake for the closest food recall.
The piece notes fashionable details for young women including Grecian bands of cut jet as hair ornaments, chamois skin and suede fringe on handbags, embroidery and braid trimming, plain colored faience braids on jackets, dyed laces to match dresses, and very heavy or very fine linens. It highlights ornate shoe straps, trimmed sleeve bottoms, plain upper sleeves, and a dressy Dutch collar with rosettes and a long tab.
White Indian head cotton dress pattern with broad shoulder tuck and tun down collar. Seven sizes 32 to 44 bust with specified yardage by width. Pattern costs 10 cents via Pattern Department of this paper.
A Chicago editor recalls William Dean Howells rebuking American boastfulness. He notes Howells recently joined a men’s society for woman suffrage and cites a Maine Fourth of July oration where Howells counters another speaker’s vaunts with a parable of a child shaming a hen for laying an egg he claims to have produced.
New pattern presents a jacket and knickerbockers for growing boys with front closing jacket and elastic gathered knickers. Suitable for heavy linen or khaki with a detached Eton collar and Windsor tie. Five to ten years sizes require 33 3 4 yards 24 inch wide materials and other yardages per size. Pattern Department. Street and No State.
Two and a half year old girl suffered a painful hip eruption. after two weeks of Cuticura treatment she recovered fully by February and remained clear for years. Mrs R R Whitaker Winchester Tenn Sept 22 1908. Potter Drug & Chem Boston.
A city man rides in a rickety wagon toward a summer boarding-house. He chats with a glum driver and learns about Old Man Bitt and his boys working in a hot field. The exchange reveals a rural scene and curiosity about local ownership.
Commander Maxwell recalls a recruit who complained about breakfast aboard a warship. The morning menu of burgoo crack-hash hard tack and coffee prompts the sailor to demand a steak and eggs, prompting a humorous naval anecdote from the stick and mast era.
In a scene of early Quaker moderation two Friends debated truthfulness. One declines harsh labels and imagines a mayor asking who lies most, replying that he would name Thomas as the town’s greatest liar to provoke a meeting, but without insult.
Knowst all says a thrifty wife is required for a poor young man. A friend prefers a wealthy liberal wife. A mother keeps Wizard Oil for child emergencies. Some men wait to start honest work after a hard jolt.
An old newspaper ad offers Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain and gum eruption. It claims to soften gums reduce inflammation and cure wind colic for children at 25 cents per four bottle pack.
In the annual report of the fire marshal of Kentucky a fragment recalls items stored in kitchens and attics. The passage notes vanished furniture rags greased to start fires, paint olls, and broken toys from children grown or long asleep.
During a dinner visit in Arizona Johnny observes his grandfather bowing his head at grace. He asks his mother what grandpa says to his napkin, noting it as a new habit.
A sharp exchange between a wife and friend of the family reveals a tension over honesty with children. The wife condemns the friend for revealing dark truths, while the friend claims tales are necessary to prepare the kids.
A Wall Street tale recalls Mr. Morgen advising a young friend on clubs in New York. He answered that the best clubs to join are Indian clubs as a wise use of a youth’s time.
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