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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
7
Julia Bottomley notes the black picture hat as the season's centerpiece with large crowns and varied brims. She highlights double brims, upstanding feather clusters, and velvet trims, saying the bold shapes suit many faces while remaining the queen of hats for select occasions.
Lady Cheylesmore, an American, becomes a prominent hostess as London's acting leader through her husband Lord Charlesmore’s council chair. Her Prince's Gate home near Hyde Park hosts major functions, with the Demidoff dinner service valued at $45,000 to be showcased at key banquets.
Designs shown for housewear dresses for girls. First style features a bodice with center front box pleat and side tucks, a silk or contrasting yoke, and a one piece skirt joined by a band. Second style uses a flat pleat skirt to a square yoke with balloon corners and bishop sleeves with wristbands.
Buttons remain a dominant trim this season with soutache braid crafted into cylindrical knots. Create by tying knots along a length one inch apart then sewing and turning to shape a decorative button. Silk linen scrim and wash fabrics provide versatile backgrounds for these stylish buttons. Three braided strands form loose solid balls for added texture.
Popular Mechanics notes the Irish lace slipper as a new costly novelty in ball footwear. Each pair is hand crocheted and takes about two weeks to craft with a retail price near $50 in the U S markets.
The article describes making fashionable ties and stocks at home from handkerchief linen and fine lawn. It details tabs with medallions, punchwork centers, and embroidery, plus a plain linen tie with eyelets and velvet ribbon, noting launderability and color coordination with collars and stockings.
Styles in fichus feature fringe edging on net lace and marquisette pieces. Most are black with black fringe worn over white collars and blouses, often paired with white frills. One style uses black princess lace edged with scalloped black taffeta fringe.
In New York at the Fifth Avenue Carnegie mansion the Laird of Skibo honors Maggie Anderson after 23 years of service. He gifts her a gold watch and a life pension of 500 annually plus a round trip to Edinburgh, as the family bids farewell amid dancing and music by Carnegie staff.
In Dublin the first Irish parliament in the new era prompts speculation on a female viceroy. Consuela, duchess of Marlborough, is named as a leading candidate to chair the new regime if personal rifts within her marriage heal and Queen Mary signals reconciliation.
Alexandrine ascends as Denmark’s queen promising delight for subjects while Queen Louise favored thrift and restraint. The new queen, sister to Germany's crown princess, is linked to Grandduchess Anastasia of the Riviera. Americans like Mrs. Robert Goelet have mingled with Copenhagen society, and the royal couple follow Frederick’s example in admiring the United States.
A farm business article argues it remains profitable to raise work horses on the farm. It highlights long breeding lifespans, colts sold at high prices, and the viability of pasture and clover hay to raise colts with minimal grain. It advises breeding work mares and suggests jack crosses for greater yields.
W M Belley argues farmers should select crops suited to their soils and plan rotations accordingly. He notes soils often lack mineral fertility especially phosphorus and recommends using acid phosphate on lean soils and phosphate rock with manure where humus and nitrogen are ample. He also stresses potash sufficiency on many stock farms.
Within ten years farm lands and buildings in Iowa have risen 117 percent in value while the average value per farm increased 130 percent.
Guidance urges planting evergreens as soon as possible to ensure robust establishment and healthy growth. Early planting helps roots take hold before harsher weather sets in.
The article extols dairying as a steady cash crop, linking regular weekly milk and butter sales to farm prosperity and reduced bank borrowing. It also discusses Plum Curculio as a persistent plum pest and suggests hens pastured in groves, Leghorns for bug eating, arsenical sprays, hogs, and livestock as control aids.
The snippet presents disjointed lines about glory, Garfield tea, arbitration, and a run of quips on a presidential primary. It lacks coherent events or identifiable persons beyond generic references, yielding a fragmentary, puzzle‑like record with no clear news item.
A speaker lists England Norway and Scotland as possible destinations but expects to visit Punk Beach most likely.
In this passage a man clings to lifelong hope that he will someday acquire a coin whose value exceeds its face amount. The dialogue contrasts mortality with the persistence of such wishful thinking.
A dialogue between a client and an architect reveals a desire for a fashionably modern house. The client envisions a home with a living room too large to heat and a kitchen too small to cook in, illustrating design contrasts.
The Dry Goods Economist notes retailers are highlighting charmeuse and satin wraps with mid range prices from $10 to $30. Attractive lining in bright colors contrasts with lace collars and cuffs, white lace favored, some garments trimmed with black lace cut away to reveal lining.
A school teacher recalls posing a classic puzzle about a rich man who leaves 1 000 000 dollars to be divided among wife son daughter brother and foreign missions. The riddle ends with the lawyer remark from the smallest pupil.
An elder baptizes converts at a revival meeting when a sharp eyed onlooker warns that the old sinner needs more than a single dip, suggesting to anchor him out in deep water overnight. The remark adds a cautionary note to the baptism scene amid Life.
A Los Angeles physician with forty years’ experience praises Grape-Nuts and Postum as digestible brain and nerve foods. He says daily use supports mental work, digestive health, and overall strength, often recommending them in place of coffee. He keeps Grape-Nuts with cream for brain function on long travels.
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