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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1908
Page
6
The article argues that focusing on choosing a high quality bull yields superior stock more than selecting cows alone. It warns against using inferior bulls, notes money and indifference as causes of bad bull choices, and recommends buying a smart young bull or a well-used mature one and sticking with it to improve both appearance and value.
Hoard's Dairyman notes cows suffer from cold cement floors causing udder congestion, garget, and loss of quarters. Some cover floors with boards to mitigate. Prolonged contact also leads to rheumatism in cows and affects milk veins and overall circulation.
A cheap decorative screen uses light blue lawn or other colors stretched over an existing frame. Double thickness holds pasted designs like a stork among cattails or dancing figures, creating a shadowed effect when light passes through. white lawn with color silhouettes, tassel-like shapes, or bold relief patterns on muslin also makes attractive lamp shades.
The piece notes that costly special wiring limits some electric ranges, but many devices plug into a light socket after removing a bulb. It highlights an electric iron that stays hot on the board, a stove free electric roaster, teakettle chafing dish and coffee percolator, and a heating pad, all costing about 2 cents an hour, suggesting vast electrical possibilities.
A guidance piece urging plain women to focus on figure and fit over facial beauty. It recommends corseting for poor figures, well fitting petti coats, minimal frippery, quality material, two to three good dresses, modish hair, neat collars, immaculate appearance, and nightly facial care with hot soapy water and skin food.
Miss Bertha Buffin and Miss Eaton at Brown University Women’s College conduct a kitchen trial to replace pastry and pie with wholesome meals. They aim for palatable rice pudding and sturdier, digestible fare, reshaping a formerly plain menu into simpler yet more substantial offerings.
A columnist suggests balancing a room by placing a sofa opposite a table or similar element. Remove rugs to improvise furniture placement and allow easy movement. Examples show a corner divan with a wall at one end, a bookcase behind, and a screen, or a setup with the divan between two bookcases for balance.
Practical advice on controlling facial oiliness with washing soda in face water and restoring diet for fewer pimples. Tips on avoiding clipping to grow heavier eyelashes, a quinine tonic with almond oil to stimulate length, root brushing, and daily scalp massage to improve nourishment and prevent split ends.
The article warns against heavy meals when fatigued, citing indigestion and poor nourishment. It advises resting after exhausting activity and suggests light fare like beef tea, a sandwich, wine, or milk before a substantial meal.
An oddly decorated book page features a pasteboard back covered in dark gray linen. Two matches with heads removed hold a silk rope from which muslin clothes hang, depicting a maid in black dress with a white apron and cap. Blackbirds fly overhead against a gray sky, with a printed verse about a bird plucking the maid’s nose.
A discussion on how charm of manner and personality surpass mere physical beauty. It warns against overemphasizing appearances and stresses a well groomed mind and sunny disposition as essential for friendship and affection.
A collection of brief notes from around the world. It mentions Samoa belles wearing tortoise shell bonnets, forests covering seven tenths of France, Boston’s first new aldermen including a reporter and a banker, a corn bread diet claim, Berlin pawnshops funding charity, ships losses with most vessels missing, naturalist skeleton practices, Pomril, a German apple juice drink, Mannheim’s 3000 bottles daily, and 800000 pounds yearly apple usage sourced from the United States.
Editorials cite widespread forest policy debate as Republicans urge tree planting and citizens consider long term stewardship. Notes cite Norway's sapling rule and the expansive government reserves now totaling about 150 million acres, predominantly west of the Mississippi.
Tales of Cities Atlanta reports a thirty five member symphony orchestra. St Louis population estimated at 750000 with five sixths in flats and tenements. Temple New Hampshire notes a year with no deaths twice in its history. New York policemen arrest about 3672 weekly with average arrest age of twenty three.
Watches occasionally run erratically and lose accurate time. A rest of a few days often restores proper performance.
A roundup notes Edgar Selwyn's The Energetic West, The Outlaw's Christmas a melodrama hit, Lillian Russell in Wildfire with Broadhurst and Hobart, McIntyre and Heath in The Ham Tree touring, Frank Daniels duplicating Tattooed Man on tour, Trixie Friganza joining vaudeville after leaving Eddie Foy, and The Hypocrites cast all having stage manager experience. Mase. Fely Dereyne sang with Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boheme alongside Farrar and Caruso.
The New York Post describes fur coats in short, handsome styles with jeweled buttons and bold trims. Tailored broadtail suits rise in fashion with ground clearance and braided or velvet finishes. Overskirt fringe must match skirt color for a continuous silhouette. Walking suits feature black velvet, tight coats, and military or French style fronts braided with wide borders.
The fragment notes Geraldine-Fruit is healthy and includes a playful line about being clad as a peach, from the St Louis Republic.
A Kentucky farmer guides four oxen with names reflecting sects Methodis Baptis Campbellite Presbyterian. The narrator notes the "Methodis" as diligent but prone to jumping, Baptis as strong yet water-loving, Campbellite as a stubborn hard worker, and Presbyterian as coordinating but self-important and envied by the others.
A list of claims adjusted last week by Washington County Farmers Mutual Insurance Association includes B L Metcalf Kalona steer 45 Frank Havel Ainsworth cow 39 F E Rickey Wellman burned 15 Vane Wooley Washington damage by lightning 2 James Potsandey Son Wellman steer 55 James Stamp Keota steer 41 50 T A Whelan Washington cow 45 C B Robinson Brighton helfer 20 Parsons College Fairfield Iowa fall term opens September 25 For information address Dr J F Hink house 20 20d 10t Frank Farris returned to Havre Saturday evening after spending the day in the city
An advertisement outlines kidney disease causes and symptoms including backache fever and abnormal urine. It promotes DeBell's Kidney Pills as strengthening kidneys to remove toxins and cure kidney, bladder, and urinary troubles with claims of thorough, rapid, and permanent results.
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