The Mistress of Fairview and Mrs Bryan Home Life Portrait
Dorothy Dale interviews Mrs. Bryan revealing a gracious, self assured hostess. The piece portrays Fairview life from architectural taste to daily routines with alfalfa lawns, a sun shaded porch, and a watchful entry for visitors. It also offers home care tips from color preservation to bran wash methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairview
Dorothy Dale
Mrs. Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Mary
White House
Nebraska
Brynan
Garmet
Bryan
Laundress Reveals Vintage Color Fixatives
A historic note describes home remedies for preserving color in fabrics. Alum in rinsing water prevents green fading, salt sets blue, ox gall aids gray and brown, hay water improves tan or brown linen, pepper in early suds stops color running, and sugar of lead fixes tone.
When Broiling Chicken in a Hot Oven
A guide to perfect broiling advises building a clear coal bed and elevating the broiler on bricks to cook slowly without burning. If heat is too intense add bricks briefly. Two chickens take about twenty five minutes, finished in a buttered pan with pepper and salt for gravy. Turn the inside toward the fire first, then the back.
A Business Woman’s Wardrobe Trunk Packing Method
A woman who travels abroad develops a gown care system. She cuts pasteboard boards and covers them with cheap percale, sewing ends closed and attaching tapes. Garments slide over the board and are secured, smoothing plaits and fullness as they hang. Each dress has its own pasteboard inside the trunk to prevent disarray.
Cher ry Heart Salad With French Dressing
Do you want to serve a salad that isn’t commonplace. Make it of cher ries luscious pink and white oxhearts on green lettuce hearts with a seasoned French dressing. Stone the cherries and chill on ice.
Ice Cream Delicacies Blending Heat and Cold
A block of ice cream covered with meringue is baked briefly for color and served immediately. Another method folds a very thin rich paste around a spoonful of ice cream, baked quickly to avoid melting, then served at once. The habit continues with hot apple pie or baked Indian pudding topped with ice cream.
Plaited waists can be laundered by careful baste edging
The article explains laundering methods for season's waists with plaitings. Baste edge before washing to prevent fullness and ensure flatness. Hold plaiting toward you during baste to avoid fullness while maintaining proper fit.
A Neat Patch For Boys Trousers Repair
A brief sewing tip describes mending knees by cutting away worn parts, patching with a matching cloth, sewing across the front, pressing the seam, and shaping with the cut piece so the mend is invisible.
Politeness and Manners as Social Lubricant
A column extols the value of politeness toward servants and in social life. It argues that saying please and thank you smooth daily tasks, boosts respect, and that good manners influence others as much as beauty, urging cultivation of refined speech and behavior.
Health and Beauty Tips for Children and Face Care
Health and Beauty notes advise that well nourished children resist illness, with cod liver oil or malt as remedies. Regular living, simple diet, and deep breathing curb dark circles, while specific facial recipes promise improvements for thin faces, sunken cheeks, and nostril shape. Hair tips suggest dampening with bay rum before curling, and dancers should train daily to improve flexibility and gait.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raima Vipat Vara
Facts for Sick Women By Lydia E Pinkham Plant
A vintage testimonial style notice for Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It proclaims the remedy as a standard cure for female ailments including displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities and more. It invites sick women to write for advice and mentions Lynn Mass as the address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Ross
East 84Th Street
New York
Lydia E. Pinkham
Katharine Craig
Lafayette St
Denver
Col
Marie Stoltzman
Laurel
Lydia B. Pinkham
Ellen M. Olson
Ane St
Wanee
Ill
Lydia E
Her Telephone Hour Establishes Regular Call Times
A girl with many engagements sets a daily telephone hour so friends can reach her reliably. If not home, she calls the maid to share her whereabouts. The plan works well, and she would not return to unplanned contact.
The Gossips' Faith in Seeing and Hearing
A brief reflection on belief in rumors and stories, noting how sight and hearing shape trust, echoing a Houston Post sentiment about gossip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston Post
Just Exactly Right New Life Pills Endorsement
Mr A A Felton of Harrisville New York says Dr King s New Life Pills are just exactly right after years of use The pills relieve constipation biliousness and malaria without discomfort Sold for 25 cents at Lemmon s Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
A. A. Felton
Harrisville
N. Y
Lemmon’s
Washington County Iowa District Court Original Notice
Isabella V Latta and Rose Latta sue over multiple real estate parcels in Washington County Iowa seeking to quiet title. The defendants include many individuals and associations with unknown claimants. the petition asserts owners claims by gift grant and adverse possession over parts of Outlets Nine and Six East Washington and lots in Washington City. the court cautions appearance before the September 1 1908 term to avoid default.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonathan Wilson
A. W. Chilcote
Jane A. Chilcote
Nathaniel Cooper
N. P
Johnathan C. Conger
Margaret Jenkins
Jane Conger
J. C. Conger
Jonathan C. Conger
C. E. Norton
John H. Bacon
James Dawson
Janette Dawson
William Munro
William Munroe
Mary Munroe
J. May Munroe
John Dawson
Mary Dawson
Eli B. Hendee
Elizabeth Ritchey
Clark A. Ritchey
Sarah F. Ritchey
Lizzie Ritchey
Jane Waller
William Auld
Elizabeth Auld
E. C. Denney
Oral K. Clatter
J. R. Richards
Cashier
W. C. Brewster
Perry Vanwinkle
J. S. Morris
A. Morris
Ira A. Parker
Joanna Parker
Martha Elizabeth Young
George Washington Parker
Benjamin Franklin Parker
Joseph Warren Parker
Samuel P. Young
George W. Parker
Benjamin F. Parker
Burlington and North Western Railway Company
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company
Washington
City
District Court
Washington County
Iowa
Isabella V. Latta and
Rose
Latta
Wm. H. Jenkins
Sami. M. Cox
R. Dewey
Clk
Willam H. Jenkins
Elizabeth
South East
Joseph A. Kolosick
Quieting Title Notice in Iowa Case 1908
The plaintiffs seek to quiet title to real estate by adverse possession over twenty years and against unknown claimants. They claim gifts and various survivorship interests and request cancellation of clouds, with judgment by the District Court of Washington County Iowa. If not answered by Sept 1 1908 noon, default and judgment will be entered. Ficher Livingston Attorneys for Plaintiffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
District Court
Court House
City of
Washington
Washington County
Iowa
Ficher & Livingston Attorneys
Also Mentioned on This Page
William J. Bryan
W. J. Bryan
Lincoln, Neb
Health and Beauty
A.w.chase Medicine Co
Buffalo,n.y J
BE. Lemmei
W. Chase
Homeseekers
Rock Island States
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
The
Panhandle
New Mexico
Arkansas
Colorado
John Sebastian
Rock Island Lines
Chicago
the Evening Journal
East Main Street
Frank Rogers
Lompardo
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
Cypsus
All Throat
Isabella V. Latta
Rose J. Latta
District Court of
Owa
Joseph A. Kolesick
Copvarichts &c
Salon
Munn & Co
Scientific American
All
NN & Co
Spraguette School OF Law
Mascari
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