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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1910
Page
8
The article describes a children's game where players pass a sheet, sharing the end word of each line to create rhymed verses. Alternate methods include starting fresh sheets, or quoting lines that begin with the final letter of the previous word. Examples show flexible meter and humorous lines.
The text urges steady focus across life aspects. It advocates concentrating on work goals, civic duty, time use, health, character, education, and spiritual matters to build a worthy life and reputation.
The activity assigns each player an old magazine scissors paste and a brush. Players cut out pictures and mount them on larger plain paper to create new pictures. After thirty minutes the works are displayed and prizes awarded for prettiest most comical or most original sheets.
A humorous snippet asks about kite materials and gravity with witty answers. Fly paper is suggested for kites and the center of gravity is the letter V. The Western prairies are flat because the sun sets every night and a goat is always born a little wee kid.
Snails have eyes on the antennae or feelers near their base. The eyes are simple yet useful, though how much they perceive remains uncertain.
A teacher asks a girl if she wants her coat buttoned up. The child replies that the coat does not button up or down. it simply buttons.
A fragment from Youth's Companion describes a small workbox with silk spools and a needle book beside a doll in a nightgown. A girl sits sewing plans for dresses for her shivering dolly, noting half finished outfits and an untrimmed bonnet.
Ethel Dressler in Chicago Tribune outlines a method to clean garments using gasoline. It covers selecting suitable gasoline, washing and rinsing amounts, soaking times, equipment setup, and tips for various fabrics and accessories. The guide emphasizes outdoor work, proper ventilation, and safe handling of soaked items.
The article advises proper harness care as essential for safety and longevity. Wash with soap and water, dry in a warm room, then apply neatsfoot oil heated with lampblack to the feather. Reapply and dry again, ensuring the harness remains easier to handle and less prone to causing galls.
Advice on stopping fabric raveling includes overcasting edges as you cut and binding armholes after sewing sleeves. Recommend binding ribbon to strengthen armholes and reduce fraying in unlined fabrics.
Instructions for oatmeal gems mix a cup of oatmeal with a cup of sour milk soaked overnight. Add a teaspoon of soda, a well beaten egg, and half a cup of sugar. Stir in flour to form a batter.
Beginning Tuesday morning the retailer will close out an entire stock of silverware hand painted china and cut glass at wholesale prices. A good time to buy wedding presents at 848 W. J. Bradley Jeweler SW Corner Square.
J M Stewart returned Saturday from Milwaukee where he served as judge of swine at the Wisconsin State fair. Exhibitors honored him with a handsome novelty cane, a gift he values for the sentiment it carries as he heads home.
Notice directs all bills authorized by the Executive Committee to be presented to Marsh Pailey for audit and payment in order of presentment.
Notice to the public states that after Sept 19 all meat markets in Washington will close promptly at 8 PM. Crone and Oriez Dankwardt and Kurtz, R. Stuart and Son. The ad then suggests unusual wedding gifts in sterling silver, cut glass, Pickard china and brass.
All corn and oats in the Chalmers Elevator fire are up for sale. Call at once for bidding and terms as the storage losses are being cleared.
It saved his leg story by J A Swensen of Watertown Wisconsin after ten years of eczema and 15 doctors could not cure him. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured it and left him sound. Effective for skin eruptions eczema salt rheum boils fever sores burns scalds cuts and piles. 25c at J K Lemmon Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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