Optimist Day Hope to Replace All Fools' Day Spirit
The piece argues for replacing All Fools' Day with Western Kansas World Optimist Day to celebrate sunshine and sanitation. It lauds the Optimist Club and leaders like Andrew Carnegie and Rev. Slicer, praising civic virtue, honesty, and a brighter American outlook. It contrasts this with San Francisco graft prosecutions, praising aggressive reform and the fight for municipal square dealing as a powerful national example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Optimist Club
Andrew Carnegie
Slicer
Dey
San Francisco
Kansas City Star
Heney
Burn
Municipal Square
Brown
Pacife
Farm Advice From Meadowbrook Farm Notes
Practical farm guidance covering feed mixes, alfalfa use, beets soil, and stock handling. Emphasizes humane care, proper feeding to prevent underfeeding, herd management, and soil improvement. Warns against crowding chicks and careless plowing, promotes drilling oats, manure handling, and clean fumigation to protect poultry and hogs.
Trapper's Report Highlights Harsh Northwest Canada Winter
A remote northwestern Canada trapper describes a severe winter with four storms of fifty days and temperatures never above minus thirty eight. The piece notes tension around Kipline's portrayal and Canadian efforts to attract wealthier immigrants to the northwest, challenging perceptions of subarctic harshness versus subtropic climates on this side of the line.
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Canada
Kipline
Year of Genius Births Mark Seventeenth Century Era
The article proclaims 1719 as the year of genius with Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Tennyson, and Holmes among those born that year. It notes Darwin and Lincoln share a birth date and credits the century’s achievements in advancing humanity, marking this era as highly impactful.
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Eventeen Hendred
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Darwin
Tennyson and
Holmes
Darwin
Lincoln
Central America banana trade seeks prosperity amid revolutions
The fragmented text describes banana farming and processing in Central America, noting resilience through revolutions and holidays, and hints at a self-picking plantation and machinery. It then shifts to a London council trial of baby-minders placed in school buildings to supervise children during school hours, and ends with abstract remarks on walking and balance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central America
London County Council
Wash materials and textures in children fashion season
The article surveys wash fabrics for boys and girls from linen and cotton to muslin and dimity. It notes color and figures are in fashion, advises gentler washing for colored garments, outlines preferred textures for boys and sensible girl dresses, and suggests dry cleaning for elaborate gowns. It also mentions ages eight to sixteen as suitable for a delicate bridal style dress.
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Dimity
Fashionable Jet Colors Captivate English Woman
An English woman in the Queen extols opaque jet in black and white and a spectrum of shades to pair with embroideries and millinery. She favors colors like laurel green, creme de menthe, garnet, ruby, amber, turquoise and brown jet for varied outfits.
Made Up in Striped Linen Blouse Description
Simple blouse of striped linen trimmed with bands of the same and buttons. The collar is of linen of a contrasting color.
Cretonne Fever Inspires Shop Windows This Spring
The piece notes a surge of cretonne in shop windows during spring as decorators look to wrap beds dressers and desks in flowered fabric. It suggests clever uses for cretonne in summer cottages and bungalows and hints at affordable, charming effects from the new chintz.
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Ceélline
Popular Hat Trimming and Ribbon Velvet Review
In a milliner workshop a tour reveals various trimmings and explains ribbon velvet. The taffeta backed ribbon velvet is lighter than satin backed, ideal for high crowns and large rosettes, with exquisite colorings in this Winner quality.
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Mies
Lingerie Frocks of Cotton Crepe from Paris
Paris declares cotton crepe the ideal fabric for elegant frocks. Lighter bleached crepe, Rimy and transparent, welcomes embroidery and lace trimming. Laundering is effortless, no ironing needed, ideal for apartment living and boarding house wear with minimal expense and effort.
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Paris
Saving Paint Money Cannot Be Done by Cheap Materials
Property owners frequently seek the lowest bid or cheapest paint to save money on painting. This risks wear and unsatisfactory results, so they should contact National Lead Company for a free House owner's Painting Outfit No 49. It includes color schemes, specifications, and a paint adulteration detector. Nearly all dealers carry National Lead Company's pure white lead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Lead Company
Trinity
Dutch Boy Painter
National Lead Co
Jess Says Prayers At Grandmother's Devout Visit
A three year old, Baby Jess, visits her devout grandmother. When asked whom she prays to, she replies she prays to mother's knees or to the bed. The Delineator notes the anecdote amid a broader remark on sugar production and consumption in the United States.
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Jess
Baby Jess
Mia
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Kansas
H. S. Givler
Pub
AGTE
Pnook Farm
Willem Cctf
Meadowbrook Farm
G. F. Warren
New Jersey
Iowa
Ria
Rylos
United States
Dodds Kidney
Carters Pills
Dwela
C. Witten
Elim St
Newark
N.J Peneant
Dalatabhe
ELIE
John Deere
Armen
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