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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1899
Page
3
A young woman becomes a professional dinner party bearer, managing night meals without cooking. She preps the dining room, ensures correct wine temperatures, oversees pacing from a pantry post, tastes dishes, and guarantees flawless service, enabling hostesses to focus on guests. The role is praised as modern philanthropy by eager hostesses.
The article advises free gymnastics over equipment focusing on neck shoulder and torso development. It describes stooping to touch the floor with knees straightened and wall touching drills to slim the waist, improve carriage, and require slow controlled breathing.
Advice for lady cyclists on packing essentials. Carry needle and thread, spare luggage label, matches, cash, and a small water resistant cape. Include a sewing kit and prepared dress repair items to handle wardrobe mishaps on rides.
A Philadelphia grocer duped a customer by swapping her usual flour with a different barrel. After two bakes she returned the unsatisfactory flour, and the grocer again sent a filled barrel with a new head. Inside the barrel she found a lost saucer she used to scoop flour.
A thrifty DIY shirt waist box idea using a large oats or oatmeal box covered in pale creton with brass tacks. The project costs about 60 cents, adds a decorative touch, and can serve as a window seat, storage for summer clothing, or a baby trunk.
The article argues that sedentary living harms complexion due to slow circulation and poor digestion. It promotes exercise to improve blood flow and digestion, warns against immediate postmeal activity, notes nonmedical remedies and social well being as health essentials, and cautions against inferior soap and mouth drying habits.
Glittering fabrics for summer use feature tinsel threads in tress goods and diaphanous materials. New gauze trims and evening gowns show gold and silver swirling designs, while silk mousseline is embroidered with shimmering threads. English luminous powder enhances fabric color by day and glows at night.
A brief guide extols women to maintain attractive hands through mustard water washes and lemon baths. It highlights lemon's cleansing and cosmetic benefits for hands and face, urging immediate adoption for summer skin care.
Veils trimed with jewels highlight the season's fashion. Fine net veils with or without point lace borders use rhinestones imitation turquoises emeralds rubies or pearls to trace or accent the jeweled design.
To remove fly specks from gilt frames moisten them with the white of an egg, let it remain about 15 minutes and then wipe off with a silk cloth.
An American Baptist missionary reports a dramatic pursuit on the Congo near Lake Tumba. The old man captured by cannibals begged for help, and two rival canoes raced to prevent a fatal exchange. The captors released the captive after accepting brass wire worth about four dollars, a sum that fed him for nine months.
Rev Newell Dwight Hillis argues that ideas alone fail without fiery eloquence. The piece cites Bernard, Luther, Clay, Webster, Lincoln, Garrison, and Wendell Phillips to show how oratory drove reform and progress over mere written ideas.
The St. Louis Republic describes a Filipino practice where eight large coppers equal five American cents. Players throw coins from about four yards at a money pile, sometimes ten yards, aiming to strike the pile. Coppers traveling away from the pile are awarded to the hitter, a marbles like variation in play.
Cartoon dialogue captures Jimmy preferring Dewey over Jeffries while Tommy jokes about being both, reflecting witty banter in a Puck strip.
The article explains grading undulating lands and washing prevention. It discusses horizontal embankments, deep plowing, crop rotation, and precise embankment grading to carry off heavy rain. Emphasizes sizing and spacing of embankments and the need for accurate instruments before surveying lines.
A detailed method by H. J. Dunton for constructing a field embankment using a homemade surveyor’s level. It covers setting the level at one-inch drops, placing boards under feet, aligning the bubble, moving the instrument along stakes, and building the embankment with a steel shad hand scraper. It also prescribes spacing, slope handling, and filling low spots to ensure uniform grade.
The article explains that young pigs may be born with long black teeth that injure the sow and trigger unrest. It advises using pinchers to break each tooth promptly under the left arm, describing the procedure as quick and essential to prevent future problems or backset in life.
An editorial urges the nation to prioritize road construction. It condemns antiquated methods and insists road builders need proper understanding and skilled planning rather than relying on farmers to pay taxes through unsuitable labor. The stance criticizes farmers’ tax-sharing as unfit and calls for reform.
S W Chambers argues in American Cultivator that farm produced cold storage protects fruit from damage and waste in transit while extending marketability. He cites Great Lakes grape districts where direct farm storage preserves quality longer and suggests cooperative plants reduce costs. current city storage limits profits.
A Mississippi farmer weighing the value of a 17 month old Jersey Friesian heifer and her calf weighs options. The article argues for instant weaning to develop a good cow and a well behaved calf, noting training the calf to drink from a bucket in three days and the risks of a cow learning to suckle herself. C W Murtfeldt cited from St Louis Republic.
This excerpt from the St. Louis Republic advises strong mature plants for fruit production, proper orchard drainage, and avoiding standing water. It notes that f young trees may be overfed, while bearing trees need rich food, and stresses prevention over cure for diseases. It covers grape soil effects, elder tree planting ages, and pruning guidance for Delaware vines.
An aged advertisement proclaims three hours of brain work destroy more brain tissue than a day of physical activity. It claims Hostetter's Stomach Bitters energizes the mind, aids digestion, and has fifty years of cures with a Revenue Stamp on the bottle neck.
A humorous tale from Chevy Chase Golf Club near Washington recounts Rev. Dr. Sterret missing a brassie shot after protracted waggles. Justice Harlan comments on the prolonged silence, calling it the most profane silence he ever listened to.
Veterans of sixty one and five and friends plan the 33rd G A R Encampment in Philadelphia in September traveling via the Big Four Chesapeake and Ohio line with service from Chicago, Peoria and St Louis. The route includes Indianapolis Cincinnati Huntington Staunton and Washington with three rate options and a stop over policy. J C Tucker G N A Chicago offers full details.
In a Philadelphia suburb a kindly school principal lectured pupils on vivisection and animal suffering. A boy defined the term as meaning the practice of trying it on the dog, prompting a moral yardstick delivered by the judge. Also advertised: Allen's Foot-Ease promises relief for tired feet and related conditions.
A Cincinnati hotel guest declares the ice water dirty and jokingly asks the porter to wash it after spotting a dirty pitcher. The humorous line captures early 20th century urban life and streetwise banter in Chicago and Cincinnati newspapers.
The 1899 summer booklet invites readers to sharpen wits and tone up by spending a week or two at scenic lake resorts reachable through Wisconsin Central Lines. Jas. C. Pond, General Passenger Agent of Milwaukee, Wis, offers the booklet upon request.
A humorous exchange jokes about an unearthly hour at home and a Dewey toast. The item mentions railroads fitting freight cars with air brakes and automatic couplers, citing Burlington Line statistics and Westinghouse Master Car Builder equipment. The Nickel Plate Road highlights its fast express trains and dining car service.
Lane's Family Medicine promises daily bowel movement aid and gentle action on the liver and kidneys. It claims to cure sick headaches with a price of 25 and 50 cents.
The Atchison Globe urges writers to present events plainly without embellishments and to focus on verifiable details. Readers are asked to separate opinion from fact and to report what is known with concise accuracy.
A humorous line from the Indianapolis Journal records a jurist questioning about a dog tearing clothes. Hungry Higgins replies he cannot recall which torn garment belongs to whom, highlighting a light court-side quip.
An old advertisement quotes Cure a Cold in One Day by taking Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a refund claim if it fails. It also cites various testimonials and notes Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally priced at 75 cents. The text includes several unrelated aphorisms and a March 8 date from 793.
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