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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1914
Page
2
The article traces how a woman’s ideal changes with age from a lively teen to a mature partner. It contrasts youth’s flirtation with a man’s steadiness, notes a widower’s appeal, and argues lasting happiness rests on mutual fidelity, shared life, and a lasting bond beyond seven year shifts.
An optimistic guide urges rural hostesses to brighten winters by inviting local girls and working women to a straw ride. Old wagons on runners, sleigh bells, tunes, and hot coffee fuel a festive outing with young men and a jovial evening of laughter, singing, and treats.
An old weekly ad drew many applicants for a colonel's servant post but none fit. An Irishman enters and offers to cook drive milk and paint yet asks what soil is. He suggests brick making in spare time if the soil is clay.
Mrs. Frales, identified as Maude Poor, fainted on a streetcar ride. Witnesses stated she recovered after attendants provided assistance and she was checked by a physician after the incident.
President Woodrow Wilson spoke privately about identity and responsibility at the National Press Club in Washington. He described feeling like a distant, careful observer inside the office and joked about disguises and slipping away from the presidency to enjoy simple freedoms.
The article notes that stockings now rival shoes in importance to dress, highlighting numerous embroidered and decorative hose. Examples include dull blue suede slippers with blue silk hose adorned by rose medallions, green suede slippers with jade buckles, latticework silk hose, black and white perforated slippers with scroll ankle stockings, and gold embroidered stockings. It also mentions exotic hose with semiprecious stone motifs, such as a chameleon, scarlet lobster, gray mouse, and various floral designs.
Fashion notes praise black chiffon dresses with white gauze tunics and jet tassels. The ensemble features white corselets, wing sleeves, veiled busts with beaded chains, and dramatic contrasts of black and gold skirts and Indo-Chinese bead corsages.
A classroom fragment shows a teacher prompting with a proverb about a will. Sammy interrupts, claiming his father pays it and noting that where there is a will there is always a cluster of poor relations.
A quirky widow announces a wedding and the groom departs with a jesting line about tending to a furnace. The item frames a light, humorous tone from life in a bygone era.
Fragmentary OCR notes show scattered phrases about nourishment in tall structures with unidentified bands and garbled letters. No clear persons places organizations dates or events emerge from the snippet.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that two wedged glasses can be separated by tapping the outer ring around where they are joined with a third tumbler. This method also applies to a glass bottle stopper.
The oldest pack of deerhounds in England, founded in 1598, is kennelled in the picturesque village of Dunster, Somerset.
Fragmentary OCR note mentions cedar scent as a moth repellent and printer’s ink context. No clear events, dates, or people identified.
Hat fashions move away from aigrettes toward wheat head trims. Milliners report artificial flowers will be more used than before as the new spring substitutes are developed and built up for hats.
The piece notes shapes for spring hats returning in favor, with flowers to be used as trimmings. Shapes include Watteau and Begere styles, many crownless and tilted upwards for a modern look.
A hostess decorates guest rooms with four flower scented soaps violet cyclamen rose and verveine each soap colored lavender pink white and pale green and stamped with the flower name. She also provides silk kimonos and heelless boudoir slips in room colors for guests arriving with only a suitcase.
The left shows a French style dainty frock with a plaid skirt a black velvet bodice and a tulle guimpe. It could be copied at home in plaid and plain blue serge with a mull guimpe and taped sleeve puffs. The right features a blue and white taffeta frock with white embroidered trim and color embroidery on the waist.
The note describes cleaning a black jet object with dust removal, then olive oil application and polishing with a brush and chamois for a finished shine. It reads as a brief care tip from a practical manual.
The text discusses a tray with an oak frame and white linen ground. It notes a conventional design with lazy daisy stitching and emphasizes the effect of heavier strands for a stronger finish.
Pioneer residents report a gray haired ghost in buckskin circling boys and horses in the canyon. The apparition, circling noiselessly, drops its gun and vanishes leaving residents to conclude it is the spirit of trapper Wilson who died in the canyon after a bear attack years ago.
George Hohn of Wheatfield Indiana attacked the town marshal in Hammond and, after a wild chase, was lassoed and jailed. He tore at jail bars, prompting armed guards to prevent further damage. Deputies captured him and moved him to county jail with rope as a makeshift barrier.
In an interstate shipment from Bertrand Nebraska to Burke a boy was discovered hiding in a car containing household goods when a veterinary inspection revealed no hog. The boy, curled in a corner, was uninjured and sent back by the shipper after the car was unloaded and inspected.
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